Akihiko was buzzing with excitement, and trying hard to keep it down. This wasn't how he was planning to spend any of his school nights, but a counterattack against Strega and against the man that killed Shinjiro? Count him in.

It was dark at night, and the moon's smile was only slight and shedding only a minimal amount of glow on the fortress that Strega had managed to build up. No doubt it was because of the funds that had been sent to them through the assassination requests. That was probably why they had been becoming so well known throughout the Port Island and Iwatodai community; they had the money to project more attention both offline and online to their organisation.

Minato breathed in and out slowly. Nyx had expressed her concerns about them going in alone, saying things about the fact that they—No. He had been leaving her out to keep her away from danger. That afternoon had been an interesting ordeal to say the least.

But now he had to concentrate. There had been enough excitement from earlier when someone had apparently forgotten to fill someone in on the memo that you weren't supposed to take trips with Kanashi on his motorcycle unless you were just that crazy and you really wanted the Fall to come down on everyone.

Oh Junpei, how could he be so haphazard?

Minato remembered vividly the scene of Junpei riding in on the back of Kanashi's motorcycle, yelling his head off until Kanashi stopped the engine. It was a pitiful sight, really. But it wasn't going to be Minato's fault for not sharing that information with him. He truly had taken the time to warn the people in SEES or otherwise not to go on trips with Kanashi and his bike.

Yashiro looked keenly around the tower, looking out and being wary for any traps that could be set. Considering what Minato and Kanashi had gathered and managed to relay to everyone, it seemed that perhaps the outside wasn't as guarded as it could be. Out of arrogance or ignorance, he did not know, but it was still a blessing on their parts. It would be much easier to sneak in. Well, as full of blessings as a blessing could be. He wasn't a particular optimist at all. "Think we can try and make a run for it? People have stopped going in and out again," Yashiro asked.

Minato gazed on the entrance and on the camera that he had spied earlier, and nodded to himself. Now would be a good time to move. "Alright. And Junpei, please don't make any sounds before I force you to go with Kanashi again," Minato sighed as he started moving towards the back door that they had taken note of earlier.

Junpei winced and nodded vigorously and shuffled along with the rest. Kanashi expressed his dislike for Minato's jab at his driving once again with mutterings of curses and no minimal amount of glaring. "Shut up emo," he mumbled.

Minato shook his head and ignored Kanashi's words before concentrating on the sea of his soul. "Bufu," he muttered as frost began to encrust the camera firmly into place.

"How're you on your SP?" Akihiko asked.

"I'm good," Minato sighed. "I've got a lot of it, remember?" he smiled slightly at his senior.

"Aigis, it's your cue," Akihiko said to the android that had been following along with their operations close behind.

It was going to be an interesting operation, Aigis mused. Although, it was not one that she had been particularly keen on participating in, she thought that it would be better overall to have the problem over and done with as soon as possible. "Understood," she nodded before approaching the door.

With Junpei's help Minato had managed to disable all of the security cameras with some low tier spells, although Kanashi and Yashiro were still amazed that they could do something like that with their Persona powers. They had been told to keep those Evokers of theirs close in case they ever needed to summon under pressure.

For Kanashi, it had been frustrating. He wanted to be able to do something with his Persona too, but he couldn't summon, no matter what he did. Yashiro had stayed calm and was patient enough to try and wait for an opportunity where he could use it, though he had his own curiosity about what his Persona could do at all. The only thing that he knew was that it could make him faster.

The rattling of Gatling guns shook the once tension laid air, and tore open several holes in the back door's metal. Aigis de-activated her guns and kicked down what was left of the door, leaving the way open for everyone to go through.

"Epic job Aigis-chan," Junpei grinned.

Kanashi blinked once or twice at Aigis. Did she just use guns? Real life huge fucking guns with shells and everything? Whoa. Just what the hell? So this was what Minato meant by using force? And here Kanashi had been thinking that they'd just have to ram the door down or something.

"I wouldn't expect we're out of the woods yet," Minato said to himself, finding a fluttering in his gut. Trusting your instincts when you had nothing else was something that he was used to with fighting Shadows. Right on cue…

"VWOOOP- VWOOOP!"

The alarms sounded.

"I thought so! We better start running guys, find where we need to go to destroy the weak points in the base, find the assassins, at least incapacitate them all, and kill that goddamned Takaya, and destroy the building," Minato listed all of the things that they needed to do in successive order, the experience of a battle hardened man taking over his usually calm demeanour, and replacing it with someone who had seen things that he didn't need to, and things that he didn't want to. The charisma of a brawl-scarred leader.

That familiar tone brought the earliest members of SEES to attention and geared up for whatever was coming. "Roger that Minato," Akihiko smirked.

"You got it!" Junpei nodded with his trademark grin.

"I'm sure we can do this," Aigis agreed with absolute confidence in Minato.

"Kanashi, Yashiro. Are you guys ready? Follow along with Aigis, Akihiko or me if you need help of what to do next. These communicators aren't just for show after all," Minato grinned as he plugged his earpiece in and started climbing up the metal stairs that led from the entrance. "Follow me for now. I'll go first so that you guys won't get too banged up too early on. You need healing, go to me or Aigis. First order of business would be to find where everything's being controlled."

"Aigis, Kanashi, pair up. Akihiko, Yashiro, you guys split up as well. I'll take Junpei with me, so be careful," Minato nodded as he fully ignored the sound of the alarm that had been going off. Everyone equipped their earpieces and they split off into the dark, metal corridors.

"Junpei, it'll just be like old times, huh?" Minato smiled slightly as he unsheathed his most powerful sword, Lucifer's Blade.

"You got that right Minato!" the capped teen grinned as he dragged Masakado's katana behind him as they ran and checked the corridors.

…

"How are we doing this?" Kanashi asked, frustrated. There are so many goddamned places we could go through, not to mention this alarm is kinda freaking me out a bit…"

"Kanashi-san, do not worry. We can get the most done due to my memory banks. It is quickly devising a mini map so that we can navigate through the corridors safely and efficiently," Aigis explained. "And also… I'm one of the strongest Persona users in SEES, besides Minato, who is the strongest of us all. I do not think we have too much cause to fret," she said, a small amount of confidence seeping into her voice.

Kanashi looked at her sceptically before he grinned. "Well, we'll just see how we do then, won't we?"

After a while of nothing but enemies, they finally struck their luck.

"Indeed," Aigis nodded. "This is our fourth room. I detect something inside, so be on guard," she advised to Kanashi.

"Well, I'm not looking forward to getting punched with bullets so okay," Kanashi sighed. He was angry that he couldn't do much more than bat away those little hoods, but he didn't have a Persona. There was only so much that he could do before he got seriously hurt.

"I'll go first then," Aigis said, readying her Persona, Pallas Athena. "And if there are people, we must only incapacitate. Only… kill unless absolutely necessary," she warned.

Kanashi gulped. First thing, he could do, but kill? He'd never done that before and he hoped that he would never have to.

She kicked open the LOCKED metal doors and found a meeting between several Nyxist cult members and a monitor behind. "Pallas Athena!" Aigis shouted. "Akasha Arts!"

Within a flash of blue light, her Persona appeared. Kanashi looked upon the Greek Goddess incarnated before him in awe, finding no words to describe what was happening before him. That was a Persona!?

A few seconds, and most of the cultists had been knocked out cold. "Kanashi, I need some time to recover! Can you take care of the rest? I'll look at what I can on the monitor while you do," Aigis asked.

"My pleasure!" he grinned before bashing his elbow straight into one cultist's gut.

Kanashi was used to brawling and those guys that were trying to attack him weren't experienced in that kind of stuff at all. He was easily keeping them busy and knocking them out.

Aigis was able to pass through to the monitor to see what she could find unhindered, and she looked.

…

"This is an interesting opportunity…"

…

"Yashiro, so how does it feel, storming down this place, bashing punks, doing all that?" Akihiko smirked as he smashed his fist into the hordes of enemies.

"I'd say it's pretty epic senpai, although this alarm is really annoying and a bit off-putting," Yashiro replied, ramming his shoulder into another hood.

"Hey, that guy looks kinda familiar, doesn't he?" Akihiko noticed, pointing out the extravagantly dressed hood-wearer. From out of the darkness, Yashiro was able to spot a glint of green from the hood, and he recognised it. That was Kanashi's assassin!

…

"So far, nothing, huh?" Junpei noted as his Persona, Trismegistus disappeared in a plume of blue mist.

"Yeah. So far. But I feel like we're getting closer to something," Minato said, looking around the corridors and finding a set of stairs. They had been running and running up the tower as if they were back in Tartarus and kicking ass like the two of them had but unluckily for them, nothing noteworthy had really come up.

But Minato trusted his instincts, and up those stairs, he could feel someone's presence. The presence of someone all too familiar. Someone who just wouldn't die!

"Junpei, are your awesome senses tingling?" Minato asked with a slight chuckle.

"Sure are!" the capped teen replied.

"Alright then, let's go and confront the boss," Minato said.

With that, Junpei and Minato rushed up the last flight of stairs and there he met another hooded figure, but an all too familiar voice. "So, you have come messiah," he said coolly.

"Yeah, all over your face," Minato joked, for once making an off colour joke that no-one would have expected. Well, Junpei laughed anyways since he got it. "Just shut up Takaya and let me loose my blade on your army. Not to mention my Personas are itching to be used. So, cut the theatrics and get this shit on!" he snarled, his anger as he remembered how helpless he was when Shinjiro was killed and when Takeharu was killed coming back and fuelling his hate-filled words.

Takaya clicked his tongue with irritation before saying, "Then you have sealed your fate."

"That's what every villain says, but I'm still alive," Minato smirked. "Also, I mean like, why a tower Takaya? Why not a warehouse?"

"Hey, that sounds like a great idea man! My awesome senses are tingling again!" Junpei chuckled, finally bursting with laughter as his cheer from Minato's trash-talking came forth.

"Yeah a 250ft tall warehouse. Sounds good and about to get trashed, just like your sorry ass!" Minato grinned. He was just having too much fun teasing the wannabe messiah in front of him.

…

Yashiro's eyes widened as the hooded figure disappeared into the darkness. "Damn, he's gone," he mumbled.

"That's weird, I saw him too," Akihiko said.

"Wait," Yashiro warned as he felt something overpowering bringing something to the surface of his mind that he had kept down for the longest time. He turned around slowly, never taking his mind off of the prickling sensation that he felt and the cold sweat that was trickling inch by inch down his face.

And then he felt something thin and cold against his arm.

All on instinct, Yashiro lashed out with his legs for once, the kick smashing into something, that he didn't know. "Who are you!?" he yelled, Akihiko also being brought to attention. Also, Yashiro used his legs? Wasn't he a boxer like him?

"Your worst nightmare."

Yashiro's breath died in his throat. He felt something, rising beneath him. And it… it gave him… fury. Futility filled his mind, pushing in, and pushing out his courage; leaving only the anger to gush in from something that he had never wanted to relive.

"No," Yashiro mumbled.

"I'm your worst nightmare," he growled as he jumped lightly on his feet before rushing after the shadow in the darkness.

"Caesar!" Akihiko shouted and a blue flash of light came to back Yashiro up. "Rakunda!" he muttered, a violet pall falling over the figure, but not revealing his identity.

"You're done," Yashiro snarled as he felt a wind brush over him and give lightness to his body that he hadn't felt since the party crash. Auto-Sukukaja and he was off dodging.

…

Kanashi sneezed. He felt like he was being mentioned somehow, but he didn't know why. Anyways… "You done yet Aigis?" he whined.

"Nearly. If we've split up far enough however, I think that all of us should be doing something worthwhile, so try not to fret too much," Aigis reassured. "And the last thing…"

She pressed a number of keys before the funding of the building finally caught her eye, along with plans of attacks and all sorts of things that were going to happen to SEES in the future. They must've thought that since the doors would be locked tight, no-one would be able to get into that information. Ah, but Aigis was an android. Of course they wouldn't think of a robot-proof door if they were trying to keep that information safe.

"I think we have what we need. I have memorised it and committed it to memory, now to destroy the monitor," Aigis instructed. "Would you like to help me?" she asked.

"Hell to the yes, just let me get a chair," Kanashi grinned.

"Alright then," Aigis said as she activated her finger-guns.

Kanashi roared as he took one of the chairs that was being used in the meeting place and swung it at the monitor's screen, shattering it and leaving a hole in it.

"Well, that's one way," Aigis nodded to herself before shooting the remainders of the monitor and the operating system into unrecognisable heaps of metal and glass.

"Whoa," Kanashi blinked.

"Let us go, we must find our ways to the basement. We can cause massive damage apparently since there is a power reactor there that runs the electricity for the lights and everything electronic in the building," Aigis explained.

…

Yashiro desperately tried to land a punch on the figure in the darkness, though if he did know better, he would've known that the figure was probably an assassin, given that he was actually fighting well against Yashiro.

Akihiko gritted his teeth. The metal walls were close together, so it was hard to be able to back up Yashiro without hurting him. Damn the amount of space! There was something that Akihiko could try, but he'd hurt Yashiro as well if he did it. After all, there was no telling what Yashiro's Persona was actually weak to.

"Tch, Sukunda!" Akihiko cried, a dark green hue also appearing on the quick assassin.

However, Yashiro paid no attention to the stat decreases, only caring that the figure was slower than before. Seeing as he was slower, Yashiro stepped in several times and threw lightning fast jabs into the faintly lit assassin.

And then, a glint.

The assassin reared back his fist and fire engulfed his gloved hand, barely lighting up the corridor as it flew towards Yashiro's chest. However, Yashiro was fast enough to dodge it and sidestepped quickly. But what Yashiro saw was that the assassin's hand was gloved, and that there were blades on them. 'Bladefists?' he would've wondered, but he was not in his right mind.

He would've also been warning himself that bladefists were dangerous weapons and that they should be dodged at all costs.

Yashiro's fist connected with the assassin's side as a hook, and the assassin winced as he felt the hard punch. With Rage's effects in place, Yashiro's amount of power was doubled. However…

Yashiro's shoulder now had a hot bladefist sticking into it.

Fuck.

Akihiko's eyes widened. Shit! He rushed in to meet the assassin, feeling rage overtake him.

Yashiro growled as he swallowed the pain as best he could, and with his still free legs, drove his knee straight into his gut multiple times, eliciting blood from his mouth, and grunts of pain instead of cries.

However, the assassin was calm, and he instead plunged his free bladefist into Yashiro's gut.

At this point, Akihiko was Raged, so he couldn't use his Persona. However, with a great amount of force, he pulled the assassin from Yashiro, bladefists and all, and then punched him into submission with a sick uppercut to his chin and a hook to his temple. With that, the assassin fell unconscious, obviously rattled, quite literally by the brain shaker of an uppercut that Akihiko had delivered.

"Yashiro!" Akihiko said as he shook his head out of Rage and turned to his injured companion.

Yashiro groaned as he slid to the ground, leaving a trail of blood on the metal wall that he was once pinned to. "S-Senpai," Yashiro mumbled as he gulped down the pain that he had felt from the assassin's attacks. "Dude, my vision's blurry, why's that?" he wondered as the cooling adrenaline continued to fade and Yashiro's blood started to flow a little slower.

"Don't talk, I'll just try to heal you," Akihiko warned. "Diarahan," he mumbled.

"Uh okay," Yashiro blinked as a soft light enveloped his wounds and slowly started to close them up. "So that's what Kanashi got? Too bad he didn't get to feel something like that when he was conscious," he joked as he felt some of his strength returning.

"Well, that's all I can do. I'm not as good of a healer like Mitsuru or Yukari, so just try to keep hanging in there until we get out," Akihiko advised.

"I can do that," Yashiro chuckled as he tried to stand at full height. However, he had just been healed, so he was still feeling weaker. After all, not even a Diarahan could give someone back blood. And Yashiro had his smeared against the wall, so…

"Yeah, let me take the wheel for attacks this time. You really shouldn't be moving that much," Akihiko chuckled a little.

"Alright then," Yashiro said agreeably as he fixed his cap.

"Hey, where'd that guy go?" Akihiko asked as he looked for the assassin.

"I dunno," Yashiro mumbled. "Weird."

"Well, I guess we'll just have to go along with it. Nothing we can do now," Akihiko sighed. "Also, how would you feel about getting struck with lightning or being electrocuted?"

"Wha?" Yashiro blinked.

…

Aigis and Kanashi delved deeper into the tower, taking any route downwards that they could to get to the reactor. "Are we there yet?" Kanashi asked with a bored tone as he followed along with the android.

"Unfortunately not Kanashi-san," Aigis sighed. He had been asking that ten times prior to that moment. Aigis had that much patience with him, perhaps comparable to the wind wearing away rock for thousands of years. After all, Minato had displayed that kind of patience to her when she was still learning to be human.

"Argh, I mean seriously, this place is going on forever!" Kanashi sighed before almost bumping into a pole. "Hey, no pole is getting me!" he smirked as he spun out of the way and joined Aigis at yet another metal door.

"I believe that this is it Kanashi. Let us do our best," Aigis informed him.

Kanashi's face lit up and he nodded. "Alright then!"

With that, Aigis opened the locked door with her usual methods and the duo stepped inside. "I believe that is the reactor," Aigis said, pointing to the large cylinder with several nobs in the middle.

"But what is that? It seems that this tower isn't being powered by normal electricity," Aigis gasped. "It feels as if…" she trailed off as they stepped further into the room.

"Feels like what?" Kanashi asked.

"It feels almost like Nyx's power, but it isn't somehow," Aigis breathed out, trying to calm down. "At any rate, we have to switch it off, or better yet, damage it to hinder the team's operations."

"Damaging? Sounds like my kinda job!" he grinned.

"Indeed. Now, let us go," Aigis nodded.

The two stepped further into the reactor's room, and soon they were able to view it in full. It was at least two metres taller than them, and needless it to say it was large, larger than any generator the two of them had ever seen before. "Alright. Let us find something to help trash the reactor," Aigis nodded. "What have you there Kanashi-san?" she asked.

"A chair, what else?" Kanashi said simply before throwing the chair in the direction of the reactor. The chair actually left a dent.

"Ah, I see," Aigis nodded before activating her guns. "Let us strike while the iron is hot," she smiled slightly before the rattling of her guns and the clinks of shells filled the room. Bullets were peppered liberally into the surface of the reactor, and only more sirens started to wail. It was most likely an alert system that told someone that there was a big problem with the generator.

And so, the hoods followed the sound and tried to encounter the duo of Kanashi and Aigis.

But of course, with a Persona on her side, Aigis managed to knock most of them unconscious with an Akasha Arts attack.

"So! Anyone else wanna stay safe!?" Kanashi smirked as the other henchmen stood shocked by how quickly the front members were incapacitated.

"Hmph, I do!" one of the hoods muttered before throwing off his cloak and hood, effectively abandoning Strega. "I guess no-one told us that we'd have to deal with you guys… I might not have a reason to live, but I still I guess… I still don't want to die," he said.

Under the cloak was a teenage boy with a mop of wavy, but messy, dark brown hair and lightly tanned skin. He wore a plaid, button up shirt with torn sleeves that showed at the ends of the sleeves of his jacket. Faded, slightly ripped jeans and mismatching boots finished his criminal look off. "I'm out of this shit," he smirked.

Kanashi blinked at him. Why did he seem so familiar somehow—

"Anyone else?" Aigis asked.

At this point, all of the other cultists ran away.

"What's yo name?" Kanashi asked the teen.

"I'm Kurow. Miharu Kurow," the teen grinned. "What about you?" Kurow asked.

"I'm Kanashi. Baru Kanashi," he replied. "And that's Aigis," Kanashi said."So, wanna help us trash the reactor? If you're really with us, then you'd have no problems, right?"

"No problem," Kurow smirked as he flicked out a switchblade.

…

"Hey, the power's going out," Minato noted as the slight amount of lighting started to flicker on and off.

But none of them expected everything to get so bright!

"Oh dude, I thought the power was supposed to go out," Junpei said.

"It did," Takaya growled.

"Minato, Yashiro was just injured! Try to speed this up a bit! And…" Akihiko yawned. "I'm getting—"

"We're getting sleepy," Yashiro added with a groan.

"Alright, we'll just have to trash as much we can when we come back down. Because I know for sure, that we're leaving alive. Injured maybe, but alive," Minato smirked as he stared down the shaking Takaya. "Sayoonara for now," he said before taking Junpei's collar and running with him down the stairs.

"You are not getting out of this tower alive, I swear on you," Takaya muttered as he ran after the two. "You who shall bring the world's destruction…"

…

A razor flew past Kanashi's face. Okay, this, he wasn't expecting this! As soon as the reactor was destroyed as much as possible with their effort, Kanashi was again assaulted by that damned ass-ass-in!

"Masukukaja!" Aigis cried, and with her Persona, a green hue enveloped each of the trio.

Kanashi growled and charged right for the assassin with a vengeance and a Tarukaja giving him power. "You're dead!" he snarled as he was able to elbow the assassin right in the chest, making him gasp for air as the wind was knocked hard out of him.

However, the assassin managed to recover, and he tried to stab Kanashi with one of his bigger knives. Kanashi saw it coming and dodged the stab, dropping down and performing a sweeping motion with his legs, knocking the assassin to the ground.

The assassin tried to get back up again, but of course, Kanashi wasn't about to let up.

"Just another sucker with another warning!" he grinned before throwing the assassin against the wall and kneeing him hard in the gut, making him spit up blood. "You aren't messing with me again!" he roared before punching him in the face, sending small droplets of blood loose in the air.

"Whoa," Kurow said as his eyes widened.

"Kanashi, you have to stop!" Aigis shouted.

Kanashi threw the assassin's body onto the floor and he spat on his cloak. "Hmph," he shrugged. "Let's get out of here and trash some more of the place."

Whoosh!

Several blades were embedded deep into Kanashi, and the form of the assassin had disappeared. Again. "Fuck," Kanashi muttered as he tried to get rid of the razors stuck in his arms, legs and back. His blood was pumping furiously from the anger that had been flowing through him as he got his revenge on the assassin, and it was pouring out of the wounds faster than normal.

"I don't think he got my spine…" Kanashi muttered as he felt the razors sending sharp pains throughout his body.

Aigis ran over to Kanashi and began pulling out the knives and blades, despite Kanashi's groans. "Don't worry, I'll heal you as best I can, but we have to get out of here after this!" Aigis reassured him, even as he winced from another blade being pulled out.

"Those look nasty dude," Kurow mumbled.

"No shit, damned crow," Kanashi muttered. Say Kurow fast, you get 'crow.'

"Thanks! Crows are awesome!" Kurow chuckled.

"Well, at least your attitude is still intact Kanashi-san," Aigis laughed little. "Diarahan!"

With that, a healing wave engulfed Kanashi and sealed his wounds.

"Are you okay Kanashi-san?" Aigis asked.

"Uh, yeah," he sighed. "I think. Let's just get out of here…" Kanashi growled as he tried to stand up. And despite the slight amount of pain from Kanashi's still healing wounds, he stood tall, his pride unwavering.

…

"Minato, unfortunately Kanashi has been injured as well," Aigis said. "I'm afraid we will have to cut this short."

"Don't worry about it, we got some stuff done, and yeah. Takaya's really behind this," Minato answered. "Trash what you can on the way out, won't you?"

"Of course Minato," Aigis laughed a little.

Minato shut off his communicator for the moment and despite the strain he was feeling, he summoned two Persona. "Junpei, you run on ahead, I'll deal with hippie Jesus over here," Minato ordered.

"Ugh well, okay then man! You better not get too hurt otherwise I won't be able to beat you up for leaving me behind tomorrow!" Junpei joked with a good natured tone before running off.

"Takaya, you want to stop us? You'll have to do better than that," Minato sighed as he brushed off the pain from the electricity and fire spells that Takaya had fired at him earlier.

"This is it!" Minato smirked. "My present to you, because I can't do Armageddon here with my depleted SP."

"LAST JUDGE!"

…

As Aigis, Kanashi, Kurow, Yashiro and Akihiko exited the tower from the front this time, an explosion of colour and finally white light rocked the tower with a large resounding 'boom.'

And then, Junpei came running out of the tower.

"Where's Minato?" Akihiko asked.

"He just trashed Takaya with a Fusion Spell thingo," Junpei grinned. "He should be coming soon."

"Hey guys, what'd I miss?" Minato said with a broken smile as he staggered out of the tower. "I'm kinda out of SP. I feel like I could flop down on the soft fluffy rock ground and sleep happy."

"We better get back to the dorm before it happens," Yashiro chuckled. "I'm about to do that too," he yawned.

"Hey, better introduce this guy before we go. This is Kurow," Kanashi sighed.

"Yo. But I think we should get acquainted in the morning," Minato sighed.

"It is morning," Aigis noted. "It is 12:04 at the current moment."

"Oh. Sometime later then," Minato chuckled. "Let's go guys, we didn't destroy everything, but we left a mark. After we get stronger, we should come back. And then… then we'll get them."

"We'll do that," Junpei grinned.

AN: I see people liked the last chapter. I just realised last chapter WASN'T filler! *gaspy face* Thanatos, I'm a nong. Also, extra-long chapter. I hope you guys enjoy it, I worked hard on this one to make it as epic as possible.

Anyways, plz box me yo thoughts and imma see you guys later.

Nights: Oh really? Like who? *snickers* Bender?
It'll be something, that's what. And yes, she did.
lol, I dunno if he'd be appreciative of getting his bike blown up. But, who am I to say?
I'll do my best.

Guest: Indeed on that. And yeah, that scene was interesting to write to say the least.

Anakin: lolol, of course. Yoyo, I'm not saying that it's not allowed, but I'd rather only answer questions for Minato and the OCs, but I'll answer them anyways. It's admittedly fun RPing.

Law77: Yay! *cheers*

Eivexst: Indeed, it was fun writing that.
And yes, it could, but not for any situations that I could have in the future. I haven't thought THAT far ahead.
Nah, overthinking's fine. I'm just never going to answer any direct questions.

RomanceDagger: Haha, kinda sorry? Yes, this chapter was hectic.

Raidou: Glad you think so! That scene was fun. Thanks!

Yoshikunitsu: Indeed, time can pass as fast or as slow as you want. Perception of time is a fickle thing.
Wish granted. Hail me. No, no, I'm joking, you don't have to. XD
Indeed, and perhaps, perhaps…
I sure will!

Q/A SECTION

(Nyx) Question 1: How does that little 'light' inside of you feel?

Nyx: I have not deciphered the meaning of it however I can say that it feels as if I looked on at it forever I could never feel this thing that humans call 'sadness.' True to its name it makes me feel lighter just looking upon it.

(SEES) Question 2: What are your approximate odds that Nyx will go through with her promise of not bringing the Fall when time's up?

Yukari: Well, up until now, she hasn't lied before.
Junpei: Yeah, I think she'll see the awesomeness of the Junpei soon enough.
Fuuka: I would like to say that she will.
Mitsuru: Time can only tell.
Akihiko: I dunno, but the moment there's trouble we're gonna do our best to take her down.
Ken: I think she will.
Aigis: For her sake I hope that she does.

(Yashiro) Question 3: My inner Igor-sense is tingling… (that and I had a dream where you were Igor's son) What's your relation to the host of the Velvet Room?

Yashiro: Um… *has Minato explain* Oh. I know no person called Igor. He sounds slightly creepy, but cool at the same time.

(Yukari and Junpei) Question 4: In another timeline, there is the possibility that you and Stupei over there are married; if Chidori never came back to life in this timeline, would you have hung out with him more?

Yukari: Just the idea of alternate timelines and at all getting married to the Ace Defective over here *Junpei cries out indignantly* is weird. But… I dunno? Maybe? It's not like I wouldn't have been hanging out with him, we're still friends and all.
Junpei: Hey, well I'd rather have Chidori in a timeline than none at all. But geez, getting married to Yuka-tan? *Yukari shoots a glare at him* Sounds freaky to me.

(Nyx and Kanashi) Question 5: Are you willing to make up and go back to the old ways?

Nyx: Quite. It'd save me the trouble of teaching him some lessons.
Kanashi: I guess, but messing with her now would be too hard an opportunity to pass up, ya know?

(Kanashi) Question 6: What if I make fun of your driving skills? *runs away*

Kanashi: Hey! Get back here! I need to give ya a trash-talking to! *runs after*

(All OCs) Question 7: What do you think of SEES briefly?

Kanashi: Uh well, they're weird for starters. *gets punched on the shoulder by Yashiro* Ow, you trying to do a fairy tap here? But mostly, they're cool I guess.
Yashiro: *glares at Kanashi* Anyways, they are a bit of an out there group, but the people in it are good and they seem eager to help other people if they need to. I can appreciate that trait and effort.
Nyx: Well, I can't say much about the other members of SEES besides Minato, but they are at least making an honest effort to try and keep me safe from all other threats. Minato in particular, I will admit that he has helped me understand humans immensely thus far. They are some of the only proof that gives me reason to believe that perhaps humans aren't such a lost cause. That is, except for Junpei.