Working With Phantoms

Harsh Input, Harmful Output

Madran refrained from speaking, due to her lack of disgust for pulp.

"Anyways, how was your school day?"

"Oh, it was the usual. Haru had the sudden experience of learning about ultimate personas, though. That was interesting."

"Oh, didja tell her about them?"

"Suga did."

"Cool."

The pair then enjoyed their drinks and shared a light conversation before Madran saw that Chicory had found his way outside.

"Hey, Chic, how're ya doing?"

Madran looked over to Elia, who was finishing her drink.

"So, are we all ready to head in?"

"Yep, let's go."

The trio then went to the Velvet Room, with everyone else in Madran's group eventually meeting there.

"Ok, everyone, how are we today?"

"I'm doing good. Hey, I don't mean to be pushy, but how much longer are we to keep in our two separate groups?"

"Well, there is a chance that we'll intersect today, and if that's so, then we can swap our groups around. There's only one rule, however, and that is that at least one person with a keycard has to be in each group."

"That sounds reasonable. Does anyone else have questions, or are we all set to head out?"

"Let's get moving. The sooner, the better."

"Gotcha."

The group then headed out to the Metaverse and promptly split up into their two groups and went back to their respective Safe Rooms. Then, once Madran got out of the room with her team, she began to scan.

"Ok, well, today, we're headed for some sort of transfer station to this second part of the palace. All we have to do is head through the door. Are we all ready?"

Upon seeing that everyone had started for the next door, Madran quickly ran ahead and entered the massive double doors to find herself at a series of long hallways that were all visible due to the usage of glass walls.

"Hmm. That's... eight, no, ten hallways. How are we to get down these in a timely manner, Fwoosh? Like, we can't just run the entire way."

"Well, we can, but there's gotta be a better way. Even if we run at a jogging pace, we're going to take..."

Madran began to scan.

"...oh my, upwards of 45 minutes to make it to the other side of this hallway."

"I suspect that Joker's group, if they come across this, won't have any problems, what, with their UFOs, motorbikes, and cat busses."

"Hmm... oh, Fwoosh, over there, look!"

Madran then peered into another hallway to see a squad of WKR Corporobos driving down the hallway on what appeared to be small car-like vehicles.

"Hey, how do we get those?"

"They may just have a few hidden around here. Let's see..."

Madran checked the area around the hallway and found a hidden storage room to her right. Upon accessing it, she found a small room with a few of those odd cars she had seen the robots driving.

"Ooh, jackpot! Ok, there's four here, so, if we can, everyone but Clown take one, and Clown, hop in on mine."

Madran then walked up to one of the vehicles, which, upon closer examination, looked to be floating circle-like objects with one passenger seat in each of them.