[TartoonHand94]

(W42ec3GSp_1d20+1 Charizard's Dodge of Maragion.)
(p_1d20+1 Charizard's Dodge of Maragion.)
(p_1d20+1 Charizard's Dodge of Maragion.)

Charizard grunted in discomfort as it was hit and burnt by the Maragion spell. The proud Flame Pokémon was largely undeterred by the damage it took, but the look in its eye made clear it was mildly annoyed with its opponent and did not quite care to waste time with them much longer.
Equally impatient with this battle, Red ordered Charizard to scoop up Cultist A and C and knock them into each other to knock them out.
“Char!”

(p_1d20+2 Charizard's Air Slash @ Chiaki Cultist A; Does 8% Damage.)
(p_1d20+2 Charizard's Air Slash @ Chiaki Cultist C; Does 8% Damage.)
(p_1d20+2 Charizard's Air Slash Clash hitting Chiaki Cultists A and C together. Does 16% Damage.)

With them down, Red commanded Charizard to use the very hall itself against the smug remainder. In an act of disrespect to the very facility they were in, Charizard pierced its razor-sharp claws into the very walls of the tunnel and scooped out a heavy chunk of concrete using its outstanding arm muscles.
“Zard!” Digging itself a concrete boulder to play with, Charizard proceeded to use its own horned head to bash the stone apart, crumbling it into a rockslide of debris with which to shower the third cult member.

(p_1d20+1 Charizard's Rock Smash @ Chiaki Cultist B. Does 22% Damage and 40% chance of inflicting Stunned status.)

	Red	Charizard
HP	0%	60%
Status	Normal	Burnt

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[KashKey]

"Well, that was sad. This is why experience will always come out on top."

As Linne turned towards the... Fairies... She would forever deny she stopped dead in her tracks.



Witnessing fairies of all things casually throw her healing water and a hair to burn up to call for help completely shut her mind down. After all, how do you respond to a situation like that?! She'd opened it expecting some kind of monstrosity to come tearing out and tear the cultist's faces off or something not... THIS! And then once they were done explaining the items they just LEFT! They flew off like it was the most normal thing in the world! And as if things weren't getting weird enough, right as she turned to enter the building, stowing the items away, she was promptly interrupted by a very FAT, and very LOUD fairy... Pixie... THING.

Living for several hundred years had not prepared Linne for this day. She would just tell her that she saved the pixies here and they flew off, then run inside before it had a chance to follow, so she could get her head back on straight. Simple plan, but it should work.

"Your sisters aren't here anymore. I rescued them, and they have now flew off. If you'll excuse me, I have other things to do."

Once she said that, she charged as much EXS into her legs as she could muster without running out later, she dashed inside, and slammed the door shut, really not wanting to deal with that further.

[Deleted]

"What!?" Julia was in shock not helped by the fact that Linne had reentered the building soon after which ticked Julia off. "Oh pixie dust, you come back here right n--" But before Julia could finish, the door slammed in front of her and caused her to "flutter" down into the ground where she would quickly fall into an abandoned gutter.

Now that Julia was not bothering Linne anymore, she can work on urgent matters at hand. There were two paths that she could choose from, which would lead into stairways, one that would take her to the floors above the building where Red and Mitsuru were. Or down into the lower floors where Akihiko, Akechi and Tomoko are being held prisoner, maybe if she's lucky she could try and save the trio?

Either way the choice is up to he---"We must make sure things are...Ready for the event." The voice of Takaya ran through the stairs leading down into the building. It sounded like they were coming towards Linne, which meant that she should hide in the halls before Strega enters...And cause problems for Linne. It seems that the rest of the cult members were also getting ready for the meeting that was mentioned earlier as well.

(You must roll a DEX 18 in order to successfully hide from the members of the Strega.)

---

Akechi breathed heavily, thinking that he wouldn't anymore when the gunfire fired. To his surprise, the gunfire did not kill him, in fact, it missed him as the bullet pierced the wall. And Shido smiled at his son. "Whats wrong...You actually think I would end my legacy by putting you out of you're misery?" Shido smirked.

"Don't be ridiculous, I would never kill a member of my family bloodline." He then grabbed Akechi's hair and lifted him upwards.



"Please...Stop." Akechi begged.

"Even if my son is a bastard...I'm not leaving here until you're a quivering mess. Just like you always were, and that mask that you always wear breaks into pieces." He then slammed Akechi on the table. Causing him to cry out in pain as Shido looked down at him.

"Such a mistake on mankind." He whispered into Akechi's ear as his son looked away. Wanting this to all end.

---

THE TAKAHASHI PROJECT: ATTEMPT 3

It was a bright day at the manor, despite the gloominess of yesterday when the groups second attempt to contact the second world had fell through and they got a weird message that someone was coming to they're world. Everyone in the team, mostly Matsuki and Hitomi ignored the message and wanted to make the gateway happen no matter what, this time, they were going to try and create one in the foyer of the manor as Bunta watched.

"Right, if this works, we may be able to create the first gateway to the human world and perhaps the world of the supernatural. The last spirit sighting was in this foyer, let us try and see if the spirit will al---Hey look!" Matsuki interrupted Hitomi as they looked up, and everyone in the room gasped in surprise over what they're seeing.



It was a large glowing ball that was changing colour. The scientists and guards were confused as to why such a thing appeared. "Why is they're a ball in the air?" Matsuki asked out loud as he, Hitomi and Bunta walked closer to it.

"What the hell?" Bunta muttered out, as the ball suddenly crashed into the ground. Causing everyone in the foyer to scream.

As the manor was quickly engulfed in a strange light...And vanished, leaving nothing but a large crater behind.

---

After the events with Strega, Tomoko looked at the bars of the jail cell as Akihiko remained quiet. She realised that she can easily open the cell with her spellbook and turned towards Akihiko. "Ok, they're gone." Tomoko approached Akihiko.

"Those bars that are keeping us prisoner are not going to last. I can easily get us out of here and we can hopefully reunite with everyone and find my fathers before making a getaway from this hellhole." Tomoko revealed her plans...But Akihiko remained quiet which Tomoko quickly realised. "Hey, are you ok?...After what they said, you've been quiet since..." Tomoko asked as Akihiko continued to remain silent.

Tomoko sadly looked down. "I'm sorry, with whatever happened to Shinji in you're timeline. He must of been a very close friend of yours, and it sickens me that someone like...Takaya, would of hurt him. And did those things to alternate versions of you and you're friends. I mean, poop, what he must of did I can't even begin to picture it." Tomoko looked away from Akihiko, feeling very bad about whats happening.

"Its...Ok...But Takaya." He soon stood up and looked at Tomoko. "He somehow knows you...How? What did that bastard do to you?" He sounded angry again as Tomoko looked back at Akihiko...And sighed.

"I...I don't want to talk about it. Right now we should avoid what they want to do to us if we stay here any longer." Tomoko looked sad as she slowly looked back at Akihiko.

Who nodded. "Fine, I won't bother you about it for now. Let's just get the hell out of here." Akihiko moved past Tomoko and towards the jail cell.

"I'm not going to let those bastards hurt us any longer, were getting out of here now." Akihiko then realised that the trio had already taken his evoker, fortunately Tomoko simply brought the cell down thanks to an aqua spell from her spellbook.

Allowing the two to quickly escape. "Guess they didn't account that I had a spellbook." She spoke as the two walked out of the room and began they're search for the other members of the group.

---

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p_1d20+3(Hit.)

p_1d20+3(Dodge.)

p_1d20+3(Hit.)

CHIAKI CULTIST A
HP: 7%
Status: None
Items: None

CHIAKI CULTIST C
HP: 6%
Status: None
Items: None

CHIAKI CULTIST B
HP: DEFEATED
Status: Stunned
Items: None


The second cultist fell over thanks to Red's Charizard knocking him over as Mitsuru looked over at the two. "Good job." She then proceeded to cast vorpal blade on the stunned cultist. Causing him to be knocked out from the attack that he didn't have time to dodge from. "That just leaves two of the cultists left." Mitsuru looked at the remaining two cultists.

"You monster, you just killed our friend!" One of the two remaining cultists cried out as Mitsuru rolled her eyes. "I merely just knocked him out. I try my best to avoid murder." Mitsuru countered back as she tried to finish off the two remaining cultists that stand in the trios way.

p_1d20+5(Vorpal Blade > Cultist A.)

p_1d20+5(Vorpal Blade > Cultist B.)

p_1d20+3(Hit.)

p_1d20+3(Hit.)

CHIAKI CULTIST A
HP: DEFEATED
Status: None
Items: None

CHIAKI CULTIST C
HP: DEFEATED
Status: None
Items: None

After delivering the final two blows onto the last two cultists, Mitsuru turned towards Red. "Let's keep going. If Linne is not on the rooftops of this lair then i'm afraid we must go back down in order to look for her and the others. Even if we run into more cultists on the way." Mitsuru told Red as she quickly raced towards the rooftops.

Only to prove that her theory was right and that Linne was gone. "Damn, she must of left. Or was captured. I hope the latter isn't true." She then tried to use her persona to try and find the four again.

"Wait, i'm detecting that they're four people on the main floor." She looked back at Red and Charizard. "We should go and check it out. For all we know the others could be trapped down there." Mitsuru continued to speak as she started to make her trek down to the main floor of the building. Noticing how quiet the halls have become along the way.

"Strange, there's no sign of any of the other cultists anywhere. Do you think that the meeting will start soon?" She asked the trainer and the pokemon, she mostly asked the question to Red however.

---

Mitsuru Kirijo: 30%
1d20+3·1d20+3·1d20+3·1d20+3·1d20+5·1d20+5·1d20+3·1d20+3

[TartoonHand94]

“Zard!” As Charizard roared over the unconscious bodies of the cultists, Red rolled his eyes at what they had accused him of. Neither he nor his Pokémon have ever killed anyone; they merely make them faint. In spite of this, he subtly did a double-take at the unconscious cultists’ bodies to make sure they were still breathing. They were, so there was nothing left to care about.

Back to the matter of actual concern, they had captured allies to save. Red briskly followed Mitsuru’s lead toward the rooftops. After all that running however, time proved to have been wasted. Linne was gone. Had she not been a human, perhaps walking a lap or three across the roof and checking every corner of it would trigger a random encounter with her. But what human would behave in such a manner?

It looks like they were going back down after all. Red was more than ready to take down another squad of cultists, only he wondered if he had still had the right Pokémon out for the job. Trekking down to the main floor of the building, Red noticed it was quiet…too quiet…save for the thumping food steps, lashing wing flaps and steaming breath of Charizard. Mitsuru's Persona already had tracking duties covered and as adept as he was for confrontation, the noise that came with Charizard being out only served to give away their position and provide ample time for the cult to set up an ambush.

With this in mind, the hefty, towering orange dragon soon disappeared into a small red and white ball, and in its place soon stood a small blue turtle-like Pokémon.
“Squirtle?” Squirtle quietly asked, taking in his cavernous surroundings. Finding Red with his finger to his lips, Squirtle immediately understood this was a stealth mission, and changed his stance accordingly.
Red looked back at Mitsuru with a sombre clench, agreeing that the meeting will start soon and should be ended before it begins. They should locate the meeting room and bum rush it the instant their allies are retrieved, provided they can retrieve their allies without alerting the higher ups and compelling them to cancel it altogether.
“…”

	Red	Squirtle
HP	0%	0%
Status	Normal	Normal

[KashKey]

Two paths, both equally viable options... Or so she initially thought. A voice. By the event it sounded like this was an important scenario... The same sacrifice the pixies she rescued were planned for, perhaps? Well then, they weren't going to be happy that she already interfered on that front. But first things first ,she had to avoid another fight. This was an empty hall as well, so it only left one option...

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Quickly channeling more EXS into her legs, Linne charged int he EXACT DIRECTION of the voices, and jumped over the heads of the people approaching her faster than one could react. She had moved fast enough and thrown herself down the stairs, landing without a sound, completely undected with the exception of the gust of wind that would blow into the trio's faces. Unfortunately, this choice had also made the choice on the direction she was going for her, so, down the stairs she went, crouching, and prepared to slit the neck of any foe she came across with Nameless.1d20+5

[Deleted]

Takaya, Jin and Chidori reached the hallway where Linne was earlier. Just barely missing the girl as she managed to jump over the trio without them spotting her. "Did you...Feel something?" Chidori asked her team members who turned towards her.

"I actually felt something from once above me. It's probably just the wind." Jin guessed what it was while Takaya and Chidori agreed.

"This place were in does feel like...The sweet embrace of death. Which we will witness again soon." He told his members of his group as the trio turned forward and walked down further down into the hallway.

Just as Mitsuru ran down the stairs with Red. "Crap, we must of missed them again. They couldn't have gone far by now, let's keep looking." She told Red as she decided to run down the stairs to look for the missing members of the group.

---

Meanwhile near Linne. Akihiko and Tomoko would be running down the halls. Knowing that most of the members of the cult were not nearby. "Hopefully the other members in our group were not captured. We can find them in no time if nobody like Takaya slows us down Akihiko." Tomoko told Akihiko...Who remained quiet.

So quiet in fact, that Tomoko stopped running and wondered why Akihiko was being quiet. "Akihiko?" She turned and saw Akihiko standing near her. Looking down and quiet.

"Akihiko?" Tomoko called out to her partner. Walking slightly towards him to see what was wrong.

He grabbed his hands, holding himself as Tomoko continued to look at him. "I...Thought I avenged him, by stopping them from getting to Nyx. Not only are they still alive, but they killed another version of us. Tortured us until we snapped...They tried to break us to the point that they killed us...Killed him...Again...And we couldn't stop them." Akihiko clenched his fists.

"GOD DAMMIT!"

He turned and punched his already bleeding fist into the wall, causing the wall to crack as Akihiko punched it again. Drawing blood as he continued to punch it. Not caring if his fists were broken, he wanted to find Strega and avenge his friends, the one that died in that timeline, it wasn't fair that they had to win.

"Akihiko you're fists!" Tomoko raced and grabbed his arms. "If you keep punching you're fists into the wall like that the skins around you're hands are going to turn into nothing but bone...Please...You shouldn't hurt yourself because of Takaya!" Tomoko insisted as Akihiko stopped punching the wall.

He...Was tearing up as Tomoko noticed. He backed away. "God dammit..." He leaned back on the wall and laid down on the floor. He covered his bloody hands to try and stop the tears. He didn't care if the blood will get on his face.

He just...He just didn't want the same fate to happen to anyone here. Shinji died twice, in two undignified deaths along with everyone in the alternate timeline that the Strega from LI came from...

He wished...That day on October 4th, that he should of been the one that got shot instead of him. Maybe, it would of saved Shinjiro, it would of made everyone in SEES so happy to see him being alive...Even if it would of cost Akihiko his own life.

"God dammit...I...I never knew what I wanted to do until the day I lost Shinji. When I was with him at the funeral...I realised that I didn't want what happened to Shinji to happen to anyone...But even then. I couldn't even stop those bastards from getting to Shinji...And killing him, and Ken...He almost died that night..." Akihiko revealed to Tomoko as she sat beside him.

She didn't understand what happened to Akihiko in his world. But she still wanted to be they're for him. He needed someone right now as they couldn't find anyone else, not yet at least. Akihiko knew that he couldn't of done this at the worse time.

"Grr, why the fuck am I even crying. Were supposed to be finding you're fathers. So they don't suffer a worse fate then what happened to everyone in that...Timeline...Grr, Whats the point of doing this. When I couldn't even save anyone in that timeline...I was helpless...I was...Worthless..." Akihiko closed his eyes, he felt alone.

But Tomoko refused to let Akihiko be alone in this and lit up a small fire using an agi spell in front of the two.

"Sanda-kun...If i'm using these honorifics right...You're not worthless." Tomoko reassured Akihiko who looked at Tomoko.

"You're just saying that to make me feel better." Akihiko bitterly stated as Tomoko shook her head.

"No. Look, I don't know what happened in you're world, but please. You can't blame yourselves for what happened, i'm sure Shinji's death wasn't you're fault. You shouldn't feel guilty for something you couldn't prevent. I'm sure, Shinji doesn't want you to have this guilt inside you. He wants you to be strong, he wants you to never give up hope and protect the people you love. Like Mitsuru and all the friends you made on Li." Tomoko let go of Akihiko's hand.

And sighed. "I...I need to tell you something, about Takaya." Tomoko decided that now was the time to tell him the truth...

Meanwhile Mitsuru would arrive at the bottom of the stairs to find Linne. "You must be Linne I presume?" Mitsuru asked the girl in the yellow jacket. Loud enough for Tomoko and Akihiko to hear the two at the other end of the hall.

"That must be Kirijo-chan." Akihiko pointed out, the two stood up.

"Hey." Akihiko looked at Tomoko as she turned. "You don't...Have to talk about this right now. About Takaya, we could do this in private or..." Tomoko shook her head.

"No, we should wait until we get everyone together before we tell them about Takaya. I have a feeling were going to have new threats come to Li. But come on, were all going to rescue my dads together, including you Akihiko...It's time for you to beat up some shitheads that are going to stand in my way in saving my dads." Tomoko turned back to Akihiko who smirked.

"About time." The two quickly ran forward to join up with the others, with them presumably thinking that Akechi is also with them as well.

---

Mitsuru Kirijo: 30%

[TartoonHand94]

“…?” Red did a double take behind him thinking he had heard something. With his trust in Mitsuru’s Persona’s lead, he and Squirtle continued to follow them in search of their allies.

As a seasoned Pokémon trainer, Red was quite used to thoroughly scowering areas and endlessly backtracking through puzzling terrain for hours on end in hopes of one random encounter to find something he was looking for. Thus he was right at home in this situation, as bothersome and redundant as it might be.

	Red	Squirtle
HP	0%	0%
Status	Normal	Normal

[KashKey]

She would never say such... But Linne heard the entire conversation. She had been about to reveal her presence when the two began to converse of guilt, and preventing the unpreventable. It... Struck closer to home than they probably realized. They spoke of friends that had perished, the guilt of being unable to act... It honestly hurt more than she wanted to think about. She knew she was supposed to break up the conversation, give Senada some kind of pep talk, since they were part of her group... But instead she found herself engaging in some introspection.

(I should say something to break him out of his funk, get the mission on schedule, but at the same time... Who am I to talk? I had a chance to end a cycle of suffering that brought lives to their end, only to be replaced with my own... And I didn't take it. I don't regret training Hyde to survive the Hollow Night... But at the same time... I let my connection to the world get the better of me. I'm still alive. That in itself is probably far greater than his inability to save one man... I don't have the right to lecture him to get him back together...)

"You must be Linne, I presume?"

"Eh?!"

Damnit, she had gotten distracted again. She's gotten too good at falling into introspection, first during down time in an elementary school, now during a mission. This was getting ridiculous... Oh crap, that had been her thinking, but how much of it had she actually SAID? Did Mitsuru hear any of it? ... She had better hope not. Little did she know, what had leaked out of her own personal dialogue, was the following: ((I should say something to break him out of his funk, get the mission on schedule, but at the same time... Who am I to talk? I had a chance to end a cycle of suffering that brought lives to their end, only to be replaced with my own... And I didn't take it.) That short sentence alone had leaked out, and unless someone commented on it, she would be none the wiser.

"Y-Yeah, I'm Linne. You snuck up on me there..."

She glanced at the other two who had ran up to them.

"Since it would appear we're... No, we're still missing one. I take it something went wrong after you 5 entered the building? Since there's only 5... None of you are Akechi-San, correct? Because I heard he had been captured from two cultists who tried to attack me on the roof."

[Deleted]

Hitomi woke up after the large light had covered the manor, she didn't know where she was. Or where everyone went, when the light had hit her, she grew dizzy and fell back, before waking back up...In her bedroom in the manor. But she was the only one here, as Bunta or Matsuki were nowhere to be found. "Bunta-kun!?" Hitomi called out as she moved from the bed she was lying on and walked towards the door. She quickly opened it.

The lights in the hallway were off, and broken...By something, not helped that a few seconds later. Hitomi would begin to hear screaming coming from the floor below her. Worried, she raced towards the drawer in the bedroom and got out a revolver...Which she brought for safety reasons. Each employee of the company she works for has one of these to protect themselves, especially following the accident and the death of the head of the company.

And even then, the new head, who is said to be the daughter of the one that had recently died. Might decide to take away everyone's weapons in the future. So it was better late then never to use it now on whatever is attacking everyone downstairs. Hitomi closed the drawer and raced out of the bedroom to find the others.

When she got to the stairs, she looked down at horror in what she was seeing.

"Oh my god."

Everyone in the group was getting attacked by different kinds of demons. From Jack Frosts to Angels, they were attacking any humans they saw in there sight. Slaying them from left and right as the demons laughed over how the humans were easy to kill. Hitomi was scared as she approached the bottom of the stairs, knowing that these demons would head upstairs and find her either way, as she prepared to attack.

She felt something grab her and drag her into the kitchen near the stairs. Causing Hitomi to yelp.

The person that grabbed her was fortunately her husband. "Bunta-kun!?" Hitomi was scared.

But Bunta reassured his wife. "Shh, we need to get out of here." Bunta told his wife. Who was confused.

"But what about the others, those...Monsters are trying to kill them, and Matsuki. I didn't see him anywhere at the foyer." Hitomi asked as Bunta revealed what happened when the light consumed the manor.

"We...Can't save them Hitomi, the monsters have them now...That light must of transported us to they're world...Which were stuck in now. I couldn't find Matsuki either, so we just need to have hope and pray that he got away." Bunta turned forward towards the back door of the manor.

Hitomi shook her head in denial. "No..." She looked up to her husband, realising that he was right and that everyone except for her, him and perhaps Matsuki were now dead now...They were the only humans left in this world so far.

The married couple raced towards the back door and as they got out of the manor.

They gasped at what they were seeing.



"This is...The demon world..."

---

Akechi closed his eyes, wondering if he thought hard enough it would be over...This mission would be all over and his group would break into the room any second and stop all of this...He smiled. But a cold hard slap from Shido brought him out of reality. "Stop looking away from me, i'm trying to talk to you!" Shido yelled at his son who was pulled by his hair to look at his father.

He closed his eyes, which he slowly opened to see the angered look of his father. "This is reality, and you can't escape it...But don't worry...If you don't want to be here anymore...I will gladly help you bring you back to her again..." Shido smiled.

"It's better this way...You would finally get what you want and I won't have to think about a brat like you anymore...Do you accept this?" Shido asked Akechi...Who remained quiet. He was tearing up. "Nobody will miss you, in fact, you could say that you're team will be better to have you gone. Everyone in that sphere will find out sooner or later of what you did...To Mr Okmura, to all of those people you killed...I heard that Kurusu is in the sphere..." Shido continued to smile.

"Now that you will...Vanish...Maybe I should see that prick that put me in jail. And finish what you failed to do...Blowing his brains out." Shido sounded excited for that idea...But Akechi was not.

"Don't you dare..." He broke out of his restraints, Shido suddenly stopped smiling. 

"Excuse me?" Shido asked as Akechi gave him a furious look.

"I SAID DON'T YOU DARE HURT HIM!" He stood up and punched Shido as hard as he could, causing him to fall backwards from his chair and cry out in pain. Akechi raced towards the door and quickly bashed it open, to reveal the same broken down corridors that he was in before...But he heard voices from before.

Which was everyone from his team. But before he could go and follow them, he turned back towards his father.

"No father...You were the mistake...You...You were the reason why she isn't here now...I miss her everyday...But you caused her to take her own life...Because of the scorn we've had over my status...Over what you've done, and now you were trying to convince me to do the same thing? I would never do that...Especially if you were the one to take my life...You will never take my life...Or my friends life. I have friends...They care for me, and maybe...He also still cares, even with what I did..." He wiped away the tears rolling down his cheeks.

And looked down at his father.

"If I ever see you in the Life Sphere...I will give you a fate that's worse then death or getting infected by that...Parasitic plague that is tormenting this planet. You're not a hero...And you're not a father either...You're nothing but a pile of trash." Wit that, Akechi turned and left the room without another word. As Shido took in with what Akechi had just said.

And he was not going to let his son get away that easily...He looked at the gun at the side of the room and reached for it.

There was still a few bullets left...Perfect.

---

As the rest of the group reunited, Mitsuru had caught wind of what Linne had just said. As she saw that Akihiko and Tomoko were approaching the group, while relieved to see that the two were ok, she was not happy with the fact that not only was Akechi not with them, but judging by the fact that his evoker is not by his pocket, that Akihiko had lost the only thing that he can use to summon a persona.

But before that, she looked back down at Linne.

"Did you say something just now...About someone crying and something about the cycle of suffering?" Mitsuru asked Linne as Tomoko and Akihiko looked uncomfortable as Mitsuru looked back at Akihiko. "Akihiko. Your evoker...What happened to it?" She also asked Akihiko as he quickly spoke back.

"They took it, Strega, those bastards are back...But...There the ones from our world." Akihiko revealed to the group as Tomoko remained silent. Mitsuru was stunned.

"Wh-What? Are you sure?" Mitsuru asked as Akihiko clenched his teeth as Tomoko stood forward.

"Yes, one of them is called Takaya right? One of them was wearing a shirt and odd coloured jeans. One had blue hair and was carrying a suitcase. And another was a girl with long red hair, like yours, and she was wearing a long white dress." Tomoko asked as Mitsuru remained stunned.

She held onto a piece of the wall next to Red. "N-No..." She looked down at the ground.

"They...Took my evoker...And dammit, in there world those bastards apparently tortured us all to death...They left me and Shinji for last...And our leader...I...I don't want to talk about what they did again." He looked away as Mitsuru calmed herself.

Now was the not the time to freak out, they still needed to find Akechi and Tomokos fathers. "Obel-chan...Did you find out anything about Akechi-san and you're fathers whereabouts?" She asked Tomoko before looking at Linne. "You too Linne, did you find anything?" She asked as the group suddenly heard the sounds of footsteps coming from behind Akihiko and Tomoko.

When the two turned, they would be glad to find that it was Akechi who approached the group. Akihiko and Tomoko were glad to see that Akechi was alright...But Mitsuru looked weary, remembering the incident at Pokemon Cove again.

"Akechi, you're ok!" Tomoko sounded relived, as Akechi looked exhausted.

"What happened...Jesus Christ, you look beaten up." Akihiko watched as Akechi fell to his knees. He approached him and sat next to him. "It's...Going to be alright." He reassured Akechi as he looked down at his hands.

He remained silent...Only muttering one word. "Father..." Was the word he muttered, as the group would hear another thing. This time it was the sound of something falling by the stairs, when the group turned they would now see an item at the bottom of the stairs.



An evoker...Which was Akihikos. "Akihiko." Mitsuru leaned down to pick up the evoker. "This is..." Mitsuru realised something and began to step away.

"Oh no." Tomoko slightly moved back...

As Takaya, Jin and Chidori walked down until they were not facing the now reunited group. Soon after, Shido slowly approached the group from the dark hallways. Brandishing his revolver as he pointed it at the group, the group turned and Mitsuru realised who that was.

"Stand back, NOBODOY MOVE OR I'LL SWEAR TO GOD I'LL BLOW ALL OF YOU'RE HEADS OFF!" Shido demanded as he waved the revolver around, while Takaya smirked.

"Well...I guess everyone is now here...How delightful."

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Mitsuru Kirijo: 30%

[TartoonHand94]

At long last, they were together again. Red was so relieved he could almost smile. Almost, anyway. He could frown less, at least. Unfortunately, the fact that they were together again was the only thing Red could smile about.
Akihiko’s evoker, whatever that was stolen by ‘Someone wearing a shirt and odd coloured jeans, someone who had blue hair and was carrying a suitcase and a girl with long red hair, like Akihiko’s, and she was wearing a long white dress.’ Red had to hold onto that description…

Ring! An item fell to the bottom of the stairs. It turned out to be the missing evoker. Wait if that were here, wouldn’t that mean?...

“…?” Red and Squirtle stood up at alarmed attention as here came the bad guys.
Not the least bit intimidated, Red and Squirtle stood in battle stance ready to challenge any one of them… Until one came holding a revolver. “…!”

Red and Squirtle both stood with their hands above their heads. In Squirtle case, simply as high as they could go.
Darn it. There he was armed with just a team of Pokémon vs someone with a fire arm. Such a coward’s weapon. It had just so happened that Red had a Pokémon specially equipped to deal with such a weapon leveled at it… Unfortunately, Squirtle was not such a Pokémon… Or so it would first appear.

Red had an idea to save not only himself, but everyone in the room from that gun. If only the rest of his allies could buy him all the second he needed to put it into action.
“…”

	Red	Squirtle
HP	0%	0%
Status	Normal	Normal

[KashKey]

Damnit! Of course she heard her!

(Just another reminder that my self awareness has been dropping... I need to get that under control.)

"O-Oh I was just uh... Thinking about how I've seen things similar to this situation back in my home world! Heh heh..."

It was a flimsy excuse but not entirely untrue either. She was good at those now a days... Half truths. Once the others got involved, Linne stepped back so they could distract Mitsuru from her, placing Nameless in her pocket so she could hold her hand there. No Name fell to the wayside as well, while she could easily bring it to bare at any time, it was easier to just let it hang some days. As they spoke, she put the pieces together. Someone from their world that had been thought dead was somehow here, and furthermore, they had eagerly slain the friends of Mitsuru and Akihiko. This was a problem... And it sounded like the group she had jumped over to get down here. If they were here, this might prove slightly more problematic than she thought.

Once she heard Akechi's footsteps, she turned, but dismissed him once she recognized him as an ally. He had escaped as well from the looks of things, so now all they had to do was tear this place apart from the inside out. Then a Gun fell... One she quickly surmised to be Akihiko's Evoker, since it held so much importance to the others. As the group she now knew to be named Strega revealed themselves once more, Linne had to repress a sigh. Adding a man who had come from the same direction as Akechi, and this was turning into a pain. Normally this wouldn't be too much of an issue, but with a large group here she couldn't just do her usual thing. That would put the others at risk. So instead... She had to talk. Stall them as much as she could. A bald man yelling with a revolver... It couldn't intimidate even a somewhat battle hardened person if they knew just how unwieldy such a weapon was.

"Yes, I suppose you think you all have the best little play set up don't you. You've cornered your foes, and shall sacrifice them to your goddess. Jeez, I would be disappointed if this sort of attitude wasn't so common. A scared man with a gun and 3 over confident fools that couldn't even notice when I jumped over their heads... Then again, I suppose you were too busy basking in the nice breeze to notice, weren't you?"

[Deleted]

There was an awkward silence between Mitsuru and Linne when she came up with an excuse as to what she was saying. "Allright." Mitsuru tried to focus on the mission at hand and luckily for her, the remaining party members who were missing have reunited with the group. Including Akihiko...Unfortunately it also caused some uninvited guests to appear around the party, with Shido now holding the entire group hostage with the exceptions of Strega.

"Shut the hell up, or i'll swear to god. Your the first person that's going to die in this hall!" Shido warned Linne to keep quiet as Tomoko stood beside Linne.

"Leave her alone, if you just put that gun down maybe we can talk about this like civilised people!" Tomoko demanded that Shido listened to her, only for him to fire at Tomoko.

Which missed her by chance, and she gasped. Akihiko looked up. "Shoot anyone again and i'm taking you down!" Akihiko warned as Shido growled.

"I will only leave if you give me my son...He's mine." Shido wagered but Akechi shook his head.

"I'm not going with you father, and nobody here will let you take me...I am not yours anymore to manipulate me." Akechi warned back as Akihiko threatened Shido again.

"I don't know what the hell you've been doing to him. But I swear if you try to lunge at us your getting a fist to your face." Akihiko warned Shido.

"For once...Aki is right, nobody is going anywhere." Takaya decided to break the silence with his group as everyone turned towards him.

"Your too late Shido, these guys are ours for the taken. And yes, you are being taken to Goddess Chiaki. She promised to take us back to our world if we killed anyone that would disrupt the latest ritual." Jin revealed as Chidori remained silent.

"Like hell that's going to happen, we'll fight you if it means getting to my father!" Tomoko warned as Takaya smirked.

"Fighting...Us...Well then, we shall see about that." Strega prepared for the battle between the group, as Akihiko, Mitsuru, Akechi and Tomoko prepared to do the same.

However Mitsuru had an idea that can take one of the members out of commission. "Chidori...You don't have to do this." Mitsuru told the girl. As Chidori faltered.

"Why would you know...I did what I had to do to make sure we would win back in our world. Besides, you were the one that suffered the most when we finally finished you off." Chidori revealed to Mitsuru, who ignored it as she continued to talk.

"But were you really ok with this? You had to kill everyone in SEES back in your world right...Including Iori-kun right?" Mitsuru asked as Chidori remembered...

"I...No...He...Junpei needed to die like everyone else!" Chidori snapped back at Mitsuru as Jin turned towards her.

"Are you really going to let her get to you? Suck it up Chidori. Iori is dead, we killed him, there is no way in hell that another version of him is just going to randomly appear on this planet!" Jin tried to convince Chidori to keep fighting, but Tomoko stepped forward.

"Yes there is, anyone can end up on this planet, even this Iori person. Even if he's not the one from your world." Tomoko revealed as Chidori took a step back from Takaya and Jin as Mitsuru continued to talk.

"You didn't want to do it did you...Killing Junpei...You wanted him to live, right?"

Chidori remembered now...Junpei...Begged for his life, and she was forced...To take it away from him or else she too would of been executed by Takaya and Jin for defecting to there side...Chidori didn't want to do it. She wanted Junpei to live, so he can be happy with her, but he was scared, like everyone else. "Grr, no...I don't want to remember!" Chidori grabbed her head in pain as she remembered Junpei's last words. Tears welling up her eyes as she suddenly ran to the left and down into the darkened corridors of the building.

"Chidori!" Jin called out in anger as Takaya grabbed his arm.

"Forget about her, we can still win without Chidori. Besides...With a persona as out of control as Medea, she would probably got herself, and us killed." Takaya told Jin who nodded as the two turned back to the group, preparing to fight.

Shido charged forward, about to shoot Akechi. Only for Akihiko to punch him in the face and causing him to fall back, knocking him out and bringing down the enemy's they needed to defeat down from four to two.

"I warned you." Akihiko looked down at Shido's unconscious body as Tomoko and Akechi looked down.

"Nice." Tomoko gave a thumbs up to Akihiko while Akechi smiled. Impressed that he was able to take down his father in a single punch.

Now if they can only deal with Takaya and Jin as the battle between the two soon began.

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Mitsuru Kirijo: 30%

[TartoonHand94]

This was looking all kinds of bad. Red had to do something about this wild gunman before -
“!” Red almost screamed when Shido shot at Tomoko. He almost lost his composure, unlike his Squirtle which at this point had already jumped into his arms. Using Shido’s attention being diverted to Akihiko, Red quickly swapped his Squirtle out for Ivysaur and quietly let her vine whip down from him.

A lot of dialogue later, Red finally got his chance. Shido made a wrong moke and Akahiko punched him.
Red then quickly got Ivysaur to use Razor leaf, slashing Shido’s hand and forcing him to drop the gun.
“Ivy!”

(phapq8Nwp_1d20+2 Ivysaur's Razor Leaf @ Shido; Does 8% Damage.)

And combining it with a Vine Whip to retrieve the fallen gun. Ivysaur then obediently handed the gun to Red, who held it skyward, not pointing it at anyone and letting the stern authoritarian look on his face be his tool of intimidation.
“…!” which is Red for ‘None of you move unless you want to limp out of here!’

	Red	Ivysaur
HP	0%	0%
Status	Normal	Normal

1d20+2

[KashKey]

As the gun shot went off, Tomoko foolishly believing Linne to be in need of protection, one thought went through her head.

"Some people... No respect for their elders."

Linne began moving up the steps towards Strega, clearly no respect towards the two.

"There's too large of a skill gap between you and me for you to stand a chance at capturing me."

As she spoke, chaos began breaking out behind her. Joy.

"If you two truly think you can defeat me on your own, when you're just pawns of someone playing a larger game, and I have the numbers and SKILL advantage... You're in for a rude awakening. KUUGA!"

She threw out a quick Sky fang towards Jin, wanting to take out the clear head goon first.

3LYwoqs9p_1d20+1(4% to Jin.)

Good enough. Not pausing, she stormed him down, and promptly proceeded to attempt to trip him, before stabbing him in the chest with No Name...

p_1d20+1(Another 15%.)

After completing her stab, she jumped off, and quickly unleashed a final series of slashes on his cohort via Nameless, before slamming him away.

"Muujin!"

p_1d20+1 (20% Tenacious Mist on Takaya.)

"Do you understand that this is a horrible idea, or do you intend to keep fighting? Because I'd be more than happy to beat you into the ground to prove a point. ...Assuming you're still breathing by that point, that is."1d20+1·1d20+1·1d20+1

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"What?" Jin was confused with what Linne was saying, causing Takaya to step forward.

"We will keep fighting for the bitter end. We will triumph on this planet and you and you're group are not going to stand in the way." Takaya warned Linne as they stood in front of the group and took out they're own evokers.

"Wait, no respect for elders?" Even Tomoko was confused by Linne's statement as Takaya and Jin summoned they're personas.



Hypnos for Takaya.



And Moros for Jin as the two smirked. "Well, I guess it's my turn." Akihiko stood beside Linne as he summoned his persona.



Polydeuces, he looked at everyone in the group. "Let's stop these bastards and get out of here as soon as possible." He told the group as he prepared to fight by firing two Zionga at Takaya and Jin before finishing it off with a sonic punch. Takaya and Jin had to avoid the attacks by Linne and Red's pokemon as well, whos attack bounced off from Shido's unconscious body for some reason and towards Takaya. Who growled.

"You will not stand in our way from getting what Goddess Chiaki wants!" Takaya yelled at the group.

2eSJ8RJEp_1d20(Hit.)

p_1d20(Dodge.)

p_1d20(Hit.)

p_1d20+4(Zionga > Takaya: If hit, he will gain 19% damage.)

p_1d20+4(Zionga > Jin: Same as above.)

p_1d20+4(Sonic Punch > Takaya: If hit, he will gain 15% damage.)

p_1d20(Hit.)

p_1d20(Dodge.)

p_1d20(Hit.)

Takaya Sakaki (BOSS)
Damage: 238%
Status: None
Items: Revolver

Jin Shirato (BOSS)
Damage: 196%
Status: None
Items: Grenades, Mysterious Suitcase & Evoker

The two men had trouble dodging the attacks that the group had gave them, as Akihiko taunted the two. "Given up already? You've grown soft." He spat out as Jin growled.

But was stopped by Takaya who looked up at Hypnos. "Make sure he suffers the most." He commanded Hypnos.

As Jin did the same to Moros. "Same here. But with that weird trainer and the girl in the yellow jacket!" Jin directed his persona as Akihiko prepared to dodge the attack Hypnos had for him.

p_1d20(Flurry Stab > Akihiko Sanda: If hit, he will gain 20% damage.)

p_1d20(Mazionga > Red: If hit, he will gain 20% damage.)

p_1d20(Mazionga > Linne: Same as above.)

p_1d20+2(And Akihiko unfortunately got stabbed.)

Akihiko was quickly slashed to the side of his arm, causing blood to shoot out of it as he screamed in pain. The persona removed it's weapon from the mans arm as he fell backwards near Tomoko. Who walked next to Linne, ready to fix next.

"Hang in there Sanda. I'll go next." Tomoko reassured Akihiko who got up and clamped his shoulder.

"Be careful, all of you." He warned the group as he tried to stop the bleeding coming from his shoulder.

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Mitsuru Kirijo: 30%
Akihiko Sanda: 20%
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