Chapter One: Transfers

-May 12th, 2012-

This wasn't real. That was all that was going through Yu Narukami's mind as he sat in class. But not one from his own school, or rather not the one he had been currently attending not 24 hours ago. Nope. Somehow, after the events of the so called "Phantom Field", Narukami found himself back at Yasogami High. In spring! How and why were nowhere in sight, but that was actually the least of his worries.

Looking around, he saw the several unexplainable anomalies sitting in the same desk and wearing the same school uniforms as him, and acting as if everything was perfectly normal. The problem? They were people he knew were from other worlds! People he had encountered in the Phantom Field's made up Tag Battle Tournament.

Just in front of his desk, sitting right next to his friend Yukiko, was one now. A blonde haired girl by the name Noel. On the other side of the aile from him were two more, a young man with spikey blonde and black hair, named Hyde, and a young girl with blackish red hair, Ruby, both huddled around the formers textbook due to the latter forgetting her own. And one row behind him, sitting next to another of his friends, Yosuke, was a white spiked haired man with red and green eyes, named Ragna, with his feat propped up on the desk.

This wasn't real! It couldn't be real! It just can't!

-After School-

The sound of the bell brought a great relief on the student body, but a most gracious one to the investigation team. To say the events of the past day have left them exhausted would be a greatly glossed over understatement. Not only have they had near nonstop fight after fight in that other world, but now they had to figure what exactly happened and why people of other universes were now part of their school. Of course, a team meeting was called on the roof instead of Junes due to short notice.

"Okay, can somebody, anybody, please explain to me whAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" Yosuke begged for proper reasoning.

"I'm with Yosuke on this one for once," Chie seconded, "Seriously! I thought it was wierd that some of them were in our class, but I saw that Makoto girl and that white haired girl that was with Ruby in Class 1, and even some of the teachers are different now!"

"And I saw a couple new faces in Class 3 as well!" Yukiko added, "A blonde girl, a black haired girl with a bow, and a boy with long red hair."

"Kanji, is there anyone added to the second years?" Yu asked the youngest member.

"Eh, there's a few new ones," Kanji answered, "But nothing like the numbers in your year, Senpai."

"It's quite peculiar. It's almost like-wait," Naoto stopped her train of thought and looked around, "Where's Rise?"

Everyone was so quick to try and understand the situation, nobody had noticed one member was missing from the group. Before any could question it further, the door to the roof quickly slammed open, getting everyone's attention. Low and behold, the former idol appeared before them.

"Sorry I'm late everyone!" Rise appologized as she hurried beside them, "I got caught up talking to Weiss and Orie about summer plans and then Linne and Luna joined in and I lost track of time."

"Woah, easy does it Rise," Yu calmed her worry, "We haven't had the meeting for long now."

"Wait hold on a minute!" Yosuke interrupted, "Isn't Weiss the name of that girl that Ruby was with? Why were you just casually talking with them? And how are you not freaking out?!"

"Freaking out about what?" Rise confusingly asked like nothing, "I mean, come on guys, I have other friends. It's not that strange."

"It is when they're basically aliens!" Yosuke exclaimed in bewilderment.

"Okay, I get that they're foreign, but aliens? That's kinda rude, Yosuke-senpai," Rise told him off.

"Rise, isn't any of this wierd?" Yu asked her, trying to get an firm understanding, "Isn't me being here at the very least seem a bit off to you?"

"No, not at all, Senpai," Rise answered Narukami with a smile before taking ahold of his arm, "Since you permanently transferred here, nothing could be more perfect."

'Permanetly transferred!?' Yu's mind repeated the words in shock.

Certain pieces started to align within Narukami's mind. Him being back in Inaba, it being spring, and the sudden appearance of those from other worlds. All of it had to be connected somehow. Could it be that... this isn't their world? After all, if other worlds exist, who's to say that one so similar yet different to theirs couldn't exist as well.

Fortunately for the wild card wielder, his exestential breakdown was cut short when Rise's phone went off and she detatched herself from his arm to answered it. A couple seconds passed with her on the phone, responding with one word replies.

"Alright, I'll be there in a bit," she finished off, hanging up, "Sorry everyone, but a whole swarm of customers just came in and I'm needed at the shop."

"It's no bother, go help out you're grandmother," Yu assured her she didn't need to apologize.

"Thanks," she said before running off as fast as she showed up.

Only a moment passed before the conversation started up once more.

"So... what do we do?" Chie asked the group, "Should we just go on with our lives or... what?"

"Good point. This is wierd and all, but just standing around and talking ain't gonna do crap," Kanji brought up, "Tomorrow's a day off. We should all meet up at Junes and put our heads together."

"Yeah, good idea!" Yosuke agreed, "That way we can also fill Rise and Teddie in on everything that happened!"

"Sounds like a plan," Naoto jumped aboard.

"It'll be just like a usual team meeting," Yukiko added.

"Then it's settled," Yu finished it off, "We gather at Junes and explain the events of the Phantom Field."

"Aw yeah!" Chie cheered, "The Investigation Team is back!"

As the persona users all finished up talking and planning for tomorrow, a small number of individuals watched from a far. Three to be precise, but not all together.

"Hmm, it would seem we're not the only ones," a young female voice remarked with the mildest intrigue.

"Six targets. Memories intact... Keystone detected." another, older sounding female voice stated with no emotion.

"Well, now isn't that interesting," a male voice added, with an untrusting tone put behind every word, "This could be fun."