Persona 5 Strikers – From Light and Dark
By Tayla Drago
Episode #62 - Enter in the Tree of Knowledge
Out of the Metaverse of the Abyss Jail for the Phantom Thieves checked out where EMMA gotten to next. Another Jail maybe? Well, Dr. Kano Guru and Sango Ichinose escaped to do something far more with Pandora's Box weapon. With tons of Gegasites all over to morph into Sentries now; another fusion of the real world and the Metaverse like from the other event from before; since EMMA is the Queen Gegasite itself of Pandora's curse to still happen so hopefully Sojiro, Sae, Miyako, and Akane fight off the enemies to do something big. Will Lava and the other Jack Frost armies due the same thing too? As Hans, Ellen, Kaguya, Picaro, Loki, and Raiho find another Jail for the Phantom Thieves – with Keiko, Morgana, Akechi, Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, Haru, Zen, and Kuon witness from the Radio Tower are drawing all of the humans under EMMA's spell of the app to be drown there for more energy gathering and/or slaves to stealing their Desires. Same with Sophia seeing this too from Keiko's cell phone. It was a real nightmare for all of the Gegasites to be all over the place and not everyone's seeing this to be panicking – for the other four, them, and Owada 'the fat coward' sees them the most. Oh! And the same for the other Monarch victims to be fine – Alice, Ango, Mariko, and Konoe.
Zen: All right, we made it.
Out of their thieves clothing for a bit, they don't like seeing what was happening right now.
Keiko: Ah, Gegasites! Gross!
Some to morph into their true forms.
Akechi: No...Gegasites in their true form, Sentries are invading our world with theirs...!
Morgana: Hey, uh...Besides that, look...These people...
It gets from bad to worse. All of the people who are seeing their phone of EMMA apps on it can't escape this one.
"I don't have to bother thinking anymore..."
"EMMA has all the answers I need..."
Ann: Everyone's still brainwashed...
Nothing to call out to anyone of them or moving them around wasn't working.
Keiko: They're all out of it. But not everyone...Mr. Sakura, Akane, and Sae should be fine.
Akechi: Right...Because we saved their Shadows. And maybe Kaburagi might be since she's tougher than she looks.
Keiko: I hope they'll be well from this mess happening.
Zen: Akane and the Commissioner?!
Akechi: It's fine, Master. They can fight through this.
Seeing of them to know of sensing things a little more, they'll survive. Anything's better than having them enter in the Metaverse where they're going to next.
Zen: ...Sorry, Goro, you're right. They'll live. We just need to fight back.
Akechi: Master, Akane wants for us to fight back. (I think she knows who we are already to keep to herself about it.)
Good enough, so there was no time to lose.
Yusuke: There's no time to waste. At this rate, it could very well reach the point of no return. Sophia, can you tell where EMMA is?
Being one with Pandora's powers is what she is good at much more now.
[Sophia: EMMA is...]
Morgana: Wait-something's wrong...
Stopping for a bit, the people stare at their phone without looking away for this part to happen next. Soon the lights go out all over to not be right at all to shock the other heroes. Not just the radio tower, but all over town to for the power lights were all shut down.
Morgana: Hey! What is that?
With Morgana asking to see it clear on Keiko's shoulder, the skies was...breaking? It was growing more of the light to reach to the top of something like a plant.
Ann: No way...!
Shining even brighter, they had to transform right away...
Keiko: I sense danger...! Quickly, team, transform! It's time we move out right away! And Kuon, stay close to us!
Ichinose: Right.
Time to go into the Phantom Thieves since the fusion of two worlds into one was happening again.
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!]
Zen: Suit up! Code name - Wolf!
From there and Loki using his powers to finally finding his remaining family to still be alive.
Loki: Here...! They're here! Let's go!
Moving in first along with Raiho following Loki, then the other four as well.
Hans: Come, Picaro.
Ellen: Let's go, Kaguya.
The other two twin sisters follow their Personas-User masters.
Picaro: Time to kick ass!
Kaguya: Please lead the way.
They've all entered in...a fused Metaverse type of Jail and the real world of the building of some body inside thing, to be weird looking but familiar. Everyone joining up again and Lava had to to do something too in the Velvet Room.
Lava: It's time...Come, Jack Frost family. We must aid them and Raiho.
They were all in. Jack Frosts, Black Frosts, and King Frosts gather to march and chant these words out.
"Hee-ho! Hee-ho! Here we go! It's time we help and end this show! Hee-ho!"
Kind of cute there, huh? With the Phantom Thieves, Raiho, Kuon, Hans, Ellen, Picaro, and Kaguya to be seeing this on where they entered in and other victims, it looked really bad. Still, this is where Dr. Kano Guru and Sango were located in.
Sango: It worked?
Dr. Guru: Finally...! Yes, my Pandora's done it. With EMMA's help, we've drawn more energy and slaves for all Sentries for this world and the real world to fuse. A new change has happened so far. As your Shadow self, you bitch is stronger than your human self is, we can still win this. I still have the power of Pandora's Box, my wish, my dream, my sister to come back to me, and everything else right here. It's time. Sango Ichinose, call out your Persona to fuse the two of us into our ultimate living beings. Do it! Otherwise, you'll have some more answering to do with my fists again.
So this is Sango's Shadow, I wonder where her real self was right now? She was doing this for her research for herself and Owada only. Nothing else to not even her own twin sister.
Sango: ...! Fine. But it's for my work and Owada I'm doing it for, not you.
Dr. Guru: Of course. I did spare him to still be alive and safe, right? Now it's time to make some magic.
Using what she can for EMMA to get the power and program to fuse with it and Sango's Personas to give herself and Guru the ultimate skills.
Sango: Give us the power combined into one of two of whole...Princess Pandora.
EMMA: Power ups activated.
Dr. Guru: And mine too...As the Gegasite King! Ahahahahahaha!
Laughing all crazy like, EMMA's electrical powers charges up for Sango's entire body of a Shadow of her Persona to show. Something I made up here for these two into one as well.
Persona #79 - Princess Pandora and Gegasite King – the Chaotic of Evolution
From Sango becomes a mummy type of female with bandages all over her body; nothing buy her arms as swords, one eyes showing, wearing a long red dress, and messy black hair. While her Persona of the Queen Gegasite's shell shows of a bug like thing - golden, legs of a spider, big mouth with sharp teeth, spiky body armor, and very tall. As for Dr. Kano Guru to look like, a bit different for his body too. He was human to lose his humanity for good in both worlds...a giant armor of a green beetle man. Long claws of his moth, three eyes, spikes all over, things sticking out of his head, taller, stronger, and can power up tn times more.
Sango: It's done.
EMMA: Transformations are completed.
With Sango still working for this madman and her Persona to guard her, Dr. Guru loves his new look to try it out. He was faster, strong, deadlier, and such with the power of Pandora's Box from within his body now and in full control of his free will to never happen before. The only way to stop the curse is to have someone close it, open it up to seal everything back inside, and then destroy. But how? It'll be hard to get it away from this man.
Dr. Guru: Yes...Yes...! It's done. All of it...! Now I am one as you are too, Princess Pandora. As for me...I am one with Pandora's Box for me and Pandora to come back soon, dear sweet and beautiful sister of mine. For I am no longer Prometheus...No, Zeus, I am reborn as the real and powerful to change everything, Gegasite King – the Chaotic of Evolution! Come to me, Phantom Thieves. Your blood will be painted well for me lover's return. Just you wait and see.
Sango: What are you orders now?
Dr. Guru: I have something special for you to do, missy...
Well, Sango's long gone for she wanted this from the very beginning without turning back now. For Guru is all powerful to do anything now. While back with the Phantom Thieves see the horrors they were in as do the others.
Akechi: Loki. Raiho.
Keiko: Ellen. Hans.
Morgana: Kaguya and Picaro too!
They were all here.
Loki: Look at this. From this mess to happen, and now back again to get where we all needed to be in by luck. Still, I take it didn't happen the first time?
Nope, this was their second time now.
Ryuji: Holy shit, what is all this?!
Picaro: Ah...I have to go with Skull on this one!
Ann: This is still the real world...Right?
Only in the area they were in right now that is.
Akechi: EMMA's not the only one doing this...Dr. Guru and Sango are with her help. This is bad...!
Ichinose: Sango...
Akechi: Aunty, I'm sorry.
Ichinose: I understand, and yet...
For Kuon still needed to think on what she needed to do against her sister now.
Yusuke: That ought to be the case, but it's growing harder to believe by the minute.
Zen: Already in our outfits too when we entered. Did EMMA knew we were showing up?
Sophia: I'm also here now too.
True, they had too and it just transporter them in this Jail right away and transformed. Raiho couldn't believe in all of this was really happened.
Makoto: Could it have happened again?
Morgana: Yeah, just like last year. The Metaverse is encroaching on the real world.
The same old thing all over again, huh? Not good at all. This was also new for others to learn about what the others did. Zen, Sophia, Kuon, Kaguya, Picaro, Ellen, and Hans.
Kaguya: Oh dear, this is horrible.
Zen: "Encroaching"? What do you mean by-Wait, something like THIS has already happened?!
No one remembers but to those with the Confidant Arcana powers, now that Zen and Sophia have it more...
Ann: Oh right, we're the only ones who remember.
Loki: Is it bad? I remember something with Lilith doing something with her lover, but it's worse like this one, only...from the doc's is way bad.
Morgana: Long story short, Loki, yes. This whole area is already under EMMA's control...Looks like she's turning it into some kind of massive Jail. If we don't stop it soon, it'll eventually override all of reality!
From a mad human to become a monster now for centuries and a human to give her soul up for EMMA's dream, it has to be stopped right away.
Loki: And my people...!
Seeing from afar for all of the Personas who are good as imprisoned inside glass cages to have their energies drained ten times more.
Akechi: These Personas are your family...?
Loki: They are...I was a commander of these guys of the balance to gods, humans, and us...I got kicked out when Lilith and the Holy Grail thing found me, I turned my back on them centuries ago after the war to get a woman or more to love me, then came Keiko...I was a fool to also be part of the kid's Shadow. And of course, for the whole god thing...My step brother and father Thor and Odin are also here...trapped.
So that's the whole truth about Loki a whole lots more...It makes sense now.
Akechi: So that's why...
Loki: I know...I've been brought back to life for this.
Ellen: Then it's the doctor's fault from the war from long ago, right? Not you.
Saying the words to show Loki to not feel bad at all.
Loki: The hell are you goin' on about, kid?
Hans: Dear sister.
Ellen: Look! You saw how Brother and I were. Our clones to foul with our minds, we thought we were them to follow our own goals. But they are all fakes! By the doctor to be Brother and Pandora to be me...It's gross! We thought we can change something too, to be dead but with a new life to do. We are alive because of you guys. With our Persona to be reborn as our older sisters. Think about it!
Hearing those words out, Loki wasn't alone at all.
Kaguya: Oh, she's right.
Loki: Seriously?!
Hans: Even so, power can make you do dumbass things. I almost did. I know now I will find true love like others will by heart. As for Sister to know what to live for, I get it too. We are us, Dr. Guru loss his mind to try to do something for his sister to love more than family, it is wrong. I don't think she'll come back either but a curse of anger and sadness. The only thing we can do ow is to grant Mia's last wish.
Strong words to those who were saved.
Akechi: Well, Loki, they all got you there.
Picaro! Ha! In other words, never judge a book by it's covers, bud. You made mistakes, but changed with the Phantom Thieves. They changed your heart to be brought back again. While the Guyver twins saw things through and set free by kick ass luck.
Seeing so, it seems Loki changed to know a lot to be himself with a heart of his own. Raiho knows of it to make a good friend.
Loki: Right, snowman. I am me and no one else. Thank you. I guess...Just don't push it too much.
Akechi: *chuckle* Of course we won't.
Hans: He does care.
Ellen: We like this Loki the way he is anyways.
All was good, and still to fix reality and the two world to be normal again.
Keiko: For EMMA to do this from Guru and Sango's madness, it has to be stopped. We have to fix this.
Akechi: We have to find EMMA first. We do this we can stop Sango, Guru, and save Loki's family. We have a change to save all worlds.
That's what they do best with some back up as well.
Morgana: Right. We're on it, Joker! Black Crow!
Soon Sophia felt the location out to alert the others about it.
Sophia: I have visual confirmation of the Ark above us. We'll have to climb up there to reach it.
Haru: We have to be quick-otherwise, all our efforts will have been for nothing!
One more thing before leaving...
Morgana: Ichinose, it's going to get too dangerous from here on out. You should hide somewhere nearby.
Akechi: We got this, Aunty. We'll save Sango to take stopping her in the name of justice and Owada's next.
Ichinose: I'll do just that. I'm sure I'd slow you down if I went with you, anyway. Akechi, please be careful. And those two won't be easy to defeat. Guyvers. Sisters. You four do the same thing too.
They will all be fine this time.
Kaguya: We got this.
Picaro: Gotcha!
Ellen: Right!
Hans: You got it.
A hug for a nephew and aunt to do.
Ichinose: ...!
Akechi: We'll be fine, Aunty.
Zen: As always, I got my step son's back.
Before taking off, Sophia had something to say to Ichinose for she'll be safe in this spot of the Jail.
Sophia: Well, Ichinose, I'm heading out...Black Crow and the rest are in good hands.
Ichinose: Ah, right...
Sophia: OK.
But Ichinose wanted to say something to say to Sophia first.
Ichinose: Sophia? Um...Be careful. Same with Akechi, Aika, Hitomi, Hans, Ellen, and the others.
She'll do just that.
Sophia: Understood! Also Ichinose-I am not currently Sophia. I am Sophie of the Phantom Thieves.
Ichinose: Got it-Sophie.
She'll get use to their code names. Now gather together, it was time to all move on out. Raiho was ready more than anything now.
Haru: Here we go again...I wonder if the gods hate us by now.
Yusuke: Indeed. To directly oppose yet another god...I suspect our karma's run deep down the drain.
Loki: For me to get killed and brought back again, I get from my past mistakes. But this mess, it's not right at all.
Another fallen god this one is.
Futaba: I don't even know if we can afford to pay for all these sins.
Zen: Eh, it just depends on who you cheesed off. I wouldn't sweat it over some megalomaniacal.
Akechi: That a joke?
Hans: Maybe a little.
All of this won't stop them at all.
Ann: Yeah! Just some program that grew a big head and force people to do its bidding!
Ellen: Which we need to put a stop to all of this crap!
A fake god EMMA is and Guru is one to fall down and to be turned into a monster.
Sophia: EMMA's no god at all. Only an impostor.
Picaro: Damn straight!
Morgana: So let's get going! That impostor god's gonna regret messing with humanity!
Kaguya: And avenge from a man who was human long ago into a real impostor.
All of it to stop three main bad guys and their army.
Ryuji: Hell yeah! I'm friggin' ready!
Keiko: Then let's move out!
Akechi: We're puttin a stop to EMMA.
Holding hands for the lovers to say this part together.
Keiko and Akechi: It's machine learning time.
Makoto: Right! Let's give this last mission everything we've got!
Off the Phantom Thieves 'with Raiho, Loki, Hans, Ellen, Picaro, and Kaguya' they all go. With Kun staying behind, for they enter in the Tree of Knowledge. Odd name of a Jail here of the Metaverse fusing with the real world again sort of a bit different, huh? With one other thing to add in here...
Ryuji: Hey! Keiko's Personas are random to have the main one as the male Arsene. And Hans here has a girl to be Picaro. The hell...?
Yusuke: Why is that?
Ellen: Ah...I think don't think it of which opposite of sex has the same or different, I guess it just happened.
It is true, Keiko didn't mind even when Morgana explained it to her and Ryuji since they started out from the beginning, remember?
Morgana: This again...?
Hans: Maybe I'm still just myself of a lady magnet.
Ellen: ….Brother's only joking.
Hans: I am.
Yeah, this one was a bit different.
Picaro: Not just me with Hans, it was Ellen with my sister too. Because we're one who save them to still be their guardians, we are the older step sisters to these two.
Kaguya: Right. We were giving a second chance of life, and this is what we want. It doesn't matter if we have the same or opposite, it's just who we all are with a caring heart.
Sophia: Heart of all living beings.
Even Raiho sword skills to make a shape of a heart was something nice looking.
Futaba: In other words, bonding of family or love ones makes us stronger, and friendship too. Don't forget about that part.
Ryuji: OK then...
Ann: It just something Hans and Ellen have, their real selves.
Haru: Of course.
Makoto: They do.
Zen: Not bad.
Loki: Good for you four.
Never stop being anyone on who you really are.
Hans: Listen, Ellen, I know it was you who got Akechi and Keiko out of safety that time. I wasn't myself then. Remember Dr. Guru's doing? So thank you for that.
Oh yeah, that thing to remember from their bad clones to be same.
Ellen: So you knew, Brother? You're welcome. You also did save me from my other bad self...So instincts to make us even now.
Hans: Then let's make our dreams come true. I still love you, dear sister.
Ellen: And I do too, Brother.
Hugging each other with the other twin sister Personas as well.
Picaro: Now that's what I'm talking about.
Kaguya: Same here.
What a nice scene, huh? A really family of a regular love for them, good. Now to get going.
Akechi: Well, I'm glad it all worked out. Now let's get going everyone.
Keiko: Yeah! We got a world to say and stop Pandora's Box too! (We can do this, together!)
Akechi: Of course, Joker.
Ryuji, Morgana, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, Haru, Sophia, and Zen: Right!
Raiho was ready as well.
Loki, Kaguya, and Picaro: OK!
Hans and Ellen: Got it!
With Guru and Sango ready to aid EMMA and her army while Kuon waited; a lot to be done on Lava and the Jack Frost armies...While Sojiro kept everyone in Yongen-Jaya area of the people to stay safe from the Sentries roaming free to cause trouble as the real Gegasite's forms. While Sae, Miyako, and Akane got ready to fight their way through to get out of this mess alive and aiding the Phantom Thieves...As well as Sango's human body was unknown in the real world and...Owada still hiding like a big fat chicken he was. More to come in the next chapter/episode for both of the fuse up worlds to be saved, so see what happens next for sure.
Sae: Everyone ready?
Miyako: Bring it...! I can stop monster or demon looking puppets anytime in my sleep. Kid, stay close to us.
The two older woman can fight and Akane to run fast. It was time to fight back and keep on going.
Akane: OK. Let's go help out the Phantom Thieves!