Revelations Persona: Equestria Girls

Once I came to, the first thing I noticed was everything was blue. Or at least, the room we were in was. There was a piano playing and someone singing in the background.

I looked up and not far away there was a man with a large nose sitting in a rather comfortable chair. “Ah, you're all finally awake. Allow me to personally welcome you all to the Velvet Room, a realm between dreams and reality. My name is Igor, and I will act as your guide on your journey.”

I looked around as the other girls shook themselves off and got up. That's when I noticed? “Twilight!?”

Twilight looked around the entire room. “I've never seen a room so...blue. Where are we?”

“Uh...Ah’m guessing this has to do with Persona stuff,” Applejack said. “But...what is she doing here?”

Igor chuckled. “The only way for you all to come here is to have awakened your inner selves, your Personas. She has also awakened, but I sense she was not aware of it.”

“My...Persona?” Twilight asked. I quickly explained to her what's been going and surprisingly she took it well. “It reminds me of a game we used to play when we were kids...but I wonder…” She took a deep breath. “Persona!”

A woman with dark hair and grey eyes appeared, accompanied by an owl. “I am Athena, Goddess of Wisdom. My powers will help you and others along your journey.”

Twilight was almost speechless. “Well then…”

“There are two other things I need to discuss,” Igor said. “The demons in your world from time to time will drop tarot cards based on their arcana. These cards are important, for they will allow you to create new, stronger Personas. Bring them back to me and I shall do the rest. The other is Fusion spells. Depending on what spells your Personas have, they can combine into a more powerful spell. Keep this in mind when you encounter these demons. Ah, I almost forgot to introduce an acquaintance of mine.”

“Tarot cards are not the only cards demons possess.” There was a man with long black hair, sunglasses, and a beanie on his head. “Some have what we call free cards, blank cards that have yet to be made. With those cards, I can create any type of card with any arcana. The choices are yours.”

“Now it is time to part…” Igor said. “Your Personas need more time to grow...but when you see the blue door in the future, please do not hesitate to visit. Until then, I bid you all farewell…”

I suddenly woke up on the hardwood flooring of the gym. It was then I realized we were still at Crystal Prep. That, and the rest of the student body was gone.

“Well...that was weird,” Dash said.

“Weird? Just where the hell were ya!?” Applejack snapped.

Dash scowled and threw off her glasses and took out her hair band, letting her hair down. “Well I was heading to the bathroom but there was this white light and next thing I know I'm here!”

“I...think I like her actual look better,” Twilight said.

“Thank you,” Dash replied, rolling her eyes. “So...you're one of us huh?”

“You mean...you can call them too?” Twilight asked.

“Yep! It's great!” Pinkie said quite happily.

“Can we get back to the part where some crazy bitch just appeared out of nowhere and abducted an entire school?” I said, taking off the safety of my gun.

“Hey! No firearms on school property!” Twilight suddenly snapped. Everyone stared at her. “...What?”

“The point is moot now since we're all armed darling,” Rarity said. “But Sunset's right, that girl, whoever she is, is currently our enemy.”

“Do you have something to fight with?” Fluttershy asked Twilght. “I don't think we're in our world anymore.”

“Actually…” Twilight pulled out a set of keys. “I think I do. The room is actually not far from here, it's near the main office.”

“Just be ready for trouble once we go out,” Applejack said, twirling her axe. “Been wanting to give this thing a try anyway…”

Once we got out, it didn't take long for us to get our first encounter. There were three...how do I put it? What was that famous play...oh right Cats.

“Oh...demons...got it now,” Twilight said.

Dash snorted. “Who brought in the furry patrol?”

“Hey! Don't be making fun of our looks!” one of the demon...kitties snapped.

“Holy shit it talks!?” Dash yelled.

“Uh yeah? Are you stupid or do you just like pissing people off?”

“Okay conversation's over!” Dash growled. “Persona!” Nike appeared and performed a wind attack, causing the Nekometa to yelp out in pain and then vanish.

“Aw…” Fluttershy said sadly.

“Fluttershy I swear to God if you start fraternising with the enemy…!”

The other two Nekometa were not happy and one went after Dash, scratching at her while the other attacked Fluttershy. “Ouch!” Fluttershy cried out. “Okay...you've done it now! Persona!” Artemis appeared and using her bow, struck both demons as they perished instantly.

“Man...Ah sure hope Opal don't act like that,” Applejack chuckled.

“Excuse you but Opalescence is a lady...not some low life hussy,” Rarity reprimanded her.

I then noticed something laying on the ground where the demons had disappeared. I went over to pick it up and saw they were tarot cards, of the Hermit arcana. “This must be what that man Igor was talking about…” I said as I pocketed the cards.

“I can't wait to see what Twilight's Persona can do!” Pinkie said.

“To be honest I'm curious myself…” Twilight said. “Oh there's the room! Be right back!” She unlocked the door and went inside.

“So...if she gets ambushed and gets killed do we leave her?” Dash asked.

“Rainbow Dash!” Rarity snapped, looking outraged.

“She's our friend!” Fluttershy added, looking upset.

“Friend? We just met her like half an hour ago,” Dash replied.

“Regardless, we're in th’ same boat now and quite frankly Ah like her,” Applejack said. “And school affiliation should have nothin’ to do with it.”

Dash sighed. “Alright alright, I'm sorry...that was kinda harsh. I still hate this school though.”

The door then opened again and Twilight came out with a rapier in hand. “Oh my, Twilight,” Rarity said. “I would not have guessed you were into fencing.”

“I used to when I was younger,” Twilight said. “I may be a little rusty but it's better than nothing. So, what now?”

“Last time when this happened at CHS, we couldn't get out,” I explained. “Guess we need to find our masked assailant.”

“But didn't you notice this person was a female and the other person was male?” Fluttershy asked.

“Great, so a cult,” Dash summed up.

“To be honest, we don't know who these people are or what their goal is,” Rarity said. “But right now I'd love to get out of this hellhole.” She glanced at Twilight. “No offense.”

“None taken, trust me,” Twilight said.

Suddenly one of the doors shot open and I was ready to shoot off a round until I saw a disheveled young man slightly older than us come out looking panicked. “Shiny!?” Twilight suddenly said.

The man looked in our direction and he suddenly looked relieved. “Twily!” He then ran over to us. “You're okay! Oh, are you friends of hers?”

“Uh...yep! Good ol’ Twilight!” Dash said rather loudly. Everyone could tell she was making up for her remarks before.

“This is my brother Shining Armor, he's a P.E. teacher and the head coach of the boy's track team at the school,” Twilight said. “I'm glad to see you're okay.”

“You and me both,” Shining said. “I'm glad we found other students. The rest... they're just gone and we can't seem to get out.”

“There are other students here?” Applejack asked.

Shining sighed. “Only five so far, and then there's Cadance and I. But that's not even the weirdest parts. There are these...things running around the school. We barely escaped a couple before and now Cadance and the others have barricaded themselves in the planetarium. As for me, I'm just looking for any other survivors.”

“I'm just glad you and Cadance are safe,” Twilight said. “Don't worry though, we'll take care of the culprit.”

Shining glanced at all of us, his eyes lingering on me, and the Beretta, the most. “Yeah...no doubt I'm sure. Alright, I'll keep looking on this floor just in case.”

Once Shining headed down the hallway we heard a snort. We looked to Pinkie who could barely restrain herself. “I'm sorry, I'm sorry!” She was almost crying. “Your brother calls you 'Twily’ and you call him 'Shiny’!”

“W-What it's a sibling thing!” Twilight snapped. “It's not funny!”

Dash snorted. “Actually it kinda is…”

“Ahem,” Rarity said, clearly not amused. “I believe we're in the middle of something?”

“Sorry…” Pinkie and Dash said.

“The best place to try is the rooftop,” Twilight said.

We all nodded and headed for the stairs, taking us to the second floor. It was then we encountered what looked like...slime? “Ugh, I don't even want to go near those things!” Rarity grimaced. “Aphrodite!” Her Persona appeared and used a large ice attack to clear them away. “Hm, my Persona feels a little bit stronger.”

We then found the next group of stairs onto the third and were soon ambushed by a pair of-

“What the hell, zombies!?” Dash asked. “Hey Sunset you know the drill, aim for the head right?”

I've seen plenty of movies where that's the case and upon aiming and pulling the trigger, the zombie went down.Unfortunately, I wasn't quick enough to get rid of the second before it attacked me. “Ah got you covered,” Applejack said. “Come on Demeter show 'em what fer!” Demeter appeared and used an earth-based attack which ended up crushing the zombie.

“Are you okay?” Fluttershy asked me.

“It's okay, it doesn't hurt that bad,” I insisted.

“Just to be safe…” Fluttershy paused as Artemis appeared and I felt an aura around me, melting the pain away. “There you go.”

“Wow, if Fluttershy's a healer then I feel a lot better,” Pinkie said.

“Yes, but using it takes a bit of my stamina,” Fluttershy said. “So we need to be careful about that.”

“Yeah, yeah we'll be fine,” Dash said impatiently.

We then hit the fourth floor... and it was at that point I realized something was wrong. “Twilight...how many floors does Crystal Prep have?”

“Three, if you don't include the roof,” she replied. She must've picked up on it cause she was silent for a moment. “Why is there a fourth floor?”

“Oh I know! Cause we're in some alternate dimension and because we're in an alternate dimension the laws of physics don't matter here so even if this building looks like it has three floors it can go on and on forever!” Pinkie didn't even have to take a deep breath.

“You mean... we're trapped here?” Fluttershy asked.

“Worst. Way to go. Ever.” Dash complained.

“Well, Pinkie could be right…” Twilight said, her head down as if in thought. “But we'll have to keep going. It's better than just sitting here right?”

Applejack chuckled. “Ah'm liking this girl more and more.”

“Let's just hope there is an end,” I said.

The higher we went up, the less demons there seemed to be. I was hoping that Twilight's brother and the others were okay. Once we finally got up to what was now the sixth floor, instead of a hallway we were greeted with a small corridor and a door just ahead.

Pinkie then shivered. “I don't know if this is my Pinkie sense or something else, but whatever's waiting past that door is certainly not good.”

“Sounds like our friend from before,” I commented.

Twilight took a deep breath. “Alright, I'm ready.”

I opened the door slowly and we were suddenly outside on the rooftop. I don't think I could ever get used to the sound of literally nothing. No wind, no birds chirping, no cars passing by below, nothing. Just what was this place?

“So... you've finally showed up.” In front of us, near the edge of the roof stood the figure that had been in the gym earlier, staring out towards the horizon. She then turned around and we saw she still had her face concealed. “The fact you are all still here means you're different from all the rest, just like myself.”

“What the hell does that mean!?” Dash snapped.

“Your powers of course. And you too Twilight? Now this is a surprise…”

“You know who I am?” Twilight asked. “Who are you?”

The figure chuckled. “You're the smartest girl in the entire school and you haven't figured it out!?”

“How about ya show yer face instead of hiding it!?” Applejack demanded.

“Hm...I suppose now it doesn't matter…” She then lowered her hood and took off her mask.

Twilight suddenly took a step back. “You!?”

“That's right, me,” Starlight Glimmer replied.

“Uh...who in tarnation is she?” Applejack asked.

“Starlight Glimmer,” I replied. “I guess compared to Twilight she's second best at this school.”

Starlight laughed. “Is that what she told you? How amusing...but yes I am Starlight...or rather was. That was the old me, before I became enlightened. Now, you may call me Lady Aquarius.”

There was a long pause. “Come again?” Applejack asked.

“You wouldn't know this but in a matter of days a great event shall take place, one that will change the world forever,” Starlight said. “A new flood is coming and only those who are worthy shall board the Ark that will take us to the Promised Land.”

“Yes, I can see the poor girl is clearly off her rocker,” Rarity murmured.

“ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?” Twilight yelled. “You did all this, you went after innocent people, our student body, for some stupid prophecy!?”

“You wouldn't understand,” Starlight said. “I worked hard all my life. I did everything I could to make sure I aced every test, to show everyone I was serious about helping achieve their goals, that's why I ran for Student Council President! But no, here you show up and all of a sudden you're the girl with the best grades the school has ever seen and everyone is always talking about you, praising you for your achievements. And all you ever do is spend time in the science lab building junk that no one will ever use! Talk about a waste of potential!”

“I…” Twilight couldn't muster up the words to answer that. Pinkie however came to her defense.

“So what if she has a different hobby, no one should have to tell her what she can and cannot do!” Pinkie said angrily.

“Wait a minute...let me get this straight,” Dash said. “You're going around kidnapping students and prophesising some mumbo jumbo...cause your pride got hurt? Oh shut the hell up you bitch!”

“It no longer matters,” Starlight said. “The Promised Day is soon upon us, as our master decreed, and nothing, not even you, can stop it.”

“What did you do with the students?” I asked.

“I don't know,” Starlight said casually. “That much was never explained. But enough talk. Now I see you and I were destined to meet like this Twilight…” Suddenly an orange glow surrounded her. “So...let's see who's truly Crystal Prep’s number one student!”