Sage was lying, fast asleep, in a water tank within Junko's lair. Inspired by Doctor Eggman, who had called a truce with the heroes due to Sage and Emily becoming friends, Junko decided to use the knowledge of a dream guardian to take Möbius for herself. She chuckled to herself vilely as she untied her strawberry blond hair and placed a helmet on.
"Now to make my dreams come true!" She cackled. A manufactured black and white gateway glowed behind her, it was ready to activate. Before she could open it, though, a voice rang in her ears.
"Puppeteering a child?!" Said the voice, bewildered and horrified by Junko's evil act. "This is too far, Enoshima. I will not tell you again, you'll never control the reverie."
"UPHUPHUPHUPHU!!!" Laughed Junko, "Watch me, Guardian!"
She gasped as an alert came up on her computer monitor, her program has been overwritten!
"This—this makes no sense!" Junko panicked as she tried to overwrite the overwrite, "The dream weaver's powers should've been neutralised!!!"
A soft, purple and red vapour wafted out of the gateway and around Junko's head.
"W-wait..." She yawned, "Stop...that...now..."
She yawned one more time before sinking to her knees and falling asleep with her head on the keyboard.
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Some time later, Aria, Emily, Spirit, Belle and Metal were stood in the same lab Junko and Sage were sleeping in, looking for clues as to what happened there.
"It looks like your intel was spot on, Spirit," Aria complimented, "Great job finding this place."
Spirit was playing with Junko's hair, an action the human would punish by killing whoever did so I'd she was awake. The bat nodded and turned to face her teammate and friendly rival.
"Just don't forget my reward for helping you guys." She said and went back to playing with Junko's hair.
"Emily, get her out of that...thing fast!" Metal ordered as he felt the outside of the tank and looked inside to see his youngest sister, "Master will dismantle me if he comes home and Sage is gone!"
"I'm doing my best, Metal," Said Emily calmly as she worked, flipping through Junko's diary pages. "It looks like Junko was using Sage as a conduit to interface with that thingy. I think she was trying to use her as some kinda filter."
"What's this thing even supposed to do?" Asked Belle curiously as she stood by the door to make sure no MORE Monokumas ambushed them. The five kids were ambushed at the front of the hideout they would've died if Metal didn't get the girls away when he did.
"Give me one second, Belle," Emily pleaded. She continued to flip until she came upon a discovery so bizarre she dropped the diary. "It can control dreams..." She whispered, horrified.
Five more vapours came from the gateway and, even though only two team members were organic, the other three felt tired also. They all stumbled around and Emily withdrew something from her pocket.
"So bad dreams won't hurt me..." She whispered, sliding the item into her mouth for her to suck on as she drifted off.
Even in tiredness, Spirit still had standards and she used her remaining strength to form a bed made of ice and fall backwards onto it before succumbing to slumber.
Ever prepared, Aria took a seat in Junko's spinning chair so she'd be at least sitting while she slept.
Belle only made it a few steps before falling into Metal and dreamland.
