Persona 5 Strikers – From Light and Dark
By Tayla Drago
Episode #15 - Mad Rabbit Alice Hiiragi
So this is how this whole thing works out for the Phantom Thieves to discover so far...Alice Hiiragi is the Monarch of some kind of her own Jail of a castle in Shibuya part of the Metaverse 'far different than their precious missions from a year ago'; all to be connected by EMMA with Hans and Ellen working for Mommy of the mastermind to find the weapon while gathering the energies of human Shadows' Desires. Make it into a bigger gem, have one of the six medallions for power, turning the victims into weak slaves of Gegasites, while the main one is the leader to control all and lock them up. Without their Desires, the Shadow Monarchs 'or Kings' can make them love their work on bad things they do or upsets – for the men to love Alice and the women she can control like toys. Any form of the Metaverse is living being to become Shadows or Fake Shadows as the Gegasites are more like fighters—while some to hold the Shadows' secrets from the past in the real world from the place they use to go to and what cause it all will have the power to get back at the victims badly from the trauma they've been through. Some Gegasites there become Lock Keepers to keep things safe—only buying all of them and shutting down 3 cores around their base of the items back in the real world will do the rest. Only by then to learn, see, and stop the rest will allow for the Phantom Thieves to send out the Calling Card to stop Alice Shadow and get back everyone's Desires too. Loki, Picaro, and Kaguya await for them to make their move real soon. As for the enemy twins, they got a lot to watch on the Phantom Thieves very carefully. With more answers left to be hidden!
Tayla: So with Keiko, Akechi, Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, Haru, and Sophia 'to be on Keiko's phone' were all back in the real world to talk about how to send the calling card to Alice next. But...it might not be so easy to do. With Lava giving the other three Personas the message and still helping out one another 'and a little on Zen's end', they have to try anything out by tomorrow night and end Alice's nightmare along with getting the second of the Six Medallions. But how exactly? Sorry, I have to say something from time to time, back to the story now.
Ryuji: Okay, all that's left it sendin' the calling card. What should it say?
Keiko: We also need the next medallion, saving all the Shadows to get their Desires back, and aiding the twins.
Akechi: And Loki's family too in order for his spirit to finally rest in peace.
This was going to be twice as hard here.
Futaba: We're after the Desires that Alice is seizing from the people whose hearts she changed, right? Then don't we have to write something like, "We shall take back the Desires you've seized!"?
Keiko: Also, I'll keep our Persona friends posted with Lava helping us out and to be our messenger too.
Morgana: Smart, Futaba. And Madame Keiko, good thinking on your end as well. So by using the same logic that works on Treasures is probably our best shot.
From one good part and backup and the plan to go well, then knowing what they have to do next.
Makoto: Once the Desire takes form, we can steal it. If we return the victims their own Desires and turning back from becoming Gegasite slaves...
Haru: Everyone should return to normal.
Now one question was left to worry Ann about Alice since their infiltration began...
Ann: So...What'll happen to Alice then?
Keiko: It should be like we always change bad people's hearts. I can still do the same thing with a little upgrade I got from Kaguya and Picaro's powers.
Ryuji: Well, about that too...Alice should be havin' a change of heart and confessin' soon after.
Yeah, but not completely like it was nothing.
Morgana: Actually, that's not set in stone. What we're stealing this time are the Desires that Alice seized from others.
Akechi: For the power to locate and use Pandora's Box weapon. We cannot let the real enemy use it.
Morgana: And we won't allow for it either. This isn't her own desire of ambition-or like the Treasure we found in Palaces. There's no way of knowing whether or not Alice's heart will be changed.
Now that's going to be a bigger problem there.
Makoto: Even if we rescue her victims, without a change of heart in Alice, this will just turn into a pointless cycle...
Yusuke: But if the calling card works, her Desire will manifest inside the birdcage. That creates a high probability that we'll encounter Alice's Shadow there.
Sophia: [We did cause quite a scene destroying the lock.]
So they'll be ready for their return with greater numbers.
Yusuke: Whether through words or fists, don't we still have the opportunity to change her heart via her Shadow? And the Fake Shadow of the Gegasites too?
Knowing Ann to get up from the chair to do this very badly.
Ann: Then let's do it. Let's take her head-on!
Keiko: Ann? (She really wants to do this.)
Ann: Oh...Sorry...
Akechi: It's okay, you two are a lot alike when it comes to young fashion models.
Sitting back down, Ann explained the rest for Keiko and Akechi could tell from Ann's feelings to be real.
Ryuji: Hey, Ann. It'll be OK.
Ann: Ryuji, thank you. Look...I know that's the dangerous approach, but...If you guys are all up for it...I want to rescue Alice too, not just her victims. Alice said she wanted to be a ray of light that could inspire people suffering through life.
Ryuji: You mean, when she was on TV? I dunno if she really meant all that...
Or from the other enemy of Guyver, the twins were responsible for making Alice Shadow say those things.
Ann: Well, I do. I get why she said it-because of all the bullying in her past. I mean...Doesn't it seem like we saw part of Alice's trauma in the secret room?
Sophia: [Trauma?]
A new word to learn for this AI.
Haru: It's like an invisible wound in a person's heart. It comes from living through painful experiences.
Sophia: [A wound in the heart...]
Ann: Maybe that trauma's the whole reason the Jail formed.
Another new discovery on how it was all made.
Morgana: Trauma distorted Alice's heart, giving birth to the Jail...That is very similar to Palace generation-I've gotta say it's possible.
Yusuke: But how is that trauma relevant to Alice's current behavior?
Ann: This is just a hunch, but I think she sees what she's doing as some kind of revenge-against the kinds of girls who treated her badly.
Akechi: If any fan girl of mine did the same thing to hurt Keiko and me, I would never forgive myself.
Lucky for Akechi wouldn't fall victim to Alice's powers.
Keiko: Akechi-Cun...I believe you have the willpower to fight back.
So Alice takes guys away to make girls upset. And some special girls to become her toy in the Metaverse.
Ryuji: Stealing someone's dude right in front of her is revenge on Alice? That's pretty sick...
Futaba: But her Shadow's operation is way too massive for that to be all. She has just too many victims already.
Haru: What if she simply kept escalating because no one was there to stop her?
Akechi: It wounded her heart badly to hide it for so long in pain.
It must be it.
Haru: Becoming a Monarch must create an awful amount of distortion...
Ann: All that only makes me want to help Alice more. If her heart's grown that distorted, then I want her to at least remember how it feels being a ray of light for somebody. Is she beyond helping at this point? I don't know...But there has to be someone who at least tries! We can't just abandon Alice!
Touching words, even for Morgana to care for Ann still.
Morgana: Lady Ann...
Keiko: You're right, Ann. You're so kind of a friend to all of us.
Ryuji: And hot for me!
Keiko: Is it also because you share a dream like Alice does?
From problems Alice has, Ann does for the girl somehow.
Ann: We just want to never give up on them either. Thanks, Keiko. You too, Morgana. And Ryuji...You're the best.
Hugging and kissing Ryuji for Ann to do, this made him very happy.
Ryuji: Damn...I love being kissed by her...!
Makoto: Ann, I'm with you too. Let's do it.
Akechi: I'm in as well.
Yusuke: No objections here, either. However, should we engage her in combat, we must avoid taking her life at all costs.
That's the same old plan still, they never and won't kill anyone.
Ann: Absolutely. That's out of the question.
Ryuji: Best case scenario, we just talk her out of it.
Ann: Guys, do you think I could write the calling card this time? There's something I need to tell her personally.
This is something for Ann to see until the very end.
Keiko: It's all yours, Ann. We're all here with you on this one. Also, make it look badass.
Ann: *chuckle* You know it, girlfriend! This is gonna be our best one so far!
First time for Sophia to see it too.
Sophia: [Writing a calling card? Need any help?]
Ann: Ooh, you can help me with the phrasing, Sophia!
Ryuji: Awesome! All we gotta figure out now is the delivery.
And this is where Futaba comes in.
Futaba: Mweheheh...I may have a plan for that. This is a special reunion of the Phantom Thieves-we gotta do this right!
Akechi: Let's try to hack through it again with our skills. Try not to get caught with it, you know? Just in case.
You heard the ace detective prince, so make this worth something by tomorrow night. As Keiko gets some other weapons, armors, and items to be all set for tomorrow's battle...It was time.
Morgana: Are you all set, Madame Keiko?
Keiko: For tomorrow I am. Let's stop Alice Shadow's and get everyone's Desires back.
And Futaba will guide them on her other hacking programming to happen again.
Futaba: Mwehehe, leave everything to me, Big Sis. Let's get some sleep for now and in the morning, I'll explain the rest.
Ann: Right! Let's do this!
Have Ann be ready for anything here, for the others to support and understand her...even Ryuji to care so much about his girlfriend. Now everyone else goes home and rests up for the big day.
7 – July/29th/Saturday
It's here! From Futaba getting things all set with some help to send it in at night time in a bit...
Futaba: Ready with the spare Calling Card, Ann?
Ann: I am.
Ryuji: Got the idea affects written down.
Yusuke: I made sure the looks were perfect.
Akechi: I got one of the places to broadcast this live.
Morgana: All clear for the script.
Makoto: All set on Alice when she sees it to be made on tonight's news too on our cell phones.
Haru: We're all equipped and ready to go.
Sophia: [Location of barrier is down to enter in Alice's Jail.]
Then they were all set.
Keiko: We're all ready, Futaba.
Same with Lava getting Keiko's message by phone to tell the other three Personas to be ready for battle back in Shibuya Castle Jail.
Loki: It's time. Let's go.
Picaro: For our memories.
Kaguya: And our goals to accomplish.
Off they went, and now it was time for Futaba to set the stage like Masayoshi Shido's was, for the return of the Phantom Thieves calling card to be broadcaster live.
Futaba: Now then, place everything. Lights, camera, and...action!
That night...
From a night time in the city area to light up and look well while others were walking around, news tells about a famous business person known as Akira Konoe 'but I call him Konoe' makes it big on his sales against some other company known as...Pineapple? Huh? Well, he sounds important for later. Here comes the hacking of the Phantom Thieves' logo that also says- "Take Your Heart" too. It's Showtime alright!
[Ryuji: Okay, folks, listen up!]
Others stopped to watch and listen while also taking selfies on their cell phones for this announcement.
[Haru: Good evening.]
[Ann: Been a while, huh?]
They were taking all over the jumbo city's TV screens on all of the buildings.
[Yusuke: Perhaps you remember us.]
[Makoto: We are the Phantom Thieves.]
[Akechi: I hope you didn't miss any of us for a year now. Because we're back.]
[Ann: And we're back in action with a new heart in our sights!]
[Futaba: A wicked witch who treats people like toys. Alice Hiiragi!]
[Sophia: You pretend you're a ray of light, but all you do is hurt people to indulge your own darkness. You're a bad person, and bad people have to be stopped.]
All this to be going on, and Zen watches and listens in to it all on how it's done. He was smiling. Soon on the TV screens show another scene of the thieves themselves, and mostly Keiko as Joker.
[Ann: And all those Desires you stole?]
[Keiko: Tonight, we're taking them all back!]
Tayla: From Team Drago of the Phantom Thief of Hearts!
Showing their calling card on there and what they said to be written on it too, everyone has got the message to tell Alice right away from one of her managers. Nicely done! With the twins seeing all of this go down.
Ellen: Hey! They can't do that-!
Hans: Wait, Ellen. Let us watch and see what happens next.
Ellen: Are you sure?
For her to hate the idea, and the brother to have a lot more on his mind.
Hans: Trust me, Mommy wants us to look up on our enemies until we can stop them soon enough. (Show me what you can do, Keiko.)
Seems like they don't care about Alice to be caught and fail now for the Phantom Thieves to stop, ha! Soon from the backside of another TV studio where Alice was, she was planning out her next big show. To soon stop when she gets the news on her being the Phantom Thieves' next target.
Alice: Okay, next I'm scheduled aaat...
Soon her cell phone in a cute ringtone was going off to answer it.
Alice: Oh, it's the manager...Hello?
Alice's Manager: [Ah! This is bad, Miss Alice! Look at the email I forwarded you!]
While still talking to her manager, she was shocked by what the email said...
Alice: What in the...Phantom Thieves?
And soon, Alice's Shadow response came back.
Alice Shadow: They're taking...my Desires? *gasp* All the Desires I've collected?! No, you can't! I need those! That's what makes me the Monarch if those siblings didn't save my life! I need those to...Without those, I'll...All right. I'll wait for you. I don't want toys that don't do as they're told...I'll smash you for certain this time, Joker.
Something tells me that the security levels will go up too, same old thing but a bit different. Still, it all worked out so far. Back at Leblanc upstairs hideout – it was time for the Phantom Thieves to head back to the Metaverse.
Futaba: Mweheheheheh, it's The Return of the Futaba Cannon! Hope it was a blast!
Akechi: I think it went pretty well.
A sneaky move, but it all worked out fine for all of them.
Futaba: Right now, Shibuya's Phantom Thieves frenzy all over again! I'm sure Alice got her calling card by now, too.
It says so on all of their phones.
Keiko: It's good to have other fans who still support us.
Futaba: Yeah, it does, Big Sis. Sooo, all that's left is to wrap this up. Let's head in and finish the job we started!
Keiko: Let's do this. Time for the heist.
The first battle and to do something right will be a big thing, to still give it a shot.
Morgana: Right. Tonight, we take back the stolen Desires! We'll also aid Loki along with Picaro and Kaguya to find out about their past too. Another medallion awaits us.
Back into the Metaverse they go and transform.
Keiko: Got it. Team, let's move out.
Akechi: I'm ready whenever you are, Princess.
It suits up time.
Keiko and Akechi: Suit up! Code names - Joker and Black Crow!
Morgana: Suit up! Code name – Mona!
Ryuji: Suit up! Code name – Skull!
Ann: Suit up! Code name – Panther!
Yusuke: Suit up! Code name – Fox!
Makoto: Suit up! Code name – Queen!
Futaba: Suit up! Code name – Oracle!
Haru: Suit up! Code name – Noir!
Sophia: Suit up! Code name – Sophie!
Already back there, Loki shows them Phantom Thieves to another route for them to take to the Castle Jail.
Loki: Right on queue. Now let's get going.
Morgana: Let's go, everyone! Time to change Alice's heart!
Keiko: Then let's get going. Lead the way, Loki.
Getting through the Shibuya Castle Jail of Alice King/Shadow's area, they all see a long chain torn down and line up to the entrance they need to go up to next. Song again from Lyn - Life Will Change.
Keiko 'singing': It's not a game
I'm not a robot AI challenging you
I'm not a phantom
I'm in your face and
I'm here to see it through
Right before your eyes
Watch us multiply
Come to claim our rights, it's time
As our power grows
Tryin' to stop us shows
(You) Might as well go try 'n' stop time
So you know that we're out there
Swatting lies in the making
Can't move fast without breaking
Can't hold on or life won't change
And our voices ring out, yeah
Took the mask off to feel free
Fought it out in the debris
Now we know that life will change
Ain't it a shame
I'm not a figment of your ailing old mind
I'm just as real as
I'm just as dangerous
As you, so know you'll find
A taste of your own meds
Fire in every breath
Fire inside your head, your heart
And as your crippled brain
Tries to fight in vain
Your empire will fall apart
And you'll know we were out there
Swatted lies in the making
Your empire for the taking
Can't hold on or life won't change
And our voices rang out, here
Took the mask off to feel free
Fought it out in the debris
Now we know that life will change
Now all ready to get going….
Futaba: Look! The chain goes all the way to the top!
Akechi: The lock has been broken. Talk about your personal stair way up.
Sophia: Perhaps it fell when we opened the lock.
A good way to get up easily.
Morgana: Climbing this should give us a straight shot to the birdcage of Desires.
Keiko: Going up then.
With Keiko/Joker leading everyone to the top with Loki floating up there...Along with Akechi/Black Crow, Morgana/Mona, Ryuji/Skull, Ann/Panther, Yusuke/Fox, Makoto/Queen, Futaba/Oracle, Haru/Noir, and Sophia/Sophie arrived on top of Alice Shadow's Jail to save everyone's Desires of the Shadows to turn back to normal; from being Gegasites and being set free too. Don't forget about the medallion. Arriving there, they soon spotted something on the other side 'with no more barrier blocking their entry'.
Morgana: Whoa! That is...
Futaba: GINORMOUS! Why's it so big?!
How the Treasure shows itself once the person is alerted and its Shadow self, it appears to be a heart shape of a gem of everyone's Desires into one. Being big and coursing through a lot of energy.
Keiko: So like we've been doing from before, this is a bit different to stop the energy thing from coursing all over the Metaverse.
Haru: I see. Well, at least it actually materialized for us, thank goodness.
Akechi: From everyone's Desires to become something like. Shadows to be trapped to become mindless slaves. Without their Desires, it could kill them.
Seems like it, but they were here to fix it.
Morgana: That is a relief. I was worried our standard Palace procedures wouldn't work.
Futaba: All right. Skull-get to haulin'!
I doubt someone like Ryuji would lift it.
Ryuji: Uh, no. Look at the size of that thing!
Keiko: See? I told you so.
Ann: Oracle, to make Skull do it. So, what do we do now?! How do you steal something like that?
Loki: Any ideas?
Makoto: I admit, I don't know either...
This was going to be a problem. Soon to be hearing a noise...
Yusuke: What's that?!
Popping out from below to be sitting down, Alice Shadow was waiting for their arrival.
Futaba: It's her!
Ann: Alice!
Almost using her strings on the Phantom Thieves next to control instead since she couldn't take their Desires...the strings were cut by the twins' doing to come to the rescue.
Alice Shadow: Ah, you two are no fun.
Like that'll happen again!
Kaguya: Please stop her in any way to save the Shadows' Desires to bring the humans to their senses again.
Picaro: You can do it, Phantom Thieves! We'll back you guys up!
And then they said this part together.
Picaro and Kaguya: And Joker, the power to change Alice's heart will work from the boost we gave you on your upgrade as well. Please use it!
From lots of helicopter Shadows, cops, guards, and drones for the three Personas to take on, leaving the other ten Phantom Thieves to stop Alice Shadow.
Akechi: You three be careful. (Loki, please lend me enough energy to stop Alice and change her heart.)
Now it was time to fight, seeing they had no other choice.
Yusuke: So, it's a fight after all.
Keiko: We'll leave the other Personas on their end there, we got Alice to deal with and Desires to be saved.
Getting off her chair, Alice Shadow walks up to her enemy to be ready to fight on her own terms.
Alice Shadow: Oh dear, you thought you'd just sneak in like that? And what exactly do you plan on doing with those Desires? I don't care about those Personas, it's you thieves I'm more worried to keep getting in my way.
Akechi: Don't you think for a second we'll let you get away that easily!
Alice Shadow: Hey, you-Joker, right? Did you come back to me so you could be mine?
Not happening to become Alice Shadow's doll to control Keiko at all like she was her toy.
Keiko: No! After what you tried to do to me and the Kaguya twins! We're changing your heart and taking those Desires you've stolen!
Alice Shadow: Aw, what a grump. You should try being nicer if you're a girl like me.
Akechi: She's nicer than you are!
You tell her, Akechi! For Keiko it is nice to always stand up for what's right.
Morgana: Alice Hiiragi! We know all about the horrible things you've done.
Yusuke: You seized people's Desires by force and turned them into your puppets. From hideous creatures and men forcing to love you!
Makoto: It is not love at all! You toyed with people's emotions and mistreated one another.
Futaba: You even opened up stores so you could bilk all the people you brainwashed!
Akechi: And you were almost close to hurting Joker and the twins like they were your toys! You'll pay for this...!
A sweet thing for him to save to his girlfriend.
Keiko: (Akechi...) Surrender or else, Alice!
Haru: We can no longer overlook the wicked changes of heart you've forced on the people!
Ann: The Phantom Thieves are about to beat the distortion out of you!
Ryuji: Yeah, Panther! You're awesome and super hot!
Nice words, thieves. For Alice Shadow recognizes Ann as Panther.
Alice Shadow: Takamaki-san...You're so beautiful like Joker is too. There's no way you could understand. You have no clue what I've been through.
Ann: You mean, what happened to you at Shujin?
Alice Shadow: ...! Where did-How?!
She was surprised they'd found out all about Alice's sad past.
Ann: We know all of it. How you were bullied. How it was torture for you. But I still-
Seems this vixen knew about them unlocking her secrets hidden in Shujin Academy.
Alice Shadow: Oh, boy...You found out...No matter how much I hide it, the past still comes back to me! How pathetic...What a mess! But that doesn't matter now. With this power, I can have everything. Everything I've always wanted...Mine!
Get ready, here comes the transforming!
Akechi: Strange powers are coursing through this girl...Everyone, be ready! Alice's transforming!
Alice Shadow: And now, I'm going to make you mine...All mine!
Transforming to become taller, Alice Shadow's form was...Ew! Creepy! From a her tail to have a mouth to say the word 'eat me', carrot people on her legs to be her slaves outfits, a crown, bunny ears on her head; looking all sexy-like and her face like a beat up rag doll. With a cane too! Hopping in the air to get to her main battlefield for her to be laughing, it was time to battle. Alice Shadow just turns herself in Mad Rabbit Alice Hiiragi.
Keiko: What...? What is that?!
A Wonderland from hell!
Tayla: Persona #29 = Asmodeus (the lust of magic)
Mad Rabbit: Don't you want me?
Lots of males were watching on stage to cheer for their majesty to win the battle to make it look cute and a party type of strip floor. Gross...
Ryuji: What in the...She turned into some kinda rabbit!
A mess up one at that!
Makoto: So this really is Alice in Wonderland...
Keiko: This is one version I don't want to watch.
Mad Rabbit: Oh my, I'm late for a very important date. Come along, come along! I have such wonders to show you!
I don't like where this is going at all. From her battle ground is a cute, strip, and light design type of stadium.
Sophia: What wonders?
Futaba: Ignore her, Sophia. She just wants to torture us or something.
Ann: Alice...I'm gonna make you see the light!
Tayla: The Phantom Thieves vs. Mad Rabbit Alice Hiiragi! And...begin!
Moving around to be fast on her feet and waving her cane to hit the thieves to use their skills to move away from it, she wasn't playing around here.
Mad Rabbit: Aw, you Phantom Thieves seem like best buds. Any of you happen to be dating. I can tell a few of you are with one another.
Almost having a hold of Ann to get distracted...
Ann: What?! How would that be any of your business?!
Ryuji: Panther!
Almost getting hit by Alice Shadow's psychic powers and magic beams, Ryuji takes a couple hits to be pushed back and saves his girlfriend.
Ann: No, Skull!
Ryuji: I'm fine...Still, asking about our love life ain't any of your damn business!
Mad Rabbit: *giggle* I wonder who you've got your eye on, Takamaki-san? This blondie with a skull mask? Aw, how sad. Personally, I've got a thing for the one called Black Crow! I'm gonna take your heart!
Using his laser sword to block Alice Shadow's cane weapon to be serious in battle.
Akechi: Hey! You're not my type!
Keiko: Keep your hands off my man!
Using the fire and wind powers of her other Persona to blow and heat up against the enemy. Watch out for her back foot kicks!
Ryuji: Dude, she is freaky! You better watch out, Joker! You too, Black Crow!
Jumping on the pole to spin around and hit Alice Shadow a few times was working so far, as well as avoiding more magic. She had a lot of cognitive fans supporting this mess up girl.
Makoto: She's tough...See any weaknesses yet, Oracle?
More power incoming, as Ann and Morgana step in to put their powers into action.
Morgana: Let's go, Panther! With me! Furious Fangs!
Ann: Right, Mona, I'll back you up! Burning Claw!
Wind and fire seems to be slowing down Alice Shadow so far. While Futaba was still finding out her other weakness to use.
Futaba: One sec, analyzing...
Using another move of Keiko and Ann using their fire skills right in Alice Shadow's face seems to be doing the trick so far.
Keiko: Got it!
Futaba: Between fire and wind are her weaknesses. Everyone, back Joker and Black Crow up! Panther and Mona, you lend them a hand on the battlefield!
Seems to be working so far, with Alice Shadow then dancing and spinning on a pole to let out lots of heart powers of her magic of bubbles to trap Ryuji, Yusuke, Makoto, Haru, and Sophia to get stuck and being drained slowly.
Morgana: Skull! Fox! Queen! Noir! Sophie!
Akechi: Don't get caught from those things!
With Keiko, Morgana, Akechi, Ann, and Futaba getting out of there safely—leaving the other five trapped by Alice Shadow's doing.
Mad Rabbit: Gotcha! Now your energies are all mine. Five down, and five more to go.
Ryuji: Let us out!
Yusuke: This is bad...!
Makoto: A bubble?!
Haru: How do we get out?!
Sophia: If we try to, we'll be weakened even more by Alice's deadly powers.
With incoming stomping skills from her feet to try jumping down on the others, Futaba makes a shield to aid the four thieves.
Futaba: Try to weaken Alice first before saving the others! Trust me, they can hold on for a bit!
Man, this girl just bows down to her fans as they were all cheering for her to win. This anger annoys Ann to not only save the others and her boyfriend, but to also talk some sense into this girl during battle.
Ann: No...! Let them go!
Burning with passion to use her whip and Carmen's help, Alice Shadow and Ann were moving really fast to be hot and deadly.
Keiko: Panther!
Morgana: Be careful!
I think she'll be just fine for the others to have faith in this girl.
Ann: Alice, why are you doing this! You've hurt so many people!
From whips and canes.
Mad Rabbit: Huh? Don't blame me. It's not my fault everyone's in love with me and the girls are my toys. What can I do if they say they only have eyes for me? *giggle*
Ann: What? No one who's saying that means it-you're just manipulating them!
Fighting while talking was hard to do.
Keiko: Is this a normal fight?
Akechi: Panther really wants to save Alice.
Continuing on...
Mad Rabbit: Oh? So you know about all that, huh? I never would have guessed you were a phantom thief, Takamaki-san. Who will change whose heart in the end? Oh, I just can't wait to find out!
Almost losing...Morgana sees some party poppers to weaken Alice Shadow - for him, Akechi, and Keiko get to their spots to set them all off.
Morgana: Hmmm...Black Crow! Joker! Get those party poppers popping! And...boom!
Ready, aim, fire! It worked to hit Alice Shadow a lot...Allowing for Ann to have Carmen to spin her from the fire to hit her a few more times.
Keiko and Akechi: A direct hit!
Futaba: Well done, you two! Pop goes the rabbit!
Using her moves in the middle again, Ann moves away to see more of the party poppers left.
Ann: We can still use these...?
The others see it too.
Ryuji: Hey, check out the rest of those party poppers!
Morgana: You'll have your chance when Alice goes for the pole. That's when you blast her!
As weird as it looks and is, it works out.
Yusuke: Raining confetti upon the stage...That would be quite pleasing, aesthetically.
Doing so for Ann makes a move to do so and...another direct hit there!
Ann: Bang!
Mad Rabbit: Owww! Hey, what the hell?!
Time for the others to attack Alice Shadow while they still have the chance to.
Futaba: Cyber Net Strike!
Keiko: Daggers of Darkness!
Akechi: Saber Sword Slash!
Trying to use her cane of magic again for more bubbles and beam attacks, Futaba uses her shield to destroy them all.
Futaba: Hehehe, not this time...
With Keiko using Bicorn's ground stomping skills when Alice Shadow got hurt, the others use their weapons next to cut through this succubus girl. Now using an All-Out Attack for Morgana to lead as Akechi, Ann, and Keiko do their best to hit Alice Shadow some more with one hit for Morgana to lead.
Morgana: The end!
And boom! Hopefully Futaba can save the other Phantom Thieves from being stuck in a bubble real soon...Getting back up, Alice Shadow has more magic tricks of an ace up her sleeves.
Yusuke: Watch out, here comes more!
Mad Rabbit: Why are you being like this? I was finally able to find some happiness...Are you here to take everything I have? Just like she did? JUST TRY ME!
She must be talking about her old bully. Moving up a bit to go at them like a real rabbit would in the wild, only Alice Shadow in this form was ten times stronger in battle!
Futaba: Something's changed...Stay on guard!
This girl was stomping all over the place.
Akechi: She's too fast!
Ryuji: Whoa, holy shit!
For Morgana using his wind powers and Zorro to boost up Akechi, Keiko, and Ann's speed and away from the danger.
Morgana: Why is she fast now?! Sheesh!
Keiko: Aren't all rabbit animals like that?
With Futaba healing them up and still working on the others to be free, they have to be on guard for this attack.
Mad Rabbit: It's time to take you all to school!
Still going all out with wind and fire at Alice Shadow to stop her magical beam attacks.
Ann: She refuses to give up...Alice, what made you like this?
Mad Rabbit: You'd never get it, Takamaki-san. I've been treated like shit all my life! I had everything taken from me! You don't know what that's like! The further up the social ladder, the shitter they were to me! Even if they saw someone getting tortured, they'd just smile and keep on walking like I didn't matter! How could trash like that NOT deserve it? And I'll show you that you're trash too. Once I've got a man in my grasp, there's no letting go. I'll turn him on you, then you'll learn true despair...Soon I will be loved by all the men in the world!
She better not hurt Ryuji to make Ann mad at all. Same goes for Yusuke and Akechi too, like they'll fall for her spell!
Ryuji: Don't even think about it, bitch!
Soon enough, someone within Ann burns up for a brand new attack to happen next.
Ann: No you don't...! Spinning Inferno!
A strong hurricane type of fire attack there for Ann hits Alice Shadow hard to also melt the bubbles to set the others free.
Ryuji: YES!
Yusuke, Haru, Makoto, and Sophia: She did it?!
Futaba: Awesome! A brand new attack! Her fire was the key to melting down Alice's magic bubbles.
Akechi and Keiko: Really?
Morgana: Such beauty...
Ann was amazed at what she just did, but the team was growing stronger everyday. As well as burned Alice Shadow's big hands and feet type of rabbit body parts.
Mad Rabbit: Aaaaah! It burns! You must really wanna piss me off.
Incoming spinning like Sonic the Hedgehog attack next! Using everything they can to slow Alice Shadow down in any way, she just won't stop. The others take a turn to try to slow her down. Shooting a little and then stepping in.
Ryuji: Let's back them up like Oracle said. Raging Storm Clash!
Yusuke: Aqua Typhoon!
Makoto: Venom Blast!
Haru: Lily Whip!
Sophia: SP Piercer!
Jumping up high next for another stomp like move...
Mad Rabbit: Die! Die! Die!
Morgana then turns himself into a car to run over Alice Shadow a lot to make her trip and fall down hard. From there, Alice Shadows tries to use her claws to hit...as Keiko's Persona has some steel armor to cut them down. And then Ann's fire attacks on her big and gross cottontail of hers.
Ann: Who wants some roasted rabbit?
She was really on fire now.
Mad Rabbit: Aaaaah! Hot! Too hot! Too hot! Someone put it out for me! Don't just keep cheering, I need help!
Keiko: Fine then, you big baby.
Using water now to cool off and whack on Alice Shadow's giant form of a big butt to come to her senses there.
Mad Rabbit: Ngh! Why are you...?! I'm not doing anything wrong!
Trying to fight back with more bubbles and destroying the rest easily from shooting or cutting them down, she was getting much weaker.
Futaba: Alice is getting weaker! Just one more big push-keep it up, guys!
As the other three Personas destroyed all the Gegasites and Fake Shadows of theirs, Alice Shadow was about to go down.
Loki: Special delivery!
From Loki's hits to use his sword to snap Alice Shadow's cane weapon in half, the twins make their move first for this girl to block off easily
Picaro: Black-hole Burst!
Kaguya: Lunar light Waves!
Looked like she stopped their attacks.
Mad Rabbit: Nice try, bitches...But not happening! All those girls looking down on me...They'll see! They'll see how every man is mine!
For the three knew their move was a distraction for her.
Ann: Is that really what you want, Alice? Don't be stupid! I remember your real answer. You have to remember too, Alice! Tell me! What do you REALLY want?!
Fighting each other still for the three aid their teammate and the others as back up.
Mad Rabbit: I...
Using more bubbles to release from Alice Shadow's powers, she then starts to weaken.
Loki: Your own powers just turned on you next, how sad...
Mad Rabbit: What!? No! No!
This leaves for Ryuji and Ann to make their final move together.
Ann: It's time...Skull!
Ryuji: I gotcha, Panther!
Combining their lighting and fire attacks from a ball shape form and hitting with Ryuji's weapon like a baseball bat.
Ann and Ryuji: Batter...up!
Hitting Alice Shadow to go flying right into the lights and getting electrocuted and burned too for the fans on the stage to fade away, she was finally down for the count. And back to normal too.
Alice Shadow: This...can't be...
Futaba: Did we do it?
Seems like it, all is good now.
Keiko: And Alice has learned a lesson from a dream she had to not be real, the end.
End of this story for sure.
Tayla: Mad Rabbit Alice Hiiragi – Defeated!
Now with a few more things to be done and seeing Alice Shadow have a change her heart, her real self, the second medallion, Desires to return back, shutting down the power, freeing the trapped Shadows, no longer being Gegasites, and all to be back to normal in the real world next.
Akechi: It is a rather sad fate. Alice was bullied and not cared for a lot to be normal from a jealous and selfish girl back then. Knowing she wanted more, she went overboard without realizing it until the very end.
Loki: Yeah, we get it. It's sad. The other girl should've stopped with another human helping her out.
Huh? Did Loki say something friendly or good advice just now? Both Akechi and Keiko picked it up. Still, Alice Shadow needed to learn something and then getting hurt and heart changed by Keiko's new found powers in a bit...
Alice Shadow: No...How can I still not be strong enough?! Why can't I change?! I'm not the victim anymore!
A big pest she was, you do feel a bit sorry for her like Ann does the most.
Ann: Enough, Alice. If you keep going, you'll just make yourself feel even worse.
Alice Shadow: How would you know?!
Keiko: Look, Alice. Panther really gets you. You both suffered in your life to be different, but you're still the same as everyone else is. (I didn't like being controlled, but I felt so much pain from this girl. There's such a thing as a second chance in the future.)
From Ann being saved to be herself and with friends, as well as being a Phantom Thief too.
Akechi: It's hard to find true love someday, and it'll happen. But doing all of this isn't right. Trust me.
Alice Shadow: ...I just can't compare to someone like you, Takamaki-san...All my life. I'm not a match for the real winners...
Ann: ...
Sometimes, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. You just try your hardest until you can make it to the top somehow.
Alice Shadow: And I tried SO HARD to change! But I was still made fun of-still bullied...I just wanted to stop being miserable. I poured my heart into fashion and worked to get so far! But then...She showed up again, and started running her mouth about my past...She told everyone what a pathetic little shit I was!
Ryuji: ...
Alice Shadow: That's why I took all of it from her! Her boyfriend, her social circle, everything! And that STILL wasn't enough for me! It wasn't just her. Everyone that talked behind my back, all the people who just stood there when I was getting...I'll destroy every single one of them!
She was really crying as the others got her pain to admit it all.
Haru: Alice...
Sophia: So this is a wound in a heart...
A lot to learn for this AI.
Alice Shadow: This power lets me get revenge...So I...
It's the other way around with her now.
Ann: You became the bully, right? You idiot! What good does that do?! Now you're just as bad as the people who made YOU suffer! Is that how you wanna live? Like one of those bullies? Didn't you wanna be something else? A ray of light for others-and for yourself!
Alice Shadow: ...
Walking up to Alice Shadow for Ann needed to say something next, both Kaguya and Picaro touched the gem of heart Desire to feel something from their past. They got something...It showed an image of them being two human girls once when they were alive, along with two other girls and one boy; and two other women to work hard together in some company of the important gifted ones. And that was it. A puzzle to be found in other ones out there.
Kaguya: That was...us as humans!
Picaro: Damn! Not only that, but three more kids to once be our friends too! But who were the other women?
For Loki to over hear, he too has to find his answers real soon like they were. One puzzle solved so far, they still need to find more pieces from their pasts. Now back to Ann talking a bit more with Alice Shadow to help her see the real ray of light.
Ann: Don't give up because of those selfish bastards!
She now learns what Alice needs to do for a better tomorrow.
Alice Shadow: Takamaki-san...You're right. I wanted to rescue them...All the people like me...going through the same thing...But I...
Keiko: Atone for your crimes! Alice, it's not too late to change.
Alice Shadow: ...Yes, Joker. I will. You and Black Crow make a wonderful couple for each other. I'm sorry...
Akechi: It's okay, things like this mess happens to get through it.
Yeah, they understand Alice a lot. Leaving her crown to take off and place it on the ground to give to them.
Alice Shadow: Once you change my heart and I give you a gift you seek for, everything will go back to normal. Takamaki-san, I...I want to apologize to the people I hurt and start over!
Ann: Mmhm! I'm sure you can turn it around. I've been through a lot of the same things. But thanks to my best friends and the Phantom Thieves, I was able to stand up for myself and do the right thing.
Ryuji: Both smart and hot!
This touches Ann's hot friend and her boyfriend's words.
Ann: Skull...You're never alone, Alice. Once you're back to your real self, let's be friends, okay?
She meant every word.
Alice Shadow: You want to be...Really?
Ann: Uh-huh! I mean, I totally love Alice! We even share the same dream!
Alice Shadow: *sniff* Thank you...
Sophia: ...
Man, Sophia was learning a lot after today's battle. Now it was time to change Alice's heart.
Akechi: Do it, Joker.
Keiko: Got it. Here's my new attack for this. Rainbow of the Flaming Heart!
Doing so for Alice Shadow to make amends and do good now. For this mask when changing someone's heart was glowing up rainbow-like colors a lot.
Alice Shadow: I'll go back now, where I belong. But this time, I'm gonna be...
From this and the second medallion to be shown for Alice Shadow to take for Keiko to hold on to, four more were left. Six Medallion Kings - The Earth King of Femme Fatable - Alice Hiiragi, for this one was green.
Keiko: That makes two of the medallions so far. (It looks like Picaro and Kaguya are getting closer to finding out more about their pasts so far.)
Strong words for Ann to say really pulled through, for Alice will be changing now thanks to their help from fighting and then talking some sense into her in the end.
Alice Shadow: I'm gonna be better than before when I make my comeback again.
She was gone and changed now, for her Jail started to shake up.
Loki: I take it we're done now? Because it feels like it to me!
Morgana: This is bad! It's coming down!
Running out of the building to get further away from the rubble falling down hard...For the gem Desires all break apart next. From the hearts of Desires flying around to go back into the Shadows to turn back to normal and Gegasites were all destroyed to fade into nothing...All of the prisoners were set free back to their normal selves to not care about Alice things anymore. Good! For Hans and Ellen witness it all to have trouble dealing with the Phantom Thieves. With the power core in Shibuya destroyed, everything went well for the better. As the other members and the three Personas see it all from on top of another building. Wow, what a view. Keiko and Akechi holding each other, same with Ryuji and Ann, as well as Yusuke and Makoto. Futaba, Morgana, Haru, and Sophia 'to look happy and with her hands up to also be jumping up and down', it was another successful mission completed.
Kaguya: Thank you, Phantom Thieves. We can do anything if we keep this up. We're slowly getting our memories back.
Picaro: I'm cool to do whatever just as long as we get it. So, hell yes!
Keiko: It was nothing. However we can each help out each other, this will go well for all of us.
But that's not all...
Akechi: Say, Loki...Were you saying how much you felt bad for Alice and wanted to help her out...?
But of course he hides his true feelings to not admit it at all, but Loki meant every word since Akechi can sense from his old Shadow self on how he was.
Loki: Please...! Don't push it.
Right, we won't...
Ryuji: That was effin' amazing...
Yusuke: Did we just witness the Desires returning to their rightful owners?
They all sure did!
Akechi: From no more sights of Gegasites anywhere and the Shadows set free, I think we've done it again.
Ann: Yeah, you're both right. What it looked like to me. Everyone who got a Desire disappeared afterward.
Keiko: And those gross Gegasites are all gone in this area.
Makoto: I hope that means their real-life counterparts are returning to normal.
Keiko: They'll be fine. Even so, we'll see it a lot on the news later.
Just a few hours to wait for it until tomorrow then was their only option for now.
Makoto: Yes, Joker, you're right.
But still...Something was up. Didn't any of you guys find it odd for the area to be the same still? I mean it didn't go away like the Palaces did.
Morgana: Wait, what the-
Haru: What is it, Mona-chan?
Yeah, tell them because they were all lost.
Morgana: Something's wrong...It's not collapsing.
Futaba: But the giant Desire blew up! Like, "Pwaaaah!"
Nope, otherwise they would've returned back to the real world in seconds.
Morgana: No...Just look around.
Makoto: Now that you mention it...
Ann: Whenever we stole a Treasure, we'd have to leave the Metaverse entirely, right?
It was, but this might be Metaverse of Jails of other energy cores to stop than just one from Shibuya of the other world.
Ryuji: Yeah, we always had to haul ass outta there.
Yusuke: That is most assuredly not happening now. If anything, it's grown eerily quiet.
Akechi: More energy than here? I guess it does make perfect sense.
Morgana: So if the Monarch is toppled and the Desires are all returned, the Jail still doesn't collapse?
Doesn't look like it.
Haru: It would appear that Palaces are different from this Jail after all.
Yusuke: There's a chance we haven't actually resolved the issue yet.
Akechi: Another mystery to look up on for me.
Makoto: I wonder how Alice will react to this...
Maybe she can lead them to some answers as their first witness.
Haru: Could we find out when we get back to the real world?
Morgana: It'd be nice if she could recall what happened here, but no one shares memories with their Shadows.
Akechi: Mona's right. She knows about feeling famous and such to then confessing the rest tomorrow...I think she wouldn't know, normal human selves and Shadows are different when they think alike differently.
Then getting Ann to talk to Alice maybe...?
Ryuji: Think she might talk to Panther?
She was a bit lost here...
Ann: Huh? Me?
Futaba: Yeah, yeah! You two could really hit it off.
Yusuke: She did say that she loves her.
As a fan thing there.
Ann: Eheh...Yeah...I mean, it was worth going that far for her to come to her senses...Alice really is a one-of-a-kind talent. And her dream is definitely something worth fighting for. I just hope she can remember how that dream first made her feel, so she can bring that feeling to the people who need it.
For someone like her to do something bad at first and then saved, there's still hope left.
Keiko: That's right, Panther. Well said. I'm sure she can start over.
It will take some time to do, but Alice will make it up for a better tomorrow.
Ann: I don't know if there's anything I can do to help her, but I at least want to be there for her.
Another strong word from Ann, Sophia was getting it too.
Sophia: Fascinating.
This was getting to Sophia a bit more and for Ann to notice.
Ann: What's up, Sophie?
Sophia: Just as the Phantom Thieves predicted, Alice Hiiragi appeared to change her logic. This would not be possible had we simply defeated her. How did you predict the outcome?
Nope, it just happened.
Akechi: Heheh, we're not all psychic types.
Makoto: Sadly, it's true. We didn't really predict it...Being able to change is what makes someone human.
Sophia: Someone is human...because they can change...
Keiko: Only if we do it to those who do something very bad, it's how it works in this world.
All of it to know who needs to stop doing something bad.
Haru: The human heart is much more complicated than expected, isn't it? Just when you think you've grown beyond your pain, the smallest thing can bring you all the way back down again.
Sophia: The human heart is indeed difficult to comprehend. It's filled with mysteries.
Futaba: Well, you're pretty high up there on the mystery charts yourself, Sophia my dear!
In a good way of saying it, and for Sophia to know it by now. Just a little more learning...
Sophia: No. I'm-
They all know already.
Ryuji: "Sophie, humanity's companion," right? We get it.
Sophia: You got it, Skull.
This sure made Sophia happy when Ryuji said it to her. It also has the other laughing to like their new AI friend.
Futaba: Do you really get it though? Heh.
Keiko: Oh, Sophie. (I can feel a strong bond with my friends and Akechi-Cun...)
More bonding, the cool new skills Keiko can get.
Loki: Well, I'll search around a bit more to keep you guys posted. You two, other me. Until next time...Let's keep this up.
Off Loki goes to other areas of the Metaverse Jails on other locations it might be at next. But where...? Same with the twins to leave too and continue to search as well.
Picaro: Until next time you guys, we'll keep in touch.
Kaguya: From here and Ms. Lavenza's heart, let's keep doing our best.
Keiko: See you guys later.
Akechi: We'll get our answers soon enough.
Now it was the Phantom Thieves turn to head back home. The twins seem to both like the Phantom Thieves already and Loki...I think he was growing on them, in a good way deep down.
Makoto: *chuckle* Loki's all right. And so are those girls, I hope they find more about themselves soon. Well, what do you say we head back now? I'd like to check on Alice in the real-worl.
The other Personas will be just fine.
Ann: Yeah! Let's get going!
Using their phones, it was time to go back to the real world and wait for the news from Alice to confess on live TV by tomorrow.
Keiko: See you guys tomorrow! (We all made our way back home...Along with Akechi, Morgana, Sophia on my phone, and me back to Leblanc just fine...)
Rest now and then worry about the rest in the morning then. With the other enemies watching and other friends on the Phantom Thieves' side, they can do this. As well as reporting back to Zen since he's helping them out...
Akechi: (I hope this is plenty for Master to help us out more and more. Maybe I'll see the world soon.)