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"Ow...where am I?" Yosuke rubbed his head as he regained his senses, slowly sitting up. How the hell did he end up in the...classroom? Anyways, he didn't remember sleeping through class, so there was something strange. And although he looked around, his friends weren't anywhere to be seen either. Just some kid with ridiculously spiky red hair shouting at a blank monitor. What was he, some sort of juvenile delinquent? Yosuke pushed himself up and got to his feet, and would have headed for the door...if his nose didn't slam harshly into a wall suddenly, sending him tumbling back into a desk. "Ow, what the hell? I must still be sleepy and...h-huh?" Yosuke looked at the place he'd bumped into, but instead of a wall he saw only the open doorway. Putting his hand out to test it again though caused his hand to halt, as if he were pressing it firmly against a bunch of bricks. "T-that's right! This is inside the TV. I remember now, we all came in because of that stupid program..."

He was cut off by the monitor, which turned on with a roar of the crowd to reveal the bear-y funny looking head of this charade. "Welcome one and all! The Grand Prix is about to begin! May the manliest of aaaaall men come oooon dooowwn!" In queue with that came the image of Rise, which caused Yosuke to take a step forward behind El, sticking a hand out towards the television. "Rise! W-what are you doing here? Are you helping Teddie with this?" Yosuke's pleading was ignored as the girl let out a humorous giggle and went on with the show, as if El and Yosuke weren't worth acknowledging at all right now. "Lets get ready for the first match! Lets have a round for the Challenger, mmmyy senpaaiiii!" The crowd let out a round of applause for Yosuke, causing him to 'wut' while a few boos flew El's way, indicating that if Yosuke was the challenger then he must have been the closest thing to a 'home team' there was. "Come to think of it, I haven't seen you before. You weren't on the Midnight Channel though...c-could you be the victim?" Yosuke asked, unaware that whatever he said, was probably coming out much different than the real words to El. "Let the fight begin! I hope you give it your all Yosuke, after all, I wouldn't have set this tournament up if it weren't for you. Alllriggght, lets do this!" The fake Teddie said, declaring the start of the match with an evil vigor, much to Yosuke's chagrin.

"You have a mouth on you, don't you?" A flick of his wrists had been all Yosuke needed for his kunai to slide out and catch the oncoming blade, tipped off all in all by the insults that the kid was giving him. What kind of victim would be spouting off lines like that? "That's right...this place might be inside Babel. If that's the case, you could be any one of Hetero's goons." His eyes took on a determined look as his Persona formed around him, the features of Jaraiya replacing some of his own to show the new form that he'd obtained thanks to the Persona Fusion. Unlike a lot of the others, he'd been training to master this power, getting ahead of the game just like he and his Partner were wont to do; and it was time to show off that new difference, no doubt about it!"You struck first, so you can't hold it against me if I get answers by beating them out of you." Yosuke taunted, a fickle grin appearing. Yeah, he enjoyed feeling the power to help others...the power his Persona gave him.

Yosuke's blade shot upwards, knocking El's own away as he leaped above in a blur, dragging his arms across his body as the two stars on his hands shot off and struck at El from behind, leaving no room for weakness from the bigoted fighter he'd been put up against. If it was speed then El would be lucky if he could keep up with the afterimages that the king of heroes had...or at least, that's what Yosuke thought. Even missing his best mark though wouldn't leave Yosuke in a bad situation on any end. The power of his Persona had always been on a dangerous level, and the sheer magnitude of his strength now dwarfed what El awakened to, although that could be said for all his categories...a lesson El might learn when the two star blades struck, with a fierceness that he could mistake for his own special way of ending a battle, if El even managed to stave off the deadly attack once. 'course, more than likely putting his weapon in the way would just get it shattered...and he'd probably get his heart stabbed out...and I'm totally just making stuff up now. But seriously, messing with Yosuke...craaaazy stuff!

"Hey, watch your mout-wugh!" Yosuke crossed his blades in front of him as a blade slashed towards him a lot faster than expected, smashing through his rough block and stabbing into his shoulder. "D-damn it." A hand shot up and gripped the blade as Yosuke raised two fingers on his other hand and before El could move, the blades he'd deflected came spinning in to slam into his back. If he thought the first attack Yosuke had used was all he had, then the decoy must have worked as he used the winds of his Persona to manipulate and strike with his blades from any angle, a trick he'd only picked up with his new level of power. Better yet, with the wound he had Yosuke had secured the guy's weapon, meaning he couldn't avoid the attack (that he didn't see coming) unless he threw away his own weapon in the process.