He's not so bad

Ch. 3

Warriors of rebellion

Once again, Ragna wonders just where the hell he is.

"I am really starting to hate this place…"

He stood in the middle of large street crossing in the middle of a city. Which is odd in itself since he just came from a forest. It is a very old city for him since he comes from a time far in the distance future. The city looks like Shibuya back in two thousand sixteen. Same tall 109 building he saw in old history books and standard tall buildings and shops that Japan had back before the calamity of the black beast.

It is rather surreal for the grim reaper. Even if time travel is nothing new to him.

"Ugh..." Groaned the man in red. Rubbing the back of his head in frustration. "I am never going to find that damn rabbit or Noel at this rate."

"Stop right there, thief!"

Ragna looked forward from his musing to see an odd sight running towards him.

It is a young man, around sixteen or seventeen, dressed in a stylish black trench coat. The fancy red gloves and strange eye mask didn't offset the black look. If anything, it made him look more daring and dangerous as he skidded around the corner of a building.

His shoes are curled to a point as he ran away from someone with a cheeky grin on his face. He looked like someone on a stage play of the phantom of the opera or something. However, his two leading ladies didn't seem to be on the same page as him.

Ragna cursed under his breath as he took notice of Wiess and Orie casing down the thief. Their weapons were drawn and teeth bared in anger. And all three of them are closing in on him.

The thief smirked as he looked back at the two girls chasing him. His handsome devil may care smile only infuriated the two beautiful girls as she gave chase. Not how he normally deals with angry women; Normally they would be blushing as they try and kill him. He had to admit however their enraged faces made them look all the cuter. If he the time he would love to tease them until they are a blushing wreck.

"!" The thief and his thoughts, however, came to a sharp sudden stop in front of Ragna. Who was scowling at him as the two rapier wielding girls caught up with their query. Steeling themselves as they spotted the dreaded grim reaper.

"Ragna the Bloodedge!" Orie whipped her sword in anger.

"We should have known a criminal like you would be aligned with a thief!" Weiss growled as she backed up in a defensive stance.

"Ugh…" While Ragna just groaned listlessly, as if he just ran a marathon. Just being around the two of them made him utterly tired. "Seriously you two…Would you stop making such crazy assumptions…err what were your names again? Oreo?"

"It's Orie!"

"Ah right right…." Ragna scathed the back of his head in a half-hearted apology. "Look I don't even know this guy. Hell, I've never stolen anything in my life!"

There was a pause in the air. A single left blowing in the wind.

"…Ok, there was this one time with Tao…" Ragna coughed.

"Whoa!" The grim reaper suddenly brought his sword just in time to block large ice spears soaring right at him. Wiess dancing the magical icy platforms she created around Ragna. Swing her ice spears at him while Orie glared at the thief before her.

"You hold back Ragna Weiss!" Orie said as she readied her blade at the thief. "I'll get the keystone."

The thief simply smirked and twirled a dagger in his hand.

-OOO-

"Geez! You brats can't take a hint can you!" Ragna snarled as he cut through Weiss's ice shards. Swinging his massive blade and effortlessly cutting through them as the huntress sent wave after wave of icy

"Ha!" Weiss jumped and flipped, from platform to platform around the grim reaper. Gaining more momentum and speed as he fired off large ice spears at Ragna. Each slash and thrust of her blade caused another five or so shards to appear and shot like missiles at the grim reaper. He isn't even phased by her attacks. Ragna kept track of Weiss even as she became a blurred form bouncing to a platform. He didn't even have to look at the ice missile that soared at his back. Only bringing his blade up behind his back and then crashing back down to cut the second on into pieces.

It was nearly like a dance between the two of them. Weiss's gentle but quick pirouettes and twirls matched well in time Ragna's rough and brutal cuts of his blade.

"Do you really think we'd let a villain like you get away so easily!?" Weiss yelled as she kicked off an ice wall and soared over Ragna. Shooting multiple sickles at him all which was shattered in a quick flourish of his blade. Slashing up in a reverse grip, switching his other hand to slice the one coming to his left. And then grabbing the last on in his hand and crushing it in his fist.

"Right…." Ragna sighed as he almost casually slashed through the barrage of ice attacks. "Do you even know anything about me then what was said on that shitty wanted poster?"

Weiss stopped herself on a magical wall. Bore the reaper down as she spoke. "You've killed hundreds of people and ruined countless lives. That was something I read on that 'shitty wanted poster'."

"…The world isn't filled with rose and knights' kid." Ragna said. Hosting his blade on his shoulder with a change in his voice. The roughness was nearly gone and replaced with a ting of somberness. "They made their choice. I gave them all the warnings I could and they still didn't run away. They should be remembered for how brave they were."

"Besides. You have no clue what happens in my world or the truths it holds." Ragna shrugged with a fanged smirk. "Heh. For all, you know you could be trying to kill the hero."

"…" Wiess couldn't help but agree with him to a point. She knows nothing but of the wanted poster, and everyone has their reasons. For ill or good. "…By that, as it may, as a huntress, and a person, I can't stand by a let you walk free. Ragna the Bloodedge."

However, wanted a poster or not, Wiess is not blind to how dangerous Ragna is. While she won't kill him, she'll have stopped to hold him back from reaching her world at least.

Ragna just rolled his eyes at her. "What is with people and their stupid justice complexes…."

Weis jumped from her platform like a bullet to another as she fired a massive rain of ice shards all at once the grim reaper. Forcing to pay attention for once and block the oncoming assault. While Wiess jump on a platform and shot off like a drill in an attempt to price the silver-haired man.

"Nice try!" But Ragna was still quick enough to bring his black up to easily defend against the attack.

He swiped his blade to knock the heiress back. Wiess spun with her movement and shot another ice icicle at her foe, who only slash through them again.

"This is getting real old bra-Hm? Ah." A sharp dark shadow loomed over the wanted man for a moment as he looked up to scores of tuck sized ice spears over his head.

"Hm!" Ragna swiftly rolled out of the way as they came crashing down. But the halted and chased him down. the pointed tips sprawling as they aimed at him.

"Hah!" And they were all easy destroyed with a strong swipe of his weapon. Turning it into a scythe for the quickest of moments as a sickly black mass shattered all the spears. Turning them into sparkling dust that lit up the dim streets of the city.

'Huh. She's getting better. Had hunch she was planning something with all those projectiles.' The grim thought as he faced the young heiress. His eyes narrowing a bit harder. 'Guess…I take this a little more seriously then…"

In a blur, Ragna was gone form Weiss's sight and appeared in front of her with his blade raised high.

"Ah!?" The Huntress barely had a second to jump out of the way form he swung his blade down in a powerful strike. Shattering the ground where she once was effortless.

"If you're going to spurt all that shit about justice and your honor as a huntress…" The grim reaper lifted his sword from the rubble and pointed it at the young girl. "Then you better be ready to back it up."

-OOO-

"Haa! Hyia!" Orie thrust her rapier with rapid lighting strikes. The pierced the air like bullets with their speed being nothing more then blurs.

And the thief dodged them all.

"Ha ha ha…" The thief chuckled as he danced away from another of Ore's strikes. Stepping on his toes like a dancer, he backflipped, spun and sidestepped all of the knight's attacks. All with a cocky devil may care grin on his face.

Ore spun, planning to counter his oncoming attack.

"!" Only to see the barrel of a gun pointed at her head.

The thief smiled coldly. "Heh. Bang~."

Ore rolled out the way just before he pulled the trigger. The pulled cutting through a strand of her hair, but she got out unharmed. Letting her stand and point her weapon at her foe while casually smiled at her.

"Now…. what do I have in my other pocket?" The thief spun the gun on his finger. Pointing it at her with a sly grin. "Little knight of order~."

Orie lunged at him, not going to take his jab, but still trying to find an opening.

"Or a better question…." The thief smirked. Parrying her blade with his gun, before sliding his dagger down the hilt of Ore's rapier. Locking her into his weapon and letting her glare at his eyes. "What do you have in your pocket?"

Ore at first ignored the question until she heard the crack of a whip.

"I got it, Joker!" Orie looked back at the voice of a girl in an overly sexy and tight red spandex outfit. She looked like a sort of call girl or stripper with her kinky boots and many zippers in suggestive places, and the cat tail on her suit. Her voluptuous chest bright blonde pigtails bouncing up down with her excited jumping as she held in her hand.

"The keystone!?" Orie didn't hesitate to rush down the girl, with her rapier held high and ready for combat.

"Ah!?" But she was stopped by a bladed foot slashed down on her. Forcing her to slide back and glare at the newcomer. A stylish dressed but devilish demon appeared for her. A handsome black suit with a white ruffle hanging out of the vest. Thin sharp claws with long horns and tall top hat. His simile is a fanged flaming smirk that would be handsome to some but sent a shiver down Orie's spine. Its black wings flapped playfully as it had the never to bow and politely tip its hat for her.

"Sorry…" Joker casually walked up to the young knight. His hand covering his face as his mask was gone and is replaced with a dark shadow. Blue flames and chains whipped around his feet. His smile sadistic as he closed in on her. "But your opponent is still me…little Executor of a Licht Kreis…"

"Tch." Orie glared. Knowing that the mysterious woman has vanished off with her job done. Leaving her with Joker and the trouble of being so easily fooled.

"How many more tricks do you have? Do you have no honor!? Do you have the gall to fight me yourself!?" Orie said. Attempting to stall and give the chance to read him. And yet she can find nothing but a smirk.

"And just how far can your 'justice' reach?"

"What?"

"You stay in the light. Fearing the shadows that will corrupt you." Arsene floated to Joker's side as he spoke. "And by doing so you let the worse evils slip by. Are you sure your justice doesn't blind you to the truth? That no matter where or how just, that darkness and cruel intent hides in every heart?"

"I…" Orie couldn't come back with a rebuttal. Only gripping her rapier at the frustration of her conflicted nature.

Akira smiled at the girl's internal struggle. Bow low, just like a gentleman, as he said. "When the gods go astray it nothing but the demon lord to kick their ass back into place."

"Little knights should just stick to saving princess form dragons." Joker finished with a cruel sneer.

Orie shook her head of the fogs that clouded her mind. Re-steeling her resolve pointed her blade in determination. "I will not be sway by the words of some trickster. If you are the 'demon lord' then I shall be the 'hero' to stop you!"

"Then come! See if you can stop my master plan! Hero!" Joker cackled as Orie threw herself at him. Slashing at him with her blade that he spun and parried.

"Ha!" Orie threw out three quick thrusts. The first was dodged, the second clashed with the dagger, and the third slashed across his gun before it was pointed at her. Orie wasted no time in rolling to avoid the two shots. She leaped off her fight at the third one as it just gazed her heel.

"Heh." Yet joker counited to pelt her with bullets. Firing his full magazine at her as she came soaring down at him. Her rapier cutting through the shots with quick swipes and spins before she cut through the last bullet and pointed her blade down in a lunge. Only for Arsene guard against her stab with its arm and knock her back into the lamppost.

"Tch!" But she didn't falter as he balanced herself in mid-air and kicked off the pole. Engaging the phantom in with is claws in two quick sword slashes, before using the momentum of her third to flip over the monster and try to cut at Joker's neck.

With that same cocky grin, Joker only took a step to the side. Just narrowly avoiding her downward slash before she came up suddenly up with her rapier. Only to once again met Joker's dagger. There and back again with nothing to show for it.

"You're going to need to try harder then hero~." Joker laughed in her face again with that handsome smile. Scarping his gleaming dagger against her's. "Maybe you should find that legendary blade~."

"Ugh!" The young knight grunted at the taunt and pushed him back. Renewing her assault even though she gains no purchase in any of her attacks.

-OOO-

'Alright, Ann. Remember the plan…' Panther kept her eyes on the fight between her leader and Orie form behind the lamppost. Waiting for her moment to strike. 'Just distract her, let Joker get away, then you run too.'

With her whip ready, she waited for just the right-

'There!' Just as Joker clashed weapons with the executor again, Panther dashed out her hiding spot and was about to crack her whip.

"Not this time!" Orie, with a, sift sudden kick that Joker didn't' see coming, knock the snarky theft back and summon her Avatar of the ruler. A large knight with an even larger sword rushed out to cut panther in two.

"Panther!" Joker shouted out as the blonde was too slow to try and avoid the attack. Summoning his own persona in desperation to try and save her. But even with Arsene's wings, he wouldn't make it in time.

Orie almost wanted to smile at finally one-upping the phantom thief. Through this whole fight he had taunted and teased her and now she finally has the advantage.

"Screw off already!" Ragna's voice pierced the air as Weiss was thrown right into Orie. Knocking both of them to the ground and making the avatar disappear from the excursioner loss of concentration.

"Ow…" Both girls were in a tangled heap form their collision as Panther sighed in relief.

Weiss glared at Ragna for his treatment of her on shaky legs. "How dare-!"

"Ding Ding Ding~ Time's up!" The overly peppy voice of the computer rang throughout the city. "Look's like you girls lose again. And to such unsavory men too~. Oh, if only there was some white knight to come and save you pure-hearted beauties."

"The hell are you calling unsavory?" Ragna snarled at the voice as he sheathes his blade.

"I've always seen myself as a black knight really." The thief shrugged as he walked up next to the wanted man. Nonchalantly adjusting his gloves.

"As long as you not like that lecherous moron…," Ragna grumbled as all the tension slipped through the air. Even though both girls looked ready to fight.

"W-We're not done yet!" Orie panted as she stood up too. Even with her body shaking as well.

But the voice had had other ideas as it 'sweetly' said, "Oh I am sorry but…. You are. Bye bye now!"

"Wa- "Like that both girls vanished into a black portal away from them. Leaving the thrives and the reaper alone in the middle of the street.

"And good god damn riddance. Yeesh…" The grim reaper growled as he started to walk away.

"Hey."

However, Joker calling out to him made him sigh and stop in his tracks. "What?"

"Thanks for helping out Panther."

"I wasn't helping either of you. I just wanted to get that brat off my back as all." Ragna rolled his shoulder's in frustration.

Joker smiled as he put his hands in his pockets. "That's some good aim for just an unimportant toss."

"You trying to say something here kid?"

"Just that I don't think you're as bad as you look," Joker answered plainly.

"The hell is wrong with my look? Everyone keeps saying that shit…Is it my hair…" Ragna mumbled to himself for a moment before he shook his head.

"Look…. I've got enough on my plate already. So, keep me out of whatever you're doing ok?" Ragna said but there was an evenness to his voice. A subtle undertone of 'it's dangerous to get involved with me.' Something joker picked up on.

'You've got some demons your holding back huh?' But the thief kept his thought from going public.

"One last question," Joker asked.

"Ugh…. what?" And Ragna gave a very unpleasant groan.

"That keystone. Think you'd like to part with it?" The question was more loaded then Joker's gun.

"…. That depends." The air around Ragna grew cold as he peeked over his shoulder. His red eye glowing a deadly promise at Joker as the air around him shifted. "You want to keep your god damn head?"

Joker polite raised his hands in surrender. "Ask a dumb question yeah?"

"Tch. Whatever…" Ragan snarled one last time before he left.

"Phew. That was scary…." Panther sighed in relief at the grim reaper leaving. "Whether that guy was helping out or not, he was downright terrifying."

"I don't know," Joker said with a coy smile. "He seemed like a nice enough guy."

Panther sighed at her leader's calm attitude. Before perking up in curiosity. "Oh, joker! Did you- "

Joker held up a deep blue keystone. "Of course."

"Alright!" Panther jumped for joy. "We may finally get out of this crazy place."

"Heh heh." Joker chuckled as he touched the communicator in his ear. "Oracle you getting this?"

"Yup! And oh man this one is just as confusing as the last one! I mean some of the text is in Japanese but this other stuff…. What the heck is the Azure? Holy-That Ragna guy can eat souls!? COOOLLLL~~!"

"Oracle…" Joker sighed.

"Yeah yeah. I'll get through this one in no time. But you are so buying me an ultra feather man red figure after this!"

"Heh. Got it."

Joker turned to the skyscraper. His eyes flashing a proud, cocky shimmer in his eyes as he looked up and past the 109 building.

"Alright phantom thieves. It's show time."

-OOO-

"Ugh!" Joker and his team where turn back forms the wave of energy the massive structure of the system threw off. It is a big, near the city-sized machine. Multi-colored crystals at its core is covered by a silver decorated shell. And surrounded by that are two building sized spinning blades. The machine looked like an angel, but its intentions are that of a monster.

"Damn it!" Skull, a blonde hair punk looking boy cursed as he readied his nail-spiked bat. "What the hell is with that thing!?"

A biker girl, with spiked knuckles and shoulder pads, clicked her teeth as well. Her short chocolate hair looked a little-frazzled form the countless attacks from the computer. "It's a lot stronger then we thought!"

A short cat-like creature with a yellow bandana around its big blue eyes, slashed its cutlass in anger while a young man wielding a katana and fox mask sheathed his blade in clam realization.

"To think it would still be this powerful…" Said the fox masked wearing artist.

"So, what!?" the cat creature hissed. "We've faced tougher things than this!"

A soft looking girl with short fluffy hair reloaded her massive, high military grade grenade launcher. "Your right Mona. But none of our attacks have been having an effect so far."

"Joker!" Queen shouted to their leader as he stood up and dusted his coat off. "If that plan of yours is going to work it needs to work now!"

"Ha ha ha! Do you really think you can beat me? I have the power of four worlds!"

The massive floating computer taunted the thieves. Not a single scratch was on it as floated above and mocked their feeble attempt to stop it.

Joker oddly rolled his shoulders in a relaxed sigh. "Hm. Ture. Get's we'll need four world worth of power to take you down huh?"

"Stop right there Joker!"

Souji Seta and his investigation team, and a few members of SEES came running towards them.

"Whoawhoawhoa! What the hell is that!? Is it with the phantom thieves?" Yosuke nearly tripped over himself when saw the computer system.

"No," Naoto answered but still had her gun trained on the thieves. "It's not with Joker and his crew. It the entry that has started all this. And I believe Joker is even using it somehow."

"Yes and No." Souji looked at the phantom thief with a calm focused gaze. Far different from the phantom thief leader's percieing happily defient look.

"Joker stole our keystones to get help taking this thing down right?" Souji said shocking even Naoto who had come a totally different conclusion. "You know if you wanted help you could have just asked. "

Joker chuckled as he put his hands in his pockets. "And would have really trusted me? Souji-San?"

That made the investigation leader narrow his eyes at the phantom thief. "I never told you- "

"Linne!"

"I see him."

Hyde, Linne, and Orie all behind the investigation team. Their expressions filled with just as much shock as everyone else's. As they all came to a stop, their attention went from Joker to the massive machine floating in the air.

"What the hell is that!?" Hyde shouted.

"It's the cause of all this. I can feel it." Linne looked up at the massive machine. Even her stoic expression show some concern.

"That still doesn't change the fact that the thief is at the center of all this." Orie snapped with her eyes burning a the cunning trickster.

"No. He is more than mere thief…" The young immortal mused. "I feel a…chaotic power coming from him. Something neither evil….or good."

Orie couldn't fallow Linne's words and looked to her in question, "What do you-"

"There's that dirty thief!" Yang's voice boomed and cut through Orie's thoughts.

Her and team RWBY rushed in with the same reason as everyone else. To chase down Joker, but like everyone else, their attention was brought to the massive object in the sky.

"Um, Yang. Joker may be the least of our problems…" Wiess said as she readied her rapier and looked hesitantly at the massive machine.

"Yeah. I think something is up too." Blake agreed. Seeing the phantom thieves stand against the machine helped her put a few things together.

"You think they're in the mess like us too?" Ruby tilted her head in thought thinking of her encounters with Joker and how none of them were really that hostile. If anything, it was more playful.

"And that whole thing with the scheme of stealing all out keystones could have been a ruse to get us all to come here and fight that…thing." Blake deuced as she whipped out her blades. "It's crazy, but no one here has really been our enemy. Just violent."

"Alright fine." Yang sighed in remorse. "First we beat up that…thing. And then we kick his butt! That biker chick so owes me a rematch!" The spunky blonde readied her gauntlets as she bounced up and down in her fighting stance.

Even without a face, everyone could tell the system isn't even phased by them. "Hmph."

With a wave of is massive blades hundred and thousands of shadowy clones of the heroes appeared out of thin air.

"Whoa! Th-there's a whole army of them!" Yosuke panicked as evil red-eyed versions of himself glared at him as they twirled their kunai.

The computer cackled and laughed at eh heroes were cornered. "I have the power of a god, I know all your strength and weakness. Do you really think you can beat me?"

"Aaaahhhhhhh!"

"Hm?" Blake's cat ears perked up at an odd sound. It sounded like a really, really angry man. "Wait is that…"

Joker, in the midst of the chaos and danger, merely smirked as the sound got louder and closer. "We can't. But he can."

"Ragh!" Before the computer could even understand the phantom thieves' words, Ragna came from the sky and swung his scythe down into the machine. slicing into it as sparks and metal pieces flew out as the computer let out a painful shriek. Trying it shook Ragna off by swing her body side to side, swing the grim reaper as well but he easily flipped off her and landed in a roll next to Joker and his team. However, he quickly sheathed his blade and ran up to the phantom thief leader.

"Alright, you punk!" Ragna snarled as he picked Joker up by the collar of his shirt. "The hell did you do with the Keystone!?"

"Honestly Ragna. Would you behave yourself?" Rachal, gracefully floating down with her parasol, sighed. All thee while Jin, Makoto, Noel, and Izayoi all ran to catch up with them. "I am sorry for my dog here. He is so difficult to train."

"Can it rabbit! I've been led by the nose for too god damn long! Now, where- "

"Front left inner chest pocket," Joker said coolly. Even though Ragna is practically breathing fire at him.

"Quite screwing aro- "As Ragna shook joker, he's jacket shook too. With an odd weight in his front left inner chest pocket.

Dropping the cheeky thief, Ragna dug inside his jacket.

"…."

And pulled out the keystone.

"Ragna…." Noel sighed sounding really disappointed.

"Your idiocy knows no bound dose it Ragna?" Rachel sighed as well.

"…. I am reaching levels of anger I never thought possible…." Ragna's left eye was beginning to twitch.

"H-How is that possible!?" The computer gasped in a stunned shaky voice. "That-That keystone! How is it the real one! My scans can't be wrong so how- "

"Hellooo!? Is this working!?" A voice forms the screen in the sky brought everyone's attention to a large screen in the middle of the sky where a strange appeared. She is a young girl, with reddish orange hair where large sci-fi goggles with a green and black stealth suit appeared. She looked to be in a machine of some kid. Nobs button and flashing light surround her as she looked at the screen curiously. Twitching her head like a bird until she noticed joker.

"Ah, Leader!" She pointed angerly at Joker. Although it was hard to fearful of the girl with her cheek puff out liked a puffer fish. "Do you know how hard it was to copy the specs of that thing!? Two! Two Ultra-red featherman figures!"

Joker chuckled happily at the girl's threat. "Thanks, Oracle. I'll get you those figures when we get back."

"You better!"

"Who are you!? Get out of my hard drive!" The system. Roared at the girl Swiping at her image with her blade.

"Oops looks like I better get out of here before she kicks me out. But first~" Oracle threw all the sliders in the strange room she was in. And a flash of golden light encircled everyone for a moment. Revitalizing their bodies and increasing their strength tenfold with some odd magic.

"Super ultra mega boost for everyone! Later joker, kick that stupid thing's butt!"

The girl vanished from the screen as did the invigorating light.

"Heh heh. Alright!" Skull pumped his fist and tore off his mask. "Let's do this! Captain Kidd!"

A devilish pirate thundered behind the skull as it fired its cannon arm. Blasting more shadows apart with a blot off lighting.

"Alright, everyone! Remember the plan! Joker and the others will handle the computer. We support and help everyone else with the clones!" Queen barked her orders as she torn off her own mask. "Let's ride, Johana!"

Queen hoped on the back of large powerful motorcycle and rode off into the hoard of clones.

"Show that stupid computer what happens when it tires to trick the phantom thieves!" Mona smirked as he summoned his own shadow. "Let's do this Zorro!"

"You better finish this up, quick Joker!" Panther giggled as she cracked her whip. "You still owe me a crepe. Let's take them down, Carmen!"

The Phantom thieves called upon the other selves and joined in the battle while the other prepared as well.

"Oh my…" Rachel twirled her twirled her parasol in awe as she let the soothing feeling of the magical wave wash over her. "That is quite invigorating."

"Oh oh oh….Ha ha ha ha Aah ha ha ha ha!" Yang cackled and then let out a full-blown near mad laugh she let her semblance explode from her body. "Heck YEAH! Now I really go all out!"

The fought happy blonde leaped high in the air and slammed her fist down in a mass of her own clones. Crying loudly as Kevin's o her clones and massive blogger flew up in the air.

"YAHOOOO!"

"We…better go stop that…" Blake watches the carnage uneasily.

"Are you sure?" Weiss raised a brow as she watches Yang beat her own clones with a clone of Weiss. "If we leave her alone, she'll just take them all out herself."

There was a black blur as another clone, not on their team, was flung by them.

"That's what I m worried about…." Blake sighed as she unsheathed her weapons. "Ruby. We'll leave that computer to you and the others."

"Please don't mess this up." Weiss smirked playfully before jumping in the fray with her rapier.

"Heh heh!" Yosuke smirked. Spinning his kunai as he readied to face his clone. "With this new strength, I can totally do this- whoa!?"

He ducked just in time to avoid a clone of himself being tossed by a kick form Chie.

"Wha-watch it ya damn carnivore! I am not a clone!"

Chie apologised a little too honestly. "Oh, sorry they all have the same dumb look on their face so- "

"What dumb look!?"

"Cool it you two. We're in the middle of a fight remember?" Naoto sighed as she readied her gun.

"Yeah!" Kanji stomped his foot in a wild roar. "Quit your yammering and let's kick some ass already! Let's go, Take-Mikazuchi!"

Kanji slammed his foot on a glowing blue card and his persona roared behind him.

"Well handle the clone's senpai," Naoto said as she walked to stand next to her teammate. Her own blue card spinning just in front of her. "You just beat the machine. And don't let joker out your sight. We still have a lot of questions to ask him."

"Persona!" She shot her card out the air as her own persona, a sprit with butterfly wings and beam saber appeared at her side.

"Indeed," Mitsuru said as she pulled out her evoker. "This will be a good training. Defeating my past self will be a statement of my growth."

"Heh. Couldn't have said better myself Mitsuru." Akihiko smirked as pulled out his evoker and put it to his forehead. "Let's do this! Cesar!"

"Come! Artemisia!"

A roman emperor with the world in his hands and aborad sword and a whip-carrying metal empress appeared behind them in flash of light.

"Dance Konohana Sakuya!" Yukkio cut her card with paper fans as a beautiful dancer with wings and lovely read kimono appeared behind her in a tower of flames. "We'll have this finished in no time Souji-kun!"

The investigation team and the former members of Sees charged forth.

"To be working with you and Hyde once again…is fate trying to tell me something…." Orie mused as she stared down twenty to thirty of herself.

"Yeah, it's telling you to pay attention to the fight." Linne sighed as she readied her blades. "Take that thing out, Hyde."

The immortal woman commanded before she vanished in a flash and repapered behind thirty clones. That all burst in the black dust.

"We've got your back Kido-kun. Just focus on the fight in front of you. And…um be c-careful…" Orie shock off her blush as she dashed into combat as well. Piercing and slicing through shadows with the same grace and elegance she always carries.

"Right then. Tusba-no, Izayoi." Jin turned to the gold armored woman. He's feeling conflicted but he needed to put them aside for now. "Can I count on you for support?"

"Of course, you can jin." Izayoi, almost too eagerly, smiled and prepared her blade. "I will always have your back."

"Good. Makato! Cover our right flank! And Noel…." The major turned to the floating blind with a look of disgust.

"Just try not to di- "

Noel's bullet song out as it pierced the skull of a Jin clone rising its blade over the original.

"I'll cover both flanks commander," Noel said evenly shockingly enough.

"Let's go Makoto!" Noel commanded with a twirl of her guns.

"Alright! Let's kick some tail Noellers!" Noel swiftly became flustered with a blushing face at her nickname.

"Ma-Makoto! Don't call me that in a fight!" But she still chased after her friend into the fray.

"She's gotten better…" Izayoi said under her breath, although jin clearly heard her the disgusted sneer on his face.

"Tch." With a flick of his wrist, Yukianesa sliced forth and froze ten clones. "A turd is still a turd. Even it if is slightly polished."

With a click, his blade is sheathed and the iced shadows shattered.

"Let's go. My bother will handle that machine."

Although there was an unsatisfied growl at the mention of Ragna, Izayoi nodded and followed Jin into battle.

-OOO-

"How!?" The machine cried in rage. Her plan was ruined. Broken and shattered by a single lowly human. "HowhowhowHOW!?"

Joker chuckled. Adjusting his gloves as he walked up to the computer with a snarky grin. "Did you really think you could trick a trickster?"

"RAAAA!" In a fit of anger, the system let a gust of power and wind that would have knocked. But none of the five heroes were phased.

If anything, it only mad Ragna angrier.

"I am through with this shit!" The Grim reaper's right hand started to glow as the ground around him shook.

"Release restriction 666! Blazblue activate!" The orb on Ragna's right hand shined open as an azure glow encircled him. He whipped out his blade as it transformed into a deathly scythe with a sickly black and red blade made out energy.

"I'll destroy you and this stupid ass world!"

"Heh. Guess I'll go all out too." Joker grinned as chains shot up from the ground around. Blue fire erupted around his feet while he gripped one of the weathering chains in his hand.

"Come! Break the shackle's that bind us! And let soar the wings of Rebellion!" The phantom thief broke the chains. Shattering them like glass as a massive devil appeared behind him.

"Satanael!" The six-winged fallen angel of the devil appeared before him. It's large curved horns adorned it's head as it glare down at the machine with its long barreled pistol.

"Now…shall I show you heaven." The trickster smile, a devil may smirk that would women swoon. Men loyal to him. And god quiver. "Or hell?"

Joker pointed his gun defiantly at the computer. His persona mimicking his movements as he roared. "Let's rock!"

A bright blue card floated in Souji's hand. White light surrounded his fight as he chanted.

"Cut through lies…. slash through the illusion and the fogs of deception! Come! Izanagi no Okami!"

The young detective crushed the card in his hands. The sound of glass shattering echoed throughout as a god appeared behind him. It's white coat simmered through the darkness. It's duel bladed katana can pierce the heaven as it copied it's summoner's movements.

Both Souji and the god bravely pointed their blade at the computer. "Your games end here!"

"Come Insulator! And cut through the havens!" Hyde slammed his fit into in his open palm and pulled out his long red katana. Magical lines of EXS ran through it. The young ready his weapon and snarled at the machine. "This is as far as your plan goes! We'll cut you down here and now!

"Let's go Crescent rose and um…. blow right through them! Yeah!"

…..

There was an odd weight in the air as everyone looked at Ruby with utter exasperation. Even the personas.

"Muu~ Don't look at me like that!" The young huntress frantically waved her arms and puffed out her cheeks in embarrassment. "I don't have to cool catch phase to unless some hidden power or summon a sword from hand!"

Ruby swung her scythe on her shoulder and pointed the machine. "Let's just kick this thing's butt so I can get back home and eat some cookies!"

Ragna actually grinned as he snarled at the machine. "Couldn't have said better myself kid! Ragh!"

The grim reaper launched himself at the machine. His weapon swings through the air as it clashed with the system's massive blade. Hyde and Ruby dashed along the ground. Ruby Using the high school boy's back as a springboard to throw herself up high in the air and priced the armor of the computer system.

"Myriad…." Souji raised his blade as Izanagi spun his. A massive gathering of electrical power in the center grew bigger as his bald spun faster and faster. "OF TRUTH!"

The blast of white lighting shot forth and rammed into his foe. Sending it flying back into the wall with Ragna still slashing away at it's top.

As this was going on, Joker just smiled.

Behind him, the army of shadows was on its last legs. Every single last one of them being slaughter by his team and the gathering of otherworldly characters. In front of him, cracks in the computer's armor were everywhere. Weaken and broken beyond repair.

And he barely had to lift a finger.

Almost lazily, raising his pistol, Satanael coping his movements, with the barrel of their guns aimed dead center at the computers' core, Joker held that devilish cunning sneer.

"I love it when a plan comes to together."

"Sinful shell!" Akira pulled the trigger and a pulled of pure sin and chaos sored. Piercing through the computer. Ending another chapter in the phantom thief's life.