Hey there everyone! Chapter 3 is finally here! I'm so overjoyed that you guys are taking a liking to the story! So, before we begin, there's something to clarify about Sora here in this story. This point was founded by Wlyman2009, saying that the description of Sora (both younger and current,) is a little bizarre, because of his lack of hair in the beginning and then suddenly have hair in the next chapter, well Sora was diagnosed with a serious health condition that was made him unable grow hair, but it's thanks Dr. Dominic's medicines, he's able to grow his signature spiky hair.
Also, Sora seeing Akane as Kairi is something he's trying to piece together as to where he came from and who that person is. And no, this is not a Sora x Kairi love story, sorry guys.
I hope that clears up.
Oh and one more thing I forgot to mention, the progress is gonna be slower since I'm on lent as part of my Christian religion, it's going to need to take some time.
Disclaimer 1: I don't know any content of the Persona or Kingdom Hearts series, they belong to their respective creators, Kouji Okada and Kazuma Kaneko of the Persona series and Tetsuya Nomura of the Kingdom Hearts series respectively.
Disclaimer 2: This will contain spoilers for Persona 5: Scramble Phantom Strike and the Kingdom Hearts 3 Re:Mind DLC. If you wanna see the games' played by other gamers on YouTube or Twitch, or if you wanna play those games for yourself, stop reading this, play or watch the games and then come back here so you may have a clear understanding for this fanfiction. If you don't want to read this, then turn back now!
With that being said, I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 3: Open the Door
Sora opened his eyes, groaning as he wakes up and he suddenly sees that outside is getting gray clouds. That was odd, didn't the weather said it going to be sunny today. He suddenly then noticed that the Phantom Thieves and Akane were no long in his room.
He suggested that they might've gone home and he went to get dressed. Aura Lion woke up, sensing danger.
"Auraon?" He asked his lion guardian, "What is it?"
The lion looks up, odd noises were coming from the very top of the tower. Sora gave a sign of worry, so he grabbed his fencing sword, wielding it backwards and shouts, "Auraon, Rexy, you two are with me, everyone, stay here!"
They went to the staircase, hoping that whatever is up on the roof hasn't messed up the antennas and signal towers. Sora could only make one guess as to what could be causing the odd noises, he's only hoping he's wrong.
Once he got to the roof, he could see that it was those creatures from his dream! It's the Soulless! But oddly, they're not alone, there's two dark color themed Dream Eaters that Sora's familiar with, a Cyber Yog and a Cera Terror.
The dark Cyber Yog has a primarily dark purple body while its stripes and spiral features a bright pink color. The rear section of its legs has cyan as its dominant color that shifts into a dark tone of blue and ends in yellow at the tip of its feet. Its horns are colored in blue at their base and shift to a dark purple color towards their tip; the base also shifts to a lighter tone of blue until it reaches a cyan color at the frontal tips. The nose bridge features a blue color that rapidly shifts to cyan. Its mane is primarily olive green with some mixture of black and green at the tips; its tail also feature this color combination, but has both blue and cyan colors in the upper region. The symbol on its hip also looked like much the Spirits Dream Eater symbol, but it's heart with thorns it's color from a dark blue faded.
He recognizes as to what this symbol is! It's the Nightmare Dream Eaters!
The Nightmare version of the Cera Terror has the Nightmare Dream Eater emblem between its two longest horns, on its forehead. The lower half of its head crest is cyan, while the top half is purple and decorated with orange circles. The crest is also decorated by the same yellow symbol as the Spirit Cera Terror. Its body armor is primarily cyan and purple. Its two long horns are magenta at their bases and fade to violet toward their tips. They are anchored to its head by violet bases. The horn on its nose is orange with a violet tip. It has cyan legs, magenta knees, violet feet, and yellow claws. The two outermost spikes on its head crest and the spike at the base of its tail have orange bases and violet tips, while the rest of the spikes on the Dream Eater's body are magenta with violet tips. The Cera Terror's midsection is yellow, its face is metallic grey, and its eyes are red. Like its Spirit counterpart, the Nightmare Cera Terror's eyes are heavily lined in black.
As the Cera Terror rushes and rampages agains the small amount of Soulless and the Cyber Yog knocking off other Soulless creatures off the edge, there was one person who's helping them.
There is a teenage boy with silver hair with bangs, pale skin, bright blue-green eyes and a muscular build. He wears a white, black-trimmed zip-up vest with yellow lining on the sides and a black high collar. The vest also has a black sigil for the Nightmare Dream Eaters on the back. He also wears a pair of black wristbands, white-blue pants with a black belt with a silver buckle, and white shoes with black laces and a yellow lining on the bottom just above the black soles. In his hand is a falchion-esque sword, with a red, purple and blue blade shaped like a demonic wing. Its handle bears a blue eye with a black slit for the pupil, and the handle itself consists of dark braids.
Sora looked at the teen and his battle style. His attacks very quickly with either weapon in combat in one-handed strikes ranging from thrusts to wide strikes focusing on more on slashing motions as opposed to Sora's reverse clubbing/pummeling style. With every slash, a dark aura followed after.
"Come on! We gotta to help!" Sora exclaims to his Spirit Dream Eaters, charging after the other Soulless, it saw the attack and moved out of the way.
The teen looked at Sora, shocked to see him helping him. "Hey! Get out of here! I don't want you to get hurt!" The teen yelled at him, but Sora ignored his warning, trying to club the hell out of the Soulless.
As Sora took swing, after swing, after swing, it's not affecting the creatures. The teen just rolled his eyes and went to shoot dark fire ball at one of the Soulless, burning and evaporated the spawnling. He ran towards Sora and shouted. "Kid, you have clearly lost your mind! I told you to leave you just had to chose to not take my warning seriously!"
"Hey, you were in trouble!" Sora retorts, "You we're fighting a losing battle! If you wanna win, you're gonna need help."
"Not with you wielding your fencing sword." He shook his head, he then waved his hand over his sword and a light engulf it, transforming into a Keyblade, the same one he wields in his dream. "The Kingdom Key... like it's original wielder, fast, strong and powerful."
"The Kingdom Key, huh?" Sora asked him, looking at the Keyblade. "Wow, it looks really amazing even in the real world!"
The boy just shook his head, then he looks at the Soulless creatures, heading towards the antennas. "Shit! They're heading to the control towers!" He shouts, charging towards them, Sora soon follows after him and help him out. Every strike they made, the Soulless seemed to be less coming and coming.
"Hey, I never catches your name!" Sora said as he swung his blade.
"Riku! The name's Riku!" He shouts, he then threw his sword like a boomerang, taking out more Soulless.
Meanwhile at the Hasegawa Resident, Akane was looking through the Phansite, she then notices that the lights were dimming and flickering. She then went to go check the power of the of the generator, if there's was a power outage.
When she went downstairs she saw the living room was getting trashed with the same Soulless, her eyes bulged in shock.
"DAD!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, she ran back upstairs to her room, locking and barricading the door, pushing her desk towards it. She grabs her radio phone, given by her dad, just in case of dire emergencies.
"Dad! Pick up! Pick up please!" She begs, calling him.
"Akane? Honey, what's wrong?" Her father asked her.
"Dad, something's weird going on in the house! Please come home!" She shouts, hearing violent banging at the door.
Zenkichi heard the bangs at the door from the phone. "Okay, sweetie, just stay calm, I'll be on my way as soon as I can," He instructs her, "Try calling Sora, or any of the Phantom Thieves, they'll probably get there first before I do."
"Okay, But please hurry!" She pleads as she hung up and then started to call Ren's phone, hoping she would get to them in time.
Cafe Leblanc
The Thieves were packing up their Citroën H Van from the back, as Morgana was working on the left over kinks the van has, despite him being a cat, Ryuji and Ann were making sure that the suitcases don't fall over or any fragile items get broken.
Futaba and Haru were waiting in the back seats of the van, while Makoto was at the driver's seat, since she's the only one with a driver's license.
She honked the horn for Ren to hurry up as he's the last one that needed to get packed, she looked at the sky, noticing the dark gray clouds looming over.
"Hey Morgana? The engine almost ready?" Makoto asked him from the driver's side window.
"Just about done Makoto!" Morgana confirmed, "Try it now!"
Makoto started up the engine, roaring to life as Ryuji, who was leaning next to the front of the van, jumped.
"What the hell, at least give me a warning why don't ya?!" Ryuji asked them.
Morgana's head popped out of the front of the vehicle and asked, "Aww, then we won't had to hear scream like a little girl then!"
"Well look who's talkin'!" Ryuji shot back, everyone just laughs it off. Makoto got really impatient as she honks the horn again for Ren and shouts out, "COME ON REN! WE'RE GONNA MISS OUR FLIGHT!"
In Ren's room, he got everything he needed from sunscreen for beaches, to jackets for cold places, of course, those he has packed his father's camera, to take snapshots of the moments he might take.
Suddenly, his phone starts to rumble, he looks at the phone and with a high pitched ringing, it was so loud, Ren had to cover his ears and his room windows shatters, so did the Cafe and van windows, poor Morgana slipped back into the engine of the van, getting tangled with the tubes and wires.
The others could hear the ringing and covered their ears. After about eighteen seconds, it suddenly stops and they slowly uncovered their ears, just in case they need to quickly cover again, but the ringing never came back.
"Okay..." Makoto trailed off, "That was... weird."
"What was that just now?" Haru asked, questioning about the ringing.
"I don't know," Ann answered her, then she looked at the sky, what was once a dark gray suddenly becomes a crimson blood red, "But I don't like on how the sky is looking."
They all took notice of the sky's change of color.
"Wasn't Halloween over weeks ago?" Ryuji asked, they all looked at him deadpan, Haru and Yusuke just facepalms just hearing him say that.
"Believe me Ryuji, if Halloween was still going on, you would've still see Halloween decorations over on the Cafe walls." Yusuke pointed out.
Morgana was trying to get out of the wires and tubing and what he didn't notice his form was changing from a mauve and purple light, changing him to his bipedal cat form. His head became large and spherical. Morgana also wore a mask that covers the majority of his face (which can be unbuttoned from behind) with elliptic eyes which consist of white sclera, blue irises and black pupils. His outer ears are black with white inner ears. In addition, he has a yellow scarf around his neck and an utility belt around his hips, with two golden buttons and two bags attached.
He then notices his transformation and gave out a yell, "WHAT IN THE HELL!?"
Ryuji went to take a look in the engine and saw Morgana's Metaverse form, in place of the typical house cat. "Holy shit!" Ryuji exclaims, but more concerned if his little buddy was injured, "Are you Alright?" He help the little cat out of the engine of the car, thankfully none of the engine parts were out of place.
"Yeah, I'll be fine... but how in the hell did I revert to this!?" Morgana asked, looking at himself, adjusting his belt.
"That's strange... did it had something to do with sky changing red?" Yusuke ponders out loud.
"It doesn't say on the weather report." Futaba stated, checking on her laptop, clearly saying that there's a 80% sunny day. "This doesn't make any sense, unless we somehow got into the Metaverse, even though it was once again sealed away, they must've found a way back in.
Suddenly, one of the Soulless Spawnlings appeared behind Ryuji, Morgana notices this and shouts, "Guys! Heads up!" Ryuji turned around and saw the Spawnling, he screamed as he tried to get to the door.
It jumps at the dye-blonde, but was knocked by Morgana as he jumps and tackled the creature back. He summoned his cutlass sword, ready for battle, to him it felt like forever since he was in a fighting mood.
Ren could hear the commotion from the broken window, so he went to take a look and was shocked to see a Soulless Spawnling, he quickly went downstairs and see Morgana with his cutlass sword.
"You guys go!" Morgana shouts, "I'll buy you some time to make a getaway!" He charges at the Spawnling, he jumps over and slashes it, causing it to screech and targets him.
Ryuji was not in a mood to runaway like a coward, he tries to find something he could bash that bastard into submission. Luckily he found a steel pipe, long enough to act like a baseball bat. He took a swing at the creature's head, hit it so hard, it flew up and into a nearby garbage can.
"And out of the ballpark!" Ryuji exclaims.
"Nice moves Ryuji!" Morgana compliments, his partner gave him a thumbs up. "Come on, we need to go!"
Zavadoski Tower
Sora took more swings at the Soulless, casting fire, blizzard and thunder magic to sent them flying. Riku does the same, taking more lighting fast swings and thrusts, using dark fire to burn the Spawnlings.
After what seemed like thirty minutes, they seemed to retreat, both boys were breathless. Sora fell on his rear, exhausted through out the fight. Riku on the other hand stayed standing up, he too was breathing heavily, sweat dripping from his forehead.
"That seemed like a work out more than a fight!" Sora gasps, the silver haired boy shook his head and helped him up, they then noticed that the sky is now a crimson blood red, Riku took notice of this instantly.
"We need to go, the Metaportals are opening again!" Riku shouts heading toward the door, but was stopped when Sora grabbed onto his arm.
"Hold on, not until you tell me what in the hell is going on!" Sora stated, get a little irritated with not getting any answers.
"I'll explain everything when we get there!"
"No! You need to tell me right now! Was that the Soulless just now?! What do they want?! And why were they here?!"
Riku shook his head and then he heard a buzzing noise and looked at Sora's pocket. "Are you going to get that?" Riku asked.
Sora looked confused, but then he realized that his cellphone was buzzing, so he took it out of his pocket and sees that it's Akane calling him. He answers it.
"Hello?"
Hasegawa Resident
"Sora! Where are you!?" Akane asked him in worry.
"I'm at home, why?" Her friend asked her, she could hear the banging on the door more violently now.
"R-remember the drawing of those creatures you told about in your dream?" She asked, getting more terrified by the second.
Sora knee what that meant, they didn't just retreat, they were threatening the helpless! He need to get Akane before they tear the door to wood chips. "Akane, just hang on, I'll be on my way!" Sora promises her.
"Just get here quickly!" Akane weeps, she knew he had a crush on her, she didn't want to admit it in a time of a situation like this, but she needs to get this off of her chest. "S-Sora? Remember when you gave me a card for Valentines Day?"
"The one that asked if you more than like me? Yeah, I remembered, why?" Sora answered her.
"W-well, Sora... to answer your question... I-" She got cut off as the Spawnlings had broken a hole in the door, it's black dead slit eyes sees their victim.
She screams as one leapt onto her, trying to tear her, but she whacked it with the same phone, breaking it in half. She then stabbed it two to three time onto it's chest. It then vanishes and she chokes up, tears were running down on her face, she needs to get out.
She sees that her window wasn't breached, so she went to grab her chair and with all her might, tosses it at the window, the glass break. She moved the chair out of the way and went out of the window.
As the Thieves made their getaway, they're trying to make sense as to what has happened, first the sky turns red, then suddenly regained his Metaverse form and now strange creatures started to pop out of nowhere! Things are going to get much stranger.
"Okay, I have no idea what that thing was, but thing looked really freaky!" Ryuji starts, "I mean, what the hell was that?!"
"I don't know," Morgana said, pondering, "This is nothing I'd ever seen the Metaverse could do. Plus, that creature could take some of my attacks, which that never happened before."
"Are you implying to say that these creatures are from another world?" Yusuke asked him.
Morgana shrugs, "Or from a lab accident, or something... I don't know."
"Well, whatever that was, I think they aren't following us." Ann said looking back through the window.
Everyone took a sigh of relief, the last thing they wanted to see was a dead body. Suddenly some crashed through the windshield and went to the back. Everyone was panicking and screaming as the van screeches to a halt.
They looked at the unconscious figure, they immediately recognized her.
"Holy shit! It's Akane!" Ryuji exclaims, he went to check on her, her forehead bleeding, her forearm seemed to be cut and her clothes were dirty and cut diagonally, showing her bra.
"Is she alright?" Ren asked him.
"She's unconscious, her heart beat's normal," Ryuji states and breathes, "Thank God, she's still alive!"
They looked relieved to know she's still breathing. They then looked at the direction where Akane jumped off from and they saw what looked like a horde of Soulless Spawns, their eyes widened at the site.
"Makoto! Floor it!" Futaba shout, her friend snaps out of it and floors the gas, speeding off and away from the horde. The Spawnlings then follows the van, forming a spiral of yellowish white creatures.
Sora and Riku ran towards on the streets of Shibuya, people were in a state of panic. They then see Zenkichi and Sora calls him out. "God-Zen! God-Zen, over here!"
"Sora!" His godfather calls back, he ran towards him and hugs him. "Oh, thank God you're alive."
"I'm okay Zenkichi, but where's Akane?" Sora asked him, breaking the embrace.
"I was heading my way to go see the others off to their vacation, but Akane called me on the radio phone and told me someone, or something was breaking in the house," he explained, "I was on my way home, until this happened."
Sora was then going to ask if he made contact with the Phantom Thieves, when all of a sudden, the gray Citroën H van drove screeches to a halt once again. The doors open up and the Phantom Thieves got out of the vehicle.
"Okay, I don't know, what the hell those creatures were and why they were after us," Ryuji says to Sora, "But you better give me a good explanation as to why this bat shit craziness is happening!"
"What?! You think I'm responsible for this?!" Sora asked him.
"Enough, both of you." Riku retorts, "I'll explain what's goin on here, but not until you two shut up!"
Ryuji and Sora quit their bickering and Haru asked the silver haired teen. "Who are you? And what is that you're holding?"
"I'm Riku, I was sent here to fight back against the Soulless, creatures that could find either heart or body. I'm here to protect the worlds that are connected to the Metaportals and find the two of the three keys." He then looked at Akane, being carried by Yusuke. "Seems like I found you two just in time."
Zenkichi noticed his daughter's unconscious body and gasps. "Akane!" He cries out and went to grab her.
"She'll be alright, Mr. Hasegawa." Yusuke reassures him, "She's just out cold." Zenkichi nods as he's relieved that his daughter's alive, he doesn't want to know what he would do without her.
"Hold on, you mean Akane and I are the two of the three keys?" Sora asked, tilting his head to left in confusion.
Riku nods and continues his explanation. "You Sora, are the True Key of Destiny, a balance between light and dark. Akane is the Key of the Sun, an embodiment of light, while I take the role as the Key of the Moon, the essence of darkness."
"Okay, that sounds all well and good, but that doesn't explain as to why we're here." Ann said, a confused as well.
"You're not the only one." A girl's voice said to them, they turned to the voice and were shocked as to who it is. Two people, one a teen girl and the other is a teen boy. The two people were Sumire Yoshizawa and Goro Akechi.
Sumire has red eyes and red long hair. She wears a Shujin Academy winter uniform with black pantyhose and red loafers. She also wore black framed glasses.
Goro has shaggy, neck length brown hair with bangs and reddish-brown eyes. He wears a tan peacoat with black buttons, striped black and white tie, black pants, black gloves and black loafers.
"And Goro?" Ren asked his former teammate, "You're here as well? I thought you were going to be executed?"
Goro chuckles a little, "Well, I wanted to surprise you and informed you that I've reformed as a detective."
"What made you reform your job?" Yusuke asked him.
"Well... I've been thinking and talking with Sumire and I decided to dedicate my life as a Phantom Thief... plus, I missed having friends like you guys." He explained.
The Thieves didn't know what to say. Should they give him a second chance? He did help them and turned himself in. Ren walked to him, saying nothing to him at first, but then he said, "We both know that we can't forgive what you tried to do." Goro nodded as he understood, but Ren continues, "But, I felt like I owed you a favor for turning yourself in."
"What's that Ren?" He asked him, Ren took his wrist and opened Goro's hand, in place was a silver ring with the shape of his alter ego's mask.
"You've carried the hurt and pain in your heart, but you put them at rest," Ren goes on, "I know a lot of people will look at you and won't trust you, but I do. It wasn't your fault."
Goro didn't know what to say, hell, what could he say? He took off his left glove and put the silver trinket on his ring finger.
Ren chuckles. "Don't worry Sumire, I got one for you too." He gave her the ring with her signature mask on it."
"Hehe, I wasn't going to ask, but thank you..." Sumire obliged, putting the ring on her finger. "Oh! That's right! Ren, you dropped this." She gave him his phone. "There's someone on the screen of your phone, someone named Sophia?"
The phone shines brightly as another human figure emerges. she has a fair frame and white skin, with her irises being cyan with large black ring. Her hair is bright red with M-shaped bangs and a really short back, as well as the tips being rounded off. She also has a small ahoge and 7 hearts on each side of her head, all of the them being red with hearts in deeper shades of red within the middle of these. The hearts also curve inward much like pigtails, each becoming smaller towards the ends. She wears a white one-piece outfit with large sleeves opening up at the ends and a dress section ending just at her hips. The chest area has a strange hoop-like extrusion with strange black markings on it, and similar extrusions are seen on the end of the dress, as well as the top and ends of the sleeves. She also wears tight black boyshorts and black boots with silver soles and a large ring-like extrusion on the tips. Most of her neck section is surrounded by a large ring with a tip on the back side. This is Sophia.
"Huh? What's going on here?" She asked Ren, "And why is the sky has gone red?"
"We'll get her up to speed." Futaba reassures him, as they did, Sophia did seemed a little scared for what might happen if the world they stand on now falls apart.
But it's not going to stop them, if they're gonna save all of the worlds, they're going to do it together.
"Ready?" He asked them, they all nodded, knowing once they become their alter egos once again, there's no turning back. Their summer vacation is gonna put on hold.
"Come! Arsene!" Ren summon and the others joined in.
"Let's go! Captain Kidd!"
"Carmen! Awaken!"
"Goemon! Let's go!"
"Persona! Johanna!"
"Go! Necronomicon!"
"Come forth! Milady!"
"Zorro!"
"Hereward!"
"Cendrillon! Let's go!"
"Valjean! Awaken!"
"Pithos! Let's go!"
A blue bright fire burns, Sora shields his eyes from the flame brightness, while Riku just stood there and watched them transform.
Morgana's Persona was summoned. He's a swordsman Persona that is dressed like a true gentleman and hides his face behind a mask. The "Z" design on his belt appears to be his trademark symbol. He shares names with a certain someone that was known for being a swordsman and thief. This, is Zorro.
Ren's outfit consists of a black ankle-length tailcoat, a high-necked waistcoat with gold accents, black pants, brown-black winkle pickers and a pair of red gloves. His mask is a black and white, birdlike domino mask. His expression and demeanor are also markedly different and there's a strong air of confidence to him compared to his usual self.
Joker's Persona is Arsene. Arsene has, from top to bottom: a very tall top hat, a long-horned mask for its face (as Arsene appears to not have a head), a cropped red eighteenth century-esque suit worn open with the collar popped, stitched heart designs on the shoulders, a white ruffle tie, a black, tailed corset running down its torso; large, black, feathery wings starting at around the small of its back; very long and pointy fingernails; and red coverings on its legs resmbling pants that would go with the cropped coat and heeled shoes with blade-like heels.
Ryuji's burglar outfit consists of matching black jacket and pants with knee pads, a red ascot, combat boots, a pair of yellow gloves, and a skull mask.
Skull's Persona is Captain Kidd. This Persona has a skull head and a cannon-like prosthetic arm. His figure standing atop the giant black ship just overwhelms anything that sets sights on it. He shares names with a famous pirate that was notorious for his loot.
Ann's Phantom Thief outfit consists of a skin-tight red latex catsuit with a cleavage cutout and zippers, a matching red panther mask, pink gloves, dark red thigh-high boots, a clipped on tail on the back of her catsuit.
Panther's Persona is Carmen. She's a beautiful Persona that wears a crimson flamenco dress. She's shown using her rose whip to swing around men. She shares names with a passionate and freewheeling woman that appears in novels and operas.
Yusuke's Phantom Thief outfit consists of a traditional kitsune-style half mask, a black high-collared puff-sleeved jumpsuit with a striped sash worn across his hips, white motorcycle boots and bright blue gloves. Attached to the jumpsuit is a white fox tail.
Fox's Persona is Goemon, a Persona that stands out with his gorgeous oriental-style outfit. He is characterized by his giant long pipe and his kabuki-style face.
Makoto's outfit consists of a two-toned (dark blue and black) skintight suit that is worn with a long black scarf, a dark gray corset-style leather breastplate, shoulder and knee pads with spikes mixed with boots that sport metal heels and toes, white gloves and an iron mask.
Queen's Persona, Johanna appears as a modern day motorbike which is mostly silver in color. Its solemn face is encased in what appears to be a blue windshield.
Futaba's costume consists of a skintight black bodysuit with fluorescent neon green glowing strips and matching black boots with neon green soles. Her mask is a pair of big black goggles with orange lenses.
Oracle's Persona is Necronomicon. It is initial persona, taking the form of a classic rendition of a UFO. There is a metallic gargoyle statue sitting at the top of the UFO, and it is also large enough for Futaba to get inside. She pilots this Persona from the inside.
Haru's Thief outfit consists of a dark purple cavalier hat with a feather plume tucked into a royal purple hatband, a long-sleeved pale pink blouse with a white neck jabot (held there by a red gem pin), a black corset vest with gold buttons, bloomers that match her hatband, black pantyhose, a holster belt carrying ammo and lace-up pumps. Her mask and gloves are black and violet, respectively.
Noir's Persona, Milady appears to be wearing a black and pink Rococo style dress, with red and pink vertical striped puffs on the sleeves of the dress that extends to her elbows and wearing pink gloves. The bottom of the dress is in a pink color with golden trim around the dress, which has a golden lip on the center of the dress that makes it resemble a smiling face. There are black and red curtain drapes around the dress underneath, a pink heart shaped frill around her waist with a red bow tied on the drapes and a knife next to on the center of the heart shaped frill. When attacking, the dress opens up to reveal an array of ranged weaponry, including two Gatling guns, a bazooka, and a missile. Underneath the dress is a white pinstripe blouse with a light blue neck choker around her neck. She has no head, with her face instead being represented with a pink mask inset with yellow eyes. She holds a yellow and pink colored fan with black fur on her left hand, and holding the mask's handle in her right hand.
Goro's costume is a body-covering, black and dark blue striped outfit. In this form, he has several black belts strapped around his legs and arms. He also wears a dark enclosed knight helmet, with a deep crimson mask resembling a sharp beak.
Crow's Persona is Hereward, a fusion of his earlier two personas, Robin Hood and Loki. Hereward's black armor was a shiny steel and the bat wing-like protrusions on the back of his head. He carries a huge bow and arrow weapon.
Sumire wears a black mask with silver highlights and has a black ribbon tied to her ponytail. Her main outfit consists of a strapless black leotard, a chain belt with two silver roses motifs and the scabbard for her rapier attached to it, a black choker and red gloves. Her black bolero jacket has gold buttons, ruffled sleeves and three floor-length coattails. She wears thigh-length hose and stiletto-heels that resemble ballet shoes on the top.
Violet's Persona is Cendrillon. She is the silhouette of a lovely woman with a downy cape. Its dress is adorned with glass of varying shapes and sizes which gleams brightly. Cendrillon also bears a mysterious clock-like structure on her chest.
For Sophia's attire, her boots are extended up to her upper thighs, she now wears black gloves, and her hood is up, encapsulating most of her head with the pointy tip now on the back of her head, and the hearts now forming a 14-sectioned ponytail like extenstion. When in combat, her hood now covers her mouth and the remaining exposed skin is colored black, with only her hair and 2 cyan ring representing eyes visible.
Sophie's Persona is Pithos. Each rectangular blocks that has a black and white patterns on each sides, first with zigzags, second with upshot rectangular shapes, third with a falcon like symbol and the with a skull with sharp teeth.
After the blue fire dies out, Sora looks at the Phantom Thieves in awe, Akane was right about Morgana, but she didn't tell him anything about his.
Akane then woke up and saw her friend's jaw dropped. She giggles at this and went to close his mouth.
"Amazing, right?" She asked him, trying to hide her excitement. "I wish I could be a part of the Phantom Thieves, I could be a huge help to them."
Sora looks at her, she really did want to join the Thieves like her father did, but something's stopping her. "Is your heart telling you not to?" Sora asked her, she shook her head.
"My heart tells me yes, that I should join, but my mind tells me what if I fail? I don't know if Dad would approve of me joining."
Sora looked at her hands, placed on where her heart is.
"Then don't listen to want the negativity say, listen to your heart." Sora advices her. "If you look deep into your heart enough, believe enough, I know you'll be a great asset to them."
She looked at first with shock, then with happiness, she's grateful to know her best friend supports her.
Zenkichi then went to join the Phantoms, the his hand was clutched by her daughter's. "Dad, I want to join the Phantom Thieves!" She exclaims to him, "I want to help to change the hearts of people, like you did with me."
Zenkichi looked at her in shock, she wanted to join the Phantom Thieves? He then remembered what his wife, Aoi, had said every day when he went to work. "She's so much like you, I know she will Zenkichi. Make sure you never give up on her."
Zenkichi shook his head and placed his hands on her shoulders. "I'm sorry Akane, but this is dangerous. I don't want to lose you like how I lost your mother... not this time." He said and then he looked at Sora. "Sora, please keep her protected."
Akane and Sora were heartbroken, but the both of them respected to his request. "I understand God-Zen." Sora replies, his godfather nods and went to join the others.
"Come! Valjean!" Zenkichi commands as the same blue fire engulfs him, changing his attire. As a Phantom Thief, Zenkichi wears a pinpoint blindfold as a mask and a black hat. He also wore a long black coat, a black leather belt with two gun holsters, black, simple plain pants and black oxford shoes.
Wolf's Persona is Valjean. This Persona had dark grayish blue skin tone, prison bar detailings and chains on his arms and legs, and cage like helmet exposing one yellow eye.
Akane was disappointed and saddened, she wanted to go with them so badly, yet she gets left behind. Sora thought of a way to comfort her, he place his hand on her shoulder.
"It's okay, you still got me." Sora reassures her.
She smiled, thankfully she has her best friend with her, someone would be there to cheer her up. "Thanks, you dork." She giggles out. Sora couldn't help but blush and rubbed the back of his head.
He then turned to his godfather. "We'll head back to Zavadoski Tower and inform my Dad on what's going on."
"Okay, But please be careful." Zenkichi said, hugging his daughter and godson, he felt like it would be the last time he'll see them. They break the embrace and went with Riku.
"Alright, so we just need to figure out what's causing the skies turn red and why those Soulless creatures are appearing here." Skull reminds everyone, they all nodded.
"But that begs the question," Yusuke began to ask, "What's causing the Soulless to appear in the first place."
"Why don't you come look for me and find out?" A voice taunts them, they looked around, looking for who was talking.
"Who's there?" Wolf asked the voice, summoning hi sword, pointing at different directions. Everyone else had grabbed their own signature weapon. Joker with a knife; Morgana with his cutlass sword; Skull with a blunt; Panther with her Whip; Fox with his katana; Queen with her tekkos; Noir with her axe; Crow with his serrated sword; Violet with her rapier; in the middle, Oracle and Sophie readied themselves with tech and blasters.
"Come on out and show yourself you creepy bastard!" Skull demands, making the voice laugh.
"Hahaha, oh, so demanding and to the point... Very well then."
They then suddenly see someone over in the distance, someone with wavy unkempt black hair and a electric blue eye with a grimacing smile unpleasant to look at. He wore a white ankle-length tailcoat with black and yellow collar stripes, a high-necked waistcoat with metallic black accents, white pants, brown-black winkle pickers and a pair of white gloves with strange symbol on the back of both hands. The right half of his mask is a black and white, birdlike domino mask, while the left is blindfolded black, covering the eye.
They couldn't believe it, their jaws nearly dropped when they see another Joker right in front of their eyes!
"A... A white Joker!?" Haru asked him.
"Oh now, Haru darling," the White Joker tuts, "It's absolutely rude about my color, you don't want to go offend your friend there, now would you?"
His eye the stares at Joker. "And speaking of which," he spoke lowly, "How nice of you to take in a homage of me, pretender."
Joker raised a brow, but lowers it back down and pointed his knife at the imposter. "What are you talking about?" He asked him. "Who are you?"
The White Joker laughs. "You shall soon see." He turned away and walked to the same direction he came through.
"You get back here!" Skull shouts, charging at the imposter Joker, the others tried to stop him. Too little, too late.
As Skull was about to take a swing at the White Joker, his blunt was met with another's blunt, he looked and was shocked to see another version of himself!
"Wh-What the hell?!" He asked as he got kicked in the stomach and then to the chest, sending him flying back to his comrades, dropping his weapon.
The others went to help him up. "Skull! Are you okay?" Futaba asked him, he doesn't answer her question, he just kept looking at his doppelgänger.
The other Skull had the same appearance as his original self, but a lot of differences. His hair was no longer dyed blonde as his hair was now his original black and his eyes were an electric blue. He also wore the same clothes, but they were now torn and had holes. His left leg was now a peg leg with a familiar looking cast he had when he was recovering from his injury.
God did he hate his hair then and does he hate it now. He then saw the cast on the double's leg.
"Where did you get that?!" Ryuji asked him angrily as that belong to him and not to that monstrosity.
"From Kamoshida," his double answered him, "The bastard said that he did it as an act of self-defense, but I know he lied! He's always been a liar! That piece of shit will die for what he has done!"
Ryuji was shock to hear about this. The doppelgänger has somehow maintained his memories, only they were driven to anger and rage.
"Hold on, wasn't Kamoshida already arrested for his crimes?" Ann asked both Ren and Ryuji, they both nodded.
"Arrested isn't good enough! He must truly pay for his crimes by getting exactly what he truly deserves!" The doppelgänger shouts angrily.
"Kamoshida is already served justice!" Panther shot back.
"What about Shiho!?" Another voice asked her, they were all shocked to see another Ann next to Ryuji's doppelgänger. "Did she get any justice!? No! You left her high and dry while her blood is still on his hands!"
The other Ann's attire was a rather slutty and at most unlikely for the original Ann to be wearing. She too bore the electric blue eyes, she also had her hair tied back with red ribbon and has a pink hair clip on the right side of her head. She also wears a red jacket, mostly on her forearms, leaving her shoulders exposed, a black rib down bra with a zipper, black panties that are connected to thigh high socks and black high heeled boots.
Ann was in mixture of shock and disgust, for one is that she couldn't believe to see another version of herself and the other is she questions the attire she wore.
The White Joker turned around, with his arms out to his sides. "Haha! Like them? I made them special just for you!" He explains, "See, I've been following you on your journey towards great possibilities for the world! Yet all of those lies you kept locked away in the back of your mind? Ooh, now there's something to truly treasure! So, I replicated the memories, fueling them with all of the negative emotions and created the best versions of you!"
Ren was taking in on the info and then he asked, "Then that would make you their ring leader?"
"Ring leader?!" The White Joker asked, then he laughs, "Ahahahaha, ring leader!? I'm a ruler! Ruler of the Metaverse, ruler of the world! And these two aren't the only ones I made." He gestures his arm toward to the streets and then to a next group of people.
As if their day can't get any worse, there were another doppelgängers of Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, Haru, Goro, Sumire, Sophia and Zenkichi.
The other Yusuke wore a shoulder cloak, a navy blue jacket, a white and grey shirt, grayish blue pants, tan wood getas, five kitsune tails, in his left hand was his katana and in his right hand was a lantern, lighting the way for the other doppelgängers.
The other Makoto wore a olive green military jacket with three different medals of honor, a white shirt with a red tie, a black armband with a status rank of general, a brown belt with a silver buckle, dark green pants and black military boots.
The other Futaba was all skeletal in appearance, keeping her orange hair. She wore a tan scarf over her mouth, a black jacket, a grayish green shirt from the chest up exposing her rib cage, tan linen clothe wrapped around both hands exposing the fingers, dark green pants with a yellow belt and a black buckle with a red heart and gray boots.
The other Haru wore a gown that's almost similar to Milady's gown, but now it's been torn and nearly shredded and the middle of the skirt's removed to expose her scarred legs. She also wore white gloves and black boots. In her hand was a long staffed axe, the blade was bloodied and hasn't been polished for what looked like five years.
The other Goro wore a princely pure white royal outfit with red accents, but it was a little rugged and also wore what appears to be a metallic black crown on his head. In his hand was a blue bladed sword with a cross guard, exposing to more blades.
The other Sumire was a lot more like her other personality and twin sister, Kasumi. She has the same style as her Phantom Thief outfit, except the rapier was extremely different. The hilt was curved, the blade was silverish gold color and there was a silver tassel at the end of the hilt.
The other Sophia was just like her original, however, instead of bright red and hearts as an act of her hair, it's a dark red of spades, the one piece outfit was a oily black and her yo-yos were black as well with an inclusion of spikes.
The other Zenkichi wore metal portions of the armor appeared to have a gold tint, while the leather portions were black or dark brown. Unlike most chest plates, which are usually made up of a single piece, the chest plate of the armor appeared to be made up of several overlapping metal guards and a black cloak accompanied to the armor. His hood was up, shadows covering up the upper half of his face.
All of the doppelgängers has the same electric blue eyes, a sign of showing allegiance to the White Joker. Morgana looked around and was relived that there was no other version of himself.
"Ha! Too bad you couldn't find a better version of me!" Morgana taunts, smiling at him, "Face it! You couldn't create another version of myself, because there's no one better!" He took out his slingshot, ready to fire.
The White Joker chuckles at Morgana's words as he then said, "Oh... don't be so certain."
Morgana looked at him confused as he was suddenly shot at his shoulder, yowling in pain as he dropped his slingshot, clutching onto his shoulder.
"Mona-Chan!" Haru cried out, worry on her face. "Are you alright?" She carries him into her arms, checking for the wound.
"Where in the hell did that come from?!" Skull asked, looking from where the bullet was fired from and on top of one of the roofs was a teen boy.
The boy jumps down and revealed himself from the shadows. He has sleek dark blue hair with side-swept bangs and blue eyes. He wore a black tunic, pants, belt, gloves and boots. In his left hand was a cutlass sword, in his right was a flintlock pistol.
"It's over Phantom Thieves." The teen told them, it sounded like Morgana's voice.
It's when Mona realized something, that was his human form that they're looking at!
"How are you able to make a version of me like that!?" He asked, showing the White Joker his fangs.
The blue eyed cretin laughs, "Well, it was simple, yet tricky really, all I had to do was to make up the worst nightmare possible and take those human aspects of and ta-da!"
"Enough talk Joker!" The other Ryuji shouted, ""Let's just kill them and take our revenge!"
"Patients, Skull." The other Yusuke toned him, "Our time will come, but our leader has plans for us."
"Ah yes, so where are the three keys?" The White Joker asked them, laughing, "Oh, now don't tell me I scared them away so soon?"
The Phantom Thieves took their battle stances, leaving Haru in Morgana's care. "I'll tend Mona-Chan to his wounds, give me some time." She says to them.
Joker nods and resumes his focus on his opponents. The White Joker just tsks. "Oh now, I would love to stay and chat further, but we've got keys to find! Noir, Mona, Wolf, Violet, you know what to do."
"Of course, our leader." The four doppelgängers said in unison as the White Joker and the other doppelgängers left through a dark mass behind them. The four got into their battle stances and charged at them, making the Phantom Thieves attack as well.
The Thieves divided to different groups. Joker, Violet and Crow against the Violet doppelgänger; Wolf, Sophie and Futaba against the Wolf doppelgänger; Fox and Skull against the Morgana doppelgänger; finally, Queen and Futaba against the Noir doppelgänger.
"How long I've wait for this to come to be, sister." Violet's doppelgänger mocked, using the word sister loosely.
"I'm not. Your. Sister!" She furiously yells, going for a thrusting motion, but the lookalike blocked the attack with a parry. Seemingly, she knew every move the original Violet knew. She shoves the original out of the way, seeing Crow was going to make his move, blocking with each move.
Zavadoski Tower
Sora, Akane and Riku made their way back to the Tower, they took gasps of breath, after long hours of running.
"Riku... if we're in tense situations that involves running, remind me to bring an inhaler!" Sora pants, placing his hands on his knees.
"Don't be a wimp." Riku shot back, looking at the tower, "We need to wagon your father before..."
He was interrupted by three robotic drones. All of these drones stood on their silver, digigraded, mechanical legs. Their arms were connected with a hexagon plate with three gunmetal gray, mechanical, claw-like fingers. Their torsos were hexagonal at the top and circular at the bottom. Their heads were curved like, with half marble-like eyes and their necks showed tubing and mechanical hinges. Their color schemes were white, neon blue and their chest pieces were of different colors. The middle has red chest, arms and eyes, it's wrists spout out plasma-like blades that looked like it could cut through anything like butter. The left drone has a blue chest, left arm and eyes, it's arm was a cannon, similarly to what a video game character, Megaman, has. The right drone has a green chest, right arm and eyes, it's right arm composes a shield, a little bigger than his arm.
"Before that happens." Riku finishes, summoning his Soul Eater Keyblade and into his battle stance.
The red drone commands to attack, but the other two just stood there, looking at each other, little confused. The red drone got a little irritated and whirs and screeches at them to attack. The two now know the picture, they went to their stances and attack.
Sora saw them charging and summons his Kingdom Key, once again, wielding it backwards. "Akane, find cover!" Sora tells Akane, she nods and ran to the closest place she could hide. The bushes of all people.
Sora and Riku shouts as they charged at the drones, Riku jumping up, going high, while Sora slides on his side, going low. Riku slashes the right slant diagonal, while Sora swept the legs to the left, making the drone trip up. Riku landed next to Sora, as the brown spiky haired boy got back up on his feet from the slide attack.
The red drone got up, looking at the other two drones, which they were was just bamboozled from the attack. The red drone chirps and whir angrily at them, stomping the ground in anger.
The two Keyblade wielders were just looking on at the bickering drone, while Akane got a peak at what was going on. The other two drones just look confused, then the red drone pointed at the two boys.
Sora just chuckles a little, rubbing the back of his head a little. "Uh, hehe, take your time, it's not like we're in a hurry or anything." Riku just covers his face with his hand, Why in God's name did he brought that kid and named him the Key of Destiny again?
The two drones now are getting a much clearer picture of what they're supposed to do and got back into their battle stances.
"You good now?" Sora asked them, they both nodded in unison. "Okay then, let's go Riku!"
"You know what, I think it's fair to watch you go take a swing at things, seeing as how well you could take a hit." Riku said, his Soul Eater dematerializes From his hand, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.
Sora saw his fellow Keyblade wielder no longer in his battle stance, he's on his own for now. "Alright, let's go then!" Sora exclaims, resuming his stance.
All three charged at each other, the drones tried the high low technique, but that fails miserably as Sora dodged at with one sideways spin. They looked at him confused and tried again, Sora dodges again, rolling out of the way this time.
That causes the red drone to enraged even more, stomping the ground, whirring until he gave up on the two drone and started to attack Sora. Sora wasn't expecting this to happen. Riku saw this and was about to draw out his Soul Eater, but then something happened. As Sora was about to block, the two other drones tackled it by surprise and wrecked it's neck, disabling it in the process.
Akane gasps softly as she saw the drones take down the red drone. She never saw anything like it. She slowly got up and walked slowly to Sora and away from the drones.
The drones looked at Sora, he doesn't know what to say. The blue drone shot the glass walls, allowing them to enter the building.
Sora looks at the drones one last time. "W-Wow, thanks guys." He appreciates them, they made a fist with their right hands and placed it to the left side of their chests.
He nods and then said, "Don't worry, we'll come back for you." He then nods to Riku and Akane. They went inside the tower and went to the elevator.
As they got to the top floor, they hurried to Hideo's office and saw Sora's father looking at the view from the window.
"Dad! Something really weird's going on!" Sora says to him, Hideo turned his head and looks at him.
"Sora? What's wrong?" He asked his son.
Sora shook his head as he said, "You're not going to believe what's been happening."
"Try me."
The other Mona kept his shots on what he believed the weakest link, Skull. As he fires his shot to the shoulder, Fox shove Ryuji out of the way, only for him to take the bullet, right to the upper arm. Skull was enraged, he ran towards the impostor of Morgana, which he was about to fire again, but it was knocked away from his hand, leaving them to clash with their melee weapons
As they went into a parry, the doppelgänger punched him in the stomach and kicked him away, disposing him from what the doppelgänger believed the trash he was.
Doppelgänger Haru was making a clean sweep on Queen and Oracle, with every attack, or an attempt to find an opening, she would block them out, or take that opening away from them.
Futaba was about to summon her persona, but that opportunity was taken away when Doppelgänger Haru, using the end of her axe, knocked her off of her feet and was about to behead her. Queen tackled her out of the way before she got the chance to do so and uses her tekkos to either try break the axe handle, or knock it away from her. This doesn't let up with the imposter however as she kept her ground.
The Doppelgänger Morgana picked up his flintlock pistol as he points it at Queen, trying to get a clear shot. The original Morgana saw his double trying to shoot at Makoto, so he squirmed out of Haru's arms, summons his cutlass and runs towards him.
"Mona-Chan, wait! You're not in any good condition to fight!" Haru tries to stop him, but her pleas fell on deaf ears as he jumps and was about to cut his doppelgänger's arm off, but his clone saw it coming, he blocked and reversed the attack as he chucked him to the ground, pointing the pistol at the cat burglar.
"You'd come a long way for you to become human again..." His doppelgänger said to him, pulling back the hammer of the pistol. "Tsk, shame... if you'd knew the truth, none of this would've happened."
Morgana looked up at him and asked, "What truth?"
The doppelgänger smiles as put his gun away. "Ah, so you truly don't know... this is going to be fun." He looks over at the other doppelgängers and whistles. "Come on! We got to go! We'll get our chance." He ran off, the others stopped and followed him.
Morgana tries to after him as well, but he clutches his shoulder, like a fire in him was searing his shoulder. As he was about to fade into unconsciousness, he wonder what his doppelgänger meant when he said that he doesn't know the truth. He could hear Haru calling for him as his vision fades to black.
"Mona-Chan!" Haru calls for him as he fainted from his wound. She catches him just in time before he could hit the concrete and she noticed his shoulder wound's bleeding through and on her hand.
The others joined up with Haru and Morgana. "He's loosing blood, we need to get him medical attention." She says to them.
Makoto examines his wound. "Yeah, he needs medical attention, now." Queen said sternly. Haru picks the young cat, cradling him in her arms as they hurried to a nearby hospital.
Hideo sat on his swivel chair, placing his hand on his forehead, he never thought to be possible, but it was.
"Then what Dominic had told was true, there are other worlds out there." He mutters.
Sora tilted his head in confusion.
"Son, there's something I should've told you while Dr. Dominic was still new here at the time." Hideo told him, getting out of his chair, walking towards the window. "Dominic proposed that the worlds are connected with one great big sky, seemingly impossible to go far that of a distance. However, He proposed that there's a way to reach those worlds without sending man to the deepest reaches of space. He hypothesized that there are gateways here on earth."
Sora was pondering, trying to process what his father explained. Akane tapped on his shoulder. "I think that's how Riku got here." She guessed, "Think about it, why else would he be here?"
"Could be." Sora agrees, then he looked at Riku. "Hey Riku, is that how you got here? Those Metathingies you were talking about?"
Riku shook his head. "No, I didn't travel through those. I woke up on the streets of Shibuya. As to how I got there, I don't know, but I know our meeting here can't be a coincidence."
Sora nods in agreement. This just left Akane high and dry, she cuts in for a moment.
"Hold on, if I'm the Key of the Sun, how come I'm not armed with a Keyblade?" Akane asked Riku.
"A Keyblade isn't something that would magically pop into your hand when you need it most." Riku explains, "You need to earn it and show proof that you're capable of wielding one. By the looks of it, you're not ready to wield one yet."
"Why? Because I'm a girl?" Akane accuses him.
"No, it's because you have no experience of any form of combat before." Riku answered her. "However, there's another way to have a Keyblade."
Akane's eyes gleam in happiness, finally, something good might turn up for her after all! Riku held out his hand, open palm and a magical light aura merges to form a Keyblade. Her eyes widened of the Keyblade presented before her.
"Sign of Innocence, a very well crafted Keyblade." Riku sums. "A Keyblade in the hands of the right wielder will show truths and innocences of the people's hearts... it is yours now, take good care of it."
Akane's right hand slowly grasped onto the handle of the Keyblade. The Sign of Innocence's handle is white and its smooth, circular, dark indigo guard completely surrounds it. The top of the guard is decorated by three magenta diamonds; one at the base of the blade, and two on either side of this one. The shaft of the blade is rather short and is dark indigo. The head and teeth of the blade are comprised by a dark indigo cross with a magenta diamond set in three of its four arms, leaving the arm opposite the "teeth" bare. A white ring connects all four arms of the cross. The Keychain token is triangular and resembles the head of the blade, being dark indigo with three magenta triangles and one triangular gap decorating it.
She puts the blade up close to her face, placing her left hand on it, feeling the smooth polished steel, sensing purity. Her left hand clasped onto the handle, giving it a couple of swings.
"This is... amazing! This is mine now?" Akane asked her, she couldn't contain her excitement. Riku nods, Akane then turns to Sora. "Look at this Sora! I'm now a Keyblade wielder!"
Sora laughs a little. "Good for you!" He encourages.
Riku clears his throat and said, "Yes, but you must remember, Keyblade like your needs special care and only used for defense."
Akane and Sora nods. Hideo then grabbed a map of Tokyo and presented it to them on his desk. "If you're looking for Metaportals, then you might need this," he said to them, "Dr. Dominic told me that there was one in Shibuya on his scanner, whatever that blasted device does."
"Then we'll search there first." Sora said, he grabbed his cellphone and calls Ryuji.
"Yeah?" Ryuji asked.
"Ryuji, it's me, we got some info that you might need to know." Sora informs.
"Yeah, same here."
"Huh? What do you mean? Is everything okay?"
"You kidding me!? No, nothing is okay! We got our asses kicked by our doppelgängers by another version of Ren, Morgana's knocked out and now we needed to regroup!"
Sora faces the phone away from his ear, but hearing the info. He placed the phone back onto his ear and spoke.
"Okay, so we're dealing with Soulless, Dr. Dominic's androids and now doppelgängers?"
"Yeah... Anyway, you got info?"
"Yep, we found out that there are portals that are connected to both in the real world and the Metaverse. According to Riku and Dr. Dominic, they're called Metaportals, dimensional gateways that could lead into other worlds. The first one is in Shibuya, so we'll meet you there."
"Wait, you believe that crazy scientist?"
"Well, what other choice do we have?"
"Ugh, alright, so a meet up by a portal in Shibuya."
"Right. See you there."
Sora hung the phone up and looked at the others.
"Sora?" Akane asked him, tilting her head.
"We're going to Shibuya." Sora informs, they both nodded as well, Riku walked to the office door and of course... Sora rubbed the back of his head, smiling nervously, "One problem... I don't know how to drive there."
Both Akane and Riku fell anime style, the girl quickly got back up and grabbed him by the collar. "YOU WHAT!? HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW WHERE SHIBUYA IS!? HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU NOT GET KICKED OUT OF THE BUILDING?!"
Riku crossed his arms and gave out a little chuckle, "Akane, if you're done with giving your boyfriend a hard time than we're having right now, I suggest we should go-"
"BOYFRIEND?!" Both Sora and Akane asked him, both of them blushing as she let go of his collar and looked away from him.
"As I said, let's get moving. And don't worry about driving Sora, I have another way to get there." Riku said as they head on out of the office.
As they got out and met up with two drones, Riku has summoned two items in his hands. "Here," he said to them, "You're going to need these." He gave them a piece of armor for that would be attached on their shoulders.
They took their respective shoulder armor, with Sora with black, silver and gold, while Akane's is pink, black, silver and grey.
"So, what's the significance of these?" Akane asked the silver haired teen, seeing that he has his own shoulder armor.
"All you have to do is press the middle plate and you'll be surrounded in armor, to protect you from the Soulless." He explains as he walked back two steps as he then fisted the middle plate of the armor and a bright light shines, making Sora and Akane cover their eyes using their arms.
As the light faded away, the two slowly looked at Riku as he was now encased with a suit of armor, covering him from head to toe in armor, mostly in shades of dark purple, gunmetal gray, black and red. Dull red lines decorate the armor as well. Notable additions to his armor include upturned, sharp gunmetal gray hooks on the backs of his boots, a navy blue cape, and a dark-visored helmet. His helmet sports two tall and curved, gunmetal gray prongs on either side.
They were amazed by the stunning armor, Sora looked at his shoulder armor, then at Akane. "Shall we?" He asked, she nods and in unison they placed their fists onto the middle plate and bright lights shined around. Once the light fades away, they too are encased in armor.
Sora's suit of armor shares the coloration of the pieces he normally wears, predominantly sporting shades of red, black, silver and gold. In this suit, Sora adds a yellow cape to his outfit. The armor on his knee is silver and bears a sharp, upward-pointing hook on the outer side of each one. Sora's helmet has appearing more squashed and flat at the top. His helmet also has two prongs on either side of his head which point backwards and angle diagonally upward.
Akane's armor is mostly colored in shades of silver, black, grey and pink. Notable additions include a silver breastplate resembling an upside-down crescent moon and a dark-visored helmet. Her helmet, like Sora and Riku's, bears two prongs on either side, with her silver ones wrapping around the sides and angling diagonally downwards. Her cape is that of a dusty-rose color.
She took a moment to look at her friend. "You look good Sora." Akane compliments him, she couldn't see under his helmet, but he was smiling.
They both looked at Riku. "So, how do we get to Shibuya, if we're not driving?"
Riku chuckles a little as he answers him. "We fly."
Whew! Good Lordy loo, that was long than I expected. Sorry for the long wait, as I said, it's going to be delayed due to the lent tradition my family and I currently doing. Welp, I gotta go for now, but until then, you guys come up which first world it should be! See you real soon!