"They are the best of friends..."

"The friendliest of rivals..."

"And their own most POWERFUL foes."

The screen flashes red, white borders dividing the first 4 members of the Investigation Team. Again it cuts away to the last 3 combative members in the investigation team, before a fighting ring fades in.

"Welcome Everyone!" said Teddie sporting a general's attire, equipped with a cigar. "To the greatest fighting event yet!"

"P-1 Grand Prix!" The background audience had cheered.

"So let's get everyone out in the open!" With a flourish of his cape the screen had cut away to the first contestant.

"Nobody touches his treasured family! The Mad Sister Complex Tyrant: Yu Narukami"

"Don't mess with me."

"Wage slave in the boonies by day... Hero by night! Captain Ressentiment: Yosuke Hanamura"

"Everything that bores me has gotta go!"

"A Carnivore who's discarded sanity and womanhood. A spastic dragon with lethal legs: Chie Satonaka!"

"No one's getting in the way of my meal."

"Please escort me to the ring my prince. The Indomitable Snow Black: Yukiko Amagi"

"We'll end this in a single strike."

"Blooming roses and bulging muscles. The Bloodcurdling Beefcake Emperor: Kanji Tatsumi"

"Bloody fists for gentle romance!"

"The body of a child, the brain of genius! The 2000 IQ Aimless Detective: Naoto Shirogane!"

"I'm not here to play games."

Teddie gets his own introduction, throwing off his general's costume to cutaway to his portrait.

"The Beautiful Bear of Junes. Now a Beast in Heat: It's me! General Teddie!"

"I'll take you out with my signature Bear Tackle!"

7 friends, duking it out in this tournament, with a few hidden surprises along the way... It's the P-1 Grand Prix!

The battles begin soon.

"The Mad Sister Complex Tyrant?" Yu said to himself. "I don't exactly qualify as insane..."

He completely ignored his breakdowns over reality bending fights last year.

"Captain Resentiment? Really?" Yosuke whined. "Why'd they have to bring that back up?"

Having that one lesson from King Moron's class come back to haunt him, and on the one channel he never appeared on too. It wasn't quite humiliating as it could have been. The others had to have been freaking out/raging at their own stupid names.

Chie had broke her TV.

Or rather she would have if she wasn't a Persona User. Unfortunately she'd forgotten that fact as she kicked at the screen shoving her foot inside, before it jerked her inside.

She wouldn't be seen until the day of the event.

"Snow... Black?" Yukiko mumbled to herself. "I don't quite get it but... it sounds nice."

Kanji was missing, just like Chie.

Naoto was pissed. Not in a way any of the other members would be enraged, with copious amounts of violence to vent, but a cold anger that warrants investigation on this matter rather than the project she had been working on for the Shadow Operatives.

The Midnight Channel had returned to Inaba, and once again she would have a starring role in the sleepy town.

"I'm going to have to look into this, perhaps they aren't related, but with the reappearance of the Midnight Channel..." It meant someone had been thrown in. At first glance it looked like Teddie, but he was supposed to be staying with Yosuke. She hadn't received any phone calls saying that he had gone missing.

She had also forgotten to save everyone's contact info, sans Kanji.

But I'm like 90 percent sure he's dead or something.

(A/N): So yeah, this is a prologue to the P4A shenanigans.

The Shadow Ops will get their time to shine.

Possibly.

Not sure if playing through the game is going to be worth it though.

Sorry I've been gone for so long.

Juggling projects is new to me.

Hopefully I won't drop this.

Next time: *gasp* The Enemy...!