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7/19
Pirateboi:
DUDES! There is a hacker group going after us! Mishima just texted me this mornin' bout it!
MemeQueen: Medjed to be exact.
ART: Medjed… The name comes from one of the obscure gods from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
MemeQueen: Dont worry, I got them.
Tricky&Kitty: … Morgana's saying you used to call yourself that?
Hakunon: She is the original.
MemeQueen: Mweheehe, give me a day and I'll take care of em.
Makoto: Please don't do anything illegal.
MemeQueen: Ok Mom.
Tricky&Kitty: Listen to your mother kids.
Tricky&Kitty-Hakunon
Tricky&Kitty:Hey Hakuno, Mishima wants to chat bout Medjed if ya got time.
Hakunon: Sure? How bout at lunch?
Tricky&Kitty: KK, will send him to the roof.
Hakunon- MemeQueen
Hakunon: Sorry about… last night Taba
MemeQueen: oui32htn
Hakunon:?
MemeQueen: ITS FINE
"Woooo." Hakuno had to drag the half-asleep model to school, Makoto had left as the first trains came back online, but the trio did enjoy breakfast together…
"Hakuno… you know you're already top of your class, I don't even want to know where I'm at…" Ann mumbled, "Between Futaba's and Kaneshrio's Palace I didn't even study until we crammed."
Hakuno rolled her eyes, "You did fine look." Ann did ok, with high marks in English and passing marks in everything else… "Except for Math…"
Ann's eyes quickly lit up as she looked at the board, "YES! Suck it Ryuji!"
"You did… acceptable," ruby red eyes glanced at the pair, "But I would hope for next time you make it well above the class average."
Ann stuck her tongue out, "I doubt it!"
Hakuno sighed, even she knew that what Makoto was asking for was an impossibility.
Morgana had decided to join Hakuno in the chat with Mishima as the pair arrived at the roof. Apparently, Akira was helping Ryuji hide from Makoto, the Student Council president saw his scores and was very upset. And Morgana smelled the sushi she had.
Moving two of the desks together as Hakuno waited she eyed Haru's flower pots, Maybe later she should come up and spend some time with the fluffy-haired girl.
"TUNAAAAA!" Morgana yowled as Hakuno passed him the single piece of tuna she had packed. The door slowly opened and Hakuno saw the unfamiliar black-haired boy peak out.
"Mishima?" Hakuno asked, she had only seen the boy once in a picture but was fairly confident in her memory.
"Oh uh…" He opened the door fully, stepping onto the roof as he checked his phone, "Kishinami-san?" The boy sounded unsure of himself… Morgana meowed causing Mishima to lock eyes with the cat, "Oh… Kurusu's cat…"
"Morgana." Hakuno cut in before the Not-A-Cat could complain.
Mishima looked bashful, "Sorry your Alibaba's friend?"
Hakuno nodded, "Yes… She should be helping you with the site now?"
Mishima's face switched from depressed to annoyed for a split second before settling on acceptance, "Yes… did you say she? A girl?" Mishima froze, "Wait no… Sorry, I um."
Hakuno nodded as she took a few bites of her food, "Yes… She hasn't caused you too much trouble has she?"
Hakuno's phone pinged but she ignored it.
Mishima's face turned to a grimace, "'Alibaba' kicked me out of the Admin role on the Phan-Site and made themselves Admin, and beefed up the site's security before handing the Admin role back."
Hakuno nodded "That's good."
"But… I got to ask… are you one of them?"
Hakuno blinked, Morgana turned his face towards Hakuno, "He already knows about the Phantom Thieves…"
Hakuno shrugged.
Mishima's eyes glimmered, "I know keep it a secret! Though… someone younger than me is…" He continued to mumble for a few moments his voice too low for Hakuno to hear, but from the expression Morgana was making it didn't sound too good…
"Medjed?" Hakuno asked, that was the reason he wanted to meet…
That snapped him out of it, "Yeah… uh," He glanced around a small sound came from behind the AC unit but he began to talk, "Kurusu-kun mentioned you can take care of it?"
Hakuno nodded, giving another piece of her lunch to Morgana, "Yes… Alibaba can take care of it."
"Cool cool…" He seemed to deflate slightly, "You guys…" He sighed. Hakuno admits she isn't the most emotionally intuitive person in their group, by far that belongs to Akira, but even she can see that Mishima needs a bit of reassurance.
"The Phantom Thieves aren't replacing you."
Morgana purred, "He may be a weirdo but he's a useful one!"
"Oh hush you."
Mishima stood stock still, "Then… why haven't the Phantom Thieves been doing my requests?"
Hakuno paused, "Some jobs take a bit longer than others…" Morgana looked up.
"We can't tell him too much. We got to keep an air of mystery."
"To get… Alibaba on our side we had to do a favor for someone, that mixed with Kaneshiro…" Mishima's expression changed to one of understanding.
"I see… so the bigger the target the longer it takes?"
Hakuno nodded, "You can say that."
Mishima nodded, a pep in his step, "It makes sense now! Ok… so Medjed will be taken care of by Alibaba right? You guys were already a step ahead of those phonies."
Hakuno shrugged "In a way? We just got lucky…" Now that she was thinking about it, Hakuno did find it strange that a person that randomly calls themselves Futaba's old name, mixed with Futaba was adopted by Akira's caretaker before he moved in…
Mishima had believed her as he had a large smile that made Hakuno slightly uncomfortable… "Hey, lunch is almost over!" Morgana spoke up.
"I think we should be heading back to class?" Mishima reluctantly nodded.
"Yeah…" Morgana purred as he stretched, "Get Mishima to take me back to Akira!"
Hakuno glanced at the Site Admin, "Can you bring Morgana to Akira? He likes to hide in bags…"
Mishima glanced at Morgana, uncertainty crossing his face but he nodded, "I guess?"
"You can contact Alibaba if you need help on the IT side of things…" Futaba should be ok online? And Mishima wouldn't be a stranger for too long…
Most likely. She does binge-play MMOs and other competitive games…Futaba had shown her the vast collection she has on her PC when she was first over. Hakuno had packed away her bento and closed the door behind the trio as they left the roof.
A girl in a red tracksuit peeked out from behind the AC unit, her brown eyes looking over the now-empty roof.
"That was close…" She hid behind the unit once she heard Hakuno approaching, while she was allowed on the roof, most other students weren't and were hesitant to see who would skirt the rules and come to the roof…
Once she saw it was her friend she debated on coming out until the boy came… She was afraid that if she did it would be interrupting a confession. But the AC unit was loud and she could only hear a few parts of the conversation…
… "The Phan-Site…"
Hakunon: Mishima is… unique? Might be time for some Mementos runs? He seemed upset about us not going recently…
Tricky&Kitty: We do have a lot of requests piling up…
MemeQueen: Busy with Medjed, go without me.
Pirateboi: LETS GO!
Makoto: Don't pretend I didn't see your scores Ryuji, but… I need to blow off some steam as well.
Catburglar: Am so ready to light things on fire!
Tricky&Kitty: Got new gear as well!
Makoto: Where do you even get our gear?
Tricky&Kitty: Iwai's place, and a specific set of twins…
Hakunon: Justine and Caroline?
Pirateboi: The creepy invisible kids you talk about sometimes?
Tricky&Kitty: Dont let them hear that.
Hakunon: But… the twins are sweet?
Catburglar: Hakuno, your the only other person that can see these 'twins'
Hakunon:...
MemeQueen: Invisible kids?... Kind of wanna see them.
Makoto: Yusuke hasn't responded in chat for a while… Has anyone heard from him?
MemeQueen: He is online.
Tricky&Kitty: You good Yusuke?
ART: Ah yes my apologies, I found this most interesting Pinguicula in front of this home. Do you think the owner would mind if I took it to the dorm?
Makoto: Leave the carnivorous plant alone Yusuke.
The familiar blue flames covered her body as her outfit changed… The twins were both in the corner as they began to walk towards her, they heard the arriving sound of a car?
Could it be Jose appearing? Ann did mention he was found in Memntos…
The twins bounded over, their single golden eye peering over the railing as a new child appeared driving a toy car. Plastic-looking grey hair, doll-like features wearing a white outfit… Goggles covered his yellow eyes. Taking them off he froze as Hakuno made eye contact with him.
Steps echoed in Mementos as Joker and Mona came into the area.
"Mister…? Who's this?"
"My code-name is Magus," Hakuno spoke, the boy flinched she was unsure why the boy seemed hesitant… The twins were also hesitant when she first met them… Why did the strange supernatural kids fear her?
"Mona… did I scare you too?"
Mona's blue eyes darted between the two, "NO! I mean, you hearing me was weird but you didn't scare me! Guess that proves I'm not a kid like you!" Morgana haughtily pointed at the boy in the car.
"...Sorry Ma'am, but something about you is real scary!" Hakuno glanced at the boy, unsure of what he meant…
"The Inmate's friends are almost as intriguing as the Inmate himself," Justine added, "I believe it's your ability that is similar to our own. To be able to manipulate the forces of cognition to your own whims is not what a normal human can do. But that aura has lessened recently…"
Caroline sighed as she spoke, "If only we can show you what we do, of course, what we do is leagues more important, but…" Caroline shrugged, "Seeing your delicate work was different than ours…" Justine coughed lightly into her hand.
"Caroline… The Inmate has yet to mention such things, remember that place is one of his own heart, he should be the one to reveal its Mysteries." Justine spoke slowly, and calmly but that had left Hakuno even more questions as Caroline huffed and disappeared.
Maybe she left the Metaverse? But Justine was just… standing there as well…
"Your finesse is incredibly amazing, but I do wish you would use larger instruments…" How would she be able to do things with large items? Where did the twins even store large things? She saw them pull tables out of nowhere… but did they have something similar to her Regalia?
Joker flinched as he approached her, whispering, "Please don't show them anything gruesome… Seeing that chainsaw once was scary enough…"
Chainsaw?
Hakuno glanced at the boy she guessed was Jose, and Mona as the latter taunted the boy, "Anyways Mister! I heard it's common to do physical affection when you haven't seen your friend in so long!" The boy jumped out of his car and hugged Joker.
"Ah! Almost forgot!" Jose rummaged in his car's trunk, before pulling out some sort of netting and handing it to Joker. "Be careful! Something has been spreading nets throughout Mementos! Whatever it is it's deeper than what we can get to but I recommend keeping an eye out! Bye now!"
He honked his toy car's horn and drove down into the depths of Mementos, Hakuno still wasn't too sure what just happened, Joker shrugged as he walked over to wear Justine stood as she disappeared as well.
"I know that look of his…" Morgana sighed, "We got a few minutes." Familiar footsteps as the rest of the group arrived. Joker continued to stare into the corner that Justine disappeared into as Queen clapped her hands.
"Ok, so we got a lot of requests, we might have to make a second trip with this amount…"
Skull placed a book on Joker's head.
Mona looked at Skull, then back at Joker.
Mona rummaged into one of his many pouches as he pulled out a bundle of rope and using impressive acrobatics jumped on top of Skull's shoulder to place it on top of the book.
Fox seemed very intrigued and began to sketch it out. The not-a-cat and blonde pirate kept adding things to their frozen leader.
Hakuno questioning gaze landed on Panther and Queen who the former, looked on with an amused smile, "They do this when he gets like that too long."
Queen sighed, "You guys are such children."
Hakuno stared outside the Monamobile as she noticed faint black nets on the ceiling that Joker expertly stayed away from.
"Shouldn't Queen drive as she has her license?" Hakuno felt like it would make the most sense, she was the only one trained.
"While he is untrained he does drive well, I don't think I could pull off the jerky" The van dodged a net as it fell to the ground, "movement."
"I can see it." Joker said, "The nets as they fall shine brightly, I wonder who or what set them up…"
"I wonder if it could be the Black Mask person…" Panther said, "Perhaps it's a way to trap us?"
"Hmm… It would make sense but didn't Jose say something about it being deep in Mementos?" Hakuno added something about the nets reminded her of something but she couldn't think of it.
"Maybe it's what stole my memories?" Mona spoke through the speakers, "Distortion is close I can smell it!" Hakuno shrugged as she did a mental checklist ensuring that she was ready for another Shadow fight.
Three men were in an office, a large window showing a majority of Tokyo, one was wearing a pitch black suit and had orange sunglasses, while another was wearing a pristine cheap grey suit, and the third final man was wearing an old weathered greying security guard uniform, a faint glimmer shone on his chest.
"What do you mean that they've failed already." A fist slammed on the desk echoing the man's disapproval.
"Sir… It was leaked online that they would go after them!" The man stuttered as he spoke, his fear evident.
"Did those fools even announce it before it got taken over!?"
"Well no but…" The man was cut off.
"Completely useless!" Fists once more slammed against the desk, as the wood cracked under the force. "What about you," The man spat, "What 'news' do you useless shits have."
The third man stood straighter, his slight hunch correcting as his voice gravelly spoke, "The storm damaged an outer wall of the prison, allowing a few inmates to escape… All were recaptured of course, and the blame was pushed onto the failing archaic architect of the current government. I would not be surprised if the current Director will leave his post in disgrace."
The man at the desk looked in thought for a moment before leaning back on his chair, his orange sunglasses hiding his eyes as he smirked, "That's… perfect."
Author's Note:
Huh. Wonder what they are talking about…
So news for the Fanfic, the planned release day is going to move to Sundays, due to a new work schedule. I should still be able to keep churning out chapters in a decent speed but Sunday will probably be the day that they come out.
This is tomorrow's chapter as I will be away from my computer for a few days though.