Daichi: No real reason I'm doing this, it's just the bear needs some love.

Verity: We don't own anything mentioned here, as far as I know. And given that Dai's mind is free to my perusal...

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Over five years, several things changed for the Investigation Team. Junes was still doing fine, of course, and to visit the TV World, Yosuke had saved up money and bought the old television set. Souji had moved back just two years after leaving, and was staying with his uncle and cousin until he could afford a place of his own. To get the money, he was working with Kanji at the textiles shop, which had branched out to stuffed toys, including a special mascot doll for Junes, as a favor to Yosuke. In order to bond more with his family, he brought Nanako and Dojima to the TV World and helped them get Personas. Everyone thought it was a nice gesture, as neither of them would have to worry much, given that they would now always be able to protect themselves.

Chie was trying to get accepted into police academy, with help from Naoto, but her general impulsiveness was not helping the matter. Yukiko had taken over the inn after her parents died, but still had time for herself, and was allowing Marie to stay there until an entire identity could be fabricated for her. Although, no one really knew why they were bothering with that, as Teddie had no legal identity, and was doing just fine. Marie's answer for that when Rise asked was that, unlike him, she had no intention at working at a convenience store for the rest of her life. No one was really quite sure what to think of that.

Actually, for Teddie, things hadn't changed much at all. He was older, yes, and had more common sense, not that that was saying much, but for the most part, he was exactly the same. And everyone else, while they loved him to death, found it annoying at times. Which was why they were on the flood plains, discussing just what to do with him before he drove them all crazier than they already were.

"Maybe if we got him a girlfriend?"

"And who in town would be crazy enough to date him? I know Inaba isn't exactly the sanest town on the map, but it's hardly that bad."

Suddenly, Marie grinned. And from the glint in her eyes, this wasn't going to be good.

"I have an idea."

Everyone paled. "Oh, no."

"It won't be that bad. You see, living in the Velvet Room, I picked up on quite a few things. Such as the fact that there are infinite worlds and timelines, some of which have everyone completely crazy. I figure that the best was to have him grow up is stick him in one of those worlds for a while. Find one with enough of a time dissonance, it won't even matter, and we can temporarily de-age him and send him to high school."

"I thought the goal was to keep him from driving us crazy, not to drive him crazy."

"Do you have a better idea?"

"You're still mad at him for reading your poems out loud in the middle of the park, aren't you?"

"... Maybe just a little."

"I guess that's the only plan we have. Quick question, though? Who's going to break the news to him?" Every eye on the flood plain turned to Yosuke.

"Why me?"

"You do live with him."

"I also happen to be fond of not being frozen." Of course, he knew better than to argue with Marie, especially given that he had a weakness to lightning.

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Teddie's reaction was exactly what they expected of him. Specifically, a lot of whining.

"Honestly, Teddie, you're twenty-one. Act like it."

Calming down, the Shadow turned human sighed. "Marie-chan's still mad at me, isn't she?"

"Yeah, and when she got it into her head... we like living, and we're sure you do too, so, please, Ted... just go along with it, it's only for a year, and we have no clue where she found, or how she got Igor and Margaret to agree with it, but if you can just hold out for a year, than we can go back to pretending this never happened."

Personally, no one was certain he could even make the year, but Marie could certainly be scary. The fact that she had once created a persistent typhoon over Chie's apartment was enough reason to take her seriously.

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A few days later saw Teddie, now age seventeen, in a world he knew little to nothing about, walking to his first day at Yasogami high school. He was really beginning to regret irritating Marie now. How she'd even pulled this off was something he'd be asking once this year was over. Assuming he could still think coherently.

"Aaahhhh!"

Teddie, using the reflexes gained through hard effort, specifically, fighting in the TV World, just managed to get out of the way of the speeding bike. Actually, was that Yosuke on there?

….Might explain why the bike managed to hit a wall, a telephone pole, and a trashcan. No one knew just how Yosuke had a motorcycle license when he could barely ride a normal bike, but as he never crashed into anything on it, they never did pursue questioning.

He knew that, if this world was anything like the one he'd come from, it would be best not to interfere, but at the same time, Yosuke had put up with him for the past six years. Besides, they never said he had to just attend high school.

Casting out, he realized that his Persona had been reduced to Kintoki-Douji, but he could live with that. He did have access to all of the abilities he had ever learned, however. Yes, this had the potential to be an interesting year.

"Hey, are you all right?"

Yosuke looked up from the crash, and seemed fine, which was no surprise.

"Yeah. Say, who are you? I've never seen you around here." Frantically, Teddie tried to remember the name Marie had given him to use.

"I'm Teddren Kumada, but everyone just calls me Teddie. I'm a transfer student." That was the cover, right? Well, he was sticking with it now.

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Yosuke Hanamura." So this was what it was like to make a friend under normal circumstances... well, as normal as it could possibly get for a Shadow who had become partly human in an attempt to make friends, and was living in a parallel universe for a year for irritating said friends. "Anyway, did you just... sparkle?"

And then there was that. Rise had analyzed it, and it wasn't something that came from his Persona, and it definitely had nothing to do with being a Shadow. They all just called it a Teddie Thing and left it at that.

"That's just a part of my natural charm."

"...Right."

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Daichi: This is just the introduction, it will get better. And funnier. After all, with two versions of Teddie, there's twice the cute! Yes, he may not be as naive anymore, but as you'll see, he still has that childlike charm... and the potential to be seriously annoying if he wants to be.