A/N: Sorry this is up a bit later than I had intended. My motivation slowly depleted as Tuesday went on and Wednesday was just bad. I'm sacrificing my chemistry grade for you guys, is what I would say if the test wasn't made so that people could pass it even if they never study. Might have a few mistakes because I wanted to get it out today.

Road to School

"Hey Minato-kun make some room." Yukari slides under his umbrella. "Sorry, mine got caught up in the wind. Hey, you saw the Midnight Channel yesterday right? Freaky stuff. I wanna ask Junpei what he saw." Awkward silence. "We're...kind of close right now."

"I don't mind." Inwardly, Minato is laughing his ass off at her expression. Outwardly, his face is just as stoic as usual.

"You're hilarious, so I bet you could charm someone out of their umbrella." Yukari grabs the umbrella and runs towards the school. Minato is not amused.

After School

"Man, the way they found that body was just gruesome," said Random Girl. "I would hate to be the one who had to see that."

"You don't know? The one who found the body was definitely Yoshino-san," gossiped Other Girl. "How many other redheads do you know with that kind of hair?"

"Hey man, got a sec?" Junpei approaches Minato. " About that Midnight Channel stuff...nah it's not really important."

Yukari walks up to the two. "Did you guys hear? Supposedly, Chidori-san was the one who found the body."

"Of course I know. I think that's why she's not here today. Man, I wonder if that's why doesn't want to go to the art exhibition. She must still be kind of freaked out."

"Worry about your girlfriend later. That freaky stuff last night is way more important right now. It's weird though, the person I saw was a long-haired girl wearing our uniform. She was pretty and all, but soulmate?"

"That kinda sounds like the girl I saw." Junpei pauses. "I bet the girl on my T.V. is prettier than the girl on yours."

"The girl on my T.V. tried to drag me in." They would have laughed, if Minato hadn't sounded so serious.

"Hey, good one man. Just the other day, my gaming system tried to do the same thing. It succeeded, too. Spent three hours wasting away in front of the screen." I'm pretty sure our situations are a bit different.

"Speaking of TVs, I've been wanting to check out the ones at Junes for a while now."

"Great idea, Yuka-tan. It'll give this guy a chance to see if any another pretty girls want to "drag him in"."

Yukari sighs. "Everything has to turn into some kind of sick joke with you, doesn't it?"

"And yet, you love me anyways." Minato and Yukari are already walking out the door. "Hey, where ya goin'?"

Junes Electronic Department

"These flat screens are pretty impressive," Yukari comments. "Too bad nobody in this town besides Mitsuru would even think about trying to buy one."

"I think the big question here is how anyone else in this town even owns a T.V.. Do you guys see anywhere else that sells them?" They both ignored Junpei because neither of them really cared.

"Let's go to a section of the store where regular people can afford to buy things." Meanwhile, Minato stares at a T.V. in the middle of the department. I wonder... He puts his hand in and the screen is rippling with black and white.

"Hey what do you think-" Junpei turns to around to see that. "Whoa! What the hell, dude?"

"What are you freaking out about- and his hand is in the T.V.. Cute trick Junpei. How did you do it?"

"I didn't do anything! His hand is actually in the television!" They both crowd around him with surprised looks. I think I can go in farther than this. He puts his entire head in.

"Are you crazy?" Junpei starts to panic. "What if someone sees with half your body INSIDE of a T.V.?"

"There's actually a lot of room in here." It's stated so casually that you think he could have been talking about a car, or at least something less crazy than the inside of a television.

"That's what you're focusing on?" Yukari is not doing a very good job of hiding her nerves. Echoing footsteps are heard down the hall.

"Shit, customers. What the hell do we do about this idiot right over here?" When all else fails, panic. That's exactly how all three of them managed to collide and fall into the T.V.. They are dropped from a considerable height.

Mysterious Place

"Ouch, I think I crunched my tailbone," Yukari complains.

"You got off easy. Us guys have more sensitive areas down there." Before Yukari had the chance to respond, Minato speaks up.

"This place appears to be a studio of some sort. But, if it's indoors, why is it so foggy?"

"I dunno, but the bigger question is where the hell did the entrance go?"

"Wait it's gone?" Yukari turns around suddenly. "Oh God."

"No need to panic, just find another exit. If it's a studio somebody must have made it, right? Since there aren't any bodies on the ground, they must have gone somewhere."

"I...guess that makes sense. We should start looking." A short walk later, the trio approaches a building of some sort.

"Don't you guys think this place is a little bit different than before?" notices Yukari.

"I would, if I could see through this damn fog," Junpei complains. "There's a door there, maybe the way out?" The group heads into the room.

"Looks like the fog is gone in here, but still no bars," Junpei comments.

"Slow down you two. Getting separated would be about the worst thing that could happen right now." They finally notice the interior. There are torn posters and what looks like paint seem to be taking up the walls. "It's kind of creepy-Junpei, what are you doing?"

"Hey, I've been holding it in all day, and this place is not good for stress."

"Wait, you're actually serious about this, aren't you?" Yukari looks horrified. "If you pull down your pants, I'm never speaking to you again."

"...Fine..." Junpei narrowly avoided making one of the worst mistakes in his life. "Did you guys get a good look at this room? 'Cause that noose is kind of creeping me out right now. Who would try to hang themselves with a scarf?"

"Let's just get out of here. I feel like I'm about to be sick." The group feels a sudden wave of nausea hit them. After a bit a walking, the group makes it back to the studio.

"So we're back here, but there's still no exit. Wait, what's that in the distance?" A silhouette gets closer and closer to reveal a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, who, to the group at least, is a sexy cosplayer in a robot costume.

"Who are you?" Straight and to the point from our protagonist, unlike the starry-eyed pervert standing a short distance away.

"I am Aigis. I have been here since I have resumed operation." Someone more deadpan than Minato was something no one on the world expected to see.

"Do you know what happened in that room over there?"

"An unknown force has thrown people into this side. I do not know exactly what has occurred."

"Do you know of a way out?" The battle of emotionless delivery is so intense that neither Yukari of Junpei bothered to speak up.

"Primary objective of defeat shadows most likely impossible. Switching to secondary objective of defending humans."

"Wait, humans? What do you mean by that?" Before Junpei could get his answer, the girl named Aigs had already begun to direct them to the TVs that had appeared in the center of the studio. Before anyone else could protest, she had already pushed them through the TVs

A/N: Sorry this isn't the best. I just really wanted to let everyone know who was the inhabitant of the shadow world. Short authors note because I'm going to sleep right about now.