Notes before I start:

-First fight scene I write.

"GUYS!"

"Akira, it's 7 in the morning, and you haven't even drank your coffee yet. Stop screaming." Minato hissed.

"Sorry, but guys. The Navi App is back!"

"... the what?" Asked Yu, who was visibly tired.

"The Navigation App is back! Which mean I'll be able to go back to the Metaverse!"

"... You know you can just jump into a TV, right?"

"God, Yu, I hate you and your perfect, simple life." Simply stated Akira as he went to make himself a coffee.

"Hey guys." Greeted Kotone as she entered the room.

"Hey Kotone." Answered Minato.

"Hi, Shiomi-San. How are you?" Asked Yu, putting on his best smile as Akira finished making himself a cup of coffee.

"Not too bad. I woke up an hour ago, to be honest, but didn't want to get up. So I just played on my phone a little bit." She emphasized her point by showing her phone.

"... Do you have any problem sleeping?" Asked Yu, suddenly worried for the fourth Wild Card.

"Yeah. Nightmares about what happened back in high school, and all." Kotone explained. "Can I have some cereals?"

"Sure!" Akira said as he handed her the cereal box just as the coffee machine started beeping. He took his cup, and proceeded to start sipping it, not in any real hurry, seeing as his classes started two hours later. "So, Yu. How is the TV World like?"

"Well, it kinds of looks like a studio blanketed by fog, or at least was blanketed by fog. There's TVs a little everywhere, and entrances to dungeons, which takes different shapes, like a castle or a bathhouse. That's where the shadows of people thrown in the Midnight Chanel appear. All in all, not very impressive at first glance, and from what I heard, the Shadows there aren't really aggressive anymore. I think. Teddie also told me it goes from Inaba to Tokyo."

"Uh, doesn't really sound like Mementos. Before you ask, it's a maze that's basically a twisted labyrinth which looks like a subway. The shadows of bad people that aren't twisted enough to have their own Palace live there, plus some rogue shadow I can negotiate with. The deeper you go in, the more it looks creepy, and the depth is just a giant prison. Also, destroying Mementos is the only way I know to get rid of Yaldaboath, so yeah. It's only around Tokyo, though."

"Neither of those sounds like Tartarus." Kotone offhandedly said as she munched on her cereal.

"... Tartarus?" Asked Yu.

"Death tower that rise at Midnight." simply said Minato.

"Thank you, Minato, for being as unhelpful as possible."

"Well, to be fair Akira, Yaldabaoth and Izanami are our problem, not theirs." Yu answered with a matter-of-fact tone.

"Now, now. I choose to help you because Minato wanted help helping you. We aren't going anywhere." Kotone reminded.

The only response of Yu and Akira was to aww at Minato, Akira feeling the need to add a "you do care about us" in a fake touched tone. Minato's answer was to tell them to shut up, and the breakfast went on with them changing the subject, like asking Kotone how's life at Iwatodai and talking about college, Akira promising them to show them Mementos after classes.

"Alright, so..." The world around them started distorting, colors mixing in black and red before stabilizing, and the world seemed as normal as when Akira used the App. Besides...

"Where is everyone?" Asked Minato, looking around.

"Why is the lighting crappy?" Asked Kotone, looking up.

"Why does it feel like we're walking on air?" Asked Yu, stepping in place as he looked at Akira. "Akira, answer us."

"One: It's Joker here."

"Oh shit you're right it feels weird here." Minato stated.

"Two: It's what happen when you enter Mementos or a Palace: Everything change to fit the fact that this is universe is powered by distorted desires."

"You're sure? It just looks like a subway to me."

"Three: Kotone, I said earlier this place was located in Tokyo's subway."

"Don't sass us, young man."

"WE HAVE THE SAME AGE, YU, YOU'RE JUST AN OLD MAN!"

"Joker, calm down. We need to keep a low profile, or the shadows are going to catch us." A fifth, unknown voice to the three others chided.

"Oh, didn't see you here, Mona." Joker stated as he looked down.

"... what the fuck" muttered Minato as his gaze landed on the frowning, cat-like creature at Akira's feet.

"Oh my god it's so cuuute!" Squeeled Kotone as she got down to it's eye level, trying to scratch it behind it's ears.

"Hey! Stop that! I'm not a cat!" Complained the small creature.

"Indeed, my dear Kotone: Morgana is the manifestation of humanity's hope, kept alive by the sheer power of me and my friend's denial over his disappearance. Apparently, it also worked with Mementos in the long run, as much as I'm concerned."

"Your bullshit is exactly why Lady Ann wanted to be kept out of this." Chided Morgana at Akira, as Yu stared at him wide-eyed.

"Hold on, that's Morgana?!" The silverhead exclaimed, pointing at the small creature.

"... Yes."

The next sounds that were out of Yu's mouth could said to be between a baby seal's honking and a dying whale's wailing as he sank to the ground, intent on trying to hold Morgana. After some resistance, Morgana finally leaped in Yu's arms, purring as the silverhead scratched him behind his ears. Akira simply looked at the scene, unimpressed.

"So much for you not being a cat, you goddamn cat."

"... Are we going to head down, or?..." Kotone asked.

"Oh yeah, follow me!"

Once they were at Mementos entrance, the three looked around, and...

"Akira why do you look like a discount batman."

"It's my Phantom Thief outfit, and the name is Joker, Minato."

"No. You're discount batman now." The bluenette reaffirmed, both Yu and Kotone trying (and failling) to stifle their laughing.

"Yeah, like you're any better, you're dressed with a torn blanket and your face is covered in bandages, you fucking edge lord." Joker retorted, putting his hands on his hips.

"No I'm not- WHAT THE FUCK?!" He exclaimed as he looked down on himself.

Indeed, his shoulders were wrapped in a torn, hooded black cape that reached his mid-tight, which was held together at the shoulders by a bunch of belts. It was impossible to see what kind of shirt he was wearing under, but he seemed to be wearing black, tight pants and boots with buckles, the sheath of his sword hanging out of the hem of the torn fabric. The cape was torn enough for his arms to show, and he seemed to be wearing long, black leather gloves. His mask wasn't exactly a mask, but white bandages messily wrapped around his eyes, letting the one not already blinded by his bangs show. Said bangs weren't wrapped by the bandage. Chains trailed after him.

"Edge lord." Simply repeated Akira as Minato started complaining about looking like the Reaper's little brother. While Kotone started joking about Minato's current outfit, Yu looked down on himself, surprised to notice his outfit, too, had changed.

He now wore an long, open, black trench coat with a large collar on his shoulders, the arms out of the sleeves (it was probably holding on because of the golden chain that linked one side of his coat to the other) and his shirt was a white turtleneck. His pants were black, too, and his boots were white and red with gold decoration. He also wore a red belt with a gold buckle. He patted his face, and he noticed his mask had a jagged edge and was made out of metal, and that his hair were in a high ponytail instead of the usual low one he wore, tied with the aid of a white ribbon that was connected to the sides of his mask. He afterward looked down on his gloved hands, noticing his gloves were a golden color. His katana's sheath was clipped to his belt.

"Calm down, Minato. You're not the only one who's clothes changed." The silverhead said.

"Maybe, but you look like some kind of prince delinquent, Akira looks super extra but he pulls it off, and Kotone is rocking the magic-princess-bard look. I look like the Reaper had a lovechild with an emo!" The bluenette retorted, putting his hands on his hips.

"Wait, I do?" She said, suddenly noticing how her clothes changed from her knee-length red dress to a shorter, yellow one that reached her mid-tights. Said dress was coupled with a open, white, hooded collar vest that reached her mid-waist and a red tie held together by a pin in the shape of a treble clef. She also had high, white heeled boots and matching long gloves. She carried her naginata over her shoulders, the blade wrapped in a red tissue.

Unlike Minato, she took the change of clothes extremely well. "Check me out! Quick!" She grasped Minato's shoulders. "What does my mask look like?"

"... A gold carnival mask with red decorations that look like stylized music partitions." Simply said Minato.

"I LOVE IT!"

Joker simply giggled at the others reactions to their outfit. "So, I'll take it's fine for the three of you?"

"Yes! I look awesome!"

"It's fine, but I feel it's going to be complicated moving around with that coat."

"No. I don't like it."

"Glad to see you like them!" Joker declared, ignoring Minato's protest. "However, we need one, last thing: your code names!"

"Why do we need cod-"

"I'm Muse now!" Declared Kotone, cutting Yu's sentence.

"Ugh... Grim, I guess?" Groaned Minato, kicking the ground.

"Alright, so you're Muse, and you're Grim." Said Morgana, who was sitting on Yu's shoulders, as he pointed to the two. The humanoid cat then turned to the silverhead. "And you? What's your code name?"

"Uh, actually? I was wondering why we needed code names?"

"We don't know what will happen if we say our real name in the Metaverse, since we use it to steal hearts." Simply explained Morgana.

"Oh." Yu simply answered, before thinking for a moment. "How does Kingpin sounds?"

"It's perfect! I'm Mona, by the way. And he" Morgana pointed to Akira "is Joker."

The leader of the Phantom Thieves grinned at the other Wild Cards, who all inched away from the suddenly predatory look he was giving them. "And this" he gestured to the entrance of the tunnels "is Mementos. Welcome to Jerks-Land, bitches."

"Wow. 'Jerks-Land' sure is disappointing."

"SHUT UP, GRIM!" Joker yelled, turning his attention away from the wheel for a moment.

"What? He's right!" Muse complained, throwing her arms in the air.

"Indeed, all we've met until now are a bunch of Slimes." Kingpin continued. "We didn't even have to summon our Personas."

"What are we even searching for?" Grim continued. "You just told us you wanted to show us how the Phantom Thieves operated."

"And I'm going to show you. MONA!"

"Yes?" The three other Wild Cards jumped at the voice that apparently . They had forgotten for a moment that the goddamn cat was also their mean of transportation. To be honest, they all complained for a good while that the Phantom Thieves had a mean of transportation while they were stuck walking. Things hadn't gotten better when they found out that the only monsters there were apparently Slimes. Never mind that they only have been there for 5 minutes right now.

"Do you sense our target?" Joker asked.

"Uh uh, turn to the left."

"You're sure?"

"Yes!" Indeed, there was now a swirling red portal in front of them, the rails twisting into it.

"Alright, novices. Y'all ready?"

"Yes!" Muse exclaimed.

"I think?" Kingpin answered.

"We're not novices." Grim grumbled.

"HERE WE GOOOOO!" Joker yelled as he slammed into the gas pedal, ignoring Kingpin's pleads to slow down a little. The bus landed in a smaller space, were a tall figure was standing at the other end.

"Mona, stay behind. Alright, team." Started Joker, pointing at the figure at the other end. "That's our target. I told the other Phantom Thieves I'd take care of this one so they have more time to prepare."

"What's their name?" Asked Muse.

"Yokoyama Yukio. Female. She's a hair and makeup stylist. Someone went on the site to complain about her attitude, but after some digging from Yuuki's, it turns out she's widely disliked in the domain due to her being ruthless with competition, doing what she can for their reputation to be ruined by spreading rumors and just being plain rude with them in general. Her neighbor hear a lot of yelling when she's in her apartment. She hasn't actually committed any crimes yet, but it's highly probable she will if we don't steal her heart now." Joker explained.

"Alright, let's do this." Kingpin declared as he jumped out of the bus, followed shortly after by Grim and Muse. Joker joined them shortly after, and led the way to Yokoyama.

"Why are you all here!?" Yokoyama's shadow bellowed accusingly, suddenly holding her arms up to her chest, her black hair falling across her shadowed face. "I never did anything wrong! I'm just making sure no one gets in my way while I do my things! What's wrong with that?!"

"By 'no one gets in my way', you really mean 'destroying any kind of career they would have', Yokoyama." Kingpin explained. "We can't let you do that."

"Yeah, right!" Sneered the shadow. "If you think you're better than me, why don't you prove it?" She was then covered in darkness for a split second, before emerging as a tattooed woman with a snake curling around her.

"All right, novices-"

"WE'RE NOT FUCKING NOVICES" Grim screamed, cutting their current's leader mid-sentence

"-in position!" Joker ordered. As Kingpin went to his right, Grim and Muse both went to Joker's left, Grim closer to him than Muse, the four Wild Cards unsheathing their weapons. Yokoyama's shadow started by casting a spell on Joker, lowering his defense. The leader simply cursed under his breath, before nodding at Muse. She only patted her tight a moment, before...

"Uh, leader?"

"Yes, Muse?"

"How do I summon my Persona?"

Joker chuckled. "Take your mask off."

"Wait that's it- what the fu- it's not comING OFF-"

"You'll be alright?" Asked Kingpin.

"Yeah, it's just stuck to my face-"

"What do you mean, it's stuck?" Grim asked, exasperated as he threw his arms in the air.

"I mean it's STUCK-"

"You people aren't even bothered enough to learn how to summon your best way to fight." Snarked Yokoyama's shadow, crossing her tattooed arms.

"SHUT UP, YOKOYAMA!" Yelled Joker as Muse continued to tug on her mask, before turning to his struggling. "Tug it harder. Like you want to rip it off."

"Alright, I'll try- AAAAAAAAH!" The mask finally went off with a fountain of blood pouring from Muse's face as she screamed in pain, the mask falling the the ground as she clutched her face, trying to assert what damage had been down. Her whimpers soon turned into manic giggles, as the blood on her face burned up into blue flames with her mask, joining up in the air until a feminine silhouette stepped out of the flames, her eyes glimmering the same blue shade and illuminating her pale face. Long, platinum and wild hair. A white scarf. A mechanical golden body, draped in a long red cloth. A huge, heart-shaped harp rested on her back. Muse raised her head to the creature, who made some kind of happy noise at seeing her.

"Hey, Euterpe." Greeted Muse, patting the creature's leg. She was wearing a strange, serene expression on her face. "Sadly, I can talk right now, and I need you to cast a good spell. How does a fire one sound?" The mechanical creature nodded, before getting her harp out and playing a soft tune. Immediately, the shadow was momentarily covered in orange and red flames. Yokoyama flinched, and the four could tell damage had been done, before Euterpe returned to the state of Muse's mask.

"... What the FUCK-" Screamed Grim once he recovered from seeing his friend essentially rip her face off.

"Aki-Joker," Kingpin started, recovering from the shock of seeing so much blood, "what was that."

"She summoned her Persona." Simply stated their current leader. At the bewildered face of his roommates, Akira suddenly became aware of being stared into as if he just had committed some kind of atrocity. "What?"

"She essentially ripped her face off, dude!" Screamed Grim. "That's even more brutal than Evokers!"

"... What's an Evoker?" Asked Kingpin, suddenly worried about another, brutal way to summon a Persona, deciding to ignore the exasperated shadow, who was currently tapping her foot on her ground and was staring at them, unimpressed.

"Essentially, a gun-like device that you use to shoot yourself in the head." Blankly answered Muse, who was taking longer to recover from the shock of ripping her face off, her eerie calm gone.

"... How is that less brutal than ripping your face off?!" Wheezed out Kingpin, on the verge of snapping (and thus, swearing.)

"Ahem." The four turned toward Yokoyama's shadow, who was staring at them, exasperated. "I thought we were fighting?"

"Of course, excuse us." Stated Kingpin as he put his hands to his mask, intend on ripping it off. He bit the inside of his lips when he succeeded in drawing a little blood from his, reaching for the white ribbon tying his hair up to make taking it off easier, letting the silver strands fall on his back. He actually tasted blood when he finally ripped the metal mask off, temporarily seeing blood on the ground before his vision was engulfed in blue. When he could see again, he raised his head, and saw a large figure was standing behind him, his yellow eyes glowing. Upon recognizing the metal mask and black, grey and red coat, Kingpin let a psychotic grin show on his face.

"Hey, Izanagi." The Persona did not acknowledge him, but he didn't need to. I am thou, thou art I, after all. Kingpin then pointed at Yokoyama's shadow, who took a step backward at the massive creature than easily dwarfed everything in the room, including the other Persona from earlier. "Cleave her." he ordered. The Persona immediately jumped at the Shadow, naginata raised above his head before he stabbed the Shadow in her abdomen, black blood splattering everywhere behind her. The Persona quickly faded after that.

The shadow growled, and eyed Joker menacingly, before muttering "Bufudyne". Immediately, tree-like structures made out of ice started curling around the four Wildcards, before fracturing. Both Kingpin and Muse were harmed by the shards of ice slashing them deeply, but Grim was lucky enough to dodge. As for Joker, with his defense lowered and weakness to Ice, was knocked down, severely armed. Yokoyama face then twisted into a manic grin, raising the hand that wasn't caressing her snake and pronouncing "Mudoon". Joker flinched at seeing the hay doll in front of him being punctured, being releasing his breath when he saw he was left unharmed.

It was now Grim's turn. He eyed Joker, who was still on the ground, and Kingpin and Muse, who were gravely harmed by Yokoyama's Ice spell. He tugged on the bandages on his face, intent on taking them off. Once he succeeded in ripping them off, letting an agonized screech out in the process, the now bloodied bandages burned up, and manifested as a smaller creature than Izanagi and Euterpe.

He looked somewhat like Euterpe, the robotic body being extremely similar to hers and had the same scarf but in a shade of red, but his hair were a lot shorter and pure white, reminiscent of his contract's haircut, and the metal composing his face was a dark color. He also didn't wear any clothes, his blue torso letting a small furnace show. Instead of an harp, it was a lyre he carried on his back.

"Orpheus." The now grinning Grim called, staring at the Shadow. Without breaking eye contact with her as the burning red eyes of his Persona landed on him, Grim pointed to his three teammates. "Cadenza." Orpheus simply nodded, and got his lyre off his back to play an energetic tune. Immediately, Kingpin's and Muse's conditions visibly improved, just as Joker was able to get back on his feet.

"Alright," Joker started as he put up a hand to his mask. "Iiiiit's SHOW TIME!" He then took off the mask effortlessly, letting blood and flames spray everywhere before a winged figure appeared behind him. The figure wore a top hat, a red vest and tall heeled boots, the blade serving as heels being actually much longer than the feet itself. The horned mask had a face etched on it burned into a predatory grin.

"Arsene!" The horned figure bowed mockingly to the shadow. "Eigaon!" The Persona kneeled behind his user, putting his hands to the ground. Immediately, streams of darkness poured out of his fingers, snaking toward the shadow, before enveloping her. Immediately, Yokoyama was knocked to the ground.

"THIS" Screamed Joker as he ran to the Shadow, drawing his gun, followed shortly after by Grim, Kingpin and Muse, "IS A HOLD UP!" He then pointed his handgun to the Shadow who simply stared. He didn't realize the three other had also drew their gun (sniper rifle for Kingpin, flame-thrower for Grim and... fireworks?... for Muse) when the only girl in their group talked, a manic grin on her face.

"Any last words?" She asked. The shadow simply stared at her, frowning.

"Too bad." Simply said Joker. "You three!" His current teammates turned his eyes at him. "All. Out. Attack."

It was instantaneous. The four then back flipped before jumping in the air, drawing their weapons.

Yokoyama didn't stand a chance.

Forced to go back to her original form, she simply whimpered on the ground as the four landed, Joker adjusting his gloves with a cocky smile.

"The show's over."

...

"Holy fucking shit" Breathed out Grim, sitting on the ground, sword in hand. "this was fucking hardcore."

"Still believe 'Jerks-Land' is disappointing, Grim?"

"Bitch, I was talking about summoning Orpheus and the All-Out Attack, not the fight."

"Indeed, you'd expect a Lilith to put up more of a fight." Kingpin confirmed, using his katana as a support.

"In short, it's kind of a disappointment. The battle didn't even last two turns!" Whined Muse, who was lying on the ground.

"YOU FUCKS HAVE OTHER COMPLAINS?!" Joker suddenly screamed, stomping on the ground.

"The way you summon your Persona probably explains a good part of your issues." Simply said Kingpin, properly standing up.

"Eat shit, Kingpin."

"No thanks."

"What are you going to do to me?"

Oh. Right. Yokoyama's shadow. Joker turned toward her, accessing the situation. She was rolled in a ball on the ground, hands on her head an crying softly. Joker walked over to here and kneeled down before her. She flinched away from him.

"Hey, it's alright." Said Joker as he raised his hand before him. "Just... go back to your reality self and... tell her to calm down. You'll get more success with a better attitude."

"But what about the ones who are constantly mocking me because of..." The shadow didn't say anything. Just gestured to he body.

"Ignore them. If you gain a good attitude, combined with your skills, it's all that's going to matter." Joker said. "If you ask me, rumors mean jack shit." He then thought for a moment. "Also, try to stop screaming when you're in your apartment. If it's because of some kind of abusive boyfriend or family or some shit, just move out."

"...Alright, I'll try." The shadow said with a sad smile on her face before fading in golden light, leaving behind a small, blue light, which Joker took a hold of. The light then morphed into a pair of glistening scissors.

"Done!" He cheerfully said as he turned toward the three others, who simply stared at him.

"... You almost died for a pair of scissors?!" Grim complained.

"Shut up and go back to the bus." Ordered Joker as he walked toward said bus.

"Or what?" Asked the cloaked one.

"The Reaper will show up-"

"SO WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?!" Both Grim and Muse screamed from the bus, having seemingly teleported there.

"... Nothing, really." Said Joker, continuing his way to his shape shifted teammate, followed closely by Kingpin. They entered the bus, and drived away to the real word, all with a strangely satisfied expression on their face.

It was good to be back in action.