Persona 5 x persona 4

chapter 16

Stepping past the doors to the diet building, the instant grandiose of the luxury cruiser's seemed off. This wasn't a fusion of two places, this was straight up just a luxury cruiser with the facade of the diet building. It really pointed to Shido's cognition firmly believing that politics were nothing but a way to control and manipulate. The shadows around them only briefly glanced in the group's direction before returning to whatever they had been doing up to that point. They simply just didn't care, but Yu could spot security lurking just above them up the stairs. There would be shadows to fight, but luckily the majority of them seemed peaceful.

"How much of this place did you scan already Oracle?" Rise asked as she looked around.

"Not much. We already found a map." Oracle squatted down pulling out the map and laying it on the floor for everyone to see. She pointed to large section labeled with some fancy French words but it was easy to tell it was some kind of restaurant. "I believe our first target is there from my initial scans."

Everyone was crowded around the map as Rise crouched next to Oracle. "If you're up for it, we can do a combo scan." Rise mentioned.

Oracle rose to her feet and looked around. "If we'll be able to punch that obnoxious politician in the face faster, I'm down for it!"

"A combo scan?" Panther questioned.

Joker slipped his hands into his pockets. "Just watch."

Rise got to her feet and slowly collected both of Oracle's hands into her hands, but Oracle wasn't having that. She stepped up and just hugged Rise. Clearly the last time they connected had left a profound effect on the younger navigator. Rise didn't seem all that surprised about this as she returned the hug. At the same moment both Kouzeon and Necronomicon appeared and just as before instead of abducting Oracle it instead took Kouzeon. Yu threw up his arm as the familiar UFO exploded with green light. After a few seconds the light died down and Oracle's Persona disappeared. The two navigators stepped away from each other and squatted down to look at the map again.

"Pool, Restaurant, Entertainment Hall, VIP room, and Engine room." Oracle muttered as she pointed to different places on the map.

"There is also, that wandering shadow in the engine room." Rise offhandedly commented as she also looked intensely at the map.

"Uh guys..." Kanji pointed to a group of shadows coming down the double stair case. No doubt attracted by the lights from the combo scan.

"Protect the Navigators!" Joker swiftly ordered as he put his hand to his mask and stepped in front of the navigators. "Rangda! Bloodbath."

"Anat" Queen summoned. "Mafreidyne"

"Seiten Taisei!" Skull called a half a second behind Queen. "Get wreaked, Agneyastra!"

"Kaguya!" Yu threw out his hand summoning the last Persona he had used with a crush of an arcana card. "Shining Arrows"

The shadows were dissipated before they even made it half way down the stair case. The others looked in awe at the changes of their teammates Personas. Apparently Joker and the other two had neglected to inform the rest of their team about the new change. No doubt he had planned to during the meeting before they entered the Palace before that had been derailed by the new information Naoto and Yu had given them.

"So that is the power of a true bond..." Mona marveled clearly impressed by the change.

"A what?" Panther asked glancing towards the cat.

"A true bond." Joker clarified returning his hands to his pockets. "I have an unbreakable bond with both of them."

Yu stepped in figuring he'd elaborate. "It's one of the powers of the wild card. We bond with people so deeply that they see the truth in their selves that leads to their Personas reawakening as a more powerful form."