Jak was standing at the counter reading a magazine when Sarah entered. "Hey Sarah welcome back." He greeted her after looking up. "Here to pick up those sweet daggers?" He asked. "Yes and I was thinking about getting that dragon for my desk." Sarah pointed to a small silver dragon wrapped around a castle. "Nice pick." Jak took out the daggers and grabbed the dragon, placing them in the same cloth bag before ringing them up. "Alright for the daggers and the dragon that's $146.33." Sarah paid with her card (or rather the card Pepper had given her that allows her to use Tony's money for all her shopping) knowing that if she was questioned about the daggers she can call them wall décor. After all she already had the wall mounts for them. After paying for the two (three) items Sarah looked over to a vest with metal plating and pointed to it. "How much is that?" She asked. Jak looked at it before rubbing the back of his neck. "That if I remember right is 57 plus tax." Sarah walked over and grabbed it. "I'll take it." She then pulled out 60 from her pocket. She could explain away the daggers as her spotting them when she went to get her dragon and wanted them. But any more weapons and there'd been questions, add to that armour and there was no way she'd be able to lie her way out of the trouble that would followed. With her new gear and décor Sarah thanked Jak. "Hey hold up." Sarah stopped confused at Jak's words. "Told my old man about you and he wanted to meet ya. He's just in the back." Sarah thought for a second before nodding. Jak disappeared through the door behind the counter.
"This is Sarah dad." Jak returned with a man in his late 40s with brown greying hair and steely grey eyes. The man held out his hand and she shook it. "Alex. We don't get many kids your age here." He commented. "I don't think many know about this place." Sarah suggested. "Guess not. Happy to have you as a customer though. Find everything alright?" Sarah nodded. "Yep. Your son just finished ringing me up a moment ago." Alex nodded. "Good. Well we best let you go. Take care and come again." Sarah smiled and waved as she turned and left the shop.
"Sorry I was a little late." Sarah said as she slipped on her new vest and daggers. "It's alright. After all we still had to wait for the door to appear." Naoto dismissed. Sarah nodded before looking at Teddie with a raised brow. He was wearing some kind of odd bear suit. It was mostly red with bits of blue here and there. "That is how Teddie looked when we first met him. That is before he grew his body." Yosuke explained. That surprised Sarah. "I was a lonely bear till I met Sensei and the others." Teddie told her. "Alright the door should be appearing soon." Naoto informed them. Nodding Sarah tried to ready herself but noticed a strange blurry shape in the distance. She could tell it was red and it seemed to be moving but nothing more. "Alright there it is." Yosuke's voice drew her attention back to what they were doing. "Wow! So that's the door to the other world?" Teddie asked. "Let's get in there, introduce Teddie to our three friends and then get to training." Sarah said before going to the door and opening it.
Peter hadn't wanted to go to the ally where Sarah and the others were but he felt he had to at least make sure they got to the other world ok. So he perched on a roof across from the ally the four of them were gathered in. He was sure he had been seen but none of them reacted to him. "Be careful in there Sarah." He whispered as he saw them disappear through the door. "I should be with them! But even if they knew I'm Spiderman I'm still useless to them. All I could do it warn them when some thing's about to attack. I shouldn't even been attending the meetings they have." He sighed. He hated himself for his weakness. He was a hero and yet Sarah and those guys were able to fight the battles in that world and he was not. "Well. I best get back to what I do good." A flick of his wrist and he was swinging away.
"Sarah watch your back!" Naoto yelled as she shot at a Shadow. Twisting around Sarah swung her daggers towards the Shadow, knocking it off it's feet. "Nice Sarah!" Yosuke called. Sarah threw him a smile before charging over to Teddie to help with the large muscular Shadow he was fighting. "Grrr! Go down already!" Teddie yelled at it. "Easy Teddie. Don't let your anger get the better of you." Sarah warned.
"Good work everyone." Naoto said as Teddie healed their wounds. "Way to go Sarah! You are the best!" Star was dressed like a gothic cheerleader waving red and silver pom poms around. "Star I wasn't the only one fighting." Sarah laughed. "Forget it Sarah. Star is like Teddie when Yu is around." Yosuke joked. "Star, Zaci, Jade do any of you pay attention to any of the Shadows here?" Naoto asked them. "Sometimes we notice things about the Shadows. What are you looking for?" Jade asked. "We think a Shadow is trying to get us to come to them. They appear in our mirrors for brief moments before disappearing." She explained. "Hm? I haven't noticed anything odd about the Shadows. Zaci? Star?" Jade looked to the other two. "I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary from the Shadows." Zaci answered. "Me either. I'm sorry." Star hung her head and looked sad. "It's ok Star. This is most likely the first time this has happened so we can't expect you guys to know what to look for." Sarah comforted. "We will search while you're gone and report the moment we find something." Jade promised. "Thank you. Don't push yourselves too hard guys. We are grateful to you for all you're doing for us and don't want any of you to get hurt." Sarah told them. "Whatever. Just get going." What little of his face Sarah could see Sarah noticed Zaci was blushing.
"Wow, is that the dragon you were planning to buy?" Pepper asked as she tilted the dragon to get a better look at it. Sarah had already put her daggers up on the wall by her bed. "Yep that's the one. Pretty cool huh?" She asked. Pepper nodded. "It's really nice. But why did you buy those." Pepper pointed to the daggers. "I like tribal designs. So when I saw them I knew I had to have them. But I plan on hiding them when I leave. I don't trust Tony not to take them and hide them or something." Pepper let out a sigh at that. "Sarah I know he is pushing you past your limits but that is just the way he is." Pepper was clearly struggling to find a way to explain Tony to her in a way she'd believe. "You really love him huh?" Sarah asked. Pepper smiled and let out a small chuckle. "Is it really that crazy?" Pepper asked. Sarah shook her head. "No, it's a good thing. I might not be able to stand him but at least someone can." Sarah was joking. The two shared a laugh. "You two just need more time Sarah. Or something ground breaking. Then you'll get along." Pepper said before heading leaving the room. I fell a little closer to her. Like I understand her better. Guess I've become closer to her. Sarah took out her homework from her bag and sat at her desk. Throwing a smile to her dragon she opened her textbook and began answering the questions she was told by teachers to do.
Sarah had stood before her mirror the night before in hopes of seeing more of the figure behind the mirror. But it never came. So she went to bed at 1:46 am wondering if any of the others had done the same thing as her. Waking the next more Sarah stood before the mirror wondering if it could appear during the day for a few minutes before heading for the kitchen to eat. "Ugh!" Sarah had been shocked to see Mitsuru and Akihiko sitting at the island drinking coffee with Pepper, Steve, and Bruce. "Morning Sarah." Steve greeted her. Pulling herself together Sarah threw a smile to him before fixing herself a tea. "Mitsuru. Akihiko." Sarah greeted as she sat down. "Good morning Sarah." Akihiko greeted back. "What brings you two here so early?" Sarah asked as she blew on her tea. "Some problems we're having with the contract Tony sent me. This deal seems to be taking longer then expected to forge." Mitsuru answered. "Have something else you would rather be doing?" Sarah asked, suspecting what it is they'd be doing. "There are some things I could think of to do other then sit around arguing with Stark over this." Mitsuru agreed. "Tony and I are working to ensure both parties are happy in the end of this." Pepper assured her. "I know Pepper. But I don't normally allow so much time to past when it comes to a deal. I hope you understand how much I want this to work out between our two companies." Mitsuru was giving Pepper an understand look but Sarah could see the annoyance in her eyes. "I'm going to grab a bite on the way to school. Laters guys." Sarah waved as she left the kitchen. To her surprise Tony was leaning against the wall just around the corner from the kitchen. He appeared tired, like he hadn't slept the night in a while and was running out of energy. "Everything alright?" Sarah asked him. He pushed himself off the wall and threw her a grin. "Now why wouldn't they be?" He asked. "Because you look like hell and Mitsuru is in the kitchen while you're here." Sarah pointed out. "Just letting Pepper relax her so I can go in there and work my magic." Sarah rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say. I'm getting dressed and heading for school. Away from all this." She walked pasted him and only got 6 steps before he called out to her. "You sound like you hate it here." She sighed and turned back to him. "Though there are people here that I like I do tend draw out the trip back. Now if you don't mind Tony I want to get going so I still have time to get something to eat before my first class starts." She then turned and headed for her room. Not hear the sad sigh that came from Tony before he turned to head for the kitchen.
At the coffee shop Sarah sent Peter a text asking if he wanted to visit the other world with her after school. As she waited she thought the line had moved so she took a step forward, only to end up bumping into the guy ahead of her. "Oh sorry!" The guy turned around, reviling them to be tall and lean with bleached blond hair and a small scar near his eyebrow. "No problem." He assured her with a friendly smile. Sarah returned the smile and held out her hand. "Sarah." He shook her hand. "Kanji." Sarah's eyes widened at the name. "Kanji Tatsumi?" She asked. "Yeah, how'd you know?" He was surprised to say the least. "Naoto most likely told you about me. Sarah Swizav." At that his eyes widened. "You're the girl she told me about. No way!" Sarah chuckled at his shocked. "Yeah that's me. I thought you were coming later in the week though." She was surprised by how early he was. "Caught an early flight. Meant to tell Naoto but my phone's battery hasn't been the same since I dropped it in the river back in Inaba a month ago." He explained. Sarah nodded before pointing to the line, letting him know the two could move up. "So you're the new team leader huh? Naoto speaks fondly of you. Yosuke too." Sarah blushed. "I'm still wrapping my head around leading so many pros. After all I got Naoto, Yosuke, and Teddie fighting along side me. They know what they're doing but they want me to lead them." Kanji nodded in understanding. "Well even after all these years all of us are still willing to follower someone else into battle." He shrugged. "Think you'll be able to stick around and help with the fight?" Kanji shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know." He sighed. "Since mom finally put her shop online we've been getting a lot of request for stuff. Luckily I managed to talk her into hiring student part time to help with the shop. So it's a wait and see. But I will help out as much as I can as long as I'm here." He promised. "Thanks Kanji. I don't ask for anything more." Kanji gave her a large smile. "Man, we've only been talking a few minutes and already I feel like we're best friends. No wonder they like you so well." He commented before turning and placing his order. Sarah took the time to check her phone. Peter's answer was a simple "I don't know. Ask me later." To which Sarah sighed. "Everything alright?" Kanji asked. "Yeah. My friend Peter knows about what we do but he's not one of us. I was asking him if he wanted to go with me to that place but he isn't sure right now." She tucked her phone away and placed her order. "Wait if he's not like us then is it really safe for him to be going there?" Kanji asked. The two took their drinks and snacks and found a seat. "You mean about how when you guys were going into the TV people would have to face their Shadows? So far nothing's happened the last couple times he's been there so I don't think we have to worry about that." Sarah dismissed. "Ok. So tell me about this other world and what's happened so far." He wanted to hear from her the details of what happened from the moment she entered that world for the first time to the last time she was there.
Kanji was so wrapped up in what Sarah was telling him that he walked with her to school. "Wow, that must've been tough on you. And you managed to keep it together all this time. You have to be one of the strongest woman I've every meet." Sarah smiled and blushed at the complement. "Thanks Kanji. But I've only just begun to fight the Shadows. I can't promise I will be able to keep it together all the time but I will try." She promise. "Hey that's all any of us can do. Heck that's all any of us did back when it was us doing all the fighting." Kanji assured her. "Sarah who's this?" Peter asked as he walked over to them. "Peter this is Kanji. Kan-Peter what happened to you!?" Sarah asked as she spotted the bruises on Peter's face. "Oh it's nothing. Just tripped is all." Peter tried to hide his face from her. "Dude don't lie. I can tell you been in a fight." Kanji's tone was a bit harsh but his face showed nothing but concern. "It's no big deal. I get beaten up nearly every day." Peter shrugged. Sarah sighed at that. "Ok Peter. I'll accept that." Kanji went to say something but one look from Sarah and he backed off. "Listen Kanji why don't you go check in with Naoto? Or at least get a new battery for your phone?" She suggested to him. "Yeah you're right. Naoto needs to know I'm here now and she can put me in contact with Yosuke and Teddie. Nice meeting you both. See ya." He waved to them as he turned and headed off. "So he's one of Naoto's former team mates huh? Interesting." Peter said before turning and heading for the main doors. Sarah quickly followed him. "Peter if I didn't know any better I'd say you were mad at me or something." She couldn't understand why he seemed to be so quite or walking off without checking to make sure she was following. "Sorry. Just got a lot on my mind." He dismissed. Sarah frowned but said nothing more about it.