So, I've been posting this fic on Ao3 for quite a while now... Thought it was big enough for me to start crossposting here... We'll see later if I decide to upload all 16 chapters at once or not.

Ah, list of endings you can assume protags are going for, bc their personalities will be affected by it.

Kazuya - Neutral
Aleph - Law
Tamaki - Reiko
Nobu - Akira
Naoki - True Demon
Tadano - Neutral
Flynn - Neutral
Nanashi - Bonds

And... implied/minor ships list:br /Kazuya/Yuka, Aleph/Beth, Walter having a strange attraction to any Lucifers, more tba possibly?

Anyway... Enjoy!

Kazuya and his friends had been through a lot recently… ICBMs falling on Tokyo, the Diamond Realm, Takeshi fusing with one of Kazuya's demons then ditching them, saving Yuka from a demon in her mind… Adding in the fact this Yuka was a reincarnation of the Yuka that Kazuya had met and that they were linked on such a deep level made it almost too much.

He was sort of reeling as he, Yuka, and Yuji went on their way. Too bad it was hard to really pause and think on things in a post-apocalyptic world filled with demons, if there was one thing he needed it was that. Oh well, he guessed. They were just about to go to Roppongi and he needed to focus.

Focus… He lost focus for just a minute and he found himself falling face first into concrete. Ouch.

"Kazuya, are you alright?" Yuka and Yuji pulled him up as he groaned at the pain.

"Yeah, I'm okay…" He looked around finally and frowned. "But why does everything look so… so normal?"

It looked like the missiles had never been dropped on Tokyo… What the hell? Had they gone back in time, somehow? A second chance to stop Thor…? Maybe-

A bark made Kazuya look up, standing in front of him was…

"Pascal? A-and Takeshi?" He furrowed his brow. "What's going on…?"

Aleph and Beth had settled things in the Factory district easily enough… Things had been going by quickly for Aleph. It hadn't been that long ago that he'd been a simple amnesiac, fighting for Center citizenship. To think how much had changed, starting about when he helped that Hiroko woman…

He wondered what was going on with Hiroko now, actually. Was she still looking for that little boy? He would love to hunt her down and ask, but he was being kept quite busy… So he really didn't have time.

"Aleph…" Beth put a hand on his shoulder. "Are you alright?"

He gave her an awkward smile. "I'm fine, thank you. Let's go on ahead."

They stepped onto the elevator and, for just a moment, everything other than each other went dark. He and Beth reached for each other, ready to cling to the only thing they could see… But they were soon able to see their surroundings again.

"Aleph!" Both Hiroko and Zayin appeared before him, excited at the familiar face in a foreign land.

"You two as well?" Aleph blinked. "Where are we and why…?"

"Well, I'm not sure about why, but this is Tokyo!" They all turned at the sound of another voice. Standing there was a blond man, looking back at them with his heterochromatic eyes. "At least, that's what it looks like."

The messiah frowned. "Two questions then, if you don't mind. What's Tokyo and… Who are you?"

The World of Sloth was annoying Tamaki more than she would like to admit. Things were going so slowly and the people walking around weren't even dropping interesting tidbits of information. At least the janitor talking about making that Akira kid a champ was sorta funny…

But she and Reiko otherwise weren't going anywhere soon… At least she saw some people who might be some help. Yumi and Charlie had seemed interested in getting out of the Expanse too, right? They needed to compare notes.

"Yumi, Kuroi-"

Things went to hell for a few seconds then. Tamaki felt like the floor was falling out from under her and the confused yells surrounding her told her she wasn't alone. Was this some sort of trick from Hazama?!

When she felt floor underneath her feet again, she looked around to try and get a feel for what happened and… Okay, no. This wasn't Hazama's doing, right? He wouldn't have let her and Reiko out… Not Yumi or Charlie, either!

"Tamaki…" Reiko walked up next to her. "What's going on…?"

"T-this has to be some sorta trick, right?!" Charlie looked around. "We can't have actually gotten out so easy!"

"I agree this was too easy, but…" Yumi frowned. "You think Hazama would've said something, with how he usually is…"

Tamaki looked around again and sighed. "...This is gonna take a while to figure out."

Nobu was counting himself lucky when he and Akira were able to just talk with Sobek. A strong demon like him wasn't an appealing fight at the moment. Not after he'd already seen Akira nearly die and end up… Possessed? Merged with? Amon, a demon wronged by Hazama.

"That was nice, huh, Akira?" Nobu smiled. "Less fighting for-"

"It won't all be that easy, so be ready to fight in the future."

Nobu huffed. "I know that… Guess I can't even try to look on the brightside around you…"

He walked through the door in front of him and… Blinked a few times, freezing until Akira gave him a push, placing them both into what seemed to be a busy Tokyo street. Shit, how would people react to Akira-

They all walked past Akira as if he wasn't extremely furry and demonic and kinda gross looking. It was like they didn't even realize he was there. What the hell was up with that…?

"We're… Still in the Land of Nomos?"

Akira shook his head. "Absolutely not. But… this isn't the human world, either."

Well, shit. Then what was going on…?

Characters/Games they come from!

SMT: Kazuya (Protagonist), Yuka (Heroine), Yuji (Law Hero), Takeshi (Chaos Hero)

SMT2: Aleph, Hiroko, Beth, Zayin, Louis Cyphre

SMTif: Tamaki (Fem Protag), Nobu (Dude Protag), Yumi, Reiko, Charlie, Akira

Nocturne: Naoki/Demifiend, Chiaki, Isamu, Dante, Raidou (technically)

Strange Journey: Tadano (Protagonist), Zelenin, Jimenez, Alex

4: Flynn, Isabeau, Walter, Jonathan

4A: Nanashi, Asahi, Nozomi, Navarre, Hallelujah, Gaston, Toki