A/N one part of a cross over special with my other story, Guilty as Charged :shinrapoggers: if you want to see what happened in the PF world with the GAC cast, it's uploaded now, go read :catch:
Special Episode 6: Reincarnated as an Ultimate Teenager
Mana blinks groggily, waking up to the feeling of a hand shaking her by her shoulder.
"Sora! Wake up, class is over."
Sora?
Hm…
I must be dreaming. I don't know a Sora. Mana concludes. Although, I've never woken up within a dream before…
…Strange.
Mana sits up, yawning and looking around.
"Heh…? What's this?" Mana wonders with a frown.
She's in a room with a bunch of small tables and chairs and something that looks like the Request Board at the front of the room all the tables are facing. There's a bunch of people she doesn't recognize wearing matching uniforms she doesn't recognize either.
Someone shakes her shoulder again, "Soraaaa, you look totally out of it. Did you get enough sleep last night? Have a good breakfast? Lunch?"
Mana's eyes follow the hand to the face of its owner, a young man with brown hair and green eyes and a mint colored handkerchief tied around his head. He's wearing the same uniform as everyone else in the room.
And then it hits her, "Oh, I'm not Sora." Mana says. "You've got the wrong person." she says politely.
Mint Handkerchief looks at Mana like she just got electrocuted with a shock collar. "...Are you okay?" he asks worriedly.
Mana tilts her head to the side, confused. "I'm fine. What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" she asks, starting to feel self conscious.
Mint Handkerchief creases his brow, frowning. He puts a hand on Mana's forehead, "Clearly you're not okay if you're telling me your name isn't Sora. You're not the type of person to make odd jokes like that." he says. "You don't feel like you have a fever…"
Mana gently pulls his hand away from her forehead, smiling awkwardly at him. "Um, sorry, I don't-"
The young man screams suddenly and picks Mana up, tossing her over his shoulder.
Mana blinks. What's happening?
"WHY ARE YOU SMILING OH MY GOD YOU'RE DYING AREN'T YOU!? JURIYAAAAAAAAA!"
Meanwhile…
The young man, who'd cried while he introduced himself as Kensuke when Mana said she didn't know his name, puts Mana down in front of a rather frightened and confused looking young woman. She has rather sickly looking pale skin that reminds Mana of Veiss.
"Fix her!" Kensuke demands with teary eyes. "She smiled at me! Sora doesn't smile!"
The young woman blinks, sweating nervously as she looks between her hands and Mana. "Um…"
Mana frowns, starting to think that this isn't quite a dream. "Uh, I've already told you, my name isn't Sora." she says. "It's Mana."
The young woman in front of her gasps, snapping her gaze towards Mana. "Mana? As in Manami? As in one of the quintuplets Revenant Beasts kidnapped? As in the girl who traded me in for that bitch Akane?"
Mana counts off her answers on her fingers, "Yes, yes, yes, and we were never friends, Calypso." she says, narrowing her eyes at the young woman. "It's you, right? That's why you're being weird about your hands." Mana guesses.
Calypso looks at her, panicked. "I-I don't know what's going on! Why are we here? Where are my gloves? And why are you a foot shorter with red hair and skin as white as stupid Veiss' hair?" she asks.
"What?" Mana blinks. "I don't know what you're talking about but who are you to talk about looking different? You're like a foot taller and you're the one who looks like Veiss!"
Kensuke looks like he's about to have a heart attack. "Both of you are acting crazy?" he cries. "What the hell is going on!?" Kensuke wails.
Kensuke, after losing his mind watching Mana and Calypso look at their different faces in a mirror in fascination, slings Mana back over his shoulder and drags Calypso behind him (who was very happy to find out she doesn't have to wear gloves to touch things and people).
"Where the FUCK am I, curly hair!?" a blonde girl with green eyes and white bows in her hair shouts angrily, catching the attention of Kensuke's captives and Kensuke himself.
"CURLY HAIR!?" a girl with, well, curly hair gasps, scandalized. "Why'd pop the race card, hon!?"
Confusion starts to mix with the blonde's anger. "Race? What the fuck are you talking about? Last I checked you look very much human, fucking moron." she snaps. "Answer my question, where the hell am I!? And why do my hands look like Veiss'!?"
Kensuke's face crumples. "Kasumi, not you too!" he cries.
The blonde, Kasumi, snaps her gaze towards Kensuke. "And WHY does everyone keep calling me-" she stops, locking eyes with Mana.
She narrows her eyes.
Mana narrows her eyes.
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"I know that stupid look." 'Kasumi' scowls.
"I know that potty mouth!" Mana beams.
"Akane!/Mana." the two say in unison, one looking absolutely overjoyed and the other looking ready for murder.
Calypso makes a very odd noise (in Mana's opinion) that conveys fear.
Blonde Akane's eyes drift to Calypso.
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"You have five minutes to run before I kill you, Aurelia."
Calypso screams, pulls her arm free from Kensuke's grip, and runs.
Kensuke falls to his knees (which causes Mana to fall from the safety of his grip and onto the ground), crying. "What is going on!?"
"Ow." Mana says, laying on her back. "...It's so quiet without Mary." she sighs.
The girl with curly hair puts her hands on her hips, a thoughtful frown on her face. Then, she shakes her head. "This is too much for me." the girl says and turns on her heel, walking away. "At this point, Greyface would make more sense than…whatever this is." she says. And then, she's gone.
Akane turns back to Mana, an annoyed look on her face.
"...You know, light hair doesn't look half bad on you." Mana says.
"Shut the hell up, dumb squirrel."
Meanwhile…
"...What the fuck?" a girl with gold eyes and a bitchy expression blinks, staring at the sight before her like she's the one who was suddenly in another world and not Calypso.
A pretty girl with expensive looking jewelry and black hair sighs, "Language, Harumi." she says. "But I have to agree with the sentiment." the girl says, looking at the sight before her and Harumi in bewilderment. "What's going on here, Shun?"
Shun scratches her cheek, blushing furiously. "I wish I could tell you, Kanna." she says. "I usually don't get this far but this is definitely…odd."
To Harumi, Kanna, and Shun, the usually cold Ultimate Surgeon, Juriya Inaba, looks incredibly out of character as she cries and clings onto Shun for dear life.
To Calypso Aurelia, the one currently inhabiting Juriya's body, Shun is the first person other than Kensuke and Mana to treat her with kindness in this strange world. Being that it seems she, Akane, and Mana don't have access to their Magic in these bodies, Calypso's going to quite literally hold on tight to anyone who seems to like this 'Juriya Inaba' girl so they can defend her.
Also:
"I-I told you already, my name is Calypso, not Juriya!"
"WHAT!?/Is she dying…?/The fuck?" Shun, Kanna, and Harumi say in unison.
Meanwhile…
Caia frowns.
Something…isn't right.
Something feels…off.
Caia looks down.
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Quite literally off.
Caia pats her hard, muscled chest.
"...Huh."
Caia's eyes widen.
That's also not right.
"Why do I sound like a man?" Caia wonders outloud.
Caia looks up when she feels eyes on her. Her eyes meet a girl with several holes in her hat and a boy who looks like he forgot how to smile.
"...What?"
Hat Girl scratches her cheek. "Um…are you okay, Hitoshi?" she asks.
Caia frowns. "My name is Caia." she says in a voice that very much does not sound like Caia.
The boy looks Caia up and down. "No, you're very much not…'Caia'." he says dryly. "Are you sick or something?"
"The last thing I remember is sitting with Myling and now I'm…" Caia looks around, frowning at her unfamiliar surroundings. "...Where am I?" she asks.
The girl and the boy exchange a look.
Hat Girl opens her mouth and No Smile takes an odd stance.
"JURIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Don't move, Hitoshi."
"My name is Cai - AAAAAAA!"
Meanwhile…
"M-Mai, any eights?"
"Go fish. Hm…Val, any twos?"
"Mmm, here. Ah…Greyface, any…fives?"
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"G-Greyface?" a small girl with a meek look on her face calls in a small voice.
Eira blinks, staring at the unfamiliar trio sitting at a table with her. "Uh…are you talking to me?" she asks, confused.
Mai, Val, and the small girl look at Eira like she has three heads.
"Nemiko, go get Juriya. Or Armen, whoever you find first." Mai says without taking her eyes off of Eira.
The small girl, Nemiko, nods, looking at Eira worriedly before rushing off.
Eira smiles awkwardly. "Um, sorry, I don't know how I got here." she says politely. "Also, my name is Eira, not…Greyface, you said?" Eira asks. "What a strange name..."
Val frowns and puts his hand against Eira's forehead. "Are you sure you're okay?" he asks. "Hace frio, pero you feel quite warm."
Mai nods and her look changes to wariness for a second. "Let's make sure she has nothing on her before-"
"WHERE AM I AND WHY DOES THIS BABY KEEP CALLING ME BABA!?"
Mai's and Val's jaws drop when a boy with a scarred face and panicked look runs into the room holding up an amused, toddler-sized girl like a trophy.
"Baba funny." she giggles.
The panicked blond young man screams as she grabs at his face.
Mai and Val start screaming at the blond, trying to take the girl from him and simultaneously calm him down.
"LUAN WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Mai screeches.
"MY NAME ISN'T LUAN, IT'S EMILE!"
Eira's eyes widen.
Emile?
…If that really is Emile and he looks like that, and these people are calling me Greyface…
Eira looks down to survey her appearance.
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Eira screams in horror.
As Emile and Eira panic, Nemiko returns with a tall young man with long raven black hair sobbing his heart out.
"I-I'm," he cries. "I…I'M SO UGLY!" he cries.
Nemiko hurriedly scribbles something out on a notepad, a panicked look on her face as well. She flips it over when she's done and shows it to her companions:
Armen is calling himself Victoria and crying about 'what will my wife think'.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAT?" Mai and Valentin scream.
Kensuke can't stop crying. He feels like he's losing his mind - Sora is smiling and calling herself Mana, Kasumi is scowling and calling herself Akane, Juriya is touching everything and is afraid of this 'Akane' and calling herself Calypso…just what the hell is going on!?
The three girls in question are also tied up and laying stacked on each other behind him in a shopping cart.
(Harumi, Kanna, and Shun gave him 'Calypso' when they couldn't find Armen.)
"FUCKING UNTIE ME DAMN IT! WHY CAN'T I BURN THESE!?"
"Y'know, Akane, I've been picturing it and light hair would look great on your actual body."
"Please put me somewhere else."
He can't bring them to Headmaster Naegi…what if he deems them unfit for Hope's Peak now that they're insane!?
Well, deserved, but still!
And not only that, but they claim to know each other as these other personas!
Just then, Nemiko, Mai, and Valentin run up to him. Val is dragging Armen and Luan behind him, Mai is dragging Greyface, and Nemiko is carrying Yukiko.
"Kensuke! Thank - oh my God, not Juriya too!" Mai cries.
Valentin starts rambling in Spanish, panicked.
Kensuke's face fills with dread. "'Juriya too'?" he questions, looking at the death drips the two have on Greyface, Luan, and Armen. "Say it isn't so…"
Mai points an accusatory finger at Greyface. "She's calling herself Eira and crying about being in bloodstained clothes," she points at Luan. "He's calling himself Emile and says there's absolutely no way he can be a father," and finally, she turns her finger on Armen. "And he's calling himself a married woman named Victoria!" Mai cries.
Valentin continues rambling in Spanish.
'Emile's' cheeks turn red. "B-Because there isn't! I've never…y'know!" he insists.
"THIS IS UNHOLY WHY AM I COVERED IN ANOTHER PERSON'S BLOOD!?" 'Eira' cries.
"I'M SO UGLY!" 'Victoria' sobs.
Kensuke's hostages grow silent.
"Did you say Emile?" Akane asks.
"And Victoria and Eira?" Mana asks.
Calypso sighs, "Not more guild Mages…"
Kensuke drops to his knees again. "I'm gonna need a bigger cart…" he sighs and pulls a spool of rope out of his apron. "Here, tie them up and leave them with me. I am the Ultimate Caretaker…I will…I'll take care of this." Kensuke says, sounding not at all confident in himself. "Take Yukiko somewhere else until Luan is back to normal."
"MY NAME IS EMILE!"
Meanwhile…
Veiss stares at the pretty boy with blond blue tipped hair suspiciously.
"There's no way." Veiss says. "You're too pretty," he says. "Cooley is…not."
The pretty boy claiming to be Cooley grits his teeth and points an accusatory finger at Veiss. "And you look too healthy to be Veiss!" he snaps. Then, he frowns. "Well…nevermind, you still look pretty dead."
"Gee, thanks." Veiss says sarcastically, pulling the strange jacket tighter around himself. "And why is it so cold…?"
"And besides," Cooley says. "We're in an entirely different world than ours, how would I even know the name Cooley Brown!?" he cries.
Veiss hums, "Mmmm, fair point." he nods.
Cooley crosses his arms. "Good. Now come, let's find the brat and make sure Mary isn't in her head."
"Wow, you're so concerned for your comrades." Veiss says sarcastically. "I'm so glad we get to do this together."
"...and that's what's happened so far!" Kensuke finishes, looking expectantly at Toshiro. "So, what do you think?" he asks, presenting the cart-full of tied up teenagers behind him. "How do we get them back to normal?"
Toshiro stares blankly at Kensuke.
Kensuke stares back at him, dread building up in his chest. "...Sh-Shiro…?" he stammers.
"I don't understand why we're all in different bodies or where we are - and I don't really care - but," Toshiro points at the cart-full of teenagers. "Victoria and Eira are my guildmates and the others belong to Phoenix Fire which is allied with our guild. Untie them or face the consequences…or don't, I don't care." he says dully.
"S-Seinaru!?" Eira cries, staring at 'Toshiro'.
'Toshiro' yawns, "That's right…my name is Seinaru Fujisaki, not Toshiro."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Meanwhile…
Kaori and Yume watch with a mixture of horror, amusement, and confusion as Yosuke splashes Harlequin, Sting, and Kano with holy water while reading from his Bible.
Kano doesn't look amused, "This is arguably worse than watching Xander and his cronies murder everyone I've ever known." he deadpans.
Harlequin sighs, "My, my, how crude, Mister Cole." he says, shaking his head. "Although, not as crude as this body. I'm covered in scars…"
Sting scoffs, "You're covered in scars? Look at me, Ken! I look like I had the bright idea of going through a war without any armor." he snaps.
Oh, they're also tied up.
"You know," Yume says. "Just this once, I think we should let Yosuke work his…whatever." she says to Kaori.
"You know," Kaori starts, mimicking Yume's voice. "Just this once, I think I'm inclined to agree with you." she says.
As far as the two entertainers know, Kano, Harlequin, and Sting are referring to themselves as Cole, Ken, and Alistair respectively. Yosuke is under the impression they're possessed.
And frankly, the two girls are inclined to agree. Harlequin and Sting have very distinct personalities and these are not it, and Kano quite frankly has a darkness that this 'Cole' doesn't.
Cole rolls his eyes, "You should be grateful you even have a body to begin with. I ought to burn this one and your other one for what you and your partner said to Master Glinda." he says grumpily.
Alistair grits his teeth, "How many times do I have to tell you people that it was Nelio, not me!?" he cries.
"Ooh, I remember this conversation." Ken nods. "You threatened Aberrant Hydra's Guild Master, right?" he asks.
"NELIO D - STOP SPLASHING THAT STUFF ON ME, DAMN IT!"
These other personalities also seem to know each other which is only fueling Yosuke's fire.
"-hallowed be thy name-" Yosuke continues chanting.
After stumbling upon Yosuke and his exorcism ritual, the Ultimate Priest uses his JoJo protagonist build to tie up a crying Kensuke and take the ten other possessed Ultimates into his possession and put them in the circle with Cole, Ken, and Alistair.
"So, let's take attendance." Ken says with a cheerful smile as Yosuke continues to douse the twelve of them in holy water. "Evidently this body belongs to a boy called Harlequin, but I am Ken Sevens." he says.
Cole nods his head, "This body belongs to a kid called Kano Hanazaki but I'm Cole."
Alistair grits his teeth. "Sting. I'm Alistair."
"Sora Sugawara, I'm Mana!"
"Kasumi Yuan, Akane."
"Luan Delvina, Emile Solflare - I'M NOT A FATHER!"
"Masaki Takano, Veiss. Maybe we can stay here for a while longer, it's nice not having my brother tell me to kill myself everyday…"
"G-Greyface, I think? I'm - I'm Eira."
"I'M SO UGLY!"
"...That's Victoria. She's in the body of a guy called Armen. I'm Seinaru…in the body of Toshiro Haruki."
"TAKESHI WHATEVER, I DON'T REMEMBER. MANA, IS MARY OKAY!?"
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Everyone turns to stare at the only one who hasn't spoken, hostile looks on Mana's and Akane's faces.
"Well?" Alistair raises an eyebrow. "Who are you?"
"Um…"
Akane scoffs, "You can't hide, Calypso. We're stuck in this together."
And then, everyone's expressions turn hostile.
All the color drains from Calypso's face - which wasn't much considering Juriya already looks like a walking corpse.
"Well," Yume starts. "I don't know what this Calypso has done to earn that look but to fill in the information you're all sharing, she's in the body of our Ultimate Surgeon, Juriya Inaba." she fills in.
Before the conversation can continue any further, Ryu and Sasaki slam the door of the room open, carrying a bound and gagged Hitoshi inside.
"I heard you were collecting everyone that's acting weird?" Sasaki says as she and Ryu shuffle into the room. "Hitoshi is calling himself a woman named Caia."
Mana, Akane, Emile, Veiss, Cooley, Ken, and Alistair gasp.
Victoria, Cole, Eira, and Seinaru look confused.
Calypso cries, "Not another one!" she whines.
Caia's eyes widen as she looks at the twelve captives and Ryu and Sasaki set her down.
Mana beams, "Don't worry, Caia, you're not alone here!" she says happily.
Caia makes a very unhappy noise.
"Oh, right, sorry." Sasaki says and takes the gag out of Caia's mouth.
"This is not something to be happy about, Mana." Caia says as soon as her mouth is freed.
Mana beams again, "How did you know it was me?" she asks.
"The same reason I knew you were you," Akane scoffs. "That stupid look on your face is hard to replicate." she sneers.
Veiss rolls his eyes, "Settle down, lovebirds."
Akane chokes on the air.
"We still have to figure out how to get back," he says. "This guy splashing water on us is doing nothing but making it even more cold." Veiss frowns, glaring at Yosuke.
Just as Ryu and Sasaki finish pushing Caia into the circle of their possessed classmates, all thirteen pairs of eyes widen suddenly and they grow silent.
And then, they all faint, dropping to the ground.
"YOU GUYS!?" Kensuke sobs.
Not ten seconds later do they all start stirring again.
"...Kasumi I swear to God I'm going to find a way to send us back and suspend you over a cliff if you don't get off of me." Sora scowls, glaring at the blonde on top of her.
Yosuke beams. "It worked! It really worked!" he cheers. Then, "Don't use the Lord's name in vain!"
"Shut the fuck up, Yosuke." Masaki scowls. "...Why are we all tied up?"
"But Soooooorrrrrrraaaaa," Kasumi pouts. "I haven't gotten to touch this version of you in what feels like forever!"
Sting gasps, "How lewd, Blondie!"
Harlequin smiles, pleased. "This is much better. Now I don't have to kill myself!" he beams.
"Ah…it seems you were aware of our absence." Luan says. "Tell me, is Yukiko okay?"
Kano sighs dejectedly, "Just when I thought things were getting interesting…"
Greyface pouts. "And here I was having a great time terrorizing…what were those people called again…?" she wonders.
Takeshi smiles. "I, for one, am happy to be back where we belong, although the people of Phoenix Fire were quite pleasant. It's a shame we'll most likely never meet again." he says, his smile dropping slightly.
Armen and Juriya shiver. "Never again." they shudder in unison.
The ones who didn't get possessed look at each other with a mixture of worry and confusion.
Just what the hell happened to their classmates?
(Behind them, Candace sticks her head into the classroom, sees thirteen of her classmates tied up in a weird religious looking circle, and slowly takes her head out.)
A/N i was not at all satisfied with either version of the cross over but i was too far in to back down :catch: