"What the hell? Those kids just vanished. I don't sense them anywhere..." a lithe black cat grumbled as it watched the group vanish as they walked into the subway tunnel.
"That shitty hat might know."
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"I have no idea," the man with the green hat said.
"Kisuke! Don't fuck around!" the cat roared.
"Haha. But Yoruichi, I genuinely do not know... Ah, yes. Have you ever heard of the theory of parallel worlds? Oh, sorry, of course you have. Branching timelines is a better way to put it. I had a peculiar dream courtesy of a golden butterfly," the man named Kisuke said with a manic grin.
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"We only stopped by briefly before, but this place is strange," Orihime said as she looked around the entrance of Mementos.
She stopped when she saw a blue door surrounded by mist. She furrowed her brow and focused on it, but it soon faded.
"Did anyone else see that door?"
"You saw a door?" Ren frowned. "Was it blue? Little prison guards in front of it?"
"Hm? I didn't see any guards, but there was a blue door."
Pointing forward, Ren asked Orihime if it was over there.
"Yup! But it's gone now."
'Weird. Didn't Caroline say those without a contract can't see the Velvet Room?'
'Another new mystery, mon ami. Maybe Sherlock—ah, sorry. Herlock Sholmes would have been a better Persona for you,' Arsène fake-cried.
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"This place is huge, huh?" Ryuji said in awe as the team looked through the tunnels. "Mona, this is going to take a really long time to explore. Are you sure your memories are related to this place?"
"It has to be! I know it!"
"Why are you calling him Mona?"
"Oh yeah, she doesn't know," Ann mumbled.
"Code names," Ren said coolly.
Orihime froze.
"Did you say... code... names?" she stuttered slowly.
"Yes," Ren answered with a nod before preparing for the inevitable—
"SO COOOOOOOOOL!"
Ren couldn't help but chuckle along with the team.
"WAIT!" Orihime demanded.
Everyone looked at her. It wasn't like her to sound so caught by surprise.
"I ignored it before, but I'm SO JEALOUS OF THE COSTUMES!"
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"Kisuke Urahara, did you buy some sort of drug from that loser yakuza nearby?"
"Think about it. THAT man began to act differently after we were exiled. He changed his plan!"
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Morgana took a dramatic pose and began a chant, followed by a series of poses.
"Mooooooor-ganaaaaa! Henshin!"
He leaped into the air with great force before doing a smooth flip. A puff of smoke covered him and—
BOOM!
A car landed in front of them.
"Check out my meowtry engine!"
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"I don't know why, but I'm suddenly pissed off, and you're talking nonsense, so I'm going to go kill some Hollows," the lithe black cat grunted, leaving Kisuke alone.
"Nyarlathotep, Philemon, Wild Card, fate..." he whispered.
How much else did he not know?
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"Is there a psychic damage type in the Metaverse? That pun shattered my brain," Ryuji said.
"I hate puns because they seem like they should be funny, but they just aren't," Ren replied.
"I think that's WHY they're funny," Shiho shrugged with a laugh, looking at the—
"MORGANA-MOBILE!" Orihime declared.
"She really is a little sun, huh?"
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