Danganronpa: The A-Team
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
The A-Team is owned by Stephen Canell and Frank Lupo
Hello, and welcome to another new Danganronpa fanfic. An idea popped into my head after doing some research on some classic TV series of the 1980's after re-watching the Incredible Hulk (1978-1982), and after watching some of the 80's shows' intro, a certain show caught my eye, which I immediately conducted a research on Wikipedia, and after reading the info, as well as downloading it, I was immediately floored with inspiration that led me to create this fic.
This fanfic is based on the classic TV series, The A-Team, which starred an ensemble cast featuring Dirc Benedict, Mr. T and the late George Peppard, and aired between 1982 to 1986. While I was able to download and watch seasons 1 up to 3 via internet, it was enough to give me ideas to try out this experimental fic, and here it is.
I faced a bit of a challenge on who would portray the four main characters as I intend to based them on the aforementioned A-Team members, and after scanning the character list from Danganronpa up to Danganronpa V3, I found who would fit the role, which are:
- The Impostor
- Kazuichi Soda
- Nekomaru Midai
While some might fit the role, I still am not sure if it would meet your expectations, but I do hope they would be well-received given that this is my first try in doing this experimental fic, being this is the first chapter, so I'll wait and see if the first chapter will garner any reviews before deciding to update the second chapter.
Moreover, this fic will be semi-AU and slight canon, as this takes place between the conclusion of Danganronpa 2 and before episode 1 of Danganronpa 3: End of Hope's Peak Academy ~ Future Arc, as it will feature the Future Foundation.
I hope this chapter would be well-received and the updating of this fic would depend on the reviews I get, and I it does, I'll try to make this fic enjoyable as possible.
Well, read on and enjoy!
Ch. 1: Prologue
Japan.
The scene shows that Tokyo is in the midst of a battle between two groups, which was quite intense, as the area that the battle being shown turns out to be Towa City, and it was quite a violent battle where the two groups wage war in an effort to gain control of the area they are in.
The side shows the group, identified as the Remnants of Despair, where they are still brainwashed and unknowingly ready to continue to do the bidding of the recently-deceased Junko Enoshima. Due to being brainwashed, they do not know what they are doing and they are ready to take the fight, and having their free will subdued due to Enoshima's actions.
On the other side are members of the Future Foundation, where they gathered and are ready to face the Remnants of Despair. The Foundation soldiers are now keeping the despaired masses preoccupied while the Foundation members are ready to do battle, where some of them are seen and identified, in which they are shown to proceed to do battle. They are:
- Juzo Sakakura
- Great Gozu
- Sonosuke Izayoi
- Seiko Kimura
The battle commences and it is shown that the battle was quite violent and the brainwashed Remnants are not backing down and are continuing their orders despite being on the losing end, and while Gozu showed some sympathy, Izayoi and Sakakura do not and proceeded to beat up the Remnants with no hesitation, and the scene slowly fades as the battle comes to a close.
-x-
Several weeks later, the scene shifts at Jabberwock Island where three members of the Future Foundation are conducting an experiment in an attempt to undo the effects that Enoshima did to the Remants of Despair members, in which further investigations revealed that the Remnants are actually from Hope's Peak Academy, belonging to Class 77.
The Foundation members are overseeing the process, and they are identified as:
- Kyoko Kirigiri
- Makoto Naegi
- Byakuya Togami
The trio are also from Hope's Peak Academy, belonging to Class 78, and they are among the six survivors who managed to defeat Enoshima. It was Naegi's suggestion that they try to conduct an experiment to restore Class 77's free will so that they can help in restoring the world and bring hope back in a peaceful and non-violent way.
Kirigiri and Togami agreed, and voiced their support, seeing that Naegi's actions are some of the big steps in combatting despair and bring hope back to the unconscious Class 77 members.
"I see...so that is what Naegi has in mind."
"Yes, Togami-kun."
"He intend to give them hope just like what he did to us during the final class trial."
"Indeed."
"Very well, Kirigiri. I will support Naegi with everything I got."
"That's good to hear, Togami-kun."
"Well then...shall we begin?"
"Of course."
The experiment went on for a few days, and while an unexpected situation occured (Enoshima managed to COPY her thought pattern on an AI), some of the survivors managed to defeat her and woke up from the program, unscathed, and regained their free will and free from the brainwashing.
The ones who woke up are identified as:
- Hajime Hinata
- Sonia Nevermind
- Akane Owari
- Gundam Tanaka
- Kazuichi Soda
- Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu
There the three Future Foundation members explained to the six awakened survivors what went on the the recent years, how and why they became Renmants of Despair; the fall of Hope's Peak Academy; why the world fell into despair; and Enoshima setting up the killing game inside Hope's Peak, and Hinata clenched his fists in shame, as he realized that he indirectly and unintentionally played a hand, due to submitting himself to the Kamukura Project set up by the Steering Committee.
Naegi, however, assured to Hinata that he is only a victim of circumstances and not responsible for what happened, stating to the former reserve course student that he has found hope and all he need to do now is find a way to revive the remaining ones and give them hope.
"Do not feel bad, Hinata-san..."
"But...it is...I submitted to the Kamukura Project...I ended up letting Enoshima do her thing..."
"Your memories were altered due to the experiment...but in the end you regain your memories."
"..."
"And what matters now is that you use the talents you have to give hope to those who are in need."
"Could I...?"
"Yes you can...by starting to help your friends who have yet to wake up..."
"..."
The scene shifts to the remaining capsules where the others are still comatose, and each of them are identified as:
- Nekomaru Midai
- Nagito Komaeda
- Hiyoko Saionji
- Mikan Tsumiki
- Ibuki Mioda
- Gundam Tanaka
- The Impostor
- Teruteru Hanamura
- Peko Pekoyama
After some time, the three Future Foundation members leave Jabberwock Island as they let Hinata and the others deal on how to awaken the rest and give them hope once they realized that they unknowingly caused the chaos, yet Naegi is confident that the former Class 77 members will recover and make plans to bring peace back to the world.
Kirigiri and Togami smiled, seeing that Naegi does live up to his new talent...the Super High School-Level Hope.
"Makoto Naegi...he really is something."
"He is, Togami-kun."
"I never thought I would meet someone who rivaled my resolve..."
"Naegi-kun may be an ordinary boy with LUCK, but in the end he is someone who can give hope to those who need it."
"I guess I can never match a guy like him."
"Don't be clouded by Envy, Togami-kun."
"I am not, Kirigiri."
"..."
In the days that passed, Hinata is revealed to retain certain portions of the memory and talents of Izuru Kamukura, thus he still possess the talents of everything else, yet his personality as Hinata is still dominant, and there Hinata uses the talents to revive the rest, in which the Impostor, Midai and Komaeda are the first ones to wake up from the coma.
There the trio are greeted by Soda, in which he is glad to see that they are okay.
"Everyone! You're awake!"
"Huh? Sonia...?"
"What happened? Where are we...?"
"What a lucky day..."
"And you are back to normal! What a relief!"
"Eh? What are you...?"
"What just...?"
"I think I'm lucky..."
There Hinata proceeded to tell them what went on, where the trio were shocked to learn what happened a few years ago, such as Chiaki Nanami being murdered by Enoshima, getting brainwashed, unknowingly do her bidding, the destruction of Hope's Peak Academy, and how they ended up here at Jabberwock Island, and woke up from their coma.
There they saw their remaining classmates still in comatose and Hinata promised them that he will do all he could to bring them back and restore their free wills. He also told Midai, Komaeda and the Impostor not to blame themselves as it was Enoshima who is responsible for what happened, which the awakened trio could only stare at the floor in silence.
"Do not feel bad."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Enoshima is to be blamed. But she is dead, so there is no point brooding over it."
"..."
"..."
"..."
Hinata persisted and urged them not to feel guilty about their actions as he pointed out that Enoshima brainwashed them to do those horrible acts and instead they should move on and try to atone and find a way to bring hope back to the world.
Midai, Impostor and Komaeda slowly nodded as Soda urged them that it is not too late and that Hinata is right about what he said, and they should help him in waking the rest of their classmates from their comatose states.
"Come on, guys! Don't feel bad about it!"
"But..."
"We..."
"..."
"Eno-she-bitch dead, so there is no point brooding over it...like Hinata said, let's focus on waking the others up and come up with a way to bring peace back to Earth!"
"..."
"..."
"..."
-x-
After several days, the rest of Class 77 slowly woke up from their coma, and their free will and sanity restored, thus freeing them from Enoshima's control, and the classmates (save for Hinata) are reunited and had a tearful reunion.
Hinata smiled as he is glad that he managed to free them from Enoshima's control and hoped that they can work together in restoring hope to the world and wished that Naegi was here to witness this and prove to the Future Foundation that Class 77 is innocent of any wrongdoing.
A few days later, Soda is working on a mechanical creation with Komaeda, Impostor and Midai watching on, curious on what he is cooking up, and while at it, the radio was activated where they can hear Hinata talking to someone, which turn out to be the lead squadron of the Future Foundation, who were ordered by Kyosuke Munakata to have the Remnants of Despair captured.
"We are from the Future Foundation."
"What can we do for you?"
"We are under orders to bring you and the rest in."
"On what grounds? Is it because we are branded as the Remnants of Despair?"
"..."
"Makoto Naegi of the 13th Division cured us. We are no longer under the influence of despair."
"Regardless, the vice-chairman of the Future Foundation ordered us to bring you in."
"..."
Midai and Impostor stared wide-eyed in disbelief, after hearing what the soldier just said, while Komaeda watches on, and Soda was listening intently when the lead soldier made it clear that this was Munakata's order, regardless of whether Class 77 is cured or not.
Impostor then wondered what happened to Naegi, as Hinata said that Naegi assigned him to undo the effects that Enoshima did to the rest of Class 77, but the lead soldier said that he is just following orders and whatever Naegi said and did is irrelevant.
There Hinata can be heard giving the soldier a compromise: he will meet with Munakata and talked to him if the soldiers allow the rest of class 77 to stay here and behave. The soldier saud that he will ask Munakata aboutnit, and after a minute, the soldier said that Munakata accepts and Hinata volunteered to turn himself in to go to the Future Foundation HQ to explain himself.
Soda, Midai, Impostor and Komaeda became somewhat concerned, as this was not what Naegi told them, and they wondered if anything happened to Naegi as the soldiers began to surround the island. After some several minutes, Soda used the CCTV to monitor the scenes within the island, where they discovered the soldiers began using tranquilizer darts to subdue the conscious members of Class 77, with Kuzuryuu and Sonia being the only ones left.
There Soda and the others can hear that the soldiers tells Sonia that they are being arrested for the crime of spreading chaos and despair. Sonia reasoned that they were brainwashed by Enoshima and are not in control of their actions, and that Naegi gave them the chance to atone of their indirect actions and intend to undo what Enoshima did to the world.
However the lead soldier said that this is Munakata's orders regardless of the circumstances of what Enoshima did to Class 77. He also stated that Naegi is placed under arrest and is being court-martialed for harboring Class 77 and will be given the punishment within 48 hours, much to Sonia and Kuzuryu's shock and disbelief.
"What was that?"
"What the hell is this?"
"Why would they do that to Naegi-san?"
"And you call yourselves the harbringer of hope? This is bullshit!"
"Take me to your leader! I wish to have words with him!"
"Me too! I want to hear his explanation about this!"
"We are no longer a threat!"
"That's right!"
Soda and the others were incensed at hearing this but then they saw the other Future Foundation soldiers fired tranquilizer darts and subdued Sonia and Kuzuryuu before being taken away, and the other soldiers began to search for any more of the targets.
As Midai suggested that they fight off the soldiers, Impostor urged him to calm down, not wanting Naegi's sacrifice to be in vain and opted to remain hidden for now, but then someone appeared out of nowhere, which turn out to be Yuto Kamishiro, the SHSL Secret Agent. The others were surprised as they believed that Yuto was killed by Yasuke Matsuda, but Yuto managed to trick Matsuda into thinking that he killed him and survived, and was brought in by Future Foundation.
There he told them that Naegi send him here to bail out any of the Class 77 members should Future Foundation decide to capture and execute them despite Naegi testifying. Soda then shrieked a bit as he saw via the monitors that the Future Foundation soldiers are closing in on their hideout, and Komaeda volunteered to stay behind and urged the rest to go.
Soda and Midai were unwilling at first, but Yuto urged them to do as told as Naegi wanted them to spread hope again. Impostor, Soda and Midai reluctantly did so, following Yuto as they went to a secret passage that leads them to a secret submarine area and hid there, while Komaeda stayed behind and confronted the soldiers, and said that he is surrendering in exchange for not harming the rest of Class 77.
The lead soldier radioed Munakata and informed him that Komaeda is surrendering and wished to spare the others, but Munakata ordered him to subdue Komaeda, and the soldiers did so and captured him. The soldiers then conducted a search, where minutes later they told him that three more are missing:
- Kazuichi Soda
- Nekomaru Midai
- The Impostor
Munakata was quite displeased and ordered the soldiers to keep looking. As the soldiers did so, the remaining Class 77 members and Yuto fled the scene via the submarine as they concluded that the Future Foundation cannot be reasoned with and are determined to kill them without willing to listen to their explanations, and now Impostor suggested that they use a different approach to spread hope without compromising themselves.
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked this chapter, and while there is not much action showed here other than a brief flashback scene that took place in episode 1 of Danganronpa 3 Future arc, the story makes up for it, and now things are taking a turn, as Midai, Soda and the Impostor are the only ones who escaped, and Yuto surprisingly appeared fine, and is leading the trio out of Jabberwock Island to escape capture by the Future Foundation.
This is where the story begins…
Preview:
The remaining former Remnants of Despair decided top start anew and become promoters of hope as they decide to help people that came in their way...
The Future Foundation commences the capture of the escaped Remnants...
See you in 2019…
Reviews are welcomed, but NEEDED...