Chapter 8
Memories
I don't own dangan ronpa.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.- Buckminster Fuller
Mizuki stood in front of the cauldron. She then threw a clock into the cauldron, its brew beginning to bubble.
"Tyd, god of time and memory! Reveal to me what I have lost and/or stolen from me!" She pointed her wand at the cauldron, causing white sparks to fly out and a pinkish mist bellowed out.
She gulped the mist in, falling to the ground.
Tobi mashed on the controller, killing some other players in a match. The New Monokuma had replaced the flatscreen tv for now the third time now at least. The match ended, with Tobi winning once again.
"Tobi Karnoc." The flatscreen tv then shattered into a million pieces all around them.
"Who's there?!" Tobi looked all around, attempting to find the person.
"Find me, and the truth will come." Tobi headed out of the cabin, ripping his headset off and grabbed his dragunov. He took a quick glance around, noticing only Kain and Jestery.
"Are you all right, Tobi?"
"Yes." Tobi walked away, Kain and Jestery watched.
"We should probably follow him." Jestery remarked and Kain turned
"Jestery, after what we just did, lets let people figure their problems out." Kain answered.
"Over here!" Tobi ran over to the source of the voice, now heading into the thick outskirts of the jungle path.
"F***."
He stood at the end of the path, a portal now floated in the place of The Timekeeper. Cautiously, he stepped towards the portal.
"Tobi, is that you?" Tobi turned, noticing the familiar ball of cyan energy floating beside him.
"Yes, Keiserine." The two just stood there, waiting.
"Since you two are so unwilling to enter, I guess you can reveal what on the line."
A hologram of two brains and Mizuki, who was flickering then appeared.
"Your memories of the two of you are on the line along with your friend's soul.
"You're on, stupid." The two ran through the portal, ready to fight.
On the other side, they found themselves back in St Velodias Preschool at night.
"Seriously?" Tobi opened the closet door, revealing Monaka's crushed corpse.
"The cleaners here really suck at their job." In the distance, a potentially armed figure headed right towards them. Tobi aimed the dragunov and fired. The bullet flew right towards the figure, piercing the head. The figure then fell over and the two ran over. It was man, probably in his late 20's or 30's. He was dressed in
"Did I just kill him?" Tobi looked down at the body, staring at the hole in the head.
"Yes."
"Can he brought back from the dead?"
"No."
"It's funny. I am one of the greatest of a game where people are constantly killing each with a bullet. And yet, I can't rationalize the fact I killed this man."
He looked over at
"Will you be all right, Keiserine?"
"Yes."
They headed out of the classroom and into the classroom.
"Who are you, Kiserine?"
"What do you mean?"
"You only told us your first name."
"Kieserine Von Ichijouji, Super High School Level Conqueror."
"How do you get a title like that?"
"You secretly conquer this world."
"How?"
"It's a funny story."
"So how did you die?"
"I "didn't"."
Kieserine then became slightly visible, but flickered between
"Huh?"
"The Timekeeper brought me here, allowed to "live" here. All in exchange for my body."
"So that is The Timekeeper's current vessel?"
"No, The Timekeeper does have standards."
They found themselves at a door. They both headed towards it and attempted to opened it.
"Crud, it's locked."
"Shoot it then!"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I just killed a f****** man! Don't you think I should take some time to reflect on my life?!"
"Fine, I guess." Keiserine floated through the door, leaving Tobi behind.
He sat down on his knees, looking at the gun in his hands.
"I have killed countless upon countless avatars for something. Now, I have killed a man in exchange for nothing." He spitted upon the hardwood floors."I know nothing of that man's name, and yet I feel sympathy for him."
He got up, dusting himself off and carefully aimed the dragunov at the lock.
"Good job."
The door then opened, revealing Mizuki. For some reason, the voice had placed her in a classroom covered in dark wood and sat her in a desk.
"Are you all right?"
"Sure."
"Where's Keiserine?"
"She's beside me." Tobi looked to the right, noticing the now slightly solid Kieserine.
"Now what?"
"We figure out why we're needed here."
He took a quick glance around, searching the room. Then something caught his eye. A small part of the wall was sticking out.
"Here it is." He pushed a suspicious part, revealing the next part of St Velodias. The three headed on, now finding themselves in a lunchroom.
"So now what?"
"We contact someone."
Tobi pulled his ElectroID out.
SHSLCPlayer logged in.
SHSLCPlayer: Are there any Lucky Ones here?
SHSLRogue logged in.
SHSLRogue: I'm here.
SHSLPrankster: So am I.
SHSLPrankster logged in.
SHSLCPlayer: Good.
SHSLRogue: What do you need?
SHSLCPlayer: Let's see... I'm stuck in St Velodias at night with Kieserine and Mizuki, with our memories of the past on the line.
SHSLRogue: In that case, good luck.
SHSLCPlayer: What?!
SHSLPrankster: Find the memories and you'll be golden!
SHSLPrankster logged off.
SHSLRogue logged off.
SHSLCPlayer logged off.
"So what response did you get?
"They weren't any help."
"So now what?"
"More twenty questions with Kieserine?"
"What have you gotten so far?"
"Her name, title and that she's stuck here due to The Timekeeper."
"Sadly, that's all I know."
"Are you telling the truth?
"Other than my limited knowledge of what's going on, my memory is pretty bare."
"Well you were a big help."
"Thank you."
They looked around, eventually finding the next hallway.
"Mizuki, why did you turn to magic?"
"I left my family, becoming a runaway. Back then, I was a computer whiz when it comes to coding."
"Coding for what?"
"All sorts of things. For example, I helped build the multiplayer system for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare."
"That's awesome! Why did you abandon it?"
"My family never liked the fame I got. They pressured me to turn away from my coding talents. So, I ran away from them, looking for any jobs I could find."
"That still doesn't answer my question."
"I'm getting there. Sadly, people don't give jobs to runaways and I eventually found myself in some swamp. There, I met this creepy old lady. At first, she creeped out. But, she offered work. That was how I learned witchcraft. Eventually, she threw me out in the world, where I eventually led myself to a different swamp. That was where I transcended from a normal Witch to a Super High School Level Witch. So how about you?"
"I just sat and played, getting better and better. Eventually, I was able to kill every player in a deathmatch on my own. Then one day, some members of Hope Peaks approached me with a letter saying I was chosen."
"It's funny how this place works. Some our shunned and others praised."
The three stopped, taking a breather.
"I believe we have reached our destination."
To the right of them, hung a flimsy oak door. Tobi slowly turned the knob, revealing an elementary classroom.
"Suprise, I lied!"
"Great."
Seven corpses were strewn about the room.
"Can we grab the others first?"
The other Lucky Ones then appeared, along with a rabbit. It's right side was pink and it's left side was black. It was dressed in a white cheerleader outfit. In its paws, were red and pink pom-poms. It's "lips" were slathered with red lipstick and her eyelids were painted pink to match her pink eyes.
"Who the heck is that?"
"That's what happens when you combine Monokuma and Monomi together." Chef Mono explained as Monokuma #2 appeared.
"Hello Students." Monokuma announced, the Lucky Ones all staring cautiously at him.
"What do you want now?" Layla remarked and Monokuma #2 laughed.
"One secret, one investigation."
Tobi walked up to Monokuma #2, handing him the slip of paper.
"There you go."
"Thank you!"
"What about you leading me here?"
"I made that stuff up."
Monokuma #2 was then riddled with gunfire, and Tobi grabbed the slip back.
"Oh well!" Monokuma #2 started to shake...
And no explosion came.
"Jestery, do you still have Kain's switchblade?"
Jestery nodded, handing the switchblade over to Tobi. Tobi then jabbed the weapon into Monokuma #2's head, prying it off.
"Let me see!" The rabbit ran over to Tobi, glaring immensely at something.
Tobi immediately looked down, noticing the large black bomb that was Monokuma #2's head. He tossed it down the hallway, finally exploding.
"I guess he had a long fuse."
"I probably should introduce myself, I'm Monokette the Super High School Level Cheerleader!" No backstory is known about her, other than she's a fusion of Monokuma and Monomi. Or is there?
"Now that was creepy." Tobi looked over at Mizuki and nodded. Mizuki then mumbled something under her breath, causing Monokuma #2's head to reappear.
"It's time for some answers." Weird green numbers surrounded Monokuma #2 and exploded into a stream of green data.
"How did you do that?!" Jack accused, a white ball of magic barreling towards him. A few seconds later, in the place of Jack, was a small cloth doll of him.
"This time, how about you just watch." She strapped the doll to her dress, motioning for the others to follow behind.
They jumped into the stream of data, a bright flash coming over them.
16 students and there teacher stood around in a small room. It was 9 girls and 8 boys. In the middle, sat two robots. The first, was a white and black bear wearing a chef hat. The other was a pink and black rabbit in a white cheerleader outfit.
"Should we start the tests, Monaka?" A voice questioned, maybe Miguel's.
"Yes, we must definitely begin." A second voice answered, definitely Monaka's. Miguel pressed a button, causing the two robots to stand up.
"I am Chef Mono, your personal assistant in all things cooking related."
"And I'm Monokette, your personal cheerleader in life!"
"Is this seriously what you programmed, Mizuki?"
"Yep."
"I think we should change it."
"We can deal with that later.
A large explosion then went off.
"F***."
Both robots then turned off as the students looked at each other.
"Great, the despair have reached us." To add insult to injury, the lights went out.
"Transfer the programs onto a flash drive!"
In the darkness, this was somehow preformed successfully and the flash drive was brought to the teacher.
"Good, now goodbye my students." The ceiling began to cave-in and the teacher left the room.
Was that the past?" Walter remarked, pulling out a massive fish sandwich and gulped it down.
"Possibly." Darren answered and looked at Jack, who was now back to normal.
"Well that was weird." Jack dusted himself off, noticing someone. He headed to the doorway leading to the classroom, handing the person the slip of paper.
"Are you ready?"
"Heck yeah."
"Fine then."
A bright flash came over them once again...
Notes:
This chapters was rewritten a whole lot. Also, I'm going to be taking a week long hiatus to do a whole bunch of editing.
See you in January!
