Shadow World
"Hey! Your all back!" Juan said.
"Yeah, So anything new for us?" Queen said as Juan nodded.
"Yeah! Something just appeared!" Juan remembered.
"What did?" Skull said. Juan pointed.
"That thing!" Juan said. It was huge, Its a building!
"Whoa! Is that a building!?" Oracle said as Joker read the words on it.
"Shadow World Video Games Headquarters VIP building?" Joker said confused from the name.
"So, Thats the building huh? He thinks that this is all just a game to him huh?" Yukari snorted in disgust.
"Can't wait to give him an absolute thrashing. We will take him down once and for all." Joker murmured.
"Let's enter and do our job." Mitsuru said as everyone began to enter the palace.
"So this is it?" Chukya scratched her head.
"I guess so, No time to waste!" Joker said as everyone was heading to the enterance.
"There about to enter!" The energetic girl said.
"We gotta stop them!" The detective said.
"HEY! Maybe your the ones behind all this!" The gray haired boy said, Everyone turned around and noticed.
"Oh shit! We gotta go!" Minato said surprised from that shout.
"Run for the building!" Joker said as everyone bolted as fast as they can.
"No, Stop! Were gonna stop y- Oof!" The detective said as the door closed on them.
"You okay?" The long haired girl said at the detective.
"Yeah, Damnit they got in and locked us out!" The gray haired boy said as he tried to budge the door open.
"We need another way in Senpai. Let's find the others and enter this palace before they do." The detective said.
SWVGHQ 1F
"Did we lose them!?" Mitsuru said, Joker tried to open the door but failed.
"We did, But we can't exit! It's fucking locked! Hngh!" Joker said as he strained trying to open the door.
"Damnit, What now?" Queen said being worried a little.
"Well, Let's find our way to the treasure." Skull sighed in annoyment.
Connected (Persona Q2) theme plays
"I guess since were in this situation." Yukari said, Oracle liked what she was seeing.
"Whoa! This place is cool!" Oracle said amazed at the technology being used.
"Reminds me of those Sci-fi films." Fuuka giggled, Oracle smiled a litte.
"I wonder what we can explore." Junpei said as the inside was big.
"Look out, New enemies!" Oracle said as they were chatting.
"Shoot, Hide!" Joker said as everyone hid behind a wall or a crate laying around. However the enemies didn't notice.
"Wait. Didn't they notice us?" Joker said as he was puzzled. Junpei noticed a keycard dangling from the enemy.
"No... They are having a conversation. A keycard? That would come in handy, We just gotta take it from him! Heheheh!" Junpei thought of a plan, Mitsuru stopped him hoever.
"Not so fast Iori, We don't wanna duke it out just to snatch from them." Mitsuru scolded one of her students.
"I wanna hear in some of this. Let me get closer!" Joker said as he jumped to the steel pipe and moved closer, He leaned in without being seen by the shadows. He listened carefully.
"Man, Connor is just great at games." The first shadow said.
"Yeah, I heard if you get him down. He just heals himself with something so he can fight forever." The second shadow in amazement.
"Fight forever? Pah! He'll run out of those healing items!" The third shadow doubted.
"I heard about the Mitsuo kid on the Midnight channel was a video game, Connor just took notes and became a CEO." The second shadow said about this story.
"Bro, That sounds stupid. Wait! We gotta get back to our jobs or he'll-" The first shadow said realizing about their jobs.
"Shit, Your right dude! He's gonna totally kill our asses if we don't haul it!" The third shadow said before they bolted back to their jobs. Joker suddenly pondered.
"Heals himself and fight forever?" Joker said as he crawled back to his friends.
"So, What did they say?" Hamuko said.
"Something about him heals himself and fighting forever." Joker said, Everyone suddenly became worried.
"Yikes, Sounds something I wouldn't want to face." Ken said being worried a little.
"We got a fork in the road, Should we split up?" Akihiko said.
"I guess we can take the right, You want to do right or left?" Hamuko said looking at Joker.
"We can take left, You have the right path." Joker said about his plan. SEES nodded.
"Got it, We can back you up from here." Fuuka said.
"Will you both be okay?" Mitsuru said, They both nodded.
"We can move some crates around and block the shadows from harming us, Also we might make room for air to breathe in." Fuuka said, The two started shielding themselves.
"Alright, Let's move it." Joker said as The Phantom Thieves and the odd duo took the right path while SEES took the left path.
Right Path
"Wow, Look at this." Fox said as copies were being shot down by tubes."
"This is crazy, A rich person thinks himself as this?" Noir said looking at everything.
"I won't lie, Feels like a sci-fi movie all over." Skull said looking amazed.
"No kidding Skull, Considering how much you play." Queen giggled at Ryuji, He wasn't too happy.
"Shut up... This is nerving me too much." Skull muttered at the question he had.
"Oh! Shadows, But they aren't looking." Fox said as they needed a plan.
"What should we plan?" Juan said, Everyone looked at each other before they noticed Joker charging a surprise attack!
"I'll reveal your true form!" Joker said as he ambushed the shadows, Selfish basalts and Blind Cupids and a Scarlet Turret came out.
"It's an ambush of enemies! But you ambushed them! You get the first strike!" Oracle cheered from the first strike.
"That a Tank!? It looks scary." Panther said looking at the scarlett tank.
"Let's focus on the weaker ones so they don't help the tank out."
"Alright, Goemon Zanshinken!" Fox said as he took out some Blind Cupids.
"Come on Johanna! Flash bomb!" Queen said as she defeated some Selfish basalts and damaged the Scarlett Turret.
"Carmen! Maragi!" Panther said as all the enemies got damaged.
"Milady Psio!" Noir said as she took out the Blind Cupids and Selfish basalts.
"Zorro! Magaru!" Mona said as he knocked down the Basalts and Cupids weaknesses.
"High Pixie! Zionga!" Joker said as he hit the Scarlet Turret's weakness. He saw the opportunity.
"Come on Joker, We have them! Shall we go all in?" Chukya said as Joker nodded.
"All out attack!" Joker said as they brutally cutted and stabbed the shadows until they all vanished.
"That was easy! Now lets move forth." Joker said as they continued.
Meanwhile on the Left Path.
"Man, This guy is rich for these games. Old games being remade?" Junpei said as he thought what he was liking.
"Junpei come on! Stop goofing off and help us!" Yukari said being annoyed at her teammate, There was suddenly a banging sound.
"Hold on, Do you hear something?" Hamuko said as she heard some noise.
"I don't hear anything..." Minato said, The noise came louder. Mitsuru looked up.
"Sounds like the vents!" Mitsuru said
"Grrrr!" Koromaru growled.
"Koromaru-San says that there are shadows hiding in the vents!" Aigis said activated her battle mode.
"It's coming! Watch out for the ambush!" Minato said as the vent bursted open and every SEES member dodged the surprise ambush, What arose from them was A Rampage Drive, Multiple Spurious Books and Multiple Laughing Tables!
"That Rampage Drive! Watch out! That thing can take hits!" Fuuka said in shock.
"Take hits? Looks like an armored enemy." Akihiko said being careful.
"We gotta be aware!" Mitsuru said.
"Incoming enemies!" Minato said, They charged at them, They all blocked the attacks with their weapons.
"Ngh, Strong attacks... But that won't stop us!" Hamuko said blocking, A Laughing table knocked Minato down, He felt something whip on his back.
"Watch out Minato-kun!" Akihiko said, Minato was ready to block. However a Persona appeared in front of him, It was Aigis!
"Aigis!?" Minato said in surprise.
"I got it...! I'll protect... you!" Aigis said trying to fight back the drive.
"Isis! Garula!" Yukari said as she knocked down the Rampage Drive away from Athena, It then fell down and was stunned.
"Orpheus! Maragi!" Minato said as he summoned his persona and knocked down the Laughing Tables.
"Ceasar! Mazionga!" Akihiko said as his electric attack knocked down the Spurious Books.
"Here's our chance for an all out attack!" Yukari said as they had the open opportunity.
"Let's do it!" Minato and Hamuko said together.
"I've been waiting for this!" Akihiko said as every SEES member rushed in and brutally stabbed and beaten the shadows to death.
"That was a close one!" Junpei said.
"Bark Bark!" Koromaru said.
"I know.." Ken panted a little.
"Lets move on for now..." Mitsuru said as they continued on, Eventually they continued down and met the Phantom Thieves down the halls connected and they were confused.
"Arf?" Koromaru barked confusingly.
"Wait what? Joker?" Ken said in amazement.
"Huh? How did we?" Joker said being confused.
"There was fork in the road... Do they actually..?" Minato said as he was dumbfounded on what happened earlier.
"Wait, Those two halls connect to each other?" Noir realized that they connected like two parts of a puzzle.
"I guess your right. Now how do we get up to the next floor?" Queen said looking up the ceiling.
"Hey, What does this do?" Panther said as she pushed it.
"What the!? Why are we all texture-like!?" Queen said as they vanished to the next floor.
VGHQ 2F
"Were on the second floor? So thats what that pod is..." Mitsuru said looking back at the pod.
"Well, That was certainly hell back there." Junpei sighed.
"Yeah, Im gonna have to get use to it." Ken said feeling dazed from the teleportation.
"We still gotta open the entrance, They might expect us again..." Joker said gritting his teeth, Yusuke said a strange lever dangling.
"Whats this lever doing like this?" Fox said looking at it.
"Yusuke wait!" Joker said, Too late. Yusuke pulled the lever down, They heard a buzzing sound and it stopped.
"What was that!?" Skull said as the wall opened and it revealed as an elevator! Everyone was amazed!
"An elevator? Looks like we can head down the floors then. I think that sound was the entrance opening." Chukya said from the rumbling.
"Yeah, Lets conti-" Ken said before being interrupted by Ann.
"Hold on, Look at that!" Panther said pointing at a Brown Wii Console talking to two Gameboy Advance controllers.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR KEYCARD?" One of the two controllers said.
"I-I LOST IT.." The brown wii said scaredly.
"YOU LOST IT?" The other controller said repeating the question.
"YES..." The brown wii said in a very quiet manner. The gameboy advance controllers turned to be in a ready position.
"OKAY, FOCUS ON YOUR DUTY." The Gameboy advance controller said knowing its rules.
"BUT WHAT ABOUT MY CARD? IT IS IMPORTANT FOR MY DUTY." The brown wii said wondering about her Keycard, The gameboy controllers were pissed off now!
"YOU ARE BAD, FORGETTING THINGS WHEN ITS IMPORTANT." The gameboy controllers said together in a dark deadpan tone.
"IM SORRY!" The brown wii apologized, The two controllers pulled out their small weapons.
"NO EXCUSES. THOSE WHO FAIL WILL BE TERMINATED!" The two controllers said pointing at the brown Wii, Everyone was freighted by this situation!
"Terminated!?" Panther said being frightened on what she heard.
"It's a different color... Is it the odd one out of them all?" Juan said studying it.
"It's gonna be destroyed if we don't do something!" Joker said.
"Grrrrr!" Koromaru growled.
"Let's help it!" Mona said, Hamuko had her Evoker already to her head.
"Vivian." Hamuko said freezing one of the two Gameboy Controllers.
"Milady!" Noir said as she blasted the other with bullets, They both were destroyed. They saved the Brown Wii!
"HUH? WHO ARE YOU?" The wii controller said.
"Were the Phantom Thieves..." Joker said giving his best attitude.
"And were SEES." Minato said calmly. The wii controller thought to himself.
"PHANTOM THIEVES... SEES... NO MATCH FOR INTRUDERS." The wii controller said.
"Intruders?" Skull said repeating the word from the controller. It became suddenly worried.
"I MUST BE ON DUTY, MY BOSS WILL BE ANGRY AT ME." The wii controller worried.
"Your boss? Don't listen to him..." Minato said trying to prove him wrong.
"WHY NOT? HE'S AWESOME." The wii controller argued back, Joker nodded his head in refusal.
"That's his evil self, He wanted to create problems for society and we want to remove it." Fox said. The controller suddenly began to think.
"REMOVE, HMM... SINCE YOU SAVED ME, ILL TAKE YOU TO THE BOSS."
"Alright!" Mona said pumped up, They got an ally!
"Thats gonna be extremely useful." Juan said, Chukya cheered.
"What codename should we give you?" Joker said as that was his first thing.
"Pudding?" Fox thought.
"Almond?" Akihiko said snapping his fingers.
"How about Chocolate cause of your color!" Junpei smiled knowing they matched.
"What? I prefer cherry or strawberry." Yukari said, Ann gave Junpei a mean glare. He began sweating a little.
"Aigis 2.0?" Joker chuckled from the design. Aigis looked at him.
"Huh?" Aigis said confused. Joker played innocent and began whistling
"Nothing!" Joker quickly said and continued his thing...
"I got it! How about Flowers? You like that?" Oracle said from her Persona.
"FLOWERS... LOVELY NAME, I WILL ACCEPT THAT. I AM FLOWERS FROM NOW ON." Flowers said as it accepted the name.
"Sweet! Let's move on!" Ken said with happiness.
"HERE IS A POD TO THE THIRD FLOOR." Flowers said showing everyone the Pod that moved up.
"A pod?" Akihiko said looking at it.
"LET US GO NOW." Flowers said as they activated the pod to the third floor.
VGHQ 3F
"Just a little more and we can be there." Minato said as he knew he could go a little more.
"You know, Im rather not sure if we can do it all in one go. Im low on energy." Mitsuru suddenly said feeling weak on her power.
"Your right Mitsuru, I am too... Whew!" Juan said wiping sweat off his head.
"I slightly feel like im hungry also." Fox said clutching his stomach.
"So we are done with this? Alright then." Joker said as everyone was done for today.
"THEN I WILL WAIT YOU HERE, I WILL INFORM ON DETAILS." Flowers said, She suddenly went to sleep mode.
"Thanks Flowers, Lets head back and eat with some rest." Joker said.
"Thanks Joker, You do care about us." Minato smiled at the leader of the Phantom Thieves.
"Let's all head out, We did good everyone. 3 floors done and we got through some rough enemies." Mitsuru said in happiness, Joker pulled something from his coat pocket.
"I did keep this in my pocket. It's a Goho-M. Let's use it." Joker said as he used the Goho-M, They were all at the entrance once again!
"Were back at the entrance!" Mona said in amazement, Joker smiled at him.
"I know, Cause of this thing. It's only a one use only, I got plenty in stock." Joker chuckled.
"Right, Let's all head out." Minato said as Joker used the app and they left, The small group saw them leave and they realize the opportunity was in their hands.
"They left, Those idiots are tired? We got the golden opportunity!" The detective said.
"Let's head in and save Connor!" The Gray haired boy said.
"They left the door open, So we can exit if we need too also!" The long haired girl said.
"Sweet, This will be easy for us!" The cheery girl said in happiness.
"Yes! Let's do this everyone!" The energetic girl said as the small group entered.
Real World 6:16 P.M.
"Well that went well, We got two floors covered. So we just need three more and were through." Akira said as they were back in the real world.
"Don't forget about the calling card too." Ann reminded Akira, He nodded.
"Akira, I want to suggest something." Yusuke said at Akira.
"Yes Yusuke? What do you plan?" Akira said looking at Yusuke, Ryuji just crossed his arms.
"Something Inari wants to do I bet." Futaba murmured.
"I might suggesting to draw a new logo for the Phantom Thieves." Yusuke said.
"A new logo?" Akira said from the idea Yusuke had.
"I want to add more details cause were working with SEES, I thought it would be a good idea." Yusuke said going with his small idea.
"I will agree, Good ideas for now but we do need some rest." Haru said about everyone.
"Heh, Everyone should enjoy the night." Minato said at everyone.
"Yeah, See you all soon!" Yukari said with a smile.
"Just wait, We might not know what happens." Akira said as everyone left for some rest, Awaiting what happens tomorrow for them is unknown.
END OF CHAPTER 18