Ultimate Rescue

Chapter 10.

I know it may seem sudden, but, we are jumping to that Unselfish Motive right now, like, I just cannot wait and I should not have to put it off too long. So yeah, we are doing this now.

"ATTENTION, ATTENTION STUDENTS," Monokuma announced over the monitors, "IT IS NOW 7:00 A.M., TIME FOR A BRAND NEW DAY! WITH THAT, I ASK THAT ALL STUDENTS, ONCE UP AND AROUND, REPORT TO THE GYMNASIUM. FOR I HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE, WHICH IS SURE TO BE A REAL BLAST! SEE YA ALL THERE!"

Upon hearing the grating announcement, Kyoko opened her eyes, having remembered that there were no rules against it, she had spent the night in Makoto's room, having slept in a chair. She immediately leaned over and gently shook the sleeping Luckster's shoulder, "Makoto," she said, "Makoto wake up." Makoto's slowly opened his eyes, "Monokuma just made his morning announcement," Kyoko explained, "and he wants us to go to the Gym, said he wants to tell us something important."

"Uh oh," Makoto groaned, "I don't like where this is going."

After verifying his condition, which he chalked up to being "A little better", he got out of bed; regardless of how he physically felt, he knew he probably would not get away with skipping out on Monokuma's announcement.

"You ready?" he asked Kyoko.

"It's not like we have a choice either way," she said, "let's see if we can't get this thing done."

Makoto opened the door to his room and as if on cue, so did everyone else, then, they all stepped out into the hallway at nearly the same time. Nobody said anything, they merely exchanged looks with one another, some nervous, some determined, then proceeded to walk, in a surprisingly orderly fashion, to the Gymnasium, with the six former survivors leading the way. As soon as they walked through the doors, there Monokuma was, standing on the stage, this time with his back turned to group.

Once he knew they were there, Monokuma turned around, "Well, hello students, I see you wasted no time getting here, how diligent."

"What's this important announcement you have for us?" Kyoko questioned.

"Oooh, eager are we?" Monokuma laughed, "upupup, I like that."

"Get to the point already," Byakuya asserted, "we're not gonna wait all day."

"Yeesh, persistent too," Monokuma responded, "guess there's no beating around the bush with you guys."

At that moment, Monokuma began to walk back and forth on the stage.

"As you know, the other day, following the surprising failure of my latest motive," Monokuma expressed, "we all came to a conclusion, which was that none of you were about to kill anyone you cared about for a selfish reason. You see, it was with that realization, I decided to go at it from another angle, which was, if none of you are willing to kill anyone for your own sake, then, maybe you'll off someone, for everyone else's sake?"

As soon as he said "everyone else's sake", the teenagers were stunned.

Makoto could only think of one thing, "The Unselfish Motive!"

"...Whiiiiich brings me to our new motive," Monokuma continued, "and I know what you're all thinking 'an new motive, so soon?', and my answer is, yes, students, I am giving you your new motive right away, you know why? Because, I see no point in making you guys wait anymore and at the same time, I am absolutely done waiting for death and or despair to happen! So, here it is, your new motive, the motive to end all motives, the motive that I assure will be a real blast!"

As he said that, the Gym suddenly got real dark and a large monitor screen lowered down behind Monokuma.

"Student, behold," the bear announced, "my latest and greatest creation!"

The monitor turned on and on screen an image appeared, that of a large, round object, done up to look like Monokuma, with a timer on the front, currently displaying all zeros. It did not take anyone too long to realize what they were looking at.

"No...no fucking way..." Mondo said aloud.

"That's a..." Chihiro whimpered.

"That's right," Monokuma voiced, "feast your eyes on my beautiful 'Bomb-o-kuma', 'Monobomb", 'Mono-boom-a'...you get it."

"A BOMB!?" Makoto uttered.

"What the hell kind of motive is this?" Aoi questioned.

"Listen closely, all of you, first off, that rule about only one person being able to leave if you kill someone...completely out the window as of now," Monokuma proclaimed, "now, if you kill someone, then you all get to go free."

"The fuck does that have to do with the bomb?" Leon uttered.

"Getting there," Monokuma went on, "once we're done here, the bomb will be set to go off in three days, got it, three days, if within three days someone dies, then the bomb will be deactivated and all surviving members will be free to leave the school. However, if three days passes and nobody dies, then Hopes Peak gets blown all to hell, taking every last one of you with it!"

The group was shocked, it was very clear that Monokuma was no longer messing around.

"And before you all decide to lie down and accept your fate, I want you all to look at something." Monokuma said.

Just then the screen changed, this time to what looked like map of the town surrounding Hope's Peak. There was a red X marked on Hope's Peak and a large circle drawn around the entire town itself.

Monokuma then pulled out a laser pointer and used it on the screen.

"As you can see," he explained, rotating the red laser in a circular motion around the X on Hope's Peak, "this is you, this is Hope's Peak, the sight of where the bomb has been placed. This..." he then directed the laser to the circle surrounding the town itself, "is the estimation of the bomb's blast radius, as in, everything that will be caught up in the bomb's explosion."

As they all stared at the diagram, they came to a horrifying realization.

"But...that's..." Makoto gasped, "the entire town!"

"You're telling us that if that bomb goes off, not only will Hope's Peak be destroyed, but, also everything around it and beyond?" Chihiro questioned fearfully.

"That's ri-ight," Monokuma affirmed, "if or when that bomb does indeed go off, the entire town outside will most definitely be obliterated, and, while it may not be an ideal place of residence anymore, there are people still living out there, struggling to survive, all of which will caught up in that explosion most foul, should it come to that."

"Which means, if we refuse to act on this motive," Kyoko sighed, "not only will we die, but, so will hundreds, maybe more, of innocent people who have nothing to do with this."

"Which is why this has been classified as an "Unselfish Motives"," Byakuya expressed, "either somebody in here dies, sparing everyone else in here and out there or we do nothing and resign ourselves and everyone out there to a fiery death."

Everyone was silent as they took in what they were just told, the motive itself was not only "Unselfish" but it was also "Unfair".

"Now hold on." Celeste voiced, "how do we know what we're being told is true? Monokuma could be lying about how powerful the bomb is, in fact, that bomb could be a complete fake."

"Yeah, how do we know you're not fucking with us?" Mondo questioned.

"Even if it has a timer," Kiyotaka, "that doesn't indicate that it's a real bomb, for all we know, that could just be a giant counter made up to look like a bomb."

Monokuma hung his head and let out a heavy sigh.

"Well, I guess you all have a point, I have no way of proving the bomb's authenticity easily," the bear responded, "that is, the only true way I could do it is to...well...detonate it. But, are you all really willing to take that risk?"

Nobody said anything.

"That's what I thought," Monokuma said, "now, don't forget, you got three days to make a decision...kill or KABLAMMO! Upupupupupupupu!"

With that, he dismissed the group of alarmed teenagers and disappeared.

"Well...shit." Yasuhiro stated tensely.

Another relatively short chapter (compared to the others), but, I like taking a break from doing long chapters, seriously, they kill me.

Anyway, coming up, how they will deal with the bomb threat and moral dilemma on hand.