⚙ 001;

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Characters: Labrys and you~!
Setting: Room 3-07, floor 3
Format: Either or, depending on your preference.
Summary: What even is going on.
Warnings: WHEEE PERSONA 4 ARENA SPOILERS ALL UP IN HERE



[Room 3-07]
[Unexpected shutdown detected. Running diagnostic.]

[Motor functions impaired. Hypothesis: system failure. Reasoning: possible stress overload on emotional subroutines.]

[Attempting recovery...attempt two...att-]

[The girl's eyes snapped open, interrupting thirty seconds of systems fumbling and scrambling for a reason as to why mechanical limbs refused to respond. The too-pale girl blinked too-red eyes widened with surprise; nothing she could find in her memory or data banks could explain this. Hadn't she only just been in a car with Aigis and the others?]

[Reviewing current records... no lost data found. Hypothesis: New location. Contradiction: Impossibility.]

[It didn't make sense. One didn't just blink and wake up elsewhere, the incident in the TV world notwithstanding. Where were Aigis and Mitsuru, that funny guy in the cape or the younger girl with them?]

[For that matter...where was she?]

[Floor Three]

[Having shed the unusual outfit she awoke in, a girl wandered the tower, every movement making quiet mechanical whirring noises as she went. She could have sworn she was wearing her Yasogami uniform when last she was aware at all...for that matter, where on earth was her axe?]

[Wherever this was...everything was in ruins. It made Labrys nervous, honestly. Some kind of catastrophe had taken place here, and imagining what could cause this kind of destruction made her metal hands fidget nervously. This...wasn't the world behind the TV again, was it? She didn't really recall getting thrown in the first time, so...]

[She shook her head, looking down at her hands. Still metal, no illusion or dream making them seem like flesh and bone. Labrys was still Labrys, no matter what. They'd taught her that much, and if she had to face Shadows or anything else she wouldn't forget herself in the process.]

[Hesitantly, Labrys called out a few names as she continued walking. Maybe they'd answer, or maybe they were miles away.]

Aigis? Mitsuru?

[A pause.]

...Yu? Y-Yosuke? ...C'mon, anybody.

Comments

[legatus]

[Had he heard correctly? Shinjiro looked over at the source of the voice. It definitely wasn't completely human. He didn't remember her but...considering how the Tower operated, it could mean many things. She reminded him of Aigis and Metis perhaps she was...only one way to find out.]

Aigis? Mitsuru?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Huh? Uh...y-yeah. You know 'em?

[legatus]

[He points to the SEES armband like it would somehow answer everything for her.]

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[Scanning item: armband. Analyzing emblem.]

[Item found: Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad. Related: Gekkoukan High School, Mitsuru Kirijo.]

...You a friend a' Mitsuru's?

[legatus]

[He'd never use the word FRIEND outright but since Labrys is using it, he's just going to nod. now this is getting interesting...]

...Who are you?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

M-my name's Labrys. Who're you?

[legatus]

[He doesn't answer that quite yet.]

Labrys....so you're like Metis and Aigis...what year is it for you?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

It's 2012...who's Metis? What're you talkin' about?

[legatus]

...just 2010 for me...you don't know Metis? [That's odd, although not as surprising as it would have been a few months ago.]

Tch. Name's Shinjiro. You'll only find Aki and the Arisato's around here...[Wait.] ...what were the other names you mentioned again?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Is she another model? I'm Aigis'...sister, I guess you'd call it.

Uh...there's Yu Narukami and Yosuke Hanamura, and a coupla others. We just left their hometown when I woke up here, so I was thinkin' they mighta been around too.

[legatus]

She said she was. Called Aigis her sister as well.

[Seriously, Shinji don't give a shit if you are a robot or not. But the fact you know Yu and Yosuke? Now THAT is interesting.]

Mitsuru and Aigis were in Inuba....Yu did say he was from 2012. Never knew him t'ill we met in the tower, but you're saying he might have eventually...if I'm alive in that world anyway.

Tch. Didn't think it would turn out quite like that...you got a Persona too?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Sorry, but I don't think I met her or you--least not yet. We were headin' back to wherever Mitsuru came from last I knew, so you coulda been hangin' around there.

[She gave Shinjiro a slight nod at that last question.]

My Shadow kinda caused a whole lotta trouble for those guys, but after it was all over I ended up with Ariadne.

[legatus]

Your Shadow...[Funny story, that.] So you didn't get it the way the rest of us did, but like how Yu's team did.

[...like he got his own upgraded Persona. This is just getting all interesting.]

We? So you, Aigis and Mitsuru then?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[Nod nod.]

It was, uh...me, Aigis, Mitsuru, Akihiko, and...Fuuka, I think Mitsuru called her.

[legatus]

...

[He knows both Aki and Mitsuru well enough to know that if he was alive, his name would be on that list.]

Tch. Guess I didn't make it in that world. D'you who the old SEES Field Leader was? Does the name Minato Arisato ring any bells?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Sorry, I ain't heard of 'em yet.

[legatus]

[That makes it harder to guess.]

...well Aki's here, at least.