OK OK, whatever whatever! The subplot's here, so whoopdedoo for you! Let's just get this over with… XD

/= "JUSTICE" by Umineko no Naku Koro Ni =/

After all of the random outfits that the other worlds had been giving her, she was surprised that she was in her usual red attire the minute she jumped out. She looked up and saw that everyone was in their military uniforms and that they were looking around at their area. She looked up and saw…

Nothing.

"Um…where are we?" She looked around.

"I never saw the fog this thick before…" Li Xiao looked around as well. "Arthur, do you know what this is?"

"Extreme internal conflict, erupting from his sub consciousness." Arthur answered. "But this never happens in a normal environment…because the consciousness blocks these conflicts."

"So he has no consciousness?" Charice blinked. "That…makes no sense…unless-"

Everyone turned around.

"Unless it can erupt if Ludwig has amnesia."

"Yes…usually memories can suppress the sub consciousness." Arthur stated. "But…amnesia?"

"Yeah. He told me and Rizal that he has no memories of his past prior to being raised by Gilbert." She stated. "I asked him if he could try remembering something, and…well, that's when he started getting quiet."

"That's…totally unawesome." Gilbert sighed.

Barely had those words flowed out of his mouth when the clouds started to clear, revealing a gigantic labyrinth out of M. C. Ester. Or Yu-gi-oh, one of those two. She didn't have to say anything about when she heard a door open from above her, and she turned her head to see a rather interested Antonio peeking over them.

"Heeeey~! Check it out, I'm on the ceiling!"

"HAH? But you're right over here, fucktard!"

Lovino turned to Antonio's body (who is still next to Arthur?) and pushed him through. Sure enough, Antonio came sailing down the air and crash-landed into the ground in front of Kiku, scaring the crap out of him. That got Alfred's attention, who opened another door and ended up coming through another one.

"Well…that was messed up." Alfred blinked.

"Wait…does that mean we're trapped in here?" Matthew panicked.

"Nope! Check it!" Charice lifted up her hand, revealing a tip of red string on her pinky. "Still intact!"

"So we can get out if need be…" Kiku looked around. "Now we need to find a way to navigate this area."

"You can't you know. I've tried…"

They all turned their heads to see a teenager dressed in white Templar robes leaning on one of the walls, staring upwards into the other doors that were all over the place. Charice instantly assumed that this was Ludwig (he did look like it), but made no move to say anything, especially since Gilbert was there.

"Bruder?"

"Hello, Gilbert. I'm saddened to see that you have fallen in here as well." He sighed. "I've been wandering around here for years, trying to find the exit…yet they all seem to lead me to the same loopholes that I had travelled over and over again."

Amnesia. They all thought.

"Are you sure you went through all the doors?" Lovino spat.

"Look at the white marks on the doors. If it's marked, I've went through it." He stated. "I've been searching for a door I've never marked, to no avail."

"Well, that sucks~!" Antonio laughed. "I guess that means we'll have to start searching for doors that aren't marked as well!"

"NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!" Lovino started shaking him. "You should be punched in the face!"

Through all that ruckus, Li Xiao and Charice approached the Ludwig…shadow…clone…thing…and tried their best not to remark on the fact that they looked so similar to each other. The truth was, Charice was never able to match up the fact that he was a child Ludwig. He was so…lean.

"Are you sure that you've been through all these doors?" Li Xiao asked.

"I've marked as many as I can." He answered. "I want to assume that I did."

"You couldn't have, for you are still here. This world is nothing more than a person's mind, and a mind is limitless." Li Xiao looked up. "You would be free if you had seen all the doors."

"Then which door did I miss?"

It was then that Gilbert fell through one of the walls. Everyone turned their heads to see that he had fallen into a hidden hallway, revealing about five or six other doors that weren't marked. The teenage Ludwig stood up in surprise as Gilbert started to rub his head.

"Are you OK, Gilbert?"

"Yeah…I'm totally awesome." He stood up. "What the hell is this place?"

"Ludwig's mind must be crumbling." Arthur remarked. "The walls keeping them up are falling apart and revealing more problems."

"We should check these doors anyway." Charice remarked. "That way, we can see if they lead anywhere."

Alfred led the way, opening one door and ended up in another hallway. Kiku's door revealed that it was attached to another door in the room. Arthur's door led up to a wall, and Lovino's door almost crushed him. Charice shook her head before going to open the door, seeing it to be locked.

"Well…that works." She sighed. "Got a locked door here!"

"T-that's the door that…"

The teen Ludwig reached into his shirt, pulled out a shining gold key hidden in his clothes, and unlocked the door. They all stared at the portal that was on the other side of the door for a few minutes before seeing the teenager run into the portal without a second thought. She looked up.

"Who wants to jump in first?"

/= "JUSTICE" by Umineko no Naku Koro Ni =/

They found themselves in a huge courtyard with a building in front of them, donned with blank banners and a strange gray setting. Alfred said it well: "dude, it's like we stepped into a black and white TV!" At least there wasn't any static disrupting the imagery, eh?

"I guess I can summarize it the best way…where the hell are we?" Charice turned her head.

"Che. Looks like a German fort or something." Lovino looked up. "Saw something like this back in the wars. Never this enforced, though."

"The air here is tense." Matthew blinked. "Like there are soldiers here that are blocking something…"

"Is that what the teen Luddy is looking for?" Charice asked. "Whatever this place is blocking?"

"Hold on…"

Arthur summoned his Persona to scan the area just as Charice felt her blood run cold. She looked upward and couldn't help but notice that there were soldier Shadows headed their way. Her fingers started to twitch.

"We got an incident."

/= "Fighting of the Spirit" by Tales of Symphonia =/

All of them charged in to attack the Shadows. Gilbert was about to join them when something caught him from the corner of his eye. He shifted his attention and saw his own Shadow staring at him, that smug look on his face and wearing that really unawesome outfit on him. He lifted a finger up to his lips and smirked.

"What, are you here to help me or something?" He found himself smiling. "Then stop being unawesome over there and earn your title of being me."

The Shadow made no statement, instead jumping into Gilbert's hand and allowing him to crush the card that formed. It quickly turned into a strange man dressed completely in red and wielding two swords. Gilbert couldn't help but chuckle at the image that appeared before him.

"Rakshasa!" He grinned. "Come on!"

The blade dug through about fifteen Shadows, killing them all instantly. Everyone turned their heads and saw the Prussian man grin as the Persona sank into his body. He took his hero pose.

"Hah! How awesome was that?" He chirped.

"…che. Now as awesome as you think, potato bastard."

"Oh, so now I'm the potato bastard?" Gilbert glared.

"Once a bastard, ALWAYS a bastard!"

"Oh, thank GOD…he said bastard…"

Charice rolled her eyes for a few minutes before hearing the ground shake and the other Shadow soldiers sinking into the cracks. Matthew quickly held onto Charice as the whole place sank into a strange sense of silence.

["SOLDIERS!"]

"GAH!"

["REPORT TO YOUR STATIONS AT ONCE!"]

"That…sounded like Ludwig." Alfred looked up. "Do you think he's further inside?"

"I want to assume so…" Charice shivered. "I'd check, but my phobia's kickin' in…"

"Then I'll lead." Li Xiao lifted his head. "Let's go."

/=+=/

Rakshasa is a demon of Hindu myth famous for disturbing rituals, desecrating graves, harassing priests, possessing people, and eating human flesh. They're also shapeshifters, illusionists and magicians. [Gilbert Beillscmidt - Strength]

So let's keep it all going~!