Navigating their way into the battle coliseum, they found Despair with a massive sphere of xels with a gaping maw and eyes.

"HAHAHAHA! Welcome, faker, to the epiphany of destruction!" Despair said. "No. Faker is too kind. Abomination is more like it."

"The only abomination is you, Despair. Reuniclus should have never told you about me or the worlds. Look at you. You're just someone who just causes chaos for the sake of chaos." Hope said.

"Shut up! I am the one who will pave a new way for the universe. I won't be your shadow. Instead, I'll be the one they call the original!" Despair grinned.

"Why dont you shut up and prove it? This ends today." Hope said.

"Yup. It does." Despair said leaping down as trinity followed. "Trinity… sic em." Despair said as she attacked the other heroes. "I just want this between you and me."

"Youre gonna get it." Hope said.

They both charged at each other unleashing a large amount of force as they wailed on the other.

"Do me a solid and just die!" Despair said hitting Hope in the gut. "You know what it feels like? Knowing there's always gonna be one person better than you? Well I do, and I don't like it!" he said wailing on him.

"You think that excused the reason I dont have that feeling?" Hope said as he bounced back and hit Despair in the face. "All my life i was in the shadow of Jexi, helping him and making my own achievements. And what I wanted was to protect the universe and be like him."

"That doenst say you dont think he's better that you!" Despair said as thier fist collided.

"Well it does! I entered this tournament to finally see who is the better of one another, me or Jexi. He didnt want to admit to going against me, but I know we both feel the same about this fight." Hope said naling Despair in the chest. "And that is why… I'm gonna fight Jexi in the final 2, and face him like a man!"

"Urgh… why you!" Despair said trying to hit him.

"Shining Force Fist!" Hope said nailing Despair in the chest once more.

"How...how can you say something like that and now feel the way I do?!" Despair shouted.

"Because theres one thing the Persona team says all the time!" Hope said punching Despair to the chest, putting a hole straight through him. "Youre me, and I'm you. Youre my shadow, and I gotta live with that. Goodbye."

Despair was lightly laughing as he walked backwards to the edge over the city. "Here...I thought I could be someone different. Heh. What I was gonna do to the worlds would have been a blessing to what they got planned." Despair said.

"Guess that isnt gonna happen." Hope said.

"Heh, youre right. But let me tell you this. There are things bigger than the two of us. Bigger than this universe. When it goes down, not a single world will be left unaffected." Despair said as he fell off of the coliseum.

"I'll be ready for it." Hope said.

Hope then turned back to the others as he saw trinity appears from a but in a girl like form. She had tentacles coming from a metal dress and sharp looking pigtails on her head.

"So thats her true form?" Jexi asked.

"Yeah, we did it." Beck said.

Trinity then stared at Hope, humming smoothly. Floating over, she gave the next badge to hope.

"Really? Youre gving this badge to me?" Hope aske.d

Trinity nodded.

"Hold everything!" said Dedenne as she appeared. "How are we supposed to have you scan this if it doesnt even count as recorded? No one was here for the coverage!"

"Actually, someone was." Hope said looking at Avi. "Avi, you did record every fight we did here while you were also corrupted, right?"

Avi smiled under his nose cap face. "Hope my boy, what kinda idiot do you take me for? Of course I did!" Avi said holding out a tape and inserting it into Dedenne's craft.

Dedenne looked at the footage. "Th-this is...you filmed all of this?" Dedenne said. "I am impressed. I've never seen such clear footage. Since he technically did capture the fight and the badge, it counts."

"Yes!" Hope said. "High five, Jexi!"

"Hope, gotta say it really helps having you around." Jexi said. "But, what do you think Despair meant by they?"

"Yeah. I think, something big is gonna go down." Hope said.

Down on the ground, Despair was clinging to what little life he had as a figure approached him with their one glowing eye. "So, couldn't finish him, huh?"

"Juri. Can't you just...leave me here to…." Despair said before seeing a larger figure by him. "B..Bison!" he said in fear.

"Hmph! Your failure annoys me, worm." Bison said picking him up by the face. "Psycho Punisher!"

He stabbed his other hand through his body blasting his Psycho Power into him, finishing him off.

"Well, so much for that guy. Now we have to worry about them stopping your Psycho Drive plan, huh?" Juri said.

"Luckily, our friend there kept it vague. We won't have to worry for now. Everything is coming together nicely." Bison said.

"Right. So, what do you want me to do now?" Juri asked.

"Head back to our world and fetch the second artifact i need. The Phoenix Mirror." Bison said as he and Juri vanished.

Back with Hope, he was about to leave before Reuniclus approached.

"Hope. I came...to apologize. For what I've done." Reuniclus said.

"Youre forgiven. With Despair gone. You can start over. Just… dont do anything that'll compromise the experiment." Hope Said.

"I understand. Once the tournament is finsihed, the Mighty Numbers, Call and Ray shall be ready to join you. And once Dr. White is finished with Trinity, she'll be ready as well." Sanda said.

"And Hope, I promise, Destiny will not turn out like Despair. I'll make sure...she becomes a good a person as you." Reuniclus said.

"Thanks, Reuniclus." Hope said as their ships rocketed off.

"So, where to next?" Jexi asked.

"The photo only showed a museum. Guess we go there." Tails said.

To be continued...