Survival In The City II

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Hello, and welcome to my new Danganronpa fanfic. After re-watching the whole 13 episodes of the anime, it gave me some inspiration in making another fanfic, though the ending was a bit of a cliffhanger as Makoto Naegi and the five surviving students escaped Hope Peak Academy without showing what happened next, while Monokuma was still alive after surviving the "execution" of Junko Enoshima. While this may possibly set a sequel anime, I don't know when would it going to be aired given that Dangaronpa 2 has already been sold in Japan and the US as PSP and PSP Vita games..

This new fic comes in the heels of two things which once again gave me inspiration to make a new fic. They are:

1) Having read DANGANRONPA IF, it gave me some ideas on how to come up with a fic that highlights all 14 students after Mukuro Ikusaba sacrificed herself to allow her fellow classmates to escape.

2) A reviewer who read and reviewed my ongoing fic "Enoshima's Erotic Escapades" was asking if I could make a Makoto Naegi x Sayaka Maizono pairing since there were few of those pairing in the fanfic section…

Right now an idea popped in to my mind and decided to set up a story wherein the 14 students are in the midst of finding out what to do next after escaping Hope Peak's Academy even though Junko Enoshima is still pulling the strings as Ikusaba attempts to keep her busy while allowing Naegi and the rest to flee even though there's a possibility that many despaired masses are out there having been "brainwashed" by Enoshima's broadcasts.

At the same time the main characters for this fic will be Makoto Naegi and Sayaka Maizono. Since watching the first episodes, I find these two…cute, very cute. However, Fate has other plans as Maizono fell to despair and paid the price when she attempts to use means to escape and ended up getting killed - becoming the first casualty of the "mutual life of school killing", yet in the end her last-minute actions saved Naegi life from the class trial, thus the protagonist lives until the end of the anime.

Seeing that there were few pairings involving Naegi and Maizono, and getting a request from a reviewer of one of my Danganronpa fics, and in the light that I haven't made a fic featuring Maizono as the other main character, I decided to pair them up, where they would slowly get close in which romance builds in. Of course other characters, such as Byakuya Togami, Kyoko Kirigiri, Yasuhiro Hagakure, Aoi Asahina, Toko Fukawa, Sakura Ohgami, Celestia Ludenberg, Kiyotaka Ishimaru, Hifumi Yamada, Chihiro Fujisaki, Mondo Ohwada and Leo Kuwata will have important roles here and how they would help out in this fic.

This fic is set after the novel Danganronpa If, and from there the story sets in, and it'll be very different in terms of plot from my previous fic, "Survival In The City". While the two fics share some similarities in title, the plot differs as Enoshima is alive and the plot takes place after the novel, and yet the theme is about surviving, as the 14 students make a dash to find their loved ones after escaping the academy.

Lastly, why an M-rated fic? Aside from the violence that would be depicted here, there will be a love scene as well, though it'll be an integral part of the story, unlike others romance fics that uses hardcore ones.

Well, that's the summary I can tell you right now, but you'll soon see where this would lead to, so here is the opening chapter, so read and enjoy!

Well, enjoy!

Ch. 1: Dasshutsu Suru Purorōgu

Hope Peak's Academy...hours later, the scene shifts before the gates, where the 14 high school students are assembled, and there Mukuro Ikusaba gave Naegi some last-minute instructions before they are set to part ways, while the others seemed reluctant to let her go, seeing that she could be an asset in escaping the academy which has fallen to Junko Enoshima's hands, yet Ikusaba has already decided on the path she is about to take.

"Ikusaba-san… Are you really going to go out with that wig on?" Naegi asked. He had been given a transfusion of the correct blood type, and was slowly showing signs of recovery.

Ikusaba, who had put on the wig she used to dress up as Junko, nodded.

"…I think… If I pretend to be her, I might understand Junko's thoughts a little better…" She said, but her tone was still her own. Ikusaba had yet to completely get her thoughts in order.

"And… I've made up my mind. As long as I'm out there…I'm going to accept everyone's resentment at me… and Junko. I'm not going to die until I've destroyed all the despair Junko spread, but…"

The damage caused to the world by Super High School Level Despair could not be measured in terms of economy, society, or even the number of human lives. The television broadcasts had already outed Junko Enoshima and Mukuro Ikusaba as the central figures in this disaster. Of the people outside who remained untainted by despair, the sisters were irredeemable criminals. And to the people clad in Monobear masks who were tearing the world apart, Ikusaba was now a traitor.

She was now in the despair-inducing situation of being the enemy of the entire world. But perhaps this was nothing so significant to Ikusaba.

"But… I'm going to do my best… so they don't get me while my guard is down."

"Isn't it safer for you to just turn yourself in to the cops? Well, can't say if they'd put you on death row or not, but you might stand a chance at lengthening out the trials enough to die of old age, eh?" Hagakure suggested, but Ikusaba shook her head.

"There aren't any laws or even police officers now…"

"S-seriously? Maybe we'd be better off staying…" Hagakure said nervously. Togami sneered.

"Silence, you commoner! Someone like you won't find a very different fate whether you're in this school or the outside world." Although he was shaken when he was told that the Togami family had collapsed, he was being quite brazen in front of Ikusaba now.

"I will spare you this time because you are an extremely valuable asset. And depending on your actions hereafter, I may even absolve you of your crimes once I've built up a new world." It was rather like Togami to claim he could acquit a world-ending terrorist.

"…I don't need an incentive like that. I… I don't intend to keep only myself alive."

Turning away from Togami, Ikusaba looked around at the other students. Kirigiri stood silently with a look of readiness. Fukawa, who had just turned back from Genocider Sho, was gesticulating in confusion. Everyone was reacting in their own way. And as she looked back at the past two years spent with them, Ikusaba handed the escape switch to Naegi, who shared those memories.

"Naegi-kun. You do it."

"Huh? Me?"

"I think… This is for the best."

As Naegi hesitantly received the switch, Ikusaba remembered Monobear's words.

"But you guys are coming back here. I guarantee it."

She knew that Monobear was correct. This school still housed something they needed to bring back the others' memories-the research files belonging to Yasuke Matsuda, the Super High School Level Neurologist. Perhaps the students could still restore the bonds forged between them in the past two years. But as long as the key to restoring their memories remained locked up inside the school, the mastermind could easily repeat her game of despair. The island she mentioned also bothered them, but at this point they could not avert their gaze from despair.

"Then… Here goes."

Naegi had remembered the state of the outside world. The boy who had in the past decided to live inside the school was now choosing to step outside. How much had he struggled over his decision?

But Naegi was determined to face the despair outside head-on, not showing a hint of his internal struggle to the others. And it was Ikusaba's goal to protect his hopes while bringing despair to her beloved sister. She no longer knew if what lay at the end of the path was hope or despair.

Pressing the wig down firmly over her head, Ikusaba hid her face with her arms.

Was she smiling because of the hope shining in her future? Or was she crying because what lay before her was despair?

Once her arms came back down, there was no longer any emotion in her face. She no longer knew what kind of a face she should wear. And at the same time, Naegi pressed down on the escape switch. The firearms withdrew into the ceiling as a siren began wailing.

Soon, a light appeared from beyond the gate.

An infinite IF enveloped the students and the world, equally accepting hope, despair, and the heart of the disappointing girl.

By then the gate has been opened and the 14 remaining students stood there in a rather surprised gaze, as this was the moment they all been waiting for - to escape the CAGE that has confined them. They all wanted to get out of here and they got their wish, thanks in part to Ikusaba, but now instead of elation, they all faced uncertainty after what Ikusaba told them...the outside world is in chaos due to despair-driven campaign carried out by Enoshima. But Naegi is not backing out, and is willing to face whatever comes in his way, and urged his fellow classmates not to be discouraged, which slowly raised everyone's morale, which appeared to work, and now the students slowly walked towards the gates, one by one, the surviving students of Class 78, head out to the outside world, regaining their freedom while facing a new challenge that is about to head towards their paths.

Meanwhile, Ikusaba, donning her guise, walked back inside, and is met with new Monokuma robots, and are ready to take her down, which she brought out several grenades and she smirked as she stared at the surveillance camera, and began taunting Enoshima and stated that "despair will never reign over hope" and that the "hopes are being carried by the students of Hope Peak's Academy" and she will put a stop the the "Ultimate Despair". By then the scene slowly faded as sounds of grenade explosion can be heard, implying that Ikusaba has commenced her battle against the Monokuma robots.

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The scene shifts at the master control room, where Junko Enoshima is sitting on her chair while watching the surveillance videos of Ikusaba fighting the Monokuma robots, while another footage shows that the 14 surviving classmates have exited the academy and are in the verge of splitting up, in which she smirked as a new idea popped in her head as there is a way to force the students to make them come back to the academy given that the outside world has been "contaminated" with despair.

By then a Monokuma robot arrived and with it were several teenagers who are also students of Hope Peak's Academy, and from the looks of their faces, they appeared to be "under despair" thus making them like "slaves" as Enoshima glances at them, and she is pleased that she still has an ace up her sleeves, and glanced at the teens one by one, and now she has "despair-laid ideas" on how to instill despair at her classmates so that the 14 escaped students would be forced to seek refuge at the academy again and make them submit to her will.

The students assembled before Enoshima are identified as :

- Hajime Hinata

- Nagito Komaeda

- Mikan Tsumiki

- Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu

- Sonia Nevermind

- Akane Owari

- Kazuichi Soda

- Nekomaru Nidai

- Peko Pekoyama

- Teruteru Hanamura

- Hiyoko Saionji

- Ibuki Mioda

- Gundham Tanaka

- Mahiru Koizumi

Enoshima smirked even deviously as she began to give her "slaves" instructions on what to do and how to carry out their tasks which she is confident that her plans will work out and looked forward in wiping her escaped classmates' memories and set another "game" once they are captured and once that happens, she will make sure that they won't be able to escape the second time around.

To Be Continued...

Hope you liked the first chapter of this fic, and this is just the start, and though you may find it rather odd that this sounds similar to the likes of American suspense films such as "The Purge", but this is what it's all about, as Naegi and the rest must use their wits to survive and stay hidden especially after realizing that they are seen through the social media due to Enoshima's machinations.

More on how Naegi and the gang's challenges and survival on the "outside world" will be detailed in the upcoming chapters.

Preview:

Naegi and the rest managed to find shelter, but they also deal on how to survive the next upcoming days and how to get rations without the risk of get seen…or caught.