Joker stepped out of Tartarus and took out his phone. He noted that it still worked as normal with no issues, no new apps, and it was currently still currently 12:00 AM.
He organized his thoughts, trying to remember every detail he knew of this world.
'The Dark Hour...' He explored the area, the world seemed like it was painted in a sickly green hue, each building present within the dark hour was altered, giving them the impression that they were abandoned, each one eerie to even look at.
Joker came across numerous coffins, all of them standing upright, the ground was sometimes riddled with liquid red as blood.
This was The Dark Hour. Whenever it occured, the physical world itself was altered, people with no Potential morphed into the Coffins that protected them from the Shadows that are active when the Dark Hour is present.
[Image of the Dark Hour.]
Some people do venture out of their coffin. But those people are only preyed upon by the Shadows that lurk everywhere. Those who fall in the hands of Shadows have their psyche's devoured.
Inflicting them with what's called "Apathy Syndrome". Where a person's very being collapses, losing the ability to react to anything that happens to them, basically turning them into a crippled vegetable.
Speaking of Shadows, Joker was currently surrounded by a dozens of them. But each Shadow was too afraid to even attack him, they kept their distance only observing Joker.
"Pixie.." Joker called out, as fiery blue aura exploded from within him, lighting up his the area around him.
"[Megidoloan]" As Joker whispered out his command, a ray that came from the sky shot down, engulfing him and his surroundings in a white nova, effectively wiping out every shadow that was in a 50 meter vicinity from him.
Buildings and collateral were eliminated from the explosions, but the coffins remained safe.
"Holy crap!" Joker snapped his head to the direction of the voice as he gripped his gun.
From behind him, a group of people carrying weapons stood outside the range of the destruction of his doing.
"..." His silent gaze swept through them. Their faces were very familiar to him, it would be a disgrace for him, a massive persona fan to not recognize the main cast of Persona 3.
"That's some insane fire power... You think Makoto can do that?" Junpei Iori, a man Joker wouldn't hesitate on calling Bro, as he was just that much of a homie.
"I don't think that's the right question to ask Junpei." Yukari sighed, clearly tired of tolerating the buffoon next to her.
"Is it just me, or does he give off the same feel as Makoto-san?" The blue(?) teal(?) whatever the fuck her color is(?) haired girl spoke meekly from behind the group, staying inside her persona.
[A/N: Even Atlus doesn't know.]
Fuuka, the S.E.E.S Team Navigator.
"You think so? He's more like Shinji to me." Akihiko spoke, his gaze focused on Joker.
"Me?" Shinjiro pointed at himself, while giving Akihiko a side eye.
"Yeah, check it out, both hands in his pockets, poses like a delinquent, and that's something you would definitely wear." Akihiko lightly laughed as he pointed at Joker, prompting a slightly pissed off look from both Joker and Shinjiro
"Can't refute that." Mitsuru suppressed a laugh as she simply smile.
Joker noted that S.E.E.S was already complete. Even Shinjiro had joined, which meant it was already past September 2nd.
'It seems I joined more than halfway through the story. I guess that means shit is about to go down in a month or earlier.'
Seeing that the man in front just stared silently at them, the group lowered their weapons, but their vigilance was still at an all time high.
"Care to reveal your identity?" Mitsuru inquired, with a bark from Koromaru who also seemed to want to know.
"...Joker, you can call me Joker." He didn't feel like giving out his name just yet, so he decided to use his codename.
"Alright then... Joker.. May I ask what you're doing here? And how you could wipe out those many shadows."
Joker raised his head, the sky was clear as the moon's visage illuminated the area.
"What day is tomorrow?" He asked them.
"Pardon? Ah, tomorrow is September 5 a Saturday. It'll also be a Full Moon... Now can you answer my questions?" Mitsuru answered, albeit a little confused from the sudden question.
"For why I'm here.. I guess you can say I'm just roaming around." Joker answered, his answer quite truthful.
"As for how I wiped out those shadows.. Then shouldn't you already know?" He said, as if stating the obvious.
Mitsuru shot Aigis a look, with the latter nodding, as if confirming something.
Joker caught their interaction, and realized what was happening.
'Can Aigis sense when someone is lying? This is new.' Joker knew that Aigis could speak and understand animals, an example of that is Koromaru, but since it was never explicitly shown, or said, he didn't know whether or not she could really.
"Are you satisfied?"
"Regardless, thank you for answering my question despite the suddenness." Mitsuru's words sounded dignified, oozing rich heir vibes.
"Hm." Joker responded with a hum, as he shot a look at a certain young man. A man with dark blue hair, wearing an expression of true neutrality, Makoto Yuki, the protagonist of Persona 3.
Seeing him felt surreal for Joker, as one of his most beloved characters from the Persona Series, it was as if he was meeting his idol.
Feeling that it was time to leave, he broke eye contact with the man as he turned around to leave.
"Wait, can I ask you a final question?" Joker stopped, waiting for Mitsuru's question.
"Are you part of Strega?" She asked in a serious tone, with the party also tensely waiting for the answer from him.
"...Rest assured, I am not part of their group."
"I see." With that final reply, Mitsuru finally let Joker leave as his figure slowly disappeared into the night, also marking the end of this nights Dark Hour.
As the world returned to normal, Joker also returned to his normal civilian attire.
Joker strolled around the area before finding a bench to sit on, he sat his bag next to him as he also sat down.
A sigh escaped from his mouth as he processed just what happened.
'So, I'm in Persona 3, I just fought Elizabeth, Igor is aware of my existence, and I even came into contact with the S.E.E.S Team.' He summarized the events of tonight, he started on planning on his next course of action.
'One thing is for certain. I'll be joining the Full Moon Operation that's gonna take place tomorrow.' as Joker was in the midst of planning, he heard the rustling of his bag as it started moving, as if there was something alive inside.
And sure enough, he heard a muffled meow of a cat inside his bag.
"No fucking way.." He unzipped his bag, and as he did a black cat wildly burst from the bag.
"How are you here... Morgana?"
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A/N: A bit of a short chapter but I'm glad I could get that done, apologies for the VERY late upload. But I've been jogging my memory by watching the movies of Persona 3, since I don't have the time to play Reload or the original game.
Also, I don't think I quite nailed the character for Mitsuru in this chapter, idk if it's just me but I think I did something wrong with how I wrote her. Like, would she willingly reveal that much info to a stranger that they've just met, not to mention he's a rogue persona user who just pulverized a large group of shadows in a single attack, I think I made them a little TOO CASUAL with the interaction.
But idk it could just be me.