Chapter 21: Calypso's Murder Carnival

(Opening A/N: Now it's time to bring in the the soldier of despair XV, and he has big plans for both me and for Zack since he is going to issue a tag team battle royale to the death in a little internet show called "Calypso's Murder Carnival" where ten teams of two must not only murder each other but also murder maniacal inmates dressed as clowns in able to earn enough points to enter the main event, also creative kills earn you extra points as well, so we're going to have to go all out if we want to win, also the winning team will be granted one wish, so will we do it, or will we be corpses within the carnival of death? Stay tuned my friends!)

[Undisclosed location…]

Mukuro shows up placing a folder right in front of her older twin sister Junko, Junko then opened it up showing a file of Tatsumi with a giant red X over his picture and the rest of the file reading KIA or Killed In Action.

"So it seems that one of the Night Raid members has been killed, it'll only be a matter of time before the rest of the crew falls into despair." Junko said with that usual Cheshire Cat style smile she wore knowing that her beloved despair is on the horizon since she was in possession of the fabled Pandora's box.

"When do you plan on opening Pandora's box?" Mukuro asked, and Junko had a tick mark coming out of her forehead.

"Seriously, I need to wait for a solar eclipse and I need the blood of both a virgin male along with a virgin female for the box to open." Junko said in an annoyed voice, she then turned to her computer as she pulled up a website entitled: "Calypso's Murder Carnival!" She then clicked on the registration page where she got to choose how to access the show, she then clicked on the premium package which allowed her to see all of the show uncensored, and she was swaying from side to side with joy seeing one of her soldiers of despair deploying a most bloody and gruesomely violent internet game show that seemed to be on her mind since she was the one who suggested it to Calypso since he's one of her XVI soldiers of despair.

"Sorry for asking." Mukuro said as Junko was typing in her credit card numbers and the order was placed, the screen then showed a countdown timer to the premiere of the first episode.

"The curtain will rise on a new murder game as we bring in the despair filled contestants and show them the meaning of 'True Despair.'" Junko said in a dreary voice.

[At the same time, but in the special region…]

One of Junko's lackeys who was wearing a monokuma mask handed me and Zack an invitation to be a part of Calypso's Murder Carnival, as it so seems that Calypso happens to be a soldier of despair for Junko Enoshima, and we wanted to see him die and it says that the winning duo will be granted one wish of their hearts desire, and as much as we wanted Tatsumi back, we could always wish for Calypso's execution.

No matter how bad we wanted it, there was no way we could bring back what we had lost, but if I wanted to get stronger and take my revenge against Zorzal for what he did, then so be it!

"Zack, I want to get stronger, physically and mentally, I don't want the same that happened to Tatsumi happen to anyone else." I said, and Zack nodded in agreement.

"I agree, we do need to get stronger, but when it comes down to it, I want to be the one to kill both Seryu and Kurome." Zack replied, he wanted both traitors of the Jagers personally.

"Alright, you take out Seryu and Kurome, I'll take out Zorzal, then we take out Junko together." I proposed, Zack liked the idea, we both knuckle bumped letting each other know that we both liked the idea.

So we headed back through the gate back to Boston, as soon as we got there, that was when we met with Calypso.

"I trust you have my invitation that one of my associates has sent you." Calypso asked, and I handed it to him as he saw the box marked "Yes" is checked on it. "Very well, I'll have my men escort you to the battlefield, you're the first team to accept my little challenge, and may I be the first to say, I hope you win if you want me to grant whatever your heart desires." He also added as we were placed into a white panel door van as the door slid open and we went inside, but as soon as we were inside, the back filled up with a knockout gas and both Zack and I went out like a couple of lights.

As soon as we came around, we found ourselves wearing the same collars that I wore in my fight against Shiori, it seems that this was a winner take all game of life and death.

We found all of our weapons sitting on a steel table and we quickly grabbed and strapped them onto our person as Zack was ready as was I, we then saw a couple of clowns armed with a lead pipe with blades on them and the other had a baseball bat wrapped with a steel chain.

You could do some serious damage with that, and I bet Negan would be jealous with that since it was an improvement over Lucille.

I then also found my phone as well, I then recieved a text message from Agatha, I opened the text.

Roman, I'd like to let you know, that the results from the blood test you had to do four months ago, just came back and truth be told, it was for a paternity test, and it turns out that Tyrone is not the father of Darron, you are, I knew for a fact that you and Darron both have the same face, and I'm glad that you gave me a grandson, I wanted to tell you this sooner, but like I said, the test results came back today and I thought I'd share the good news with you.

I began to have tears of joy pouring out, this was good news indeed, I mean my only regret was not being there when Darron was born, but I swear, I'm going to be there for him every step of the way.

I'm also glad that Mahiru is being a mother to him as well since his birth mom died, and Darron needed a mother figure, so Mahiru decided become a loving surrogate mom for him since he needed a mother's love.

Just then, a screen with a timer showed up as it was counting down three minutes before the beginning of Calypso's show.

Zack and I were revved up and ready to go, the murder clowns were poised and ready to cause some chaos, then the screen showed ten teams of two, including us, we got to wait for the timer to hit zero then all the mayhem and murder shall begin!

[Now back to Junko and Mukuro...]

Junko was waiting for the moment that the timer to hit zero, she was holding a plush Monokuma as the suspense of three minutes was getting the best of her, Mukuro then showed up with a bucket of popcorn as Junko was digging into the popcorn as soon as the timer went down to 30 seconds.

"The final countdown has begun and it's time to unleash the murderers and despair into the internet showing it to people willing to see it, and I gotta say, I'm glad to have Calypso as a soldier or despair, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk." Junko said in her mock Monokuma voice.

The timer then changed from white to red when the timer reached 10 seconds, 9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!

"Welcome to a place where murder, mayhem, anarchy, and disorder rule supreme, mercenaries, assassins, gangsters, thugs, murderers, and other lowlifes fight in a tag team battle royale as they fight to get their heart's desire by making one wish to Calypso, and if you want to see this show, then you'd better sign up for our show for $7.95 for a standard showing, $12.95 for a moderate showing, and for all hardcore fans, then the $24.95 premium showing is just for you." The announcer said, and it turned out that Junko signed up for the premium showing, which allowed her to see all the fun uncensored.

As soon as the timer hit zero for us, the clowns began to come right at us, with the intent to kill us, we also found out this is a point based battle royale, and creative kills, like using the enivorment to kill someone, using the traps laid out by Calypso, decapitation, along with other foreign weapons can give you 100 points, where as standard kills are 20 points, you can also kill off the opposing teams which is worth 50 points.

"Let's go for the creative kills try to rack up first so we can make it to the final four." Zack suggested, and as soon as the siren sounded, it was time for us to begin the slaughter.

One clown charged at me with a chainsaw as I swept under the legs making the clown lose control of the chainsaw as it cut right through the clown's head splitting it in half.

Our team not only scored first blood but also a creative kill which got us 200 points easy making us top of the leaderboard.

One team tried to get out, but the only thing that made sure that we didn't leave was the collars that we were wearing, they have a powerful explosive implanted into the collar so if you try to leave, or if you fail to get the minimum requirement of kills then the collar will explode, like those two idiots, they tried to make outside the boundary lines as the collars on the duo exploded killing them.

"Team 10 has been offically elminiated, nine teams now remain." The announcer said letting not only the viewers but also the surviving members of the game as well, also there a time limit for this game, three days to be exact, as well we needed to get into gear if we needed to stay on top of the leaderboard and get a spot into the final four.

"Well dude, let's go to work." I said as Zack agreed we needed to kill as many of these bastards and send another soldier of chaos to the hereafter if possible.

[Time left 3 days...To Be Continued...]

(A/N: Alright, it seems that the murder carnival has begun with us in the lead and one team being eliminated via DQ of their attempt of escape, also I'm doing a side story to this and it's going to be with Black Lagoon and it's going to take place five months after our comrade Tatsumi has been sent to the hereafter when Kurome killed him. So feel free to send a review, fave, follow, suggestion for a future chapter, etc. So until the next chapter, this is the master of chaos, the commander of the legion of corpses, BloodyDemon666 signing off!)