Phantom Thieves of Hope - A Danganronpa X Persona 5 Story.

Chapter 48: Game Over!

It's Going Down - Persona 3 ReLoad

*CLUNK!* *CLUNK!* *CLUNK!* *CLUNK!*

This was the sound of the heavy hooves of the Horse Mechabeast as it arrived and took up a position, blocking access to the bridge to the 5th island. Standing in front of it, facing it down, were the determined Phantom Thieves, plus Kyoko and Shadow Hinata.

"Alright Phantom Thieves!" Leprechaun raised his voice, "One more island after this and it's a straight shot to the finish! We can do this, you hear!?"

"YEAH!" the rest of the team cheered as they squared off with the final bridge guardian.

"You all remember our plan, right?" Kyoko called from the rear, "Make sure you watch each other's backs!"

"Got it! Sleuth, you're up!"

Shuichi nodded and stood in place as the fighters split off in different directions, with Mozart, Razor, and Highwayman going in one direction and Usami, Leprechaun, and Shadow Hinata going in the other. Since he was the only one standing still, the Horse Mechabeast naturally drew its attention to the young detective, as he was the only one not moving.

It started out by kicking its front legs into the sky and slamming them back down on the ground again, which caused pillars of ice to rise out of the ground, attempting to smash into the white-clad Phantom Thief. Though he knew he could easily take the attack, Sleuth dodged by jumping into the air and pulling out his sniper rifle, carefully aiming. As soon as the barrel caught a little light from the mist, he pulled the trigger and fired two bullets.

The first bullet hit the monster in its face, sending sparks flying from the impact, while the second made contact with its body, and basically ricocheted off it. As the Horse neighed angrily at Sleuth, he cast out his grapple and swung into the trees, out of sight.

"I'm starting to feel the pressure already," he whispered to Kyoko as they hid behind the same bark, "I hope this goes well..."

"Have confidence," Kyoko comforted him, "we're just getting started, after all."

"MARAGION!" Mozart dived in from the side, catching the Horse's attention as her Persona waved its hand and flung a wave of crackling flames at the Mechabeast.

It retaliated by stamping and summoning more ice pillars to counter the attack, and when the ice and fire collided, even more, mist completely coated the area around the bridge, making it difficult to see and even harder to breathe.

"Highwayman! Do something about this!" Leprechaun shouted through the mist, hoping his sister would hear it. Thankfully, she did.

"Got it! PARKER! MAGARULA!"

Highwayman called forth her Persona, which whipped up a torrent of wind under the feet of the Mechabeast, sweeping the mist away as well as attacking the creature directly. It obviously didn't take kindly to that and reared its head toward the cowgirl, sweeping its hoofs along the ground and blasting what was basically a tidal wave toward her and her group.

"HINATAAAAA!" Razor shrieked, panicking as there was no way to dodge the incoming attack.

Fortunately, Shadow Hinata was already one step ahead of them. He snapped his fingers three times, putting reflective forcefields over the girls and causing the ice attack to be rebounded back at the Mechabeast.

"Nice try, ugly!" he jeered, attempting to draw its attention back over to the other group. He then reached into his pouch and pulled out some explosive mines, tossing them in the air towards Leprechaun and Usami, "batter up!"

Leprechaun and Usami smirked, with the former reeling back for a punch and the latter holding her magic stick like a baseball bat. Simultaneously, they whacked the mines and sent them flying straight at the Mechabeast's face, and as they made contact, Hinata remotely detonated them.