Chapter 231:Into the Night Of Eternal Punishment.

As dire as things were heading with Shinryudramon's sudden traumatic turn Lacus was still to busy dealing with all the insanity unfolding around Tartarus to notice just yet. Ben's girlfriend was still trying to find the best way to sneak up on Kale before the berserk Super Saiyan stopped falling for the ruse.

As tense as things were at the bottom of the tower, tension was even thicker at the top after the sudden eruption of tension between mother and daughter. Despite the ominous energy building around Ragyō, Satsuki just gave back a defiant glare." Even now you still think you control everything, Ragyō Kiryūin?

You thought you molded me to be your ideal little puppet but I pretended to obey you as I waited for this day to come for years! Fear is freedom! Subjection is liberation! Contraction is truth, these are all the truths of the world! Its time you surrender to those truths, you pigs who fawn over clothing!"

The only one of her group who did not seem in on the betrayal were Android 21 and Rei. While the woman robot still seemed more amused then anything, Ragyo's personal aide seemed outraged. The brown skinned woman hissed with disgust before her sleeves extended." What foolishness! Learn your place you ungrateful brat!"

Rei had her sleeves extend even more and become blades as they aimed to impale Satsuki. Before the blades could reach her the ground in front of her suddenly raised up to become a pillar that intercepted the blow.

Rei and those around her were all shocked to see the previously defeated member of the Elite Four, Ira, suddenly jump up in a new uniform before he glared at the woman with sunglasses." Over my dead body will you hurt my lady! It's time to enforce discipline! Er…and just to be clear it's strictly of the physical kind! Ahem…Shackle Regalia…Mark II!"

Rei saw the tall man transform in to a slightly enhanced variation of his previous Goku Uniform. But just as he charged at her she realized to late it was merely a distraction as some of Ira 's men ran up from all directions and unleashed magically enhanced cables that constrained her. Satsuki saw Rei look outraged before she smirked." Well done everyone. Your calculations were on point Inumata."

The blue haired member of the Elite Four landed on the ground as well, still typing on his wrist." There were a few setbacks my lady, but it did useful data so it was worth it despite the pain."

"I knew your judgment was on point, just make sure all the others are released to end this."

"Of course."

Ragyō spat out blood before she glared at the hacker." You high school student scum…dare to meddle beyond your authority!"

"You'd do well not to underestimate them." Satsuki retorted to her mother coldly." Every last student has been trained as a warrior to fight you. No, to fight Life Fibers! Behold the true power of Honnouji Academy!"

The student president snapped her fingers before dozens of students outside the tower ran up, all having their uniforms shine. Nui casually parried Ryūko 's most recent thrust before she saw the masses run up and just giggle." So that was your plan? Oh good one Satsuki!"

"That casual about everything falling apart bitch?" Ryūko uttered as she tried to tackle the blond woman. Nui casually smacked the woman with the scissor to the ground before she spat her tongue." You kids are so silly, thinking you can out smart graceful divas like us!"

"You're going to know place yet you vile woman!"

Nui glanced to the right and saw that Uzu was charging for her, now in the Mark III version of the Blade Regalia uniform that he got from Inumata before she shrugged."Who are you again?"

"Oh come on you just made a fool out of, I mean you just fought me girl!"

"Sorry, like cheap outfits, I forget trash after I discard them."

"Damn it…I'll make you take me seriously even if it kills me!"

The blade happy member of the Elite Four charged at the woman who shamed him with such fury that she found herself on the defensive.

Ryūko had just recovered, and upon seeing her former enemy fight her current opponent before she groaned." Is this some sort of stunt? This late in the game and Satsuki back-stabs her mother? What is this, one of the lame comic books that Mako reads?"

"Heh…just because its over your head does not mean it can't make sense you transfer slacker."

Ryūko spun around to see Nonon walking up, with her own new uniform and just smirked." Lady Satsuki always intended to take out the Life-Fibers. This Battle-World mixed things up a bit but we just had to smooth things out, and strike when we did!"

"Oh, so you being a elitist bitch was just part of the act?"

"Shut up your, well, sort of but your still annoying! Ugh, besides to fool her, to fool Director Ragyō she had to keep up her " Poker" face at all times girl."

"Then why the hell were you picking a fight with the Gourmet Hunters and all the Persona users?"

Before the pink haired student could answer suddenly a monitor in the stadium showed Satsuki above her before the Student President uttered a composed," I have no need for half-baked allies. If my forces could defeat you then you would not be of use to me.

And if you were able to take out some of my more, uncouth allies then it evens out anyway. If you don't like my methods we can fight when this matter is settled. But if your ambition is to protect humanity's freedom, then fight now with every ounce of your strength!"

Lacus saw the speech motivate her soldiers to attack all over. As a few tried to charge Kale only to get swatted away like flies the angel just sighed as she hunched up a bit." Well, glad we have more allies but still…wish she did this before she had this tournament and she made my big stunt look silly now."

"Ah don't worry girl." Sarah answered playfully as she patted Lacus on the back." Even if the context changed you still stood up for a woman's right to be who they are without shame and all that. Now, lets just make sure we don't slip up on shutting up that Diva eh? Something tells me its not as easy as the Student president thinks."

Before Lacus could respond the light at the top of the tower shined bright enough to blind everyone before Ragyō cut everyone off with a deranged laugh. As she coughed up blood she just gave a casual look at her rebellious offspring." My…I'm glad at least your speech lessons were not in vain Satsuki, even if your other tutors clearly failed so utterly. Still, your ambition is impressive if you have no qualms literally stabbing your mother in the back."

"Of course not!" Satsuki uttered bitterly as years of repressed emotions boiled to the surface at last." I'll use any means to defeat a monster like you! Even if it invites scorn as a villain!"

"What a rude child to call your own mother a monster."

"A woman unphased by being stabbed in the heart should not be saying that, you monster that merged with Life-Fibers that forsaken your humanity!"

Ragyō giggled darkly as her wounds started to mend up before she casually wiped away the blood on her mouth." I'm no monster. I'm merely a human…who has come closer to the truth."

Satsuki saw her mother start to try and pull herself out of the spike before she pressed a button and more chains appeared out of the statue to grasp her limbs." Don't think you can just slip away, I prepared for this for years! I learned the truth when I was five, father told me about Life-Fibers, COVERS, everything!"

"He told me the true aim of your ambitions Ragyō Kiryūin! Father…he said to me that Junketsu would be my wedding dress. But, when I would put it on would be when I would be a slave to clothing! Father was a esteemed scientist, it was because you were impressed with his skills that you thought he had the "privilege" of being adopted into the Kiryūin family!

I was the result of this " Business" venture. But I was only born to be used as a Life-Fiber test subject. But I did not give you the results you wanted, so you had a second child and experimented on that one right after birth!

But even that did not give you the desired results, so you threw out your own child like she was trash! You thought father was as heartless as you, but that's when he decided to rebel against you and the Life-Fibers!"

"Tsc…so in the end that was all eh? What a hack. Soichiro could not fathom the truth of the universe, he was just another weak willed man."

"Father was not as naïve as you thought! He knew you would come after him! That's why he entrusted everything to me! "

"A grown man turning to his five year old child for salvation? How pathetic."

"Did you forget I was no normal five year old, but Satsuki Kiryūin?"

Mitsuru saw how driven Satsuki looked before she grasped her rapier tightly." Satsuki, your past haunts you nearly as much as me. Guess we had more in common then I thought."

"Well…my drive is still superior but it was fun having a worthy rival moving about to keep me on my toes Kirijo." Satsuki threw out dryly with a smirk. As Mitsuru smirked back Ragyō chuckled darkly. "Your skilled at monologuing, I'll give you that. But even if you defeat me, and even if we don't take my current allies into account, you still can't defeat Life-Fibers!"

"Are you referring to the "original" Life Fiber? You were not as good as keeping secrets as you thought mother. I had a plan in motion for that as well. The Academy Sewing Club is neutralizing your "master" plan as we speak."

"Bag…those ungrateful vermin were scurrying around the manor eh?"

"Heh, I already have dealt with Kuroido and the rest of your staff when I spent the night!"

Satsuki then pointed her sword at her mother before it surged with energy." Ragyō! In the name of human liberation, your life is forfeit!"

The Student President charged to slice her mother in half, but while her blow sliced the construct in two, by the time she landed her mother had vanished. Everyone suddenly heard her mother laughed madly from above." I'm bored with your show Satsuki, time for my own to resume! I think I'll help myself to your soldiers now!"

Ragyō suddenly was right above all the students, and just as Satsuki, Lacus, and the others noticed her the rainbow haired woman snapped her fingers before rainbow threads danced out of her sleeves and burst through all the students. Before they could even try to counter attack the threads they were in all of their brains.

As they screamed Ragyō grasped her hands and they all became silent and surrounded her like they were robots Ryūko gasped in shock." The hell did that wackjob do to them? They are like zombies!"

"Heh…this is my Mind Stitching. I have sewn my basting thread into their brains. Get your former leader my puppets, show her who the only true leader is!"

Satsuki saw her former foot soldiers all jump high enough to reach the top of Tartarus and just narrowed her eyes." I will win this no matter what, I turned my heart to unbreakable steel!"

Ragyō saw her daughter swing her sword hard enough to unleash a shock-wave to smash all of the incoming brainwashed pawns away. Moments later Satsuki landed in front of the rainbow haired woman to fiercely declare,"You won't escape me Ragyō no matter what!"

"Even though your my daughter I must concede how impressed I am. Still, your making some rather grave mistakes. For one, you brought this Ryūko girl right here to me!"

The woman wearing the living clothing grit her teeth before Ryūko charged at her." Think I can't take you bitch? I'll show you what I can, huh? AHH!"

Ragyō giggled darkly before she flicked her finger and a red thread entered the younger woman's brain. She yelled in pain and tried to slice the thread up. But before she could even try she lost control of her body. Satsuki yelled out for her former enemy, only for Ryūko to charge at her like a living bullet.

As Satsuki was pushed to her knees she heard her mother unleash another sadistic giggle." Marvelous, she really does seem to be a natural match with Life Fibers eh? Don't bother with the usual clichés, I tied up her nervous system nice and tight. She will never be free of my control."

Ryūko got Satsuki ' sword caught in her scissor blade and threw them both into the air. Satsuki saw the shorter woman go to punch her and screamed before the two ended up headbutting each other with enough force to cause a shock-wave. Ryūko snarled, before she suddenly punched her self in the head while screaming out,"Don't…screw…with ME!"

A surge of energy erupted out of her, before Ryūko grasped her right ear, and shocked Ragyō before she ripped out the fiber and torn it right out of her brain without pause.

Ryūko glanced at the rainbow haired woman before spitting out," You can't tie down me and Senketsu with a little thread like this!"

Rei saw Ryūko's defiance before she could not help but stagger back." Impossible, she overcame the Mind Stitching on her own? Is she even human?"

"This feeling." Ragyō uttered curiously." Impossible!"

"Heh, I expected nothing less from someone who's been a thorn in my side all this time." Satsuki uttered coly."

"Bah, don't think I still have a lot of bones to pick with you." Ryūko spat out." But right now this rainbow eyesore is the number one on my revenge list!"

"La vie est juste drole." Ragyō threw out coyly." Truly life is most…amusing."

Ryūko snarled, but just as she was about to charge at Ragyō Nui appeared casually in front of her. The blond hair girl giggled as the members of the Elite Four fell to he ground before she flicked her hair back." Oh your so silly Ryūko, you being so completely clueless is a riot! Satsuki said the whole killing-your-father thing was her idea, but that's a lie! She thinks she's all that but her mom's the one behind everything!

That's right, Lady Ragyō and I were behind the entire murder! What you want to avenge your father and take back this half of the scissor blade right? Go on and try dear, just don't go and get all mad if your quest gets you killed kay?"

"God your annoying…DIE!"

A newly enraged Ryūko seethed out as she charged at the blond woman. Satsuki saw how out of control Ryūko looked before she sighed." That temper makes you so easy to control, but for now it works in my favor. After all, defeating my mother has been my life long ambition!"

Ryūko was to focused on her target to notice, and as she blocked her enemies strikes she was excited to see Nui be pushed back from her strikes." What's wrong…I don't remember you being this slow and weak earlier? Then again you do look like you wear out fast, like cheap trash!"

Nui had her eye twitch before she jumped in the air."Mon mignon pret-a-porter!"

Ryūko saw her enemy have pink cards slide out of her dress before becoming clones of Nui. As Ryūko heard giggling all around her she just grit her teeth." You think scraps of cloth can cut me? Get real!"

Nui saw her target roar with rage before she struck the ground with her Scissor, and unleashed a explosion of energy powerful enough to vaporize the Nui clones just as she was about to be attacked on all sides. The real Nui realized some of her hair was burnt from the outburst before she giggled in a darker tone." Careful honey, you really don't want to get me angry!"

"Get over yourself, I really do because I'm going to enjoy making you squeal!"

The two woman quickly unleashed a barrage of furious slashes that were lighting up the entire stadium, but even this was not enough to make Satsuki break her focus. As she slowly approached her mother she got back into a fighting stance." At last…you will pay the price for killing Soichiro Kiryūin and my baby sister who never even got a name!"

Ragyō just sighed as she strutted forward."Is this really all about ancient history? I thought I groomed you to be more practical then that child. For someone so young your awfully trite."

"It's a noble cause resulting from personal feelings. Someone like you whose soul's enchained to Life Fibers could never understand!"

"Tsc…but can you defeat me with your soul empowered with human emotions?"

"If I cut off your head not even you will survive!"

"Your so sorely wrong about everything Satsuki, its time for your punishment to begin!"

"I won't let you!"

Satsuki saw her mother raise her hand, but as it started to glow the swords-women positioned her blade to reflect the light off her opponent's hair to blind her. Before Ragyō could rebound Satsuki gave a battle cry as she moved in with a burst of speed and cut off her head.

As blood spurt out the Student President sighed and just lowered her sword."At last, its ov, GUH!"

To her shock her mother's headless body suddenly punched her hard into the wall, and as she coughed up blood she found her mother's severed head grinning at her." Its you that is finished Satsuki!"

Satsuki rebound enough to see her mother's body pick up her head before the person she just decapitated went on with a bombastic,"As long as a single scarp of skin, no, a single fiber remains attached to my neck, my body can repair itself!"

As Satsuki saw her mother reattach her head she staggered back on her feet."Damn you, I will kill you monster!"

"Keep dreaming dear. It would seem not even your Bakuzan was able to sever it completely."

"That's imposs, GUH!"

With a sudden burst of speed Ragyō burst forward and grasped her child by the neck to hoist her into the air before she could react.

As she choked her own child the rainbow haired woman sprouted another savage grin."Satsuki, your completely misunderstanding. You thought you were wearing Junkets perfectly, but your not."

"What nonsense is this?"

"You're the nonsense you ingrate. You merely forced it into submission but it never chose you. I suppose to the ignorant masses even that would come off as impressive. If anything I give you a A for all the sheer effort you put out so far.

But in the end nothing is more hideous then seeing someone who wears clothing that does not fit them! Wearing Junketsu to this battle was a horrible mistake! Of course without him you can't even stand anywhere close to me!"

"I had enough of your garbage!" Satsuki furiously tried to slash at her mother again, only to become horrified as Ragyō casually caught the sword and shattered it with her fist. Before Satsuki could even reach she was punched in the stomach hard enough to vomit blood.

Her mother then grasped her by the head to seethed out a dismissive,"Your little scheme has given me no end of entertainment. But, if you hate what I gave you so much then its time you return everything I gave you!"

The head of RAVOC had her hand glow red before she grasped Juenketsu, and ripped it right off of Satsuki. The rainbow haired woman quickly cut off her child's undergarments with her nails to strip her naked, then punched her to the ground some more.

As her offspring coughed up blood Ragyō looked only more sadistic." You were allowed to feel pride because I made you that way! And now I'll reduce you to the state you where when I created you in the first place, before I unmake you! Satsuki Kiryūin, you're a utter disgrace! Be it my child or anyone else, this is the fate of anyone who opposes me and the Life-Fibers!"

Ryūko had just hit Nui away and was closing in when she saw this savage beat-down, and despite how much ill will she had felt for Satsuki for so long the sight of her own mother being so savage to her caused the woman with the living outfit to grit her teeth." You monster, you'd do that to your own kid?"

Ragyō just glanced at Ryūko before flashing another wicked grin."This just shows Satsuki was never worthy of being a vessel of Life-Fibers!"

"Damn it, your going to pay for thinking everything revolves around your approval you, huh?"

Ryūko was shocked when she felt a presence behind her and realized in the blink of an eye Ragyō was behind her. Before she could even strike the older woman, the head of CLOVERS stabbed her right in the heart." However, I have my foolish daughter to thank for allowing me to meet someone I never expected to see."

Ragyō laughed madly as she pulled out the smaller woman's heart, to reveal it was covered with Life-Fibers."Ryūko Matoi, you're the one who's body has merged with Life-Fibers just like mine has. All this time you're the daughter that I assumed was dead. Beautiful, very few humans are able to perfectly merge with Life-Fibers such as this. "

"Shut up!" Ryūko shouted out, as even with her heart pulled off she had enough strength in her to slice off the hand holding her heart.

"My dad…is Isshin Matoi! There is no way your my mother!"

"If I'm not how else do you explain your body?" Ragyō threw out casually as she reattached her hand as easily as fixing her sleeve. Ryūko saw her heart go back into her body automatically before she screamed with fear." Shut up! I'm not a monster like you, I'm not!"

Ragyō saw her child try and slash at her with berserk fury and easily caught the scissor in her hand, before grasping her with her throat. After choking her enough to make her drop her weapon her demented mother had her free hand glow before she grasped Senketsu, dug her nails into it and right off her body.

She lifted her child into the air and with the flick of her wrist sliced the rest of Ryuko's clothing off to leave her completely naked. As she eyed her child's skin and compared it to her own carefully with delight. "Truly you are my flesh and blood! You can't deny it, embrace your true desire my child. I know you been ingrained with a few graceless ideas, but your mother is all to willing to help you be who you should be!"

Mitsuru had been watching the situation unfold with dread, and at last pushed herself to help as she charged at the rainbow haired woman."Matoi! Let her go you monster! Freeze her already frozen heart Artemisia! Bufula!

The red haired woman tried to attack Ragyō from her right with a beam of ice. But before the beam could hit Android 21 casually raised her hand to knock the frosty projectile into the sky.

The attack did not hurt her at all, but the action caused some ice to hit the table where she was sitting. As 21 saw the food she had yet to eat turn frozen solid she glared at the Persona user." Damn it, I did not want my Ice Cream that cold! Can't a girl eat her sweets in piece? SO rude!"

Mitsuru cringed and prepared another spell, only for 21 to hit Artemisia hard enough to shatter the Persona before the red haired woman even had time to respond. 21 giggled darkly as Mitsuru fell back from the psychic backlash." Well now dear, if you took away my snack you can repay me by becoming the new dessert!"

Android 21 raised her hand to try and turn the member of the Shadow Operative into candy. But before she could go through with her attack a arrow struck her finger.

It did little more then sting her but 21 rolled her eyes as a female voice cried out,"No, you won't eat her you witch!"

21 saw Agis and a few other of the Persona Users like Maya, Motoko, and Kiria ran out of the top of the tower to barrage the evil android from all directions, and as Mitsuru saw the one who fired the arrow, the brown haired woman that's her longtime friend and former member of SEELS alongside her, Yukari Takeba run to her side before she smirked."Your timing is impeccable Takeba."

"Well, thankfully that muscular woman crashing through the tower broke are enemies momentum. Glad we were able to get up here before the enemy broke you! What's going on?"

Mitsuru glanced down below where she heard Kale yell, and heard Ryūko scream in pain before she winced."A lot of lines have been drawn, right now we got to take down Director Ragyō before its to late! Do whatever it takes to get her robotic helper out of the way!"

"Got it. Lets go Isis! All evil will turn to dust!"

Yukari had her Persona surge with energy before she aimed her bow into the air and unleashed a barrage of pink energy arrows. Android 21 found herself being barraged on all sides, and just swept some dust off her glasses."Its cute how you think your teamwork means a damn thing to me girls but all your little Persona's put together mean nothing to me. Once I figure out the best way to rearrange you all into the ideal snack toppings, this is over!"

"Think your to high in the food chain you freak?" Chie seethed out as she ran up."I don't care how strong you are, I will avenge Yukiko!"

"That's cute, but unless your also a Saiyan your emotions mean nothing to someone like me, kay?"

21 found her enemies were barraging her with attacks on all sides to try and keep her down. The brown haired android casually fired energy beams from her fingers and giggled as those around her tried to protect each other.

Ragyō saw the Persona users collective might just make 21 seem bored before she smirked."You've been a mindless beast of rage for years eh my child? You been confused for so long, but as your mother I'll be all to happy to purge you of all the silly ideas graceless fools have gospel to you. Yes, that so called" angel" give you silly ideas about justice? Nonsense, justice and beauty alike come from power!

You lament your powerlessness…but in powerlessness lies death. And death is the truth, above all. Your incomplete power will be the key to your happiness, so stop being defiant and let me help you Ryūko! After all, by the time this is over everyone on this planet will see how futile it is to defy Ragyō Kiryūin!"

"Shut up!" Ryūko yelled out defiantly." No matter what, I'll never accept you as my mother! Even if some of theses guys are weirdos, I'll take them over a stone cold self-absorbed bitch like you! I know they can take you down, they better be able to take you down! And they better do it damn fast so I don't have to, AHH!"

"Ragyō had threads of energy grasp her child to grasp her tightly before she grasped the Juenketsu she ripped off of Satsuki and grinned." You always wanted to have a real family yes child? I'll give you what you want, I'll grant your true dream, once you be a good child and submit to your mother! Its your only option, you will all find that out soon enough!"

Ragyō put even more effort into breaking the child she just knew she had into submission. As dire as things were Lacus was still to distracted to notice, for even with all that was going on Kale was still requiring the Enji's attention the most with her rampaging.

Satsuki 's rebellion just meant more bugs for the berserk Super Saiyan to swat, but after smashing a few into the sky she turned around and realized she had broken Lacus's light clone in half. As the clone shattered into fragments Kale just laughed madly."NOW WHO'S ALL THAT SLUT? EVERYONE WILL SEE WHO'S STRONGER! Who's, huh?"

Kale suddenly saw a purple sphere head for her and as she tried to swat it the projectile exploded, causing the gravity around her to increase to the point that she fell on her knees. She heard giggling above and saw Muzét flying above her.

The Summon Spirit saw the muscular woman snarl at her and just wagged her finger." Your way to wild girl, you need to calm down before I make you calm down!"

"You think your puny tricks can stop me? No spell you have can stop me!"

Kale formed a green energy blast in her hand but before she could throw it a second gravity spell hit her to increase the weight even more.

As her hand collapsed, and the sphere exploded in her face Terra flew above her and swiftly followed up with a barrage of ice magic." No matter how strong you are, you don't have enough strength to muscle your way out of all of us!"

Before her target could argue Milla flew in front of her and looked determined." That's right, we are Enji Knights! We don't stand down to evil no matter how viciously they resist! Now, cold down her temper Celsius! Along with the rest of her!"

The Master of the Summon sprits from the world of Rieze Maxia had her world's spirit of ice appear and unleash her Absolute Zero ice attack to freeze Kale's right arm. At the same time Yuna summoned the world of Spira 's supreme spirit of ice, her version of Shiva to further freeze her enemy with Shiva's Diamond Dust attack.

While Kale quickly had her massive amount of energy cause the ice around her to melt she stepped forward, only to step on a magical ice mud mind that caused the ground to sink before freezing solid.

As Magilou flew down the former Witch wagged her tongue."Doing our job can be a pain at times, but letting a wild girl like you thrash about seems like even more of a pain so you know, the lesser of two evils and all."

As Kale snarled with rage and energy formed around her chest Magilou winced and quickly dashed out of the way as the orb flew above her. As she did Elanor and Collette flew down at her before blond haired team mate cried out,"No matter how angry you get we won't let you have your way! Holy Song!"

The blond haired woman unleashed her spell to empower her and her allies with holy energy, causing Elanor's staff to surge with light before she added,"The light of are conviction will penetrate your rage! Gungnir Twister!"

The red haired woman spun her staff around before unleashing a massive spear of light right for Kale's face. The muscular Super Saiyan roared as the blast hit her, and while it did little more then push her back, it also blinded her, allowing Velvet to close in.

The black haired woman had her demonic claw blaze out, and as it glowed with energy the Enji had a look of murder form in her face." Lets see how stubborn a Super Saiyan's soul is compared to a Therion eh? Impulse P, GUH!"

Before Velvet could unleash her attack Califia introduced herself by kicking the woman with the demonic claw into the ground before she even saw her coming. As the other Enji glanced at the thinner Super Saiyan Califia just grinned."If you gals are not going to wait your turn then I'm sure as hell not! C'mon Kale, lets finish them and show who the strongest ones here are!"

Kale paused for a moment before she grit her teeth."Califia…do you see me now?"

"You really asking a dumb question now Kale? Sigh, course you are. Look, you did great, I feel amazing power from you! Your true power is greater then I ever thought possible! Since I'm the boss around here just listen to me and we will be getting the crown to this Battle-World in no time!"

Kale had her eyes twitch before she growled out."You still don't see me! My power…its overflowing! I'm the boss now Kale! No one can tell me what to do! NO ONE!"

Califia saw her longtime friend scream with berserk fury as a sphere of green energy formed around her, before green energy spheres blasted out in all directions. The smaller Super Saiyan was shocked to see a projectile go for her, and as she quickly kicked it away, and saw the Enji hastily evade being bombarded she yelled out,"The hell you doing Kale?"

Kale did not respond, and just kept screaming as the ground started to shake from her power."I'm the boss now, I'm the strongest there is!"

"Sorry but as long as I'm around, that's not quite true."

Kale froze, before she turned around to see that Lacus was casually standing on the wreckage to the upper right. Having recovered from her previous wounds, despite still being naked she gazed down at the Super Saiyan with utter confidence, a sight that caused Kale to yell with rage."No, I broke you slut! I BROKE YOU!"

"You thought you did but as you can see, things were not quite what you thought."

"You did some cheap trick? This time, I'll smash everything till nothing can come back!"

"Is that what you really want Kale? Will nothing make you happy till every last cell of me is vaporized?"

Kale had her eyes twitch before she smashed the ground with her foot hard enough to hurl rubble up."As long as your in the way I'll never be at peace! That's why, all the threats must be destroyed!"

"Well, you're just going to have to find another way to be happy because for the sake of everything I care about your dream's not coming true anytime soon Kale."

"SHUT UP SKANK I''LL! GUH!"

Kale was about to tackle Lacus, till Sarah suddenly fired a flash grenade right in to her mouth. Kale was stopped in her tracks but Lacus was prepared and had a small barrier form around her eyes to protect her. Just as Kale paused Lacus flung her energy ribbon at the larger woman and had it take the shape of a lasso to grasp Kale's neck.

Just as the Super Saiyan realized what happened Lacus had her energy surge and her wings extend before putting out a firm."I know more then a few things about going out of control.

You need to wake up and realize what you really want before it's too late! Time to see if I mastered all that Diana taught me about forming a Lasso of Truth!"

Kale screamed even louder and tried to blast Lacus away. But the Enji was prepared and swerved out of the green energy orb, all the while having holy energy surge into her opponent's body. Caulifla saw her fellow Saiyan look pained before she glared at the winged Enji."The hell did you do to her? Your trying to break her or something?"

"You got the wrong idea, I'm trying to prevent her rage from consuming her." Lacus shouted out tensely." I was not lying before, and I seen enough to know a few things about power. Your comrade transformed out of pure rage, and its consuming her! Her true feelings were repressed, causing this outburst.

She has to figure out what she really wants, but I can help with a little magical push. Kale, is what you really want the power to kill everything?"

Kale widened her eyes as she tried to hurl Lacus off her. She saw Lacus had unleashed more energy ribbons to anchor herself before she yelled out,"I won't trust…anything the enemy says Skank!"

She tried to aim a focused blast at Lacus, only for Terra to fly to her teammates aid."You will listen to her! Chaotic Current!"

Terra transformed into her Esper state and threw a massive red and purple energy beam to weigh Kale down. Lacus saw her other teammates blast the wild woman before she sighed."Be honest, do you really want to become a monster? Be something that's existence is nothing but pain and destruction?"

Kale felt more holy energy surge into her before she winced."I have to be, whatever it takes to protect Caulifla, for her to notice me at her side over the likes of you! I'll become, whoever that person needs to be!"

Lacus saw the golden haired female have her energy spike before she burst forward to try and hammer her with a charged up lunge punch. But to her shock Caulifla warped in front of her to take the blow. As Kale looked shocked Caulifla coughed up blood from the blow, and then chuckled." Dumbass, way to get the wrong idea! This angel chick's something else alright, but I'm not so cheap that I'd fall for the stunt of any cheap hussy."

"Hey I am not a hussy" Lacus shout out defensively." I keep saying I'm trying to, ugh, never mind I'll explain when the rampaging is over."

"Heh…Kale, I get excited about any fighter but your amazing. That's my protegee for you, the person I want having my back over any one else!"

Kale saw her oldest friend that she cared for more then any other looked serious before suddenly smiled."Caulifla…so you did notice."

She then suddenly powered down and fell unconscious. Caulifla saw she was just unconscious before she smirked." Man she's think headed, but she can hit hard to. Really needs to learn how to control her punches. Ugh."

Caulifla winced before she fell unconscious as well thanks to the blow Kale landed on her. Lacus eyed the two Saiyans to make sure they were not just playing dead to launch a sucker punch before she sighed." Well, glad the plan worked. It's a lot easier when your enemies knock each other out."

Magilou cautiously walked up before poking Kale to make sure she was still down before she sighed a breath of relief." Lucky for us we may have had more then a few powerhouses to deal with but they are not all star fighters eh? This big gal was so out of control she managed to take out her teammate for us to!"

Sarah smirked as she walked up." Guess the big gal had repressed feelings that all the excitement boiled to the surface."

"Pathetic," Velvet threw out with contempt." I heard theses Saiyans were supposed to be the most elite warriors in the history of the universe, But for all there power they seem like a bunch of a amateurs. Piff…they really must have relied on their power if they were governed by there emotions this strongly."

"Heh…even the pros have emotions as long as they are not clunk heads." Sarah threw out playfully." You can steer them as best as you can but anyone that tries to hold them up causes them to blow up like with that gal there."

"Tsc…I know all about being driven by emotions, my passion for vengeance is what allowed me to survive for years. Its just, being guided by weak emotions just drags you down."

"Well, long as you know which emotions are weak."

Lacus saw Sarah and Velvet were glaring at each other before she sighed." You guys both have fair points, but I think we can all agree what's important that we make sure the haughty diva above does not go through with her emotions right? Cause now that we got this mess handled better make up for lost time before things get."

Everyone was cut off as they heard Ryūko screaming above before Lacus just sighed." Well, things sound bad already but lets make sure they don't get even more bad kay everyone? Ugh…that woman with the rainbow haired woman may not have as many muscles but something tells me she's going to be even more of a pain. After all the Beyonder would not have picked her if she was not a pain right? Just one pain after another."

The warrior of light with angel wings cracked her neck as she prepared to throw herself into the next obstacle. While she was wary she did not realize the situation was even more dire then she figured.

After where we last left off Ragyō was enjoying her child's struggle, and enjoying even more having her Life Fibers drain every last act of resistance before she had the outfit she ripped out of her other child slither around Ryūko like a snake."C'mon now dear, submit to your destiny and accept the work of the Grand Coulter! Your my darling daughter, the one with undiluted blood!

You wearing a half-finished outfit like that tacky Senketsu simply won't do. If your going to wear something, it simply has to be first-rate! Kaumi Junketsu, now that's more your style, as long as you embrace your true nature! Yes, open your heart to Junketsu child, embrace your heart's true desire!"

"No, stop it! Stop it now! Huh?"

Ryūko started to see visions of a life she never had, a life were Ragyō was raising her, and she was happy, always content. She suddenly saw her self in a wedding reception, with herself in a wedding dress.

She saw a strikingly handsome man in a wedding tuxedo extend his hand to her before Ragyō whispered," Yes, this is happiness for you, the bliss worn by clothing. Do you now understand? You guarded yourself well to not be crushed by life, but now at last you can be happy with the true wish! You just have to crush those that want you to deny your happiness, understand."

A combination of the Life-Fibers relentlessly surging energy into her and her own repressed dreams caused Ryūko to mutter,"Yes, yes mother!" Junketsu suddenly stirred before responding to the girl's emotions, and diving into her.

Fueled by Ryūko 's negative emotions the transformation was far more uneven and Ryūko 's skin turned pale green as the Kamui change her very body into a chaotic, blood leaking version of its previous state, mutating its wearer into a green-skinned, jagged toothed creature.

Satsuki just got back on her feet before she saw that her sister's entire right arm had transformed to triple its size before she spat out,"No, Mother's upset Ryūko so much that she's gone berserk!"

Mitsuru glanced at her comrade's current state before she cringed." Damn it, like how the Shadow of a Persona can drive someone to madness when the negative feelings go berserk, this must be something like that for the Kamui! As if the situation was not chaotic enough as it is, we have to."

At that point Ryūko roared with rage as blood erupted out of her warped body. She then punched the ground with her mutated arm hard enough to shake the entire tower. She then noticed Satsuki glancing at her before she snarled, and staggered in her direction.

Ragyō saw her second child raising her Scissor Blade at her older daughter and just formed a cruel grin."Yes, Satsuki has caused you quite a lot of pain as of late eh? The ingrate has caused her mother so much pain with her petty disobedience.

So be a good child and give your sister her punishment on my behalf for me yes? Since she's show her true colors, make it be her Eternal Punishment. Blood is not always thicker then water Satsuki, if you won't submit to fate gracefully then you can join your father!"

Satsuki cringed as she quickly tried to figure out how to survive dealing with her raging sister charging at her with her own outfit while completely naked. As she was quickly deducing she would have to embrace death she was relived to see she was not out of luck yet as a tentacle lashed out to grasp Ryūko 's blade arm.

Ira then revealed he was responsible as he and the other members of the Elite Four got in front of their leader." No matter what we will not let you kill our President Matoi!"

"Oh, have you not heard or are you slow on the uptake?"

Ragyō declared mockingly."Satsuki has been stripped of her duties and well, everything else. Now you will submit to me. After all, I can give you everything while she can give you nothing."

"She can give us something you can never give " Director" Nonon uttered crassly." Friendship!"

"Ugh god your doing one of those speeches eh? My dear child, make them see what the friendship of weak ugly maggots is worth when you rip them apart!"

Ryūko roared with rage but before she could attack Uzu charged at her first and intended to strike his new opponent's mutated hand. But Ryūko had more finesse then her distorted state indicated as she suddenly caught the blade with her large fingers.

She then flung Uzu into Ira. Before she could follow up Nonon and Inumata bombarded her with all the attacks there new Goku Uniform's could produce, only to tense up as they realized all they were doing was annoying their target.

The transformed transfer student roared yet again, before her scissor blade glowed red. As enough energy surged around it to crack the ground beneath her Ragyō looked delighted at the fear of those in front of her before she made a dramatic pose followed by a haughty,"I spoiled all of you ingrates to the point that you thought you were more then you are! But while you all use to be elite, your clinging to what's no longer fashionable. And like all obsolete things, its time your taken out with the trash and incinerated!"

The rainbow haired woman looked on with glee as her corrupted child prepared to fire, till she suddenly got hit in the chest by a glowing red bullet. The bullet caused Ryūko to release a snarl of outrage, and as her energy went unstable a gruff voice snarled out,"Your wrong woman, all clothing, or at least all that's fused with Life-Fibers are obsolete and must be terminated!"

Tsumugu landed on the tower, and upon seeing the man with the red haired tomahawk and special sewing guns aim at her she rolled her eyes."I do like direct men, but only if they have taste, and sense. You think your theatrics can matter when nothing in your arsenal is powerful enough to be worth a damn."

The member of Nudist Beach shrugged as he took a handful of red bullets and reloaded his guns."This is a Special Adhesive Bullet. To make a long story short, it's a like a powerful starching agent. The person may not survive if they are shot but, with all that's at stake the risk is more than worth, huh?"

Just as he finished reloading he saw Ryūko stagger, before she swung her mutated fist and smashed a chunk of the tower into him. As the man fell down Ragyō giggled darkly." As you die, learn well nobodies don't have a say."

She went to finish the man off till another projectile headed for her. As she casually deflected the bullet Aikurō landed next to his comrade, inside a house sized blue mecha. As he aimed the dozens of gun turrets his machine had at his targets the blue haired male boldly proclaimed," You may think of us as nothing Ragyō, but Isshin Matoi devoted his life to seeing your ambitions crushed! That's why Nudist Beach is willing to bet everything on our resolve, and my personal master piece the DTR!"

Tsumugu coughed up blood as he staggered back up and rolled his eyes." Your really betting everything on the Dōtonbori Robo?"

"Its DTR man! And don't fret the simulations showed this went, GUH!"

Ryūko sliced one of the DTR's legs off before he could finish, causing Ragyō to laugh even louder. " Enough, you cockroaches have infested my stage for to long. My sweet child, your mother's patience has run out with all the unsightly trash so if you would kindly clean the stage of all the filthy."

The woman wearing the living outfit had her eye twitch before she raised her scissor explode with energy and struck the ground to unleash blood red energy waves in the direction of all of her targets.

While Ragyō hoped to see all see found annoying in her sight vaporized, she winced as holy walls of energy formed around every single target and reflected the red energy waves to her direction.

As the rainbow haired woman found her self-forced to fly out of the way she head a confident voice chip in."Well I'd say that this is a case were the Emperor, or in this case Empress has no cloths but I suppose that would be mocking my own movement so whatever."

Ragyō glared to the left as she saw Lacus landed back on the top of Tartarus and confidently walked up to the woman. The Director of Kiryūin conglomerate saw Lacus looking confident before she snickered."My, you are the stubborn one eh? Seems that those Super Saiyans failed to live up to the hype."

"Have to be to stick around long in my job."Lacus retorted wryly as she flicked her hair back." Oh those Super Saiyans were strong alright, but they were so strong they did not know how to handle it."

Android 21, still casually shrugging off the dozens of attacks all the Persona users were throwing at her, saw how little damage Lacus had took before she raised a eyebrow."She was able to beat Kale and Califia? The data does not match up, some serious glitch must have happened!"

"It does seem our spunky angel here is more then just a poser." Ragyō shrewdly added." But it matters not. Even the divine can't stop the will of the Life Fibers, soon everyone will be remolded to how they should be!"

Lacus had heard about the relation between Ryūko and Ragyō while she was plotting her move on Kale, and upon seeing her allies current state her expression saddened." If your plan is to give everyone the same type of" makeover" you gave your own kid then it's a plan that does not deserve to even start!

Ugh, to think I thought my own mother was pushy about how I dressed, when I see Sarah again I'll tell her how things could be worst. Seriously though, anyone that could be this cruel to their own children, won't be allowed to remake the universe!"

"Hahaha, naïve twit what do you think God's relation with his family was? Yes, all who shaped history were not weak hearted woman like you, but those with absolute conviction who did not let anything stop them. My own children are either useful tools or worthless to me, even the divine will be my tools!"

Lacus saw Ragyō fling more fibers at her and all her friends but the brown haired woman frowned before her aura surged and she had energy ribbons shoot out of her palm to shatter every incoming fiber." Don't think everyone will fall into your web so easily. More powerful beings then you tried to control me, and failed. That's the thing about schemers like you, when your out of people to control to do your work for you your through!"

Ragyō saw how firm the Enji were before she narrowed her eyes, and energy formed around her." Insolent brat, I'll bend you to the knee and make you learn the price of mocking Ragyō Kiryūin! You think you seen all I have up my sleeve but I've only shown you the tip of what Life-Fibers can do! Let me show you, their true glamor!"

Lacus was about to respond when she noticed the sky was suddenly turning red. Velvet saw that Life Fiber was starting to rain down from the sky before she cursed." Damn it, is this how the weather is around here or one of this witch's spells?"

Satsuki had recovered enough to look up, and cringed as she did." No, this can't be! We were able to neutralize the Original Life Fiber!"

"Oh my dear naïve child." Ragyō threw out sassily," You thinking your little crew had enough power to destroy true beauty itself is just another thing you were wrong about today. Yes, time to show all the unglamorous people on this world what there true destiny is. Worthless masses, become my covers!"

Everyone looked up to see some of the fibers take the shape of flat white business suits with a red bowties. The suits were enough to blot out the sky before they rained down and dove for the people still in the stadium part of the area.

Just as they were wondering what was going on the Life-Fibers in there own clothing shot out to the suits and linked up to them, before the suits swallowed them whole. After twitching for a moment each suit grew to a more substantial, muscular appearance, with their "bowtie" enlarging into eye-like growths and a necktie-shaped hole appearing in their chests that bore the emaciated face of its absorbee.

As the suits landed on the ground and grasped more people Ragyō laughed madly."No matter how you resist, all will become bound to Life-Fibers! They will bind the heavens, the earth and mankind, covering all that there is."

Lacus saw the various COVER monsters land around her before she sighed."No matter how many people you absorb, it won't be enough to stop me!"

The Enji prepared to attack Ragyō when Ryūko got in front of her." Is that so? Then if that's the case I'm sure you won't mind plowing through how many pawns I throw at you eh? Of course, that would mean you would prove all your noble ranting was just a farce but its ok, that's all it ever is in the end."

Lacus grit her teeth before her holy energy surged again."Its not a farce to me, no matter how difficult it may be I mean what I say! You twisted your own daughter's life enough, its time to break her free!"

Ben's girlfriend fired a holy beam at the scissor welding woman with the intent of purging her of the energy influencing her like those earlier going berserk in the concert. However to her shock while Ryūko flinched, her state remained unchanged.

Mitsuru saw how crazed her comrade looked before she tensed up." What is this, the Joker Curse has a even stronger grasp on her then the others?"

"I'm not sure." Lacus answered." There is a stronger energy this time but it feels like she is resisting, like she does not want to change. Maybe it's, oh?"

Everyone saw Ryūko yell even louder, before the energy surrounding her exploded. Soon it grew more and more, till it became a vortex of energy, and from there became a wedding chapel.

Lacus saw the vortex of energy around Ryūko grow larger before she raised a eyebrow."Ok, I'll concede that I did not see that coming but I'm just going to assume forming a wedding chapel randomly is part of some really nasty attack."

Mitsuru saw that all of the energy was linked to Ryūko before she gasped."Wait, I heard of this kind of thing before!"

As Lacus and the other Enji turned to her Morgana ran up to the group before the talking cat yelled out,"My group's seen this before Enji! This girl's distorted desires are so strong that she's formed a link to the Metaverse, and is forming a palace!"

Sarah threw a grenade into a incoming CLOVER monster before she raised an eyebrow."Is it normal for folks to from palaces out of their thoughts around here fur ball?"

"Not quite. A Palace is a manifestation of "distortion", strong negative and corrupt thoughts that warp the perceptions of people into a hazard for themselves and others. Most people's negative and corrupt thoughts are blended together into the Metaverse.

However, particularly corrupt individuals manifest personal Palaces that is solely inhabited by their Shadow Self by that Joker Curse. Not everyone that has a palace is corrupt though. One of are Phantom Thieves, Futaba Sakura, formed one out of suicidal thoughts and suppressed memories of her dead mother. This girl must be forming a Palace out of her own repressed memories!"

Lacus saw the cat looked serious before she glanced back at Ryūko."So her emotions are forming a entire twisted world because its linked to this Metaverse you guys have dealt with? So, we either have to quickly solve her emotional problems or knock her out. Better figure out fast, time's not on our side."

Morganna's comrades Makoto and Ann ran up before Ann grinned."Its ok we can shut this down without having to hurt Ryūko, we just have to steal her Treasure! In a palace, its a physical representation of the Palace owner's wicked or negative thoughts and desires."

Makoto nodded before she looked at the distorted Wedding Chapel."It's a small, still forming palace so it should be easy to get her to make it come out. Still, normally it takes us days to pull off a " heist" but we don't quite have time to send a letter to weaken the target's cognitive defenses though."

As the two woman looked conflicted there teammate Ryuji ran up with a determined look." Don't sweat it gals, we got a ton more back up then we usually do so we can break a record! Let's break that Matoi out of this funk so we can shut down her crazy mom! Whip her Captain Kid!"

Lacus saw the blond haired man have a pirate like Persona form out of his body, and as she saw the other Phantom Thieves have there Persona's prepare to attack she raised a eyebrow." Wait, so your trying to help her by, hurting her?"

"It's the only way to lower the target's defenses most of the time." Makoto answered. Lacus sighed before shrugging." I suppose it took more then words for my friends to break me out of my own" rut" so to speak. Alright I'll do what I can, it will help if I can focus as much as I can."

Sarah saw a few of the COVER monsters heading for her winged comrade before she smirked." Don't worry girl, we can keep the swarm of fashion rejects off your back."

Terra nodded before unleashing another Ultima spell to push Android 21 back. As Lacus focused on trying to push away the negative thoughts consuming her target, Ryūko roared in pain and slowly staggered forward to try and attack.

As she did her sister yelled out,"Don't let the pain consume you Ryūko! Wake up and fight back to be what you want to be!"

"Heh…its no use child." Ragyō uttered." Now that she realized what she truly is her old world, her world of lies is a thing of the past! Now that she has seen that she's a superior being she has superior refined desires! You lesser beings have nothing to offer her!"

"Your wrong, no matter what Ryūko will always be Ryūko and want whatever she wants!"

Everyone glanced up to see Mako climb up form the top of Tartarus tower. The sight of the brown haired hyper active girl collapsing on the edge of the massive construct caused Ira to have his eye twitch." What the, what are you doing here Mankanshoku?"

"Did that underachiever climb up this entire tower?" Nonon uttered in a state of bafflement. Aikurō saw Mako catch her breath before the member of Nudist Beach winced." Oh that's right, she kept shouting about having to snap Ryūko out of it and I saw her jump for the DTR right before I took off. Er…I figured she fell off before I made it here though."

"Well I didn't!" Mako snapped back." I fell off hallway through though and had to climb up half the tower! But its ok, no matter what I'm going to bring Ryūko back home!"

Ryūko glanced at her friend, before her eyes narrowed and she pointed her Scissor at the shorter woman. As Mako looked shocked her transformed friend hissed out," I'll…I'll kill anyone who ruins my happiness!"

"What are you saying Ryūko? This is not happiness, not even close! This is not you Ryūko! Snap out of it!"

"Shut…your mouth! This is the real me, this is the me after I found out the truth of who I am, of what I am!"

Ryūko prepared to slice the hyper active girl in two when Mako suddenly hugged her." Dummy, you dummy! Fine go ahead and kill me! If your so intent on staying cooped up in this lame church then kill me and give up on being my Ryūko! No matter how you were born, you can be whatever you want to be! You can get the happiness you want if you fight for it! So don't give up!"

Ragyō sneered before she pointed her hand at Mako." Worthless graceless eyesore, one who knows nothing should be silent. Your values are completely worthless so stop infecting my child with your nonsense! Reduce to ashes…Blistering Thread!"

The rainbow haired woman have blazing threads shoot out to try and rip Mako apart, only for Lacus to block them off with a new energy barrier all the while still casting her healing spell. As Ragyō glared at her she smirked."Sometimes it takes those on the bottom of society's latter to see the truth. If I only listened to who society called elite I would have died long ago!

I am not normal to Ryūko, and I thought that meant my life could not be normal for a long time. But, with some help I realized I could make my life be what I want it to be as long as I had the will to fight for it! Ryūko, whatever you want your life to be only you have to decide. Sometimes we can't think to long on it, you have to decide now!"

Ryūko's arm twitched again, before suddenly everyone saw Junketsu twitch and groan. As the Kamui started to convulse the one wearing it yelled out,"I, I want to make my own life, for my self!"

Suddenly a picture of her father appeared in front of her head. Morgana saw the entire wedding chapel start to become distorted before the cat looked excited." Its working, her heart's treasure is forming! We can do it in record time guys!"

"Enough of this nonsense Ryūko!" Ragyō grit out." Don't forsake your destiny all because of the delusions of graceless maggots!"

"SHUT UP!" Ryūko shouted out passionately."I did not get a say on how I was going to be born or any of that stuff! But, I'll decide how my life's going to be, and I want this tacky crap off me!"

Ryuko's skin turned back to her normal color, and she became her normal state before ripping Junketsu in half. Ryūko fell to her knees, once more naked and bloody, but looking happy. Ragyō had the most shocked look she had on all day before she grasped her fist angerly."No, impossible!"

Lacus smirked as she crossed her arms."Guess you're having a reality check on what true power is eh? To bad it seems your waking up to what true grace is to little to late."

"You, you think you have grace you streaking slut?" Ragyō threw out frostily." So many think you can put on the right make up and say the right things in the right tone and that enough will give you grace. But they are fooling themselves. You can't have a "little" grace, you can't mimic it either. You either have grace instinctively, or you don't. You can't acquire it, because its something that defines who is superior!"

"Maybe your right, my mother always did say I did not have the right instincts. But you know what? If grace is what you think it is, then I don't want it! I'd rather work harder to truly win people over then being able to easily get a bunch of puppets! After all, we are seeing right now which one is stronger. Even your own children have rejected your twisted ideology, so give it up before you lose everything!"

"Tsc…blood's not always thicker then water. If humans have failed me then I'll simply rely on those that are not so fragile! Life-Fibers can control more then just humans, let me show you some of the beasts from Gourmet World that I converted with my Mind-Stitching to test the final phase of the plan! Go, have your feast my dragons!"

Lacus and her comrades all tensed up as they heard monstrous roars, and saw various dragons, bound by Life-Fibers descend from the sky. Velvet just finished ripping up a CLOVER with her Searing Edge Art before she saw a red dragon coming for her and rolled her eyes."Those are some more, unique dragons then I had in my world. But even if they are big blowhards, we still hit harder!"

Lacus saw the incoming horned red dragon unleash a burst of energy before she protected her comrades with another energy barrier. As Yuna, Milla, Terra, and Muzét blasted the dragon out of the sky the Enji smirked."You clearly are resourceful, but your going to find out the hard way that we are to good at our job to be tripped up by a few extra monsters!"

"She's right " mom"."

Ryūko spat out as she had Senketsu go merge back with her and got back into a fighting stance."Your done no matter how many of the local beasts you round up!"

"Heh…really being so bold when this is just the prelude to your doom!?" Ragyō hissed out." As powerful as the likes of the Red Daemon's Dragon, Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and the others I captured are, I have the most powerful dragon in existence at my side. It took a bit of effort, but I was able to win over my prized destroyed. So go lay ruin to all that defy me, my Blue Eyes White Dragon!"

Lacus froze as she heard the rainbow colored woman utter those last words. Just as she hoped she misheard Ragyō she heard a roar that sent a chill down her spine, a precise roar that she still heard in her nightmares. Moments later a new dragon descended from the Life-Fiber covered sky.

This blue eyed, white dragon flew down like a missile, and as the Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon saw the dragon coming for it, the more turkey like dragon roared at the one above it, only for the Blue Eyes White Dragon to snarl at its counter part and ripped its head off before continuing its descent.

Lacus saw the beast's eyes lock with her's before she stepped back."No…NO! Not...not again! This, this was never suppose to happen again, this was, only suppose to happen again in my memories!"

Mitsuru winced as she saw Lacus looking more afraid then she was of Kale or any of the other enemies."What's wrong Raystar? You seen that dragon before?"

Yuna saw how pale Lacus looked before she gulped." It's a long story but the important part is that Lacus suffered much because of the Blue Eyes White Dragon above. It is a very powerful monster, but we still have beaten worst in the past. Lacus, don't let this freak you out! No matter what, don't forget where we are!"

Lacus had memories of all the times she suffered because of the Blue Eyes White Dragon flash through her mind, and thought about how Allen and others she cared for died However she saw her comrades, new and old alike glance at her before she took a deep breath and used all of her willpower to put up a calm face."Things…are different now. I'm not going to crumble to a illusion, to a fake! Even, if it feels just as strong as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon was! I won't back down, I'm stronger now!"

Lacus flew up above and had her energy flare up. The being that use to be inside of her glared at her curiosity before her wings extended."How kind of you to present yourself easier to swallow morsel, it will make this easier for you!"

The angelic Enji grasped her necklace tightly and thought of Ben."It, sounds like Kisara, there might be a chance I could reach out to her."With a deep breath Lacus had her holy energy flare up." Kisara, can you hear me? I'd prefer to not fight you."

"You dare act casually to me, you frail, meager angel?" The Celestial Beast roared out." Don't presume you know me!"

"Its true, I don't know you, but I know your friends! I know Siegfried, they are not here but I'm going to help you! I, I was abused by our enemies to, so please help me make sure they don't win!"

The Blue Eyes White Dragon had its right eye twitch before its eyes crackled with white energy." How, how did you know his name? No, that just means your with the enemy! You can't fool me, all those who try to fool me must die!"

Lacus saw the beast that she use to be part her snarl and fire a blast of white energy from her breath. However Terra flew up in front of her squad mate and caught the lesser blast with her blade.

The Enji Captain had her sword glow before she glared at the dragon."She's not trying to deceive you dragon! We want to help you, but if you attack we will defend ourselves! Riot Blade!"

Terra unleashed the energy she absorbed in the shape of a wave of power. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon smashed the blast with its left wing, but before it could attack the other Enji bombarded the massive beast on all sides.

As it was distracted Lacus saw her fellow Enji attack from all directions to divided its attention before she grasped her hand firmly." The plus side about being traumatized by someone for so many years is that you know it really damn well! That includes knowing when something is influencing it. Kisara, I know the real you is still in heaven, I'll make this nightmare from the past go back where it belongs!"

Lacus unleashed a spell to reach out to the other half of the former Jinchūriki's mind to try and break free the energy she could feel encircling her mind. Ragyō saw the Blue Eyes White Dragon look distraught before her view hardened." Don't think you can fool my prized entity of destruction as you did with my rebellious child! Unlike her, she's fully committed to destruction! She just, needs a extra boost to kick out all of your treacherous thoughts! Yes, with both the energy of the Life-Fibers, and the donation I got from Rabum Alal I order you to act your role! Time for a sublime, divine, makeover!"

The Enji and their allies all became consumed with dread as Life-Fibers descended from the sky to enwrap the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Lacus saw the transformed Kisara roar with outrage before purple and red energy broke out from the fibers to pacify the dragon.

Lacus saw a cocoon from around the Celestial Beast and just glanced at Terra. Her former squad captain nodded before the two prepared to attack, but suddenly a explosion of energy blasted them away.

As Lacus stabilized herself in midair she saw that the Blue Eyes White Dragon had emerged, and had transformed to a new shape. Now the Celestial Beast had a thinner waste, while its wings had extended and become more jagged and spikey.

Its tail and head had become more spikey as well, and neon lines of energy were coursing through its entire body. As the newly transformed beast roared with enough force to shake the planet Ragyō just laughed madly. "Yes, the ritual worked! As powerful as it was now, the beast is even more divine now that its merged with ultimate grace! Go forth and make my adversaries pay, my Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon!"

Lacus eyed the newly transformed Celestial Beast with dread before she flicked her hair back." Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon, when does it end!? Kisara, no matter what this witch and her tacky allies did to her body she can't have corrupted your heart! You must,"

"SILENT!" The transformed monster roared out with raw fury." I am not confused now, I see thing very clearly! All who defy Rabum Alal will die!"

All the new crystals protruding out of the Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon shimmered with white light before dozens of energy rays in all directions. Lacus saw the projectiles all home in on her comrades and tried to cast a energy barrier to protect her friends, only for the barrier to be shattered by the sheer power of the attack.

As Lacus was knocked back Yuna had Summoned her own Bahamut Aeon and counteracted the incoming energy rays with a Mega-Flare. As the Mega-Flare hit the Blue-Eyes MAX Dragon the transformed beast just smashed it in half with its claw.

Terra saw the beast's eyes were glowing before she tensed up." Lacus, I think its useless to reach out to her, the Beyonder might have taken direct control of her like how it did to Bisley and the others!"

"So basically, we have to do this the hard way eh?" Lacus uttered dryly." Well, at least its not part of me this time, and its really just a clone. Still, with her new form's power level being so damn high this is going to be tricky."

Ragyō laughed cruelly as she snapped her fingers and her, Nui, Rei, and Android 21 all had platforms form around them that took them off of the tower. The leader of the ruthless fashion business looked down at Lacus with raw contempt." More like this is going to be impossible angel. Be struck down by true divine wrath!"

Ryūko saw the Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon have energy swarm around its mouth before she grimaced."Damn it, your not going to get the last laugh on this no matter what Ragyō!"

The mutated dragon had more and more intense light surge across its body till it was nearly a second sun."Yes, at last, all the enemies will burn, all the men that caused me sorrow will vanish from the universe forever! Max Chaos Flare!"

Lacus saw her current enemy have all the crystals shoot out lasers, that swiftly combined together to form a massive energy sphere that was larger than the stadium around her. She felt her hand trembling before she desperately unleashed all the power she had."No, no matter how much hate you have, no matter how much hate any of you have, I won't let you win!"

Lacus saw the Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon unleash its massive energy blast, and while Yuna's Bahamut and some of the others tried to unleash opposing energy attacks the blasts were shattered instantly.

The winged woman swiftly cast a energy barrier to block the blast, and cast nine more layered barriers around the first one to try and fortified her defenses. To everyone's dismay, her barrier combo only delayed the massive energy attack by seconds.

Lacus saw the energy blast coming for her, and pushed hard as she could as it got closer."Damn it, not like this! I refuse, to let my nightmares, control my future! Ben, everyone, please, if anyone's there, lend me their strength! Cosmos, if any of you are listing, please! I, made a promise I would do my job. No matter how hard it is, I , want to make the new, better world come true. I have to, Huh!"

She was caught off guard as she saw the same blue butterfly she saw at the start fly by, till it went to the right, where the Palace use to be, and vanished into thin air.

She saw a ripple in the space but then saw the blast was coming right for her, and so she used all of her strength to redirect the blast.

The effort caused a shockwave that launched her and the Enji in one direction, and Ryūko, Mitsuru, and the Persona users and the rest of the locals in another.

The Persona users were able to break there fall using there various Persona's powers, but Mitsuru saw Lacus and her comrades be blasted in the direction were the Palace was, before a flash of light blinded them.

When the group opened their eyes they saw that the Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon's energy sphere casually blazed through half the stadium, and proceeded to boll through a chunk of the entire Xibalba city.

Ryūko saw the sphere go on to descend into the planet, and unleash a massive atomic explosion before she grit her teeth." Damn it, that Raystar is to tough to go out to some dumb beast like that! Damn it Ragyō, its not over yet, its not!"

"Oh but it is my ungrateful offspring."Ragyō hissed out with delight." I just showed that even the divine can't stop me! I tire of interacting with tactless idiots, its time I remake the world I desire! Lets go Nui, time to make sure Midora lives up to his part of the plan."

Android 21 licked her lips as she got excited." Alright, time to see the ultimate experiment through!"

"Just remember to pull your weight if you want to get part of the spoils 21." Nui threw out casually." Hey I was working, I was just thinking about the proper order to eat all my targets! With the stakes as high as this its very important! Besides you seemed like you were a no show for a lot of the past ten minutes!"

"Hey its just those naked apes got my outfit dirty and I did not want to get in the way of the Director's will!"

"Ladies, now is not the time to get distracted by, petty issues." Ragyō put out sternly." We have a reality to unravel. I'm done interacting with such inferior beings."

Ragyō snapped her fingers before Life-Fibers took her and her allies, including the unconscious Saiyans, out of the city.

Mitsuru saw the Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon fly off to cover Ragyō and looked back were Lacus was last seen, only to see nothing but ruins before she winced." Agis, can you detect the Enji? Did they make it?"

"Negative Miss Kirijo." The Anti-Shadow weapon answered." I only detect a few particles left from the portal to the Metaverse. Its possible that they were warped to another area of Battle-World but the odds are very low."

Before anyone could say anything everyone heard a monstrous roar, from the other direction before Ryūko spat on the ground." Damn it all, no matter what, I'm not going to cower to that hell spawn of a mother no matter what!"

Aikurō looked at how much of his DTR was still functioning before he chuckled anxiously." Well, the Enji were not part of the plan originally, worst comes to worst we got to make it work without them. We can still pull it off, just got to make sure the momentum they gave to us is not wasted!"

Ryūko, Mitsuru, and even Satsuki and the Elite Four nodded before they braced themselves to fight off the next batch of CLOVER minions heading their way. As they grimly prepared to fight to the death to desperately try and avenge their comrades little did they realize Lacus and the rest of her group were not dead yet.

Lacus was stressed that the blast was going to kill her, but just as she felt like she was going to be overwhelmed she felt the energy around her shift and suddenly landed on the ground.

The confused Enji blinked before she saw that she and the rest of her group were in a completely different area before she winced."What, happened?"

Velvet glanced around and saw that they were in a large room completely covered in blue velvet before she raised a eyebrow."Well that blast was heading right for us, so I'd say there is a fair chance that we are dead. Still, this is not what I imaged the gates to heaven or hell would look like,"

"This is not either Velvet." Lacus uttered with caution." The energy…does not feel like either and trust me I'd know what hell feels like. Is this, the after life that the Beyonder created for his own souls? Or, did he transport us somewhere? Great, does he want to take a direct role now?"

As the other Enji looked around tensely to figure out a answer before a female voice suddenly giggled." Your fate is in the cards warriors of light. But fret not, your luck has not run out quiet yet, depending on your actions."

Everyone heard a ding before the upper part of the room slid open like it was a elevator. A woman that had short white hair and yellow eyes stepped out. She wore a blue dress that resembled a stewardess' outfit with five black-lined circles outside small yellow circles, blue gloves, a blue attendant-like hat, black leggings and blue, knee-length bootssteppeds.

Lacus saw the new girl with a thick book in her hand give a grin of mischief before she winced." So, we are not dead? Then, just where are we and who are you?"

"Heh…that's your introduction girl?" The girl in blue spat out playfully."You ladies all need to take some serious classes in manners!"

As Lacus frowned a older woman cut in with,"Oh like your one to talk Elizabeth."

The Enji tensed up even further as they saw another woman, dressed like the one called Elizabeth but taller, older, with slightly longer hair and holding a purple book that Lacus could see was called," "Le Grimoire", calmly walk out of the elevator like room.

Elizabeth glanced back at the other woman and just spat her tongue."Oh don't be like that Margaret! I may not always be in synch with the " norms" but at least I know how to be respectful when I'm invited somewhere!"

Velvet eyed the two warily as she cracked her neck."That all depends on just what we were invited to girl. If this is some sort of way of mocking us before you try and screw us over I'll pass on the games!"

Elizabeth rolled her eyes before she took out her own book." Oh I see you all are going through what is called" trauma" from your recent trashing yes? Guess that's normal but if you would please settle down before we conduct business above are master would be grateful for time is of the essence."

"Your like one of those Black Swans groupies eh? You may think your boss has all the cards but we don't roll over to anyone! Hell's Claw!"

Velvet tried to strike Elizabeth with her demon claw, but to her and her comrades shock the woman in blue just grinned before the book in her hand suddenly opened and caught the Enji's strike in its pages.

As Velvet looked on in shock she suddenly got stuck into the book before her target wagged her finger."Settle down now. As the unimpertinent... No, unimpartial? Uninteresting? Anyway, as one who presides over power, I cannot easily let you emerge victorious over me. I have a reputation to live up to and what not."

Milla saw that Velvet was now stuck as a page in the woman in blue's book before she had her energy flare up." Velvet's instincts were right, this is a trap! Break her free!"

Lacus, still recovering from using so much power to defend everyone from the attack of the Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX dragon just watched as Terra fired a Flare spell, only for Elizabeth to flip a page and absorb the spell with her book.

As she did Milla and Elandor tried to attack her from two sides, but as she did two figures suddenly appeared out of thin air, a samurai and a warrior with face paint that resembled a Hindu warrior, to intercept the two attacks.

Milla glanced up to see that the two came from Margaret. The taller woman in blue gave a solemn glance at the Enji before she took out a blue card." Its regretful it must come to this but the rules in the Velvet Room must be strictly enforced! Cu Chulainn, Ardha, Yoshitsune, do what you must to subdue these ladies. Behold... She who resides over power... and the epitome of her strength!"

Lacus saw the card in the woman's hand glow before turning into another armored being. As she sensed the energy from the creature she widened her eyes and ran up to get in front of her comrades." Wait, that energy feels the same as a Persona! Don't get to impulsive gals, theses woman don't give off the same aura or energy as the Black Swans did."

Sarah saw Elizabeth giggle before she cleared her throat."No offense girl but you did just seem to go through some trauma so you sure your thinking clearly and theses gals are not the enemy?"

"Well, if I'm wrong we are already trapped right?" Lacus threw out shrewdly." But that being said, just what do you ladies want with us again?"

Margaret saw Lacus was looking polite and smirked before she bowed." Thank you for showing restraint, lady Lacus. I know you are having a stressful day but you must trust us when I say we are not your enemy. We are not agents of the Beyonder, we are here to help you, one of the Antitype Apostle bloodline."

Lacus raised a eyebrow as she saw her friends still looked uneasy." You know who I really am? Are you, angels sent by Cosmos? Its just, this does not look like any place I been to."

"Correct Miss Raystar, and honestly it's a realm few step foot on. Welcome to the Velvet Room. This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter, the realm located between consciousness and subconsciousness."

"The Velvet…Room? A realm, of dreams? Is this still the Beyonder's realm? Are we, still awake?"

"I assure you your all in your physical bodies Enji Knights. To be precise you arrived here when you got blasted into the remains of the Metaverse portal from that blast.

The Metaverse is, a realm linked to the subconsciousness, as are many. I would love to give the full history but I concede we are pressed for time. Now that your all back to your senses would you please join us upstairs?"

Lacus glanced at the others before Terra sighed." If we are here we might as well get a tour. Just keep your guard up everyone. Oh yes, and as long as you promise your on our side you don't mind releasing our comrade yes?"

Elizabeth glanced back at her book before she shrugged."Well, ok but if she's rude upstairs s she's getting a much harsher time out ok?"

Lacus nodded before the woman in blue waved her hand and Velvet fell out of the book. As soon as the Enji with the demon claw landed she swerved her head to see Elizabeth wave at her casually and grit her teeth. "You think your so smart you sneaky little." Before she could say more Magilou tackled her." For god's sake Velvet chill they are on our side! At the very least be cool in a room named after you long enough to see what's going on!"

Lacus saw her fellow Enji calm down before she smiled."Thank you Elizabeth. Alright, lets see what this is all about, watch your backs everyone."

The Enji saw Margaret smile before making a welcoming gesture into the elevator. The Enji all had their weapons ready as they made their way into the room. After a minute of anxious waiting, one where Elizabeth asked casual questions about how the groups day was going, the doors opened and revealed a wide blue chamber.

The room had windows that were covered by closed curtains, and in the left corner was a man with a blue bandana playing a piano as a woman in blue with blue hair that was covering her ears was singing a pleasant tune. In the right corner was a man with a cap on his head painting something, that to Lacus's shock was the Blue-Eyes MAX dragon.

In the bottom center was a large desk with countless cards with a royal blue colored chair as two more individuals dressed like Elizabeth and Margaret, a tall muscular male and a thin woman with hair to her legs were at the chair's sides.

Lacus saw all the new people did not look or feel hostile before she raised her eyebrow."So, are all of you angels?"

"Sort of lady." The painter uttered casually." I'm a Demon Painter. My art depicts the gods and demons that dwell within man."

"And I am Nameless... A pianist who opens the shuttered doors of one's soul..." the man on the piano retorted calmly." And I am Belladonna." The singing woman uttered while keeping her tempo." I praise visiting warriors who challenge the monster called thyself!"

Sarah saw the other people in blue wave before she chuckled." You said you guys are some sort of the Celestial ones who work with dreams or something? With all you got going on here sounds like you would be waking most up, though I'll give you it's a catchy tune."

Before anyone could respond a low male voice chuckled from behind the chair." I'll concede that us workers of the Velvet Room are not as orthodox as say, those in the Time Nest governed by Chrono. However there is a method to our madness, and its that madness that gave you a interlude from your ordeal today warriors of light."

The blue chair swerved around to reveal an abnormal old man with a long nose, pointed ears and bulging, bloodshot eyes that was wearing a black suit with white gloves. Despite his slightly ghoulish look the man just nodded politely." Welcome Lacus Raystar, I am Igor, the Proprietor of the Velvet Room, a space which transcends both dream and reality. I hope you can forgive the slightly less then professional reception my attendees gave you.

Elizbeth and Margrett, along with there siblings here, fellow Celestial ones designated as Velvet Room attendants, Theodore, and Lavenza here, all don't interact quite so much with the outside world. I must concede we are all a tad on edge today.

For all her bluster Elizabeth was a bit worried you were all corrupted by the Beyonder and could pose a threat, but we all had to take a risk for the sake of the universe."

Lacus felt nothing but calmness from Igor before she shrugged." Well if you understand the situation then I can't blame you for being tense. Still I admit I'm still confused. Are we still in the Beyonder's own universe or back in well, the normal one?"

"A bit of both to be honest dear." Igor retorted." I can understand if it's a tad confusing but you see, the Velvet Room is a realm that bridges to all realties, including heaven, hell, and even this "Invisible Vandenreich Empire" in the shadow between realties, though I confess we were only recently aware we had a link here.

As me and my aides have said, the Velvet Room is a tad complex, it's the reality that monitors dreams, and all that comes from them from all. Even the dead dream, and thus they are all monitored.

We of the Velvet room have been monitoring the unconscious desires of souls since souls had desires, though, our workers do take shifts. We don't neglect our duty no matter the danger, thus monitored this Battle-World.

Normally we only intervene in the physical realm in extreme situations but, with all that's on the line we felt intervention was needed. Thankfully, the Beyonder still seems inexperienced with the nature of this pocket dimension and did not realize you all fell into here from the Metaverse portal."

"Well, if he has we will find out soon right?" Lacus answered sheepishly." Still, its starting to make sense so thanks for taking that risk Igor."

"To be honest, it was not my call to make. I'm the overseer of the Velvet Room, the manager if you will. But the Supreme Kai of Dreams, the one who risked all to help you is above you."

Lacus looked up in confusion and realized the butterfly she first saw when she arrived at Battle-World and just saw went trying to defend against the assault of the Blue-Eyes MAX Chaos Dragon was flying above her, before it glowed and unleashed a sphere of light.

When the light faded in the butterfly's place was a being that looked like a human wearing a black turtleneck shirt and black pants fastened by a belt with long dark brown hair typed up in a ponytail.

The new person had a three dimensional mask covering the left side of its face with a butterfly wing effect.

As the Enji Knights gave the new arrival a wary look the masked being bowed." Greetings Lacus Raystar, I am the angel that was given the duty by Cosmos to be the Cosmic Abstract that oversees the realm of the consciousness and unconsciousness of all souls of the Collective Unconscious, Philemon. I am sorry for not meeting you from the start but we have had to take precautions to not attracting the Beyonder's attention.

Are precaution has bore fruit so far. Not only where we able to assist you Enji in your time of need, but we have been able to see Battle World unfold. In part because we were able to fool the Beyonder into thinking he recreated us along with all of the Persona users from the past."

"So you're the one who allowed Mitsuru and the others to summon Persona's? And you mean to say that you did this to the real them in the past?" Lacus threw out curiously, to which Philemon answered with a firm," Correct. I and Igor granted Mitsuru Kirijo and her friends the power to utilize their soul and summon Persona's. Though to be precise the various users did not meet up quite like they are now when this originally happened all those years ago.

You see, through various magical chain reactions one way or another there have been times when people have stumbled into the realm between consciousness and unconsciousness, so I created the Velvet Room to help guide wayward souls so they could find their way to their true self. There have been other forms.

Your friend Mario encountered part of the world by chance in what he thought was called Subcon, and it's had other names like" C's World" the" Astral Plane". Persona's are just one way of expressing a link to the Collective Unconscious as there have been other expressions of that power like the one called Geass.

I concede I'm mostly a overseer but from time to time I do give people the power to help them express their true self.

This was because Cosmos wanted to see how people could change, and see if people could evolve. We would often clash with Chaos Zannacross Necron and his own agent of the Collective Unconscious, the arch-demon Nyarlathotep, over a long bet over if mortal's ultimate fate is to become enlightened and transcend sin, or ultimately destroy itself over their sinful emotions. We thought we won that bet when your boyfriend Ben Auro vanquished Chaos Zannacross Necron.

However in light of current events it seems we reacted prematurely as the Beyonder's wrath threatens to unravel all dreams, all history and of course all existence."

"Well, that's what we, Ben and all of our friends are trying to stop." Lacus answered tensely." Though, I admit the jury is still out on how good our chances are. I admit, it feels like this Battle-World is just the Beyonder playing some sick game before he decides to finish us off in a instant.

It felt like, when the Blue-Eyes White Dragon returned and transformed into that new form the Beyonder was showing how bad our chances were."

"Don't despair Lacus. From what we seen, while his ragefully yearning to destroy every single thing Cosmos and Zannacross created he does seem sincere in wanting to see his game through. Partly to show he knows what he was doing, but also out of some sincere desire to understand the various interaction mortals have.

I concede I have not talked to the Beyonder directly, but my theory is that while the Beyonder in a sense has existed since the dawn of time, in that entire time since Cosmos and Zannacross "lobotomized' him till he somehow woke up he only was " conscious" for the span of a year, at best. So in essence he hardly has a awareness that's more evolved then a child."

As the Enji reacted with shock Yuna cleared her throat." Your saying that the Beyonder is only a child? Based on what Lacus says he has very clear intentions of destroying the universe and remaking all in his image! That sounds hardly like the act of most children."

"True, like I said I don't know for sure. But, we still don't know precisely when the Beyonder awoke so it could have been actively looking at the universe for a few years if not more.

But for all of its power, even when one has the power to do whatever it wants its still limited without knowing the context. One way or another, the Beyonder seems to want to know just what mortals, the creation of his" parents" are so he can create better ones to prove he is superior."

Velvet rolled her eyes before spitting out,"No offense but, does not matter if this Beyonder has the mindset of a child or a adult if its hell bent on shattering existence and has the power to pull it off!"

"Heh, don't doubt how useful intel can be even in worst case situations girl." Sarah threw out with sass." Trust me, there are more than a few differences between dealing with a child with its button on a planet busting laser over a adult.

They each have their pros and cons, but if you know how what you're looking for it can be the difference between life and death."

Lacus thought back to when she saw the Beyonder gleefully emerge from the rift after the Incursion ritual and gleefully caused the destruction of the universe in mere seconds before she winced." I can see aspects of a child wanted to prove he's better then his parents in some of his actions. Still, the sheer rage and hate in his actions were that of only a demon child or other beings consumed with darkness could have.

Then again, if the Beyonder has seen the entire history of humanities crimes depending on how he saw it could have left a very bleak impression. Then again, maybe he just saw what he wanted to justify his "echo chamber." Well, who knows if we can figure out what he really wants, for now we just have to figure out how to stop him, and at the moment that means stopping his tacky champions.

So, you said you guys seen what was going on in the past? Does that mean that you know what's about to happen?"

"I regret only partially." Philemon responded somberly." Events are unfolding in the same way things did for the Persona users, but at the time they were not dealing with such individuals as Ragyō and Midora. Whatever it is it is nothing good. But you must be careful, for as it stands your enemies on this world have over all superior power to yours."

Lacus winced as she thought of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon again before giggling uneasy." Guess we will have to be creative eh? Its, been a blast from the past all right, in a bad way. Philemon I have to ask, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, it is the same one that use to be a part of me right? What does that mean for the real one, for Kisara's soul?"

"Her soul is still in heaven Lacus." Philemon answered." But as you figured out, the Beyonder has completely recreated the Celestial Beast from the Steller Memory, and even mutated her into a new form.

Regretfully, that means she has no memory of you. However, your body still might have its own memory of being merged with it. Its, possible that if you could break the influence that Ragyō has on it, you could take control of it."

Lacus had her jaw drop before she cleared her throat."Wait, you mean become a Jinchuriki with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon again? With a Kisara that does not even know me?"

Velvet saw how tense Lacus looked before she shrugged." Well, the stakes are high right Raystar? Sounds a lot like the link that Eleanor had Laphicet tethered to her soul? Well sounds like a pain but hey, we need as much fire power as we can get to win this right?"

Eleanor saw how distraught Lacus looked before she cleared her throat." Don't be so thoughtless Velvet it was not the same at all! Lacus had the Blue-Eyes White Dragon forced into her, and while it did save her life tat the time and give her tremendous power, it also was a hateful beast that nearly took control of her body again and again and caused her countless sorrow! Pushing her back into a nightmare is the worst case situation!"

"Almost the worst case situation Eleanor." Lacus threw out tensely." Going through that kind of trauma is one of the things on my top ten list of experiences I never wanted to repeat. But, the only other things worst then that were dying again, and having those important to me die. At the very least, by the end I was able to get a handle on being a Jinchuriki. And, after this mess is over it should not be to hard to reverse things right?"

"Maybe." Philemon answered." But before you do anything rash I propose to you a different path? Being a Jinchuriki may have been the only option you had at the time Lacus Raystar. However now that you have had time to get a grasp on your true power, other options are available to you that could make things less, stressful for you."

"Seriously? What do you mean?"

The woman with the butterfly mask on her face had light form around her before forming a card." Lacus, I know you been living by the rules we angels have given you for most of your life. While you…faltered at times, you have strived to make up for your failings. Now, you have grown to the point that you can define the rules yourself, well, at least some rules.

What I mean is, you seen the Persona users fight, and those life forms are in fact manifestation of their souls, the true nature of their personality. However, there are those who can wield multiple Persona's. I called these unique individuals "Wildcards."

Igor chuckled before he took out a card from his sleeve that had the fool arcadia symbol on it ." It is like the number zero... empty, yet holding infinite potential within itself. The Fool Arcana does not mean that it can be taken lightly. The Fool is number zero. It symbolizes the void from which all other things begin.

But that also means it can flip around to become the Universe Arcana.

Due to your powerful soul that's in synch with Cosmos herself, you are most definingly a wild card candidate Lacus Raystar. This means, you can compress another soul, and summon it as a Persona. Normally Wild Card users used their power to fuse two Persona, but with your power you can fuse a soul into yourself.

After all, in the final battle with Zannacross you had all souls fuse with you and Ben Auro yes? True you needed the Golden Imperia Crystal for that, but even without it you can perform lesser variations of that with enough focus.

It will be separate from you, till your time of need. It takes a great deal of focus, but this time around it could lead to a much less stressful situation."

Lacus looked at the Wildcard with shock before she grasped her necklace tightly."Your saying, I could use the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, without it being a permanent part of my body?"

"To be honest few directly fuse with there Persona's like you have with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the past. But since your body is stronger then most humans, you should be able to handle it. Just, don't push yourself to hard. At times you seem, consumed with guilt over your past mistakes Lacus. While you do still need to atone for your past errors, don't ever think the price is a Eternal Punishment that will forever weigh you down."

Lacus slowly walked up and took the wildcard from Igor. She pressed it closely to her heart before she saw her comrades looking at her and smirked."I admit, at times the weight of guiding the universe to a new future seemed overwhelming.

But, it did not feel so bad as long as I knew Ben had my back. I, I still don't know if we are doing the right thing but we are doing our best. Its just, its hard enough to get a school club to agree on things, getting a entire universe to agree on the best way to property is, well, very complicated."

"Trust me Lacus, as someone who has been a dweller in the rift between consciousness and unconsciousness of all souls and have been monitoring the collective unconsciousness, I know full well how daunting a task you and Ben Auro have. You must not make the mistake's so many others with noble intentions have made in the past. You must not expect it to be easy, it will be a punishing one with many set backs."

"Don't worry...I talked with many angels and experts on what to expect so, I'm ready for us to make, adjustments. But, I'm ready to endure punishments to take a risk, a near Enteral Punishment is worth the risk if it can lead to the ultimate reward, to change things so that none of us have to endure that kind of punishment again."

"I'm glad you have realistic expectations, that will be vital for your mission. In ways the task you and Ben have in-front of you is harder then defeating Zannacross, and yet I also know its not impossible. When Chaos Zannacross Necron threatened all there was, all united to defend what was dear to him.

True, it took the threat of absolute destruction to unite everyone, but there are other ways to unite them. As your all aware, people wear masks to hide their true feelings. Its because reality makes it to painful to not have a mask that it is this way.

A world were none have to wear "false smiles", where everyone is free to discovered themselves without having to repress there true self because of the power of another, is what many would see as a utopia. Many would call it a fantasy, a possibly that could only exist in heaven.

However, after seeing the subconscious yearnings of so many hearts I think it is possible, but the bridge to uniting everyone's hearts must be done the right way.

For something like this it can't be rushed, not a grandiose act like Zannacross and so many others wanted, but one step at a time. The Persona users of the past increased their power vie "social" links" by the bounds they had.

By reaching out to everyone, and making a world where everyone can walk alongside each other without fear of being " the loser" you Enji can put together that bridge yet, but first you have to endure the wrath of those who want to close themselves off from anything other then there own desires."

"I take it you mean the Beyonder right?" Lacus threw out ruefully." Well, it will take a lot but, we did not come here to fail. That being said, I'm grateful you bailed us out of being vaporized, but guess we better get back to help our allies and stop the enemy in time right?

So, I admit I'm still confused at how this new Persona nature is suppose to work. Do, I just throw this card at the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, like trying to capture a Pokémon old school style?"

"Heh, not quite Lacus." Philemon responded ruefully." Fear not, this card also will allow us to have a link and I'll give you more instructions about the precise spiritual and mental conditions required for the ritual. For now, the card can be stored in this bracelet."

Philemon promptly pointed her right finger and had a beam of light hit Lacus in her right arm, a golden bracelet with butterfly like wings formed out of it that looked like the symbol of the Geass, and the wild card slid into it like it was part of a deck of cards. Lacus saw her palm have white lines that looked like the Geass symbol, or command code shine for a few moments before the light faded.

"When the time comes I'll let you know. Do not threat, I merely gave a portion of my energy to you so your body would be able to understand better, like giving a computer a update of sorts.

Also, one more note of importance. The Beyonder seems interested in trying to corrupt as much as you Enji as he can to add to his own forces."

Lacus quickly had flashes of the raw hate in the Chaotic Comedian's eyes before she stiffened up."What do you mean? You know the Beyonder is trying to brainwash us? You mean me or something else?"

"I'm afraid I don't know precisely, I can't be to bold less the Beyonder finds us. I know that I sensed a presence that was more in synch with you Enji then the natives here, for all the chrono phantasma, all the souls that the Beyonder recreated from Steller Memory, have a wavelength to their soul that differs from "normal" souls. And recently, I felt such a soul make contact with the Unconscious world, and be consumed with dark emotions."

Lacus quickly felt consumed with worry after thinking about all the things she heard about Doug before she looked at the others." Well, guess we got even more reason to hurry eh girls? Philemon, everyone, thanks for everything but we better get back. Just hope, it's easier to get back out before getting back in."

Elizbeth giggled before she snapped her fingers."Oh don't worry, we stewards of the Velvet room are masters of having a portal form out of a door in the " mainstream" reality."

"Thanks. Well, time to see if there is any truth to my bluster or I'm just full of hot air."

Margrett smiled as she patted Lacus on the shoulder and used her power to unleash a wave of energy to heal the warriors of light's injuries and restore their energy." Fret not Lacus, truth may not be a thing one can just into reality but its also not something that erodes at the mercy of the tide.

The "true" truth is a thing which only appears to those who have observed, considered, and made a choice. At the end of the path you chose lies the truth... Believe in it, and continue without faltering and you will find your way."

"Thank you. Alright, time to make sure I can help my friends find their way, and with any luck have my enemies see the truth, one way or another."

Lacus and the others readied themselves as they went to exit the Velvet Room to help their comrades, and little did they currently realized just how badly their allies needed their help. While the CLOVER monsters were easy enough for the others to dispatch things tensed up as everyone heard a monstrous roar of anger.

Ryūko had just slashed another monster of Life-Fibers apart before she heard the noise and grit her teeth."And what's this now? One of the dragon's Ragyō let out wants to finish what the other one started?"

Mitsuru glanced at the sound of the roar before she tensed up."Not quite, looks like this is something different!"

Everyone heard the ground shake as the new hostile revealed itself to be none other than Shinryudramon Malefic mode, who at last arrived at Xibalba.

None of the current group had realized the corrupted mega level Digimon was a close friend of Lacus, and with how angry he looked no one even guessed it was possible.

Agis scanned Shinryudramon before she pointed all her guns at him."This new hostile has readings that match the "Digimon" that we saw at the start of the week."

"Whatever, if he thinks we are leftovers then he has another thing coming!" Ryūko shouted out. Shinryudramon just eyed the area before his eyes surged with red light." Where are they, were are the Enji? Did they try and run away and hide from what they got coming to them?"

The group below glanced at each other before Satsuki stood her ground and glared at the Digimon with defiance." Your to late, they sadly were vaporized by the Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX dragon that was just here."

Shinryudramon sniffed around before he grasped his fist tightly."The…Blue-Eyes…White Dragon? No…that's impossible. Your lying, the scent still is around here. They, they still have to pay for what they did!"

"Hey, don't be throwing a tantrum because you were late to the party jackass!" Ryuji yelled out angrily." But if you think we are easy pickings then you got another thing coming! Whup him Persona!"

Dozens of energy blasts shot out for the Mega level Digimon, but Shinryudramon roared out with raw hate before his energy exploded. " All of you are just in the way! Get lost, Malefic Paradox Burst!"

Ben's Digimon partner unleashed a corrupted version of his Verus Explosive Barrage attack, and thus a dozen Ebon orbs of energy formed out of his wings before raining down on everyone.

The attacks were so unfocused that as the group just hardly dodged them in time. Makoto evaded the attack on her Motorcycle like Persona Joanna, and saw the orbs blast into the flying city and blast large segments of it apart.

As she heard people scream in their dying moments she looked at Shinryudramon in horror."Stop it, those people are innocent, they have nothing to do with this!"

"They are not innocent, they are weak, weak prey!" Shinryudramon roared out hatefully." They were living a lie, so I woke them up to reality! Yes…time for all the liars to wake up! Dividing, Malefic, Edge!"

Shinryudramon had a purple and black beam saber erupt out of his left arm, and had his aura explode before it became it grew to four times its previous size. The creature of rage prepared to swing down and vaporize over a dozen of his targets, but Ryūko blocked his strike with the Rending Scissors.

The woman with the living outfit was quickly pushed to her knees, but as the energy blade was right in her face she dug in deep down to unleash all the strength she could muster," Screw you freak, I did not go through all of this to die to you!"

"Try all you want but you will girlie. Because the light has proven itself to be nothing but lies, time for everyone to wake up!"

At that moment Lacus and the others exited the portal from the Velvet Room that was placed over the entrance of Tartarus, and as she saw Ryūko about to be slashed through she instinctively lashed out with a holy energy ribbon to grasp the hand of the blade before shouting a determined.' The light's not out yet you, wait, what? Shinryudramon?"

Mitsuru saw Lacus and the rest of the Enji and blinked to make sure she was not seeing things." Lacus, you all survived the attack? How?"

"Well, short story is I got help from your pals in the Velvet Room."

"You, you met Elizabeth, Igor, and the others? I suppose, that's sensible enough. What happened?"

"Er…long story that I hopefully can explain after this is done. What's going on though, how long have I been out and how long as Shinryudramon been here?"

"Well, we were fighting the COVER monsters for a while till this monster showed up. Wait, your saying this murderous being is your ally?"

"Well, yes. Somethings clearly wrong though, that's Hiryuumon and you guys seen he's not like this at all!"

"This is the same dragon creature from before? If so, his shadow's even more of a contrast then the one Teddy had!"

"If someone possessed him, I figured he would be Helldramon again or something. I wonder if that's even him or some sort of twisted clone. Is that you in there Shinryudramon?"

The Digimon covered in dark energy had his right eye twitch before he staggered forward." I know what you are, Lacus Raystar! You're the agent of the light, you're the enemy! Who, who am I really?"

Lacus winced at seeing the raw hate in her friend's eyes before she put out a firm." Such a terrible darkness, it hardly feels like him at all. That must be, because it's not him! Do you think you can mimic my friend and get away with it? Like hell, Hiryuumon never felt that hateful in his entire life!"

To her shock Shinryudramon laughed darkly as his aura grew immense enough to push Lacus and the others back. "That's because the one you once knew, no longer exists! The one known as Hiryuumon 's heart has been extinguished, smothered by the darkness within him! And that darkness, will smother you all to girl!"

Lacus gasped as Shinryudramon had his energy blade extend again before unleashing a massive energy wave. The winged Enji dived out of the way and saw the energy blade carve up a large chunk of the stadium behind her, before she glanced back and saw the utter coldness in her friend's eyes, a coldness that was all but alien to the owner of that body before she glared at the Digimon and had her holy energy flare up." I'm not a girl to you! I'm Lacus Raystar of the Enji Knights….and if you don't return my friend's body right now, then in the name of the light you will pay!"

Shinryudramon eyed how absolute Lacus looked before he had his cannon form and pointed it right at her." The arrogance of the light, to just keep assuming things. The truth has been unveiled, and now its time for all that's been forged on the lies to be shattered!"

Velvet saw how distraught Lacus looked before she winced." That's supposed to be Auro's Digimon pal? He does seem to be talking a lot more refined then he ever did before. I have to admit, whatever happened he's sure as hell emitting a lot of dark energy that feels a hell of a lot like the Malevolence from my world, like he devoured all the Demon-blight in a town or something."

"Velvet's right." Eleanor added grimly." Beings consumed with malevolence would transform in to a Hellion, and those with extreme cases of anger would transform into a dragon. I must say Miss Raystar, your friend is feeling such hatred that in Wasteland he could be a Lord of Calamity!"

"It does not make sense, aside from bad guys the angriest Hiryuumon has gotten is over someone eating his food. Did, the Beyonder and his agents magnify some trivial grudge using magic?

Only one way to find out. So be it, if your angry at me then come at me, and leave the others out of it! Watch closely for anything funny gals while I handle this. If, we have to deal with this might as well do it before things get messy."

Lacus saw Terra and the others give tense nods before Shinryudramon roared and fired his energy blast at her. The Enji cast another energy barrier to defend herself and as she reflected the blast into the air, she saw her current enemy was coming for her and took to the air.

As Shinryudramon followed her he saw her determination and just sneered."You have no chance defeating me, not when you're so utterly unarmored."

Ben's lover glanced at her current state of undress and just giggled." Now I know your not my friend, because he would not have been so careless taking me lightly after I beat him in all the sparing matches we had to keep in shape the past few years!"

"Er…that may be but this is different, your arrogance will be your defeat!"

"Tsc…you're the one that's arrogant if you think I need some armor to beat you!"

"Damn you, I'll make you pay!"

Shinryudramon unleashed a roar of rage before he burst out to slash at Lacus. While he attacked so fast that he was a blur, but despite his speed Lacus took advantage of Margrett healing her and managed to be fast enough to evade and block his strikes.

After evading a few more barrages Lacus saw her enraged friend form a pincer in his free hand and quickly lashed out with her energy ribbon to bind the arm.

As he looked shocked she just grinned."Thought I was bluffing? If you knew me, you would know we did this dance enough times so that I know all the moves in it. I won't let you take my friend away from me!"

Lacus gathered holy energy in her free hand and prepared to slam it right into the Digimon's chest. Before she could, Shinryudramon 's head twitched before his chest started glowing.

His chest plate started to transform into teeth before he growled out,"I keep telling you that I'm not the same as before, I have a few new parts to me! Soon, you and the others will be extra parts to me one way or another!"

The brown haired woman tensed up as she saw a giant eye in the new opening, one that looked like the eye of Dark Matter before she felt a powerful force start to try and push her in. As she resisted she gasped in horror."That energy, that feels like Kirby! Wait, your fused together? This is horrible, whoever you really are I swear by the end you will regret messing with my friends! Kirby, Shinryudramon, if you can hear me I swear I'll break you out of this!"

"You misunderstand angel, both of them were broken from the start! They both found out the truth about what they are, and they are both to broken to be fixed even by your magic! Somethings can't be fixed, somethings can only be broken!"

Lacus was about to respond when she focused her senses and realized she sensed both Kirby and Hiryuumon, both feeling in pain, bound by a dark feeling before she grew somber." What happened to both of you? It does not matter, whatever it is it can't be enough for you to give up!"

"But it can when they realized the truth, and realized there entire existence was shams. Soon, you will join them!"

Lacus felt the force pulling her in increasing before she winced and glanced at her comrades. She then took a deep breath before she smirked."Sounds like I have my work cut out for me, but Ben would be rather sad if I came back without you guys.

Its not a sham, I'll give everything I have to make my dream more then wishful thinking! Terra, Velvet, you guys hand tight so my anchor back holds through ok?"

Velvet saw Lacus throw a few energy ribbons to her comrades before she raised an eyebrow." The hell are you doing now Raystar?"

"Oh, somehow about to top myself for the most craziest trick yet but it seems like the best option to settle this. Seriously though, don't let go so I don't get trapped."

Terra saw Lacus was looking right at the opening in Shinryudramon 's new mouth before fear grasped her." Wait your not seriously thinking of letting that monster swallow you are you Lacus? That's way to risky!"

"No matter how they changed on the outside, they are still my friends. After all, it was the same for me and they did not give up on me, so it's only fair that I try just as hard right? If he is fused with Kirby somehow, then it should be alright since Kirby's spat out others before right? Only one way to find out, so good thing I don't get digested easily!"

Lacus had a barrier from around her body before diving in. After a bumpy few seconds Lacus saw her self in a wide area full of massive pink pillars in a purple like liquid surrounded by objects that vaguely looked like stars.

The Enji quickly noticed a shinning red light in the distance and saw a black rock in the distance. She also saw black vines heading for her but quickly repelled them with surges of holy energy.

She focused as hard as she could and picked up both Hiryuumon and Kirby's energy and flew faster to the source of the black mass. She saw the faces of both her dragon Digimon and popstar native friend poking out of the black mass and ran over before crying out,"Hiryuumon! Can you hear me?"

The rookie level Digimon stirred weakly before he saw the worried look on the woman's face before he moaned." Lacus…what are you doing here? Well, I don't know where we are really but I'm kind of sure you should not be here."

"Te he, that's the Hiryuumon I know. Maybe I should not be here but, since you're here I'm here to get you guys out. I don't know how this happened but, I'll break it just in time for lunch, sounds good?"

All the memories of his former life flashed back across the Digimon's face before he winced."Lacus, you don't understand. I, I belong here. I, I found out the truth of what I am."

"What? That's silly, we all know you were created back on Sonic's world to."

"No!" Hiryuumon yelled out angrily." I found out the secret to that, the secret the angels buried! I found out, I was a traitor to the boss before the boss! I mean, the truth is I'm some orphan called Daigo Zalde Hyōga that grew up with that Seiya guy. I, was the pilot to his ship.

I got jealous about being left behind and well a lot of things are still all messy but I know I sold out Seiya and Kisara, I'm the reason she got captured and became the Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Seiya killed me, and the angels made me become reincarnated into well, me, to make up for screwing up!"

Lacus saw Hiryuumon looking more distraught then he ever looked before she looked dismayed." What, what did they do to you Hiryuumon?"

Kirby suddenly moaned before he opened his eyes, "Its true Lacus, are memories are bound since we merged together! It's the truth, just like I'm really related to that nasty Dark Matter and I was a nasty monster named Void Termina that was eating everything till the Nova Comet and Star Rod's united power split me up! We, we are both monsters, we are as nasty as they get! We, belong here."

Lacus put her hands on her friend's heads to feel there memories, and winced as she felt a surge of bitter experiences flash through her head. After a few moments she sighed before smiley sadly at her friends." I admit, I might be missing a few things. Even so, even if theses memories are true, then you still don't belong just being like this! Unless I'm missing something, the sins both of you committed, were done in your past lives, in your past selves right?"

Hiryuumon widened his eyes as he looked confused." Well yah I mean I and Daigo are not the same guy in some ways, but in other ways he's still me Lacus! Or, my father, or, brother? Whatever he is to me, I have his memories now, and his feelings! I don't know how the whole thing works but I know I came from a bad guy and."

Lacus cut him off by putting her finger on his mouth." Your thinking about this to hard silly. Hiryuumon, I never took that sins of the father kind of stuff seriously. After all, if anyone is damned its me, but Ben and the angels think I'm more innocent then guilty, so I'll have faith in them.

For what it's worth, I still think the people you are now are innocent, and if you feel guilty, then don't you think fighting to make up for what wrong stuff happened is better then just giving up right?"

Hiryuumon and Kirby looked confused for a moment before the pink member of the Justice Force muttered,"That does make sense Lacus but, I don't know if,"

"Well I do." Lacus threw in confidently." And since I'm the squad leader here we are going with my idea got it?"

Hiryuumon saw the firmness in her eyes before he nodded." Heh, you're the boss Lacus."

"Glad your not jumbled enough to figure that out at least. Alright, time to break all of this, hang on!"

Lacus had her hands shimmer with holy energy as she grasped her two friends and tried to shatter there constraints. As she did they heard a demonic laugh." Naïve dolt, none of you can escape the sin of your Eternal Punishment! You can only atone, by becoming part of true greatness, by becoming part of me!"

The dark structure that Hiryuumon and Kirby were bound to convulsed, before the face of Dark-Knight mon appeared in front of Lacus. Hiryuumon widened his eyes before yelling out,"Hey, wait your that generic jerk I super deep-fried before all this started!"

"Indeed dolt, but my digital essence merged with the virus that had already infected you so I could hijack your body! I Digi-fused with your blob comrade but it was not enough, but your angelic friend took the bait and now she's mine!"

Lacus saw the hostile Digimon open his mouth as its tongue came right for her. Dark-Knight mon intended to swallow her but Lacus just had her eyes glow white, before her hair suddenly shot upwards and grasped the tongue.

Her enemy was shocked that the hair was powerful enough to grasp him before she glared at him." Your last mistake was thinking I was some easily devoured prey you freak! Trust me, worst monsters then you tried to control me…and they failed. And after what you put my friends through I'm not in the mood for mercy. Get ready guys, time to take your medicine! Heh, at least getting trashed around by that Kale girl gave me a idea."

Dark-Knight Mon realized quickly he might just have overestimated himself, but as he tried to close his mouth Lacus grasped his jaw with her feet and pulled with enough force to keep his mouth open.

Still holding her friends with her hands and her enemy's tongue bound by her hair, Lacus focused and fired a holy beam of energy right out of her chest. As she forced her target's jaw to open the holy energy beam went into the core of Dark-Knight mon, purging him from her friend's bodies.

Lacus pulled both Kirby and Hiryuumon out of the black structure just as it shattered and put a energy barrier around them and herself just as the fusion of the three individuals begun to collapse.

Back on the outside the others were worried that Lacus's idea had fallen flat. The fact that Shinryudramon was trying to vaporize everyone with a barrage of lasers after Lacus went inside him only made that thought worst. But just as the corrupted Digimon was about to try and devour Terra, Velvet, and the other Enji the dark aura around him shattered.

Everyone saw the mask on the humanoid digimon's face start to crack, before he screamed in pain. Light then exploded out of his stomach before it grew immense enough to blind everyone.

When Terra opened her eyes she saw that Lacus was on the ground, with Hiryuumon and Kirby besides her, causing the Enji Captain to blurt out,"Lacus! Your alright! Thank goodness it worked!"

Milla saw Kirby and Hiryuumon both looked weak but ok before she smiled."Lacus, it seems your ploy worked."

"Heh, she's been on a roll." Velvet muttered casually."Just hope her luck holds till this pain's all over. Still, she really does live up to being a ideal Shepherds, even more then that bland as hell Sorey."

Lacus coughed a bit before she grasped her chest."Heh, don't jinx me now, still got the big job ahead. Besides, not even sure I did this job right yet. Hiryuumon, Kirby, are you guys alright?"

The dragon Digimon stirred a bit before he moaned."I feel like someone eat me, but at least that weird feeling, which I guess was that jerk Dark Knight Mon is gone."

"I still have a tummy ache but at least I don't have a head ace anymore."

Lacus giggled before she hugged the two tightly." Don't worry, when this is over we will have a big meal where you guys can eat all you want till even your full. With how the food is here I think we can pull it off eh? Oh?"

The winged woman was shocked to see Hiryuumon still looked troubled as he looked sadly at his friend." To be honest Lacus, I don't think I'll feel better just by eating this time. I attacked you guys because that jerk was inside me, but I could not fight him off because I know those memories were true.

I, I was the traitor that messed things so much they erased me from history. And yah, maybe that guy was not who I am now, but I feel like the memories he felt are all hurting me worst then the worst stomachache I ever had."

"Hiryuumon…trust me what I say I know how much guilt can sting even when its not something you directly did. I, still feel bad for what happened to Allen, Max, and others that I blamed myself for. That's also why I know if you just think about it all the time it drives you crazy, and you don't want to go through the same kind of thing I did right?"

"Heh…the boss really did hate when you had your hair short and was all in black and all."

"Ah well, I thought dressing up like that would just make everyone stay away, did not really think that one through. Anyway, just focus on what you can do. After all, not like you guys killed Trunks and the others right? Er….what did happen to Trunks and the others on the Wave-Rider?"

Hiryuumon and Kirby gave each other's uneasy looks before the pink member of the Justice Force rubbed his head." Everything felt really dizzy when we were merged together. I, think I remember seeing something with golden hair though. Oh no, then I remember shooting something at him!"

As Hiryuumon gulped suddenly a male voice from above cut in with,"Don't worry about that, was a surprise but I bounced back from worst."

Lacus glanced up to see Trunks land down as he just arrived." Are you ok Trunks?" Lacus blurted out cautiously." Is everyone alright?"

"No worries, nothing we can't rebound from. Sorry I was late, I had to explain to Rip, Toriko and the others just how things got where they were but the Wave-Rider will be here shortly. What's…been going on around here? I see the fighting's over but I sense a lot of the same monstrous power levels in the distance so seems things did not go as planned?"

Lacus saw Ryūko, Mitsuru, and others glancing at the Super Saiyan cautiously before she pet Hiryuumon fondly as she shrugged." Not, quite. A lot of things happened and, well, a lot of surprise enemies came our way.

It was messy but, we are still here so could have gone worst. Seems like, something really traumatic happened since Hiryuumon and Kirby ended up here fused together and ranting about lost memories and past lives. I have to know, how much of that is true?"

The time patrol agent saw the various woman looking at him tensely before he sighed." To be honest, its true. Sorry, its not like we meant to hide this from you but its just, knowing the truth about how Hiryuumon was linked to Daigo would only add a uneasy burden to both Ben and Hiryuumon.

Sometimes, the truth does not set you free. We were hoping it would be buried, since he was sealed at the time even Zannacross did not know. But...clearly the Beyonder was able to see everything from both the light and darkness."

Lacus eyed her friends and just hugged them tightly." Well, sometimes, like how Brad found out the hard way, the truth comes out no matter how deeply its buried. We will talk about this later, but we still have a job to do."

"Of course. Seems like the depths to our enemies depravity are even deeper then, well more like its clear are enemies are just as depraved as the likes of Frieza, Cell, Zamasu and others. Just means we have to, huh? They are even more twisted then I figured, forgive me Lacus but, what happened to your clothes?"

Lacus blushed as she was quickly reminded of her nudity before covering her self with her wings." Oh um, that, well, er, things kind of got messy."

As the third woman of the Antitype Apostle bloodline hastily tried to explain her actions before Sarah cleared her throat."Seriously have to put Lacus on the spot after all she had to put up through today Trunks? The girl had to take some tough calls to get the job done, no need to put her on the spot for it."

Sarah looked at Lacus and winked before she glanced at the others, causing Magilou to smirk." Seriously now, way to kick a girl when she's down you jerk. The poor woman had to make a judgment call to bail her friends out of a jam and to top it off it's a jam that you allowed to happen!"

Hiryuumon blinked a few times before he winced." Oh no, did your clothes get eaten when you tried to save me Lacus? I'm so sorry, I did not mean to."

Lacus just giggled before she patted him on the head to cut him off." Don't worry about it, I was wearing a outfit I was not to fond of anyway. Just, do me a favor and don't mention it to anyone ok? Just, rather not get people sidetracked about things when we got reality to save and all right? Still, if you guys could give my uniform back I would really be grateful for that."

As Trunks quickly turned away Collette winded her eyes."Don't worry Lacus I still got your stuff packed up! Sorry, did not have much time before but here you, AH!"

Lacus saw her blond haired friend run over to her before she tripped on some rubble and could not help but laugh at her comrade's long time bad luck with tripping resurfacing before she got to her feet." Ah careful now, at this rate you might trip right into the next enemy waiting to ambush us or something."

"Maybe, but we will be able to handle whatever comes our way." Terra said calmly as she walked up." After all, you proved you become quite good at reacting quickly to whatever unfolds lately Lacus."

The brown haired woman swept some hair out of her eyes and walked over before in her tired state she tripped and she nearly fell into Terra. While she quickly caught her balance as Terra blushed at the sight she had another reminded that she was totally nude. In her head she replayed all the kneeling, bending and squirming she had done in the past hour.

She shook her head uneasily. "I must have been putting on quite a show," she whispered, and a blush spread across her cheeks." Terra, thanks for not overreacting. I, know my actions were not to " Proper" to most, and many would see them as outright insane, but I felt it was the right way to fight back, to rebel against what's expected of woman and all that stuff. Its just, I'm so sick of the double standards that woman have to abide by on so many worlds to this day, that there very chests are a sin to bear and something like that.

About a year ago, me and Ben had a free day so we relaxed on planet Ach-To, one of the worlds were the Jedi Knights was founded. After Ben did his research we had some fun with a little game of tag that involved nudity and running around the entire ocean. It was a fun day, and just as we were about to head back to the Tri-Edge we found out there were still some of the caretaker species that had lived their lives without being discovered.

They were surprised but friendly and even fed us. I guess, its just nice to not be judged by what your wearing or not wearing. I guess, part of me wanted to take a stand on a system that judges so many for superficial reasons. I know, its not something to wave away with a gesture but, since me and Ben are tackling the big problems anyway I wanted to test it out in a place that strangely, long as live through the day would have had less blow back. Well, it made sense at the time, maybe I'm just feeling so uptight that I was not thinking straight."

Terra put her hand on her friend's shoulder before she smiled,"Don't feel like you have to be ashamed of your actions Lacus. I admit I would not have done that, but I respect what your trying to do. You have a tremendous responsibility placed on you Lacus. You don't have to carry all that weight by yourself. If you need to reach out don't feel like you have to hide it. I'm sorry we were not there as much, but you have been alright with Ben the past few years?"

"Heh, don't worry, despite what it looks like I have not gotten that stir crazy. Trust me Ben and I have been dealing with everything together. Its just, I do admit at times I feel so worried that I'll screw up or, say or do the wrong thing to cause everything we worked on will collapse, that I will have failed."

"You worry that you will be punished for failing? Its ok, I seen your fear in your eyes. Lacus, don't feel like you have to be perfect or you will go to hell. Even for all the mistakes you made no decent person deserves to be punished like that and never forget that for all your mistakes, you are more then decent, your a great person Lacus.

Don't feel like you and Ben have to do this all yourself, even, if we can't go on this journey with you to the end we will be here to help you as long as we can. With so much to deal with, you will have a hard time making everyone happy.

Just, be yourself Lacus, and don't think you have to be anything you're not. You don't have to pretend to be a super woman Lacus, you are the person that can live up to your duty, just don't loose sight of your self. Heh, and take a vacation every so often so you don't get stressed out."

"Terra, thank you. Alright, I proved my point but I think now's the time to get ready for some extreme fighting."

Before Terra could respond suddenly a mocking laugher cut in,"Oh you have no idea angelic streakier how hard core things are going to get!"

Everyone was shocked before General Teddy appeared on one of the monitors on the Stadium that were still functioning. As everyone glared at him the teddy bear with a cigar in his mouth grinned widely." Miss me folks? That's right, I'm still here! Well things got so damn crazy that the ring itself broke! Still, the fans, and especially our sponsor demands a champion! So everyone that's still alive on this planet get ready, the Naturals Election P-1 Ultimax Climax is about to enter its true final stage! If you thought things were nasty before then get ready, its going to get so hardcore all the nativity is going to get smashed out of all you,"

Lacus just groaned before she hurled some rubble into the monitor to shut him up."These guys can try anyway they like to screw with us, but no matter what they try, I'm going to make it clear that won't be enough!. Heh, got my own pride as a woman to defend, well, on top of everything that there is. If nothing else, I'm going to show that rainbow haired ice queen that no matter how aggressive and domineering she gets she's not the type that wins in the end, not when it counts!"

As Terra and the others nodded they spotted that the Wave-Rider had at last caught up to them.

As the Enji prepared for the next phase of fighting, little did they realize the stakes were even higher then they realized. For not only had Ragyō escaped to go through with her own vile plans, but as everyone was busy Midora was ruthlessly charging through anything in his way to realize his own ends.

While the Megadeus 's did not stop, Midora's hunger was so great that he ripped through one obstacle after another, till at last he reached a new area in the depths of Mementos, bursting in to a massive chamber that had over hundreds of cells, that were all linked to a house sized golden colored goblet.

As the head of the Gourmet Corps looked around for enemies he noticed cables were attached to the top of the goblet before he raised a eyebrow." So this is it at last? This, is the Divine Ingredient, Acacia 's legacy?"

The Nitro that had followed Midora slithered into the chamber, and as PAIR glanced down he hissed out," Its changed a bit but this is it without a doubt, this is what we need, to complete the Neo Gourmet Eclipse!

"I admit, looks more like something god would drink from then a ingredient itself."

"Its shape has changed because of the mixture of worlds but even so, the scent is the same. Trust me, one could never forget the musk of the divine."

"If that's so then lets bring it back to "Farthest Kitchen" to complete my " Full Course" at last. I restrained my hunger long enough! Those naïve fools will know true pain yet."

"Yes…they will all see who's rage burns brightest yet Midora."

Midora glanced behind him to see Joie warping behind him before he rolled his eyes at the Black Swan." If your " checking in" Joie…I take it things are not going as planned on your end?"

"Oh, just that pests are being pesky, and the stench of there nativity was making me sick so I felt like having a refreshing smell of the truth. The new batch of contestants saw the truth and still are sticking to their idea that the chief ingredient of humanity is hope and friendship. They refuse to realize its fear and greed so, its about time to smash reality into them yes? Midora, you proved your will is the strongest of them all, so at last make things right so you can stand aside with Acacia as he realizes his ultimate goal!"

"Aside? But, Acacia is dead Joie, he's been dead for decades!"

Before Midora could inquire further a tremor shook the area, and then a demonic voice from the goblet roared out," More, FEED ME MORE! More despair... more screams... MORE SAVORINESS!"

Joie saw Midora's shock and just giggled darkly. "Heh…Midora, its time you see the truth, so you can stand alongside the most powerful appetite in history, and not be swallowed it! So come now help the Nitro bring back the final ingredient, for its time to at last cook the ultimate meal!"

Authors Notes: Welp, hope this was not to confusing a chapter, lets see, first up, as you might have thought the Velvet Room and all of its cooky inhabitants are from the Persona series. Obviously the link between the Velvet Room and C's World from the Code Geass series is not cannon but, to me since they are both linked to the collective unconscious it seems reasonable that they could have things in common. In the Persona games the Wild card was what every main character from Persona 3 and on got to get well," Main character powers" lol. The Universe Arcana is also from Persona three, it allowed the main lead" Minato" to unlock his ultimate power.

It seemed fitting enough a object for Lacus to get to " evolve" her powers.

The new form of Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon is from the recent Yu Gi Oh Dark Door of dimensions, did not think I was going to leave that out eh? Lol, hopefully it won't feel like Lacus is relapsing but taking charge of her past.

I know it seemed quick for Shinryudramon to be back to normal after just setting up his outburst but I'm going more for persona growth with this then a vengeful heel-turn with this and trust me, there will be enough bitter personal drama soon enough so, hope everyone was ok with how it came out.

Hope everyone liked what they saw enough for some reviews and till next time see you next time where there will be more then a few helpings of brutal showdowns in Chapter 231: Sullen Grace of Imitation Gold!