A/N: Hey guys, I'm posting the first chapter of this new story I'm writing. It takes the characters from Total Drama and uses them in the plot from the anime Danganronpa. You do not have to have seen it to read this. In fact it'll be more interesting if you haven't. If you have then know that my story will have differences and I will try to avoid the various plot holes the original had. This is an AU and Cody is the main character. Thanks for reading.
Total Drama Danganronpa
A massive school stands conspicuously tall over the nearby downtown area. It was Hope's Peak Private Academy. It specialized in academics, sports, the arts and even show business. The school brings together the top students in various fields and aims to help them grow. It's a government recognized academy that operates on privilege.
Standing in front of the massive school was young Cody Anderson; a small, scrawny teen with brown hair and a gap in his teeth. "I'm just a normal guy." Cody said out loud as he gazed up at the school. "Can I really make it at a place like this?" He looked down at the open letter he had in his hands.
The letter was addressed to Cody and explained that one lucky random student was picked via lottery to come to the school and that he had won. I only got chosen out of sheer dumb luck. He thought to himself. "Alright then," He nodded before taking a step forward. "My high school life begins now." That very first step he took was supposed to be filled with that hope, but instead a terrible ache filled his head. He began to feel very dizzy very fast and the world started to spin around him. The last thing he knew everything went black.
Darkness everywhere. That's where it all began. Where my peaceful life came to an end.
Welcome to the school of despair
Cody awoke some time later. After opening his eyes he realized he was sitting in a desk. Taking a look around he realized he was in a normal high school classroom filled with desks, chairs and a white board on the wall. "Where am I?" He rubbed his eyes. "Why am I in a classroom?" He then noticed a small video camera mounted in the corner of the room.
Standing up he looked around and saw that one of the walls was covered in steel plates. Steel plates? What the heck? He thought to himself. He went over to the wall and tried to turn them but they wouldn't budge. He quickly gave up. "What the heck is going on?"
It was then that he spotted a note on one of the desks. Picking it up he read it out loud. "The entrance ceremony starts at eight o' clock sharp. Please assemble in the gym?" Looking up at the clock on the wall he realized it was eight already. With no other clue as to what was going on Cody decided to leave the classroom.
He found himself in a long hallway with various other doors that he assumed lead to other classrooms. Though there were lights on the ceiling the hallway seemed rather dark; which was probably because of the lack of actual sunlight. He strolled cautiously down the hall with its black and white tile floor and noticed that many of the walls matched the classroom as they were covered with steel plates.
He soon reached a room with two doors and a sign above that read "Gym". Pulling both doors open he entered to find fourteen other teenagers all standing together. They all immediately stopped their conversation and turned to look at him. There was a slight awkward silence as Cody walked over and he couldn't help but feel slightly embarrassed with everyone looking at him. "U-Umm…"
"Hey are you a new student too?" A boy wearing a toque with brown hair asked him. "This school's a bit strange eh. I'm Ezekiel by the way."
An obese blonde boy wearing a white t-shirt with a leaf on it stepped forward. "I'm Owen! Hey you're the fifteenth person here. Is this all of us?"
After that a boy with a crew cut and a unibrow stepped forward and saluted Cody. "I'm Private Brick McArthur, and you are late. Were you not requested to be here at twenty one-hundred hours?"
"Who cares about that?" A thin blonde girl dressed in all pink said with both hands on her hips. "In case you haven't noticed we have bigger things to worry about than punctuality! I'm Dakota, by the way."
Suddenly Cody could hear someone breathing on his neck. He turned around to see a tall thin guy with red hair and thick glasses standing behind him. "I'm Harold. So, did you also wake up inside a classroom?"
"Yeah, I did." Cody nodded hesitantly.
"I knew it." Harold nodded to himself. "That's what happened with everyone else."
"Everyone lost consciousness, woke up and made their way here." Said a girl with long dark hair, a top that showed off her stomach and short shorts. "I'm Heather, and this whole thing is ridiculous! I want to talk to someone in charge."
"What's wrong with this dump?" Cody turned to see a tough looking guy with a green Mohawk and a shirt with a skull on it leaning against the wall. "I've been treated better in juvy. I'm Duncan."
"Whatever's going on it is not cool!" A tall well built black guy said crossing his arms. "Lightning does not enjoy being messed with! Whoever they are better they better come out and face me like a man!"
"Maybe it's just some special ceremony they do?" A blonde girl with her hair tied back in a ponytail suggested optimistically. "I mean it is a special school. Maybe it's not a bad thing? I'm Bridgette by the way."
"Whatever's going on I want some answers," said a muscular girl with black hair. Her arms were crossed and she was grinding her teeth in frustration. "I'm…Eva."
Cody found Eva's presence rather threatening so after he nodded at her he took a step back. These must be the super high schoolers that were picked for Hope's Peak Academy. He thought to himself. His eyes wandered over all of them before landing on one girl in particular.
She was tall with long purple hair and a weird face. She instantly noticed Cody looking at her. "Oh are you looking at me?" She stuck a single finger in her mouth and sucked it while having a strange expression on her face. "I'm Sierra. Hey you're kind of—
"How annoying." A different boy interrupted her. Cody looked over at him. The guy was short like Cody but with a larger head, darker skin and as sweater vest. He noticed Cody looking at him. "What do you want? I'm Noah."
Deciding not to bother him Cody walked away from the two in a different direction. He then spotted another girl who hadn't said anything yet. She had tan skin, a nice figure and was dressed conservatively. She had been standing alone staring off into the distance until Cody found her. "What? Can I help you? I'm Courtney by the way."
"Oh no," Cody shook his head. "Sorry!" he then walked away again. Finding a spot where he wasn't looking at anyone he took a deep breath and exhaled.
"Umm…you look familiar. Don't I know you?" Someone said. Hearing the voice Cody followed it to a beautiful girl standing next to him. She had long blonde hair, a large chest, wore a skirt and cowboy boots. "You're Colby right?"
Cody looked at her in surprise. "It's Cody actually."
"Yeah, that." She nodded. "We went to junior high together."
"Lindsay?" Cody asked.
Lindsay smiled. "Yeah, that's me! It's like, so nice to see a familiar face."
"Wait do you actually remember me Lindsay?"
"Of course!" The blonde smiled. "We went to the same school for three years!"
"That's true," Cody said. "I even sat behind you in science class. But I didn't think someone as popular as you would pay any attention to someone as plain as me."
"Huh?" Lindsay frowned. "Did you think I was mean or something? I'm hurt."
"Oh no, I'm sorry!" Cody apologized.
"I'm just kidding!" Lindsay giggled. Cody relaxed when he realized she wasn't offended.
"Do you plan on flirting all day?" Noah said. Cody and Lindsay turned to see he was standing only a few feet from them. "Let's get down to business already."
"What business?" Cody asked.
"Why is this happening? What's going on?" Noah asked. "We should figure out who's behind this."
"We must be prisoners!" Sierra groaned.
"You know what's more important?" Dakota interrupted. "Finding out where all my stuff went. I don't even know where my cell phone is!"
Noah rolled his eyes. "Oh yeah, that's urgent."
"Wait a minute." Lindsay stuck her hands in her pockets. "I can't find mine either!"
Hearing this the other thirteen teens suddenly searched their pockets for their own cell phones but came up empty. "Neither can I." Eva said. "That means someone must've taken them from us!"
"Hey guys, cheer up!" Ezekiel said optimistically. "This is probably some kind of orientation that the school planned out eh."
"What kind of school orientation steals Lightning's cell phone?" Lightning asked. "That is messed up!"
"Are you talking in the third person?" Heather asked him with her eyebrow raised. "Oh God, I'm surrounded by freaks…"
"I'm starving!" Owen said as his stomach rumbled loudly. "Does anyone have any food?"
Just then a loud shrieking noise that came from a microphone filled the gym. The teens covered their ears and turned toward the stage part of the gym where the sound was coming from large speakers. "Testing." They heard a voice say. "Whatever. I'm sure you can all hear this."
"Hello to all the freshmen. Let us being the entrance ceremony." The voice said.
"See?" Ezekiel told the others. "This is how Hope's Peak Academy welcomes students eh."
"No," Courtney disagreed. "I don't think that's it."
All fifteen teenagers were now watching the stage waiting to see what was going to happen. In the middle of the stage was a large podium with a red banner with the school insignia on it draped over it. Because of its placement and color the teen's eyes drifted to it. Suddenly, with little to no warning what appeared to be a small creature leapt on top of the podium.
"Is that a…teddy bear?" Cody asked straining to get a better look.
The creature did in fact look similar to a teddy bear. It was the exact shape of one if perhaps a bit bigger. However instead of being completely brown it had two distinct colors. The right side of its body was completely white while the left side was completely black. Its eye on the black side was a creepy red scar.
"I'm not a teddy bear!" It shook its arms furiously as it responded to Cody. "I'm Monobear." It stood up on the podium. "And I am the principal of this school. I'm pleased to meet you all."
"Ahh!" Owen screamed in surprise. "That teddy bear just talked!"
"I'm not a teddy bear. I'm Monobear." It repeated. "And I'm your principal."
"Principal?" Noah asked incredulous.
"Now that we've made some progress, let's get this show on the road." Monobear said. "Please stand and salute." The bear raised his right hand up to his head then lowered it. "Good morning to you all."
Brick instantly saluted back. "Good morning to you sir!"
"Don't do what it says!" Heather yelled at the soldier.
Monobear didn't seem to mind that no one else saluted as he continued on. "You are the promising young high school students who carry the hopes of the world on your shoulders. And in order to protect and care for you wonderful symbols of hope, I have decided to let you all live together within the confines of this school."
"Say what?" Bridgette asked.
"What's the meaning of this?" Dakota asked angrily.
"As for how long you will be living together…" Monobear paused for a moment. "There is no time limit! Basically, you'll all be staying here for the rest of your lives!"
"What the hell?" Duncan said in disbelief.
"You want us to spend the rest of our lives…here?" Harold asked in disbelief.
"Don't worry," Monobear tried to assure them. "We've got a huge budget, so you won't be inconvenienced in any way."
"Wait a second." Lindsay said sounding stressed. "Maybe this is all just being explained too fast, but I don't think that's the problem here."
"You've gotta be kidding me! I'm not staying here!" Dakota objected.
Just then a thought occurred to Cody. "So wait, those steel plates in the classrooms and hallways are there to keep us locked in here?"
"That's correct." Monobear nodded. "So you can yell and scream all you want, but nobody's going to come and save you."
"This is ridiculous!" Heather objected with her hands on her hips. "We can't just live in school forever!"
"Well if that's the way you feel…" Monobear hid both arms behind his back. "Then whoever wants to leave the academy will have to play by a certain rule."
"What rule?" Noah asked.
"I don't care how you do it." The bear continued, "But only students who have killed someone will be allowed to leave this place." He hopped off the stage and landed on the floor below. "That's all there is to it. Pretty simple, no?
You can use a blunt weapon, stab, beat them to death, strangle them, or choke them…whatever sounds good!" Monobear then began to dance around. "Oh, what an ingenious sense of exhilaration! It's not something I can achieve by myself you see. A situation full of despair where the hopes of this world attempt to kill each other…I can't wait!"
"Is he for real?" Lightning asked with a twinge of fear in his voice.
"Why do we have to kill each other?" Lindsay asked.
"That's right!" Eva added. "Stop spouting this bull crap and let us go home already!"
"Bull crap?" Monobear repeated. "What do you mean "bull crap"? Listen up: from here on out this academy is your home. It's your society. Your world. You can do absolutely anything you want so feel free to go wild!"
Then as Monobear was bouncing around Duncan walked over and stood in front of him. He cracked his knuckles. "You want us to kill each other? Listen you stupid teddy bear; this joke's gone on long enough!"
"A joke you say? Are you referring to your hair style?" Monobear poked the tip of Duncan's Mohawk.
Apparently that hit a nerve as Duncan's face went red. He grabbed Monobear and hoisted him up into the air. "What was that, you piece of shit? I don't care if you're radio-controlled or a stuffed toy, I'll smash you to bits and pieces!"
"Ahh!" Monobear flailed his arms around in fear. "Acts of violence towards the principal go against school regulations!" Suddenly a blinking dot appeared in Monobear's red eye.
"What the hell is that noise?" Duncan asked.
A look of fear crossed Courtney's face as she realized what it was. "This is bad! Throw him away!"
"Huh?"
"Just do it already!"
Clenching his teeth Duncan flung Monobear into the air with all his strength. A second after having been flung into the air the bear blew up in a loud and fiery explosion. Some of the teens gasped and others backed away a few feet after such a surprising sight. A cloud of dust filled the gym.
"What…the hell?" Cody asked.
"He fucking exploded!" Duncan said stating the obvious.
"So is the teddy bear dead now?" Owen asked.
"I'm not a teddy bear! I'm Monobear!" Everyone turned back to the stage to see Monobear pop back out of the podium. "Ta-da!" The teens all gasped. "I'll let you off with just a warning this time, but the next time I find someone breaking school rules…" He then revealed the claws on one of his paws. "…I'll activate my super punishment function like I did just now.
Now then, this ends the entrance ceremony. I hope you all enjoy this strange and gloomy high school life!" After waving goodbye Monobear disappeared back into the podium. A moment of silence followed before anyone said anything.
Heather rested her chin on her hand in a thoughtful pose. "So the only way out of this school is to kill someone?"
"That's just absurd!" Brick shook his head. "Not to mention it completely goes against my code."
"This has to be some kind of joke…right?" Bridgette asked the others.
Noah scoffed. "The problem isn't whether it's a joke or not, but whether any one of us is foolish enough to take it seriously."
And that began our brand new high school life. However, this school we'd come to with such high expectations, wasn't filled with hope. It was filled with despair!
Ten minutes later the high school students were all still gathered in the gym trying to decide what to do. Eva and Bridgette were standing in front of one of the walls which had been covered in steel plates and seemed impossible to get through.
"Think you can do it Eva?" The blonde girl asked the muscular one.
Eva pulled her arm back and clenched her fist. "Let's find out!" She then punched the wall as hard as she could. The sound of her fist hitting the steel made a nasty sound but the wall didn't budge. "Damn!" Eva pulled her now red fist back. "It's impossible."
The two walked back over to the others. "It's no good." Bridgette told them.
"Same here." Duncan said. He and Lightning had been checking out the podium on the stage but hadn't found anything strange. It just appeared to be a normal podium.
"Hey guys, I found something eh!" Ezekiel said as he carried over a big cardboard box in his arms. He dropped the box at their feet and opened it. "Look!" Inside were black electronic devices. They were all identical and could fit in someone's hand.
Courtney picked one out of the box. "What are they?"
"They're electronic student handbooks, gosh!" Harold told her. He had already turned one on and was checking out its features.
Cody grabbed one for himself but didn't turn it on yet. Instead he stuck it inside his pants pocket. "Pretty good find eh?" Ezekiel said nudging Cody.
"Who cares?" Eva said standing behind both boys. "That's not going to help us get out of here."
"Let's not lose hope ma'am!" Brick said. "I'm sure there's a clue that'll help us get out of here."
"Yeah!" Bridgette nodded. "Complaining isn't going to help us."
"Well there's nothing in here." Lightning said. "Let's search somewhere else."
"I'll search alone." Noah said turning away from the group.
This caught everyone's attention. "Why?" Dakota asked.
"Because there's already a chance someone here is planning to kill one of us."
Lindsay looked surprised to hear that. "But none of us would—
"You don't know that." Noah interrupted her. "We're all complete strangers."
Duncan then ran over to where Noah was walking and stood in his way. "Hold it right there! You're not going to get away with talking like that!" The punk said getting up in Noah's face.
Noah however seemed less than intimidated. "Get out of my way, you Neanderthal."
A dangerous look crossed Duncan's face. "What was that? I guess you do want to get your ass kicked."
"W-Wait!" Cody ran over to the two boys. He tried to stand between them with his arms out. "Come on guys, let's not fight. That won't help us get out of here!"
Duncan turned his attention to Cody. "Who asked you? You trying to lecture me or something? You think you can tell me what I can and can't do?"
Sensing the obvious anger emanating from the other boy Cody took a few steps back. "N-No! That's not what I—
"Shut up!" Duncan pulled back his fist and punched Cody hard across the face.
When Cody woke back up the first thing he saw was the ceiling. Moving his head a little he realized he was lying on a bed. "Where am I?" Looking past the bed he saw Lindsay sitting on a chair beside him. She was staring at him with her big blue eyes.
Lindsay?" Cody quickly pulled himself up into a sitting position.
"Oh thank goodness." Lindsay sighed in relief. "You're okay."
"Where…are we?" Cody asked looking around the small room.
"We're in your room silly."
"Huh?"
"Well we all have our own rooms and this one is yours." Lindsay explained. "I had Ava carry you here. Some of the others helped too."
"Oh, thank you." Cody said. Lindsay just smiled. "Where is everyone else now?"
"They said they were going to look for clues, but I wanted to make sure you were okay."
Cody blushed slightly. He wasn't used to this kind of attention from girls. Or, any kind of attention. "T-Thanks." This is strange! Cody thought to himself. At my old school Lindsay was the captain of the cheerleaders and probably the most popular girl in school. Certainly the prettiest. I never would've thought she'd remember who I was!
While Cody was thinking Lindsay had invaded his personal space and was now mere inches from his face. "Are you okay Colby? Cause I was worried that punch gave you brain damage or something."
"No, I'm okay." Cody said trying to avoid any sudden movements with a pretty girl right in front of him. "But my name is Cody, not Colby."
"Oh sorry, I'll remember it eventually." She made an apologetic face.
"No, don't worry about it. I'm still surprised you remember me at all."
"Oh come on! I'm not that dumb." Lindsay pouted. "Anyway I'm just glad to see someone I actually know here."
"Me too." Cody said before getting off the bed and standing up.
"Are you feeling better?" Lindsay asked.
"Yeah I'm fine. Plus I don't want to be the only one sitting around doing nothing."
Lindsay looked at Cody curiously. "Can you get us out of here Cody?" But before he could answer her she continued. "Then I'll be your assistant okay? Then we can both get out of here!"
Cody blushed as Lindsay grabbed his hands but still managed to nod. "Yeah, let's get out of here!"
They both walked out of Cody's room. It was in a similar dark hallway to the one he had found himself in earlier with some slight differences. That hallway had been full of classrooms, but this room seemed dedicated exclusively to bedrooms for the fifteen teenagers. Each room had a black and white photograph of one of the teen's faces on it identifying it as their room.
But the hallway was empty so Cody and Lindsay kept looking around until they found their way to a dining room. The other thirteen teens were inside sitting at one long table. When they entered the others all looked up.
"Are you alright Cody?" Bridgette asked as he walked over with Lindsay.
"Yeah, I'm okay." He told her. "Thanks."
Cody and Lindsay walked over to the last two open seats at the end of the table. Upon pulling his seat out Cody realized he was sitting right next to Duncan. He briefly flinched but still sat down. "Hey," Duncan greeted him. "My bad dude."
"T-That's okay Duncan." He tried to sound natural. "It's only natural that we're all on edge."
"Alright everyone's finally here now." Heather said in a bored tone. She was sitting next to Owen who was busy stuffing his face with a sandwich he made in the kitchen. "I think it's safe to assume no one would kill anyone else with everyone watching."
"Let's get started then." Courtney declared. "This is our first meeting trapped inside Hope's Peak Academy. We should exchange any information we may have gathered while investigating the school."
Brick stood up. "Brick McArthur reporting in sir! We found the entrance to the school, but it was been blocked off by what appears to be a vault door. The same kind you'd find in a bank."
"Yeah I tried destroying the entrance, but that ain't happening." Duncan added. "It didn't exactly have a lock I could pick either."
"Yeah that stupid door was as hard as steel." Dakota complained.
"That's because it was steel…" Noah sighed.
"We found a staircase to the second floor in one of the hallways." Eva said.
"But we couldn't go up." Harold interrupted. "There was a metal shutter blocking the way."
Courtney sighed. "So basically we can only check out the first floor of this building."
"The rooms in the dorm area are pretty nice." Owen said in between bites of sandwich. "Well I mean, if you can ignore the surveillance cameras watching you."
"Me and Owen found a kitchen." Ezekiel brought up. "There's a lot of food and cooking supplies so we shouldn't have to worry about going hungry eh."
"Who knows how long that'll last?" Dakota said. "Especially with fatty over here." She motioned toward Owen.
"Well actually Monobear told me that all the food is refilled daily." Ezekiel replied.
"Huh?" Dakota looked confused. "You mean you talked to him?"
"It's true." Owen said. He had finished his sandwich and was now licking mustard off of his fingers. "He suddenly showed up when I was getting food out of the fridge and vanished right after."
"Is there anything else to report?" Courtney asked as she drummed her fingers on the table.
"We've found neither an exit nor the culprit." Sierra spoke up while chewing on her fingernails. "Your investigation was useless!"
"But we did manage to confirm that we've all been trapped in a cage without a door." Harold said.
"Ughh!" Sierra panicked. "What are we supposed to do?"
"You heard what Monobear said." Noah spoke up. "You have to kill someone to get out of here."
Bridgette frowned. "Cut it out. That's not funny."
"There's got to be something we can do!" Lightning slammed his head on the table. "Lightning does not want to spend the rest of his life here!"
"We'd have to adapt." Heather said.
"Huh?"
"We just need to adapt." She repeated.
"You want us to accept that we'll spend the rest of our lives here?" Dakota asked incredulous.
"In a situation like this it won't be the strong or smart who survive," Heather explained, "but the person who can adapt."
Lightning crossed his arms. "I don't get it."
"Excuse me," Brick stood up. "I have a suggestion." He then pulled out his electronic student handbook and held it up so everyone could see the screen. "The school rules mention something called "night time" and I think we should add our own rule here."
"Wait—what?" Cody asked suddenly confused. "What are you guys talking about? School rules?"
"He's talking about the computer handbook thingie that Edward found." Lindsay tried to explain.
"Hey my name is Ezekiel yo!"
"Yeah that guy," the blonde acknowledged absentmindedly. "Anyway after that Damian guy punched you we realized these things were like way useful and stuff!"
"Useful?" Cody pulled his out of his pocket and turned it on. The electronic student handbook did indeed look more interesting that Cody had originally assumed. It contained a detailed map of the first floor which also showed which room everyone was in. There was also a short bio for all the teens. It had their picture along with their student title. Cody already knew that his was the "super high school luckster" because he had won the contest. And he wasn't surprised to learn Lindsay's was the "super high school cheerleader" but since he didn't know much about anyone else he decided to check them out really quick.
The first one was for Lightning who was the "super high school athlete".
Next was Courtney who was the "super high school CIT".
Noah was known as the "super high school debater".
Eva's described her as the "super high school wrestler".
Owen surprised no one as the "super high school eating champ".
Brick was the "super high school soldier".
Bridgette was the "super high school surfer".
Heather was known as the "super high school liar".
Sierra's was strange as she was the "super high school stalker".
Dakota was known as the "super high school model".
Duncan's was something Cody could've guessed as the "super high school punk".
Harold was the "super high school geek".
And last was Ezekiel as the "super high school bilingual".
Cody had known that all the other students had been accepted for some exceptional talent or reason and now he had some clue as to what that was. Meanwhile Brick was trying to continue where he had left off. "As I was saying the electronic student handbook has a list of rules and one of the rules states that the time between 10 pm and 7 am is known as "night time".
I believe we should add our own rule here." He explained.
"And what rule would that be?" Dakota asked sarcastically.
"A rule stating that there will be no wandering around during night time."
"Why?" Sierra asked.
"Are you afraid of the dark?" Duncan asked smirking.
Brick gulped but didn't respond to Duncan. "It's just common sense. Otherwise we'd have to spend every night in fear worrying about someone coming in and killing us."
"Ohh…" Lindsay said as the thought dawned on her. "That sounds like a good idea."
"Too bad you couldn't enforce it." Noah pointed out.
"It's up to everyone to cooperate and trust each other." Brick stated. "We have no other choice."
The others agreed; if only for now.
The teens went to sleep that night and got up the next day to look for an exit. They had no luck. Though they found a few other rooms that would normally be found in a school they didn't come across any way out. Then the next day came and they still hadn't found anything. They began to grow frustrated and bored.
"Aww man!" Lightning slammed his fists down on the table. He and the rest of the teens were once again gathered in the dining room that evening. "All we're doing is looking in the same places over and over again. We'll never find any clues this way!"
The other teens agreed and a groan of frustration passed through the group. "Are we going to be trapped in here forever?" Dakota asked at her wits end. "Is nobody going to come and help us?"
Bridgette, who was sitting next to Dakota, put her arm around the girl. "It'll be alright Dakota. It won't be too long before we're rescued!"
"What? Rescue?" Sierra seemed surprised.
"You mean it?" Harold asked.
"Well we've been locked up here for three days you know." Bridgette explained. "The police must be looking for us."
Suddenly the sound of Monobear's laugh was heard. Everyone turned to the end of the table where the bear had appeared in the only empty seat. "The police? You're relying on the cops?" He asked mockingly. "You know, if you really want to leave so badly, you should just go ahead and kill somebody!"
The temperature in the room seemed to drop a few degrees as Monobear spoke. There was something very chilling about his words. "I guess I can't expect much from such a spoiled generation. But don't you guys think your plan is a bit boring?"
"Don't try to provoke us," Cody spoke up. "We are not going to kill—
"Oh now I get it." Monobear interrupted. "And here I was wondering why nobody had committed a murder despite having provided a setting, location and characters right out of a mystery novel. Now I realize something was missing!"
"What…was missing?" Ezekiel asked feeling a bit lost.
"A motive." Monobear answered. "On that note I've left you all a gift in the AV room.
"The AV room?" Cody asked but then couldn't get another word out of the bear. Instead they headed to the AV room to see what he was talking about.
The AV room was set up similar to a computer lab only instead of computers there were just DVD players and small televisions at individual desks. At each desk was a DVD disc with a name on it written in permanent marker. They all searched for the disc with their name.
When Cody found his disc he sat down next to Lindsay and put it in the DVD player. He then placed a pair of headphones over his ears and watched. Soon enough the image of his family appeared. Cody's mother, father and little sister were all sitting down on a couch in his home.
They were all smiling. He felt relieved to see them. Cody's mother started talking immediately. "Cody when you got selected by Hope's Peak Academy it was like a dream come true! Do your best!"
Cody's father nodded. "I'm proud of you son. But don't push yourself."
His little sister waved her arm excitedly at the camera. "Are you watching this older brother? Break a leg! We're rooting for you!"
Suddenly static started to break out over the video and Cody thought he caught a sign of something else. Then the video went black for a few seconds. When it came back on it showed the same scene of his couch at his house however his family was gone. The couch was destroyed and the window behind it was broken. What little of the house he could see looked like it had been looted.
Cody watched on in horror as the video ended. What was even worse was when he realized that everyone else watching their own videos was having the exact same reaction he was. What is this? He thought to himself. I've got to get out of here…I need to get home!
Just as he was thinking this he heard a strange gasp coming from the person sitting next to him. Turning to his left he saw Lindsay with an absolutely horrified look on her face. All the color seemed to have left it. Suddenly she stood up and cried out. "NO!" She backed up against the wall and wrapped her arms around herself. "This can't be! I've gotta get out of here. I've got to get out of here now!"
"Lindsay!" Cody stood up.
"Why is this happening?" Lindsay said; though she wasn't asking Cody. "What's going on? I can't take any more of this!"
Cody wasn't sure what to say to her. Just then Monobear appeared on a video screen at the front of the classroom and laughed. Courtney stood up looking quite shaken. "Who are you really?" She asked. "Why are you doing this? What do you want from us?"
"What do I want from you?" Monobear repeated the question quite casually. "Well I want to…fill you all with despair! That is all."
"No!" Lindsay cried out before fleeing the AV room.
"Lindsay!" Cody ran after her.
Once he caught up to her he tried to grab her by the arm but she pulled away. "No! Let me go!"
"Lindsay it'll be okay! We'll be able to escape if we just work together!" Cody didn't know if he even believed what he was saying but he wanted to calm Lindsay down no matter what.
"You're lying!"
"We might get rescued!" Cody said trying a different approach.
"You heard what the mean bear said!" She sobbed. "No one's coming to save us!"
"I'll get you out of here for sure!" Cody promised. "No matter what I have to do! I promise!"
This caused Lindsay to stop struggling. Instead tears started to pour out of her eyes. This turned into a full on sob before she collapsed onto Cody's chest. The other teens stood out in the hall behind them looking worried and terrified as Monobear's laughter rang throughout the school. No one was safe.
Current Survivors: 15
A/N: Reviews are appreciated.