Persona 5 Series Fanfiction –
Persona 5 Royal Special Edition =
By Tayla Drago
Episode #2 - The Mysterious Phantom Thieves
The scene shows a strange casino area where a helicopter flies by from the outside of the building, while the inside where everyone was having a fun time playing gambling games at the casino...for it doesn't last long for the alarm to go off for others to start panicking to have lots of cops 'or rather a group of swat teams' to be surrounding all over the entire place, to find a certain someone to capture alive to be very serious about it. Lots of them!
People #1: Huh...?
People #2: There's something here!
Trying to find this person, it...or rather she was moving really fast to get above everyone else to be a type of thief, in black, wearing a mask, for this person who's the leader of the Phantom Thieves, and a woman who was known as "Joker". Her hot looks, beauty, and sweetness can fool any man, to actually be very smart, to outwit others, to take the hearts from a different world to save lives from really greedy adults.
Security #1: Hey...Up there!
With the cops seeing Joker, she smiles while holding onto a metal brief case of some kind to make a run for it next to get chased by the guys.
Security #2: She's here. Move in immediately.
Hearing voices for Joker to hear her partners to make their escape while she slows down the other people for her to give all of them the chase. As Joker was running away to hear her teammates' voices – Mona, Skull, Panther, Fox, Queen, Oracle, Noir, Crow, and Witch. 'You'll also know who they are later on as well'.
[Mona: Good. Now get running!]
[Crow: This is our only chance!]
[Oracle: Stay calm! You can get away now!]
[Queen: We'll retrieve the briefcase on our end.]
Hearing one of the security guards making his way around the building.
Security #3: [...suspects...not...confirmed...hold...your...positions…]
[Oracle: Hm…? What was that...?]
[Mona: Don't worry about us. Just concentrate on getting away! But I have to say, showing yourself above that crowd earlier was an excellent move.]
Joker: OK.
The hero begins to jump from one side to another.
[Mona: Nice work as always, Joker.]
[Panther: I bet Skull wouldn't pull it off that smoothly.]
[Fox: This happens because you have no sense for aesthetics.]
[Skull: Nobody asked you, Inari!]
Joker kept on going until another security guard saw her above them.
Security #1: There she is!
[Oracle: Just run! Get out of there!]
And jumping she kept on doing.
[Mona: OK, the enemy's focus is on her! Looks like the rest of us can slip away!]
Don't stop now!
[Noir: Everyone remember where we're meeting up?]
[Oracle: No worries. I can guide you all.]
Jumping from statues one after another; as well as fighting with strange looking men to have their masks on the look...somehow like strange monsters, even more as Joker grabs one of their masks to reveal a type of monster – or rather a type Persona or Shadow calling itself a Moloch. (More on that later on too).
Shadow: Get her!
[Panther: Take 'em down, Joker!]
Joker stops the beast in seconds to keep on running away while stopping a few more strange men in black suits. She was way too good, you know? Joker moves up further to see a way through the other guards looking for her to move really fast to hide from within the shadows for the other to pass by her to exit next.
[Mona: Good. You defeated them with ease.]
[Oracle: More of them? Be careful!]
This allows for Joker to get out of there just in time.
Joker: Yes.
[Oracle: Joker, behind you! Go through that door!]
Passing through the other guards without seeing Joker sneaking by all of them.
Joker: I'm in.
[Oracle: You should be able to get out that way! Hurry!]
Time to keep on escaping the building somehow.
[Skull: Dude, can she even hear us?!]
[Oracle: Don't worry, I'm picking up everyone's voices. Just go, Joker!]
Joker: On it.
But before that, another reading was coming up.
[Oracle: Hm? Wait a sec! What the-I'm getting a weird reading heading your way! C'mon, run!]
From outside of the room to have one trying to chase after Joker, what an idiot.
Security #2: Where'd they go?! Damn it! I can't confirm the intruder's location.
Also jumping from one side to another was a piece of cake for Joker to do next thanks to one of her partners.
[Oracle: Up ahead! Stop! You'll never get away if you just keep fighting. Hide in the shadows, and sneak past when you see an opening!]
And she does without the guy noticing a thing to get a call to go somewhere else next.
Security #4: ….Hey, are you sure she came this way? Understood. I will continue the search!
Getting through one of them was fine, but the rest were more to get in Joker's way to hide again.
[Witch: Man, there's just no end to these guys.]
[Crow: Everything okay? The security level might rise if you take too much time.]
[Oracle: I know, I know! I'm looking for another route. Just hang on. Oh, perfect time. Joker, look up!]
Something from above her can get Joker out of this mess.
Joker: I see it.
[Oracle: Can you use that thing and just fly over there?]
A hook shot for Joker to use and get her to the top.
Joker: I made it.
[Oracle: All right, go straight from there!]
[Witch: Now keep going!]
As Joker makes it into another room, Oracle saves Joker from something else that was there besides her.
[Oracle: Joker-stop! It's an enemy-right near you!]
Joker: Crap!
Seeing more Shadows appearing to surround Joker from going anywhere else.
[Oracle: Even you can't take on this many-Huh?! Joker! That weird reading from earlier was already closing in on you too!]
Joker: Where?
Seeing from afar for some Shadows to come in from up top...only to be stopped by one as well comes to aid Joker in person next, another woman in black with long red hair appears to back up Joker. But was this one...?
Woman in Black: I'll end this right now.
Getting out her sword, for Joker or the others don't know anything about this woman.
[Oracle: Joker, it's her! She's the weird reading I've been getting!]
But she seems to be on their side, as she throws her long sword at one of the Shadows dead...somehow Joker trusts her. Nice hit! From her movements to dance, cutting, and shooting the rest of the Shadows to aid Joker.
Woman in Black: My weak self-relied on you so much...That ends today. Let's do this, Teacher!
Getting her sword back for the woman in black and Joker stop the other three remaining Shadows 'two jaguars and one vulture time to tell about also later on' to have their powers and weapons and fighting skills too to be very useful, and fun to watch.
[Oracle: The enemy readings have decreased?]
[Mona: That's...]
Somehow, I don't think they'll be having any trouble in this battle.
Woman in Black: It's been a while since we last fought side-by-side. But this time, it's my turn to come to your aid, Teacher. Now let's win this!
From dodging other attacks, shooting, using a powerful fairy type of powers to fire off sharp things to fall, and finally a group attack to all be killed.
Woman in Black: Step the landing.
All clear for now as for the mysterious woman in black, what's next?
Woman in Black: I think...that's the last of them?
Close, but more Shadows were heading their way again.
[Oracle: I genuinely have no clue what just happened, but I take it you're okay? Wait-bad news! Enemy backups headed your way! You need to book it, right now!]
Woman in Black: Please go. I'm going to make it harder for them to track you down.
Joker: Are you sure?
I think she can fight in her own battles.
Woman in Black: ...You still have something you need to do as a Phantom Thief, right?
Joker: Yes.
Turning around to take off, she'll allow Joker to leave now.
Woman in Black: Then I won't stop you. Since I'm not a member of the Phantom Thieves, I'm in no position to interfere. However...please don't forget the promise we made, okay?
From jumping up top to leaving, the strange woman takes off. And Joker needed to do the same thing on her end as well.
[Oracle: Joker, you need to get outta there! Go! Go! Go!]
And off Joker goes upstairs now to finally out running all of the swat team for good. Then by sneaking around the other rooms some more to outsmart the other security people and passing by the security room itself...
Male: She's not alone! Find them and kill them all!
Trying to find a way out above the building to be up top.
[Oracle: Something wrong? The exit should be up ahead.]
Joker sees another way out.
Joker: Through there...?
And that's by crashing through the window that is.
[Oracle: Nnh...! That's just how it is. After that commotion, the bottom floor-]
[Queen: -completely closed off. Hey, can you make it!?]
The guards see Joker to make her escape.
Security #2: Over there! There's nowhere to run!
So far, so good for Joker; for her only escape was jumping through the glass window and making a run for it from outside of the building. The cops see her to try to surround the thief this time, but she blows a kiss and gets ready to jump.
Joker: See ya, boys.
She got out with show and luck.
[Oracle: What a showoff.]
[Panther: You're so reckless, you know that?]
[Skull: But that's why we love her.]
However, she wasn't out of this mess yet...Joker had company!
[Oracle: Enemies, here!? These readings…It can't be!]
[Crow: What happened?!]
Make a run for it, Joker! Now!
[Queen: An ambush!?]
[Mona: Joker, can you handle this!?]
[Fox: Joker!]
[Noir: Oh no!]
[Witch: Just hurry it up and go!]
One makes the call to stop Joker right away.
Officer: Capture her!
Only...lots of cops from cars, men, and guns waited for Joker to capture her, she tried to run away to climb up top, and more were waiting for her. Pushing Joker down to the ground to be down and handcuffing one saying that someone from her team sold them out, but who was it?
Security #1: Didn't expect to find some kid. A high school girl in that matter. You have your teammate to thank for this. You were sold out.
This was bad. Joker has been arrested to make news.
Officer: Suspect confirmed! Cuff her!
Hours later, in the interrogation room at the police station, Joker had to feel hurt from the drug to be too much to lose some of her memories for the cops to interrogate the poor teenager who goes by the name Keiko Amamiya. That's such a mess!
Investigator: Guess the drug was too strong...Wake her up.
One of the officers splashes her with a bucket of water, as Keiko wakes up to see where she was. Damn...!
Keiko: Huh...? What? ...
Investigator: No dozing off. You still don't get it, do you? Give it up.
Getting kicked down while being tied up and handcuffed was too much for poor Keiko.
Keiko: Nngh... *cough*
Investigator: Come on, cooperate. Or what, you want another shot?
She looks at the camera to be recording all of this mess to be going on right now for the investigator to be seeing.
Keiko: ...
Investigator: Huh? What about the camera? Are you thinking it can be used as video evidence?
It was hard to say because Keiko couldn't say anything at all.
Keiko: Ah...
He kicks her again.
Investigation: So you're not that dumb. Which is good, 'cause we get to take as much time as we NEED!
These guys were treating Keiko so badly.
Keiko: *cough* Nngh…! *wheeze*
He then reads on the crimes Keiko and her friends have committed, or so he thought...
Investigator: Obstruction of justice, blackmail, defamation, possession of weapons...Manslaughter too, yeah? Talk about the works. To think that all these crimes were led by a punk girl like this...And you seemed to be enjoying every second of it...Huh?
Keiko: (I was…enjoying it…? Everything's hazy…I can't remember...)
The man then undoes the cuff off of Keiko to do something for them.
Investigator: You should know your place. Sign here. It's a confession under your name.
Keiko: ...
Grabbing hold of Keiko's hand after she shoves it away...
Investigator: I see. I need your hand to sign this, but…I don't care if you end up losing your leg.
Keiko: Urgh...!
And in retaliation, the cop stomps on the protagonist's leg.
Investigator: Don't expect to walk out of here in one piece. We're going to make you understand…One must take full responsibility for their actions…
And so having no other choice, Keiko signs her full name. From getting kicked by force and to signing her own name, what can Keiko/Joker do from some crimes she didn't do like murdering someone? Never! Other things to steal others' hearts, maybe. Will help come around or what? Well, one does...a prosecutor lawyer named Sae Niijima comes to hear Keiko out for herself.
Police Detective: Excuse me, but this area's off-
Sae: I'm Niijima from the Public Prosecutors Office.
Police Officer: The Prosecutor's Office? What business do you have here?
Sae: Just let me through; it's urgent. There's something I need to confirm with the suspect.
Police Officer: Niijima-San, I believe this case is no longer in your jurisdiction. Besides…
Another male officer joins Sae to hand her his cell phone for a certain someone to call up. However, for some of the cops won't allow her in the other room to talk to the leader of the Phantom Thieves not even her boss of the SIU Director or the 'Director of District Public Prosecutor's Office' refuses for Sae to speak to Keiko, but that won't stop her to do her job in any way, so they allow it to make their talk short. That's so unfair.
Older Detective: Are you Prosecutor Sae Niijima? There's a call from your director. Hurry and get it over with. To be frank, you're being an inconvenience.
Sae gets a phone call on her cell to pass it on to her now.
SIU Director: *sigh* I thought I ordered you to stand by.]
Sae: I'm responsible for this case, yet I'm not even being allowed an interrogation!?
SIU Director: [I'm calling because I knew you'd bring it up.]
Sae: I will not be convinced unless I confirm it for myself. This is MY case.
SIU Director: *sigh* Good luck to you then. I won't be expecting much though.]
He hangs up afterwards...
Older Detective: Ah, Prosecutor. I forgot to mention something important. Your time will be cut short. We can't permit you to talk with her for long.
Sae: …..
Older Detective: It's for your own sake. Her methods are unknown. After all, we don't even know if it's safe to simply meet and speak with her.
She agrees to the terms to still do her job.
Sae: ...I understand.
For Sae enters the room to finally talk with one of the Phantom Thieves face to face, and to Sae's surprise to see one of the thieves she heard so much about trying to stop happens to be a teenager.
Keiko: ….
Sae: ...I didn't expect it would be you. Keiko Amamiya, is it? You'll be answering my questions this time.
Keiko: What...? Happening...?
From seeing Keiko's name and information on paper, Sae then sees a needle that was used on Keiko a little while ago. A sick way to make her tell the truth by force. Sae sticks by the law book, and never hurts criminals with violence.
Sae: Those bastards...
Sae then tries talking to Keiko to try to come around.
Keiko: Ouch...! My head hurts.
A lot to be badly drugged up, huh?
Sae: Can you hear me, Keiko? It seems you've been through a lot. Almost anything can happen here...and I can't stop them. That's why I need you to answer me honestly. I don't have much time either. What was your objective? Why did you cause such a major incident? I didn't think it was a prank from the get-go, but I couldn't assemble a case for prosecution. It's because I couldn't figure out the method behind it.
For Keiko to hear Sae talking to her to try feeling odd from her answers.
Keiko: Of course you couldn't...
Sae smirks a little to hear Keiko say something to her, at least to be responsive.
Sae: True. There's no way I can be convinced of such a..."world" just by reading the reports. At least you're coherent. When and where did you find out about that world? How is it even possible to steal another's heart? Now, tell me your account of everything...Start from the very beginning.
For Keiko, she has no choice but to tell Sae the whole story to slowly remember on what made her get caught and so on...But not before seeing a random butterfly to be different from the rest of the normal ones to soon be hearing a voice of a young girl.
Keiko: (Huh? What's that? A butterfly?)
Questioning herself about it, a child's voice spoke up from the random butterfly.
?: …Keiko Amamiya...You are held captive. A prisoner of fate to a future that has been sealed in advance. This is truly an unjust game...Your chances of winning are almost none. But if my voice is reaching you, Keiko, there may yet be a possibility open to you...I beg you. Please overcome the game...and save this world...The key to victory lies within the memories of your bonds – the truth that you and your friends grasped. It all began that day...when the game was started half a year ago...For the sake of your world's future...as well as your own...you must remember...
Once the voice is gone and the butterfly flies away from Keiko, she soon remembers how her whole event started about half a year ago when she was arriving somewhere in Japan to move out to somewhere else with some issues from her own event. Waking up to be sitting on a train to take her somewhere in the right area for a sixteen-year-old high school student named Keiko Amamiya. And to hear some rumors about metal breakdowns of some kind.
Speaker: [Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for riding with us today. We will be arriving in Shibuya shortly. This is the last stop for this line. Please transfer here for all subway lines. The doors to your left will open.]
Weird...As she also recalls on what brought her to this mess – from a drunken man who was harassing a woman to try to rape her, and to also be in danger.
Woman: Please! Help!
Keiko shoves the man aside to help out the girl, causing him to trip and fall down really hard to sue on Keiko who barely touched him.
Drunken Man: Damn brat...I'll sue!
And from then on, which causes Keiko to get arrested and transfer to a different school now because of it from getting expelled as a criminal. From something she didn't do but to save a woman's life to get in bigger trouble! So unfair! Arriving off the train to the next station to ride on to her destination, for her to be walking on a business day in the city.
Girl #1: What? Are you for real? A mental shutdown?
Girl #2: It's the truth!
Girl #1: To a person, though? That's gotta be a joke! You really love all that occult stuff, don't you?
Keiko then looks at her phone to see a black and red type of eyeball thing on her cell phone to get rid of it, but couldn't have the image get bigger on its own. To soon have time freeze up everything all over the area but herself...and then seeing blue flames from afar to be flaring out of nowhere of a type of creature; as Keiko sees an image of a beast, and then herself to look like a thing to soon be happening in the mere-future to have Keiko's look to be shown for a few seconds for sound and people to start moving around again. Looks like it was nothing, letting Keiko to delete the strange logo thing on her phone to see it was nothing.
Keiko: (Okay...? It felt like a dream there. Time freezing up, people stopping, and seeing strange fires? I have to sleep in a bit earlier from now on. I better get going.)
Coming across lots of people to get through the next train station, she passes by a male who looks and dresses important to be working somewhere else 'in a school uniform type of detective look' for them to stare at each other for a few seconds for time to slow down and then walking their separate ways afterwards. Yeah, the man is also very important way later...As for Keiko to keep on going to the place she needed to be right away next.
Keiko: (There's going to be a lot of strange people in Tokyo part of Japan to run into. I just know it.)
For this girl, she doesn't know the half of it as the real story begins for all of us to learn more on how Keiko became the leader of the Phantom Thieves to go by a code name – Joker. Also, she was born with some very strange powers which she's able to sense things out 'like people with ESP type of abilities, for it was very real to them to see and hear them for others cannot'. This is how the whole thing starts out for this girl.