"Testing testing… hello? This is Mugi, come in, Team Zetsubou."

Tsumugi Shirogane speaks into the microphone on her computer, as the video chat flipped on. Four silhouetted figures are shown, each of them in a different location.

"What do you want, Shirogane? I'm in the middle of trying to figure out who shut down the West City Monokuma factory." A sinister, while also kind of robotic voice speaks first.

Tsumugi sighed, "It's no big deal, it's just that I got outed as the mastermind of my game. On the bright side, I already have my 'protagonist' ready for her execution."

"Ha, that's cute. My game has managed to take a surprising turn hours ago, and it seems that it was right for me to change my lineup." A chilling womanly voice seeped out.

"Really? You gotta tell me about it later! How about you? Have you started your game yet, Info Broker?" Tsumugi turned to the top right person next.

"….." He just smirked and turned away from her, just showing the back of his chair.

"I'll take that as a no. Anyways with Ms. Mizuno gone, my group will lose hope and audiences across the multiverse will too! Making our takeover easier! Ha!"

"Ugh…"

"Oh, she's starting to wake up! I'll get back to you all later! Byeeeeee!" Tsumugi turned off the screen before turning to Ai, "Good morning! It's time for an execution that will shock them all."

Chapter 6: Awaken, City of Hope! Part 1 (Deadly Life)

Remaining Citizens: 6

Ai Mizuno (Zombie Land Saga): Ultimate (Zombie) Idol

Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5): Ultimate Track Star

Emma (The Promised Neverland): Ultimate Moral Compass

Gold (Pokémon Adventures/Pokémon Special): Ultimate Hatcher

Miles Morales (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse): Ultimate Successor

Yu Ishigami (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War): Ultimate Pessimist

"Yo… Emma? How long has it been?"

Ryuji asked, waking up from a short power nap.

"I... don't know, honestly." She answered, bags under her eyes.

"T-minus 17 hours since Shirogane took Ai." Ishigami looked up from his computer.

"Tch… we have no leads on where either of them are. I hate doing nothing!" Emma shouted in frustration.

Gold's head was down, losing both Ai and Pibu had silenced him.

Ryuji grabs Emma's shoulders to try and calm her down, "Kid, listen to me. We'll find something, we just gotta—"

"No! Ai's execution could happen at any minute now, we have to go out looking immediately!" The orange haired girl couldn't be held down.

"I know that! But this city is HUGE! We can't just go wandering around without any specific location!" Ryuji told her.

"Hey, I found something!"

Miles had his mask on and he came down from the ceiling above them.

"Ack! That is a bit unnerving…" Ishigami utters.

"Sorry, but Bernadetta's room was open and she left something for us."

Emma's right ear perked up when she heard that, "S-She did?! What was it?"

"It's a letter, talks about how she sent the message to Gundham about the 'Shiro' chunk and that she would likely be the next victim." Miles looks over the paper again.

Ishigami sighs, "Wish she wasn't proven right. What else is on there?"

Ryuji is handed the paper next, "Says that she went out at night one time and that she found something for us."

"Well that's neither safe nor in her nature…" Ishigami's eyes widened.

Emma swiped the paper and read the last line aloud, "I'm sorry that I wasn't very useful to you all in the end, but I hope this last thing will be your key to unlocking your freedom. Thank you, everyone, for taking care of Bernie Bear."

Emma sounded a bit choked up at the end, but she just took a big gulp in before looking at the page again, "77-B?"

"Um… what is that supposed to be?" Ryuji asked her.

"I think it's supposed to be a classroom number, but why…?" Ishigami puts a finger to his chin as he thinks.

"Classroom… WAIT HOLD ON!" Gold popped back to life after hearing that.

"IS IT…" Emma realizes it as well.

"IT HAS TO BE!" Gold and Emma jumped for joy and hugged to the others' confusion.

"Huh?"

"Eh?"

"Wha?"

Ryuji, Ishigami, and Miles tilted their heads in confusion.

"It's the blocked classroom in that school building half of us were trapped in! Remember, Ishigami, Ryuji?" Emma's smile returns to her face.

It took a bit for Ryuji to recall, "Oh yeah! That really sucked…"

"Says you, I almost got framed for murder and got knocked out next a corpse." Ishigami stated.

"Ha ha… Anyways, we just have to get to that classroom and look to see if there's anything. Wait… Gold, how did you know about that classroom?" Emma looked at him.

"Huh? Oh I uh… saw it when the doors were open during the investigation! But never mind that, we've got no time to lose!"

Gold then smacks down a surveillance camera with his pool cue.

"GAH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Ishigami yells in shock.

"I've got a plan, and this plan doesn't involve any of glasses lady's stupid rules!" Gold brushes off a piece of the camera off his cue.

"But won't that cause you to get punished?" Miles questioned him.

"Not if she's focused on Ai first, trust me. The rules don't apply to us anymore, killing game's done." Gold took out his skateboard and began to walk towards the door.

Emma joined him, "He's right. We quit this game, so let's go to school."

"I've done some crazy shit, this may be one of the craziest. Okay, I'm all in." Ryuji sat up.

"I've got some venom flowing through that I need to let out, preferably through a shoulder touch on Shirogane." Miles prepped his web shooters.

They then looked to Ishigami, who then submitted to peer pressure, "Ugh, fine. I'll believe in you all, but if I die here then I'll haunt you."

Emma took his hand and she dragged him along. Miles held on to Ryuji as he swung through the city. Gold was in the lead on his board.

All of them are ready to take on the mastermind, for the sake of their friend.

Ai's POV

"Ugh…"

I begin to open my eyes, yet all I see is darkness.

No idea how long it's been since the end of the trial. I just feel my head ringing and I try to keep it stable.

A light then flickers on at the other end of the room. It's… some kind of generator… with Pibu hooked up to it.

I gasp before shouting the mouse's name, "Pibu!".

"Chu… CHUUUUUUU!" He yelps out in pain as I see electricity flowing off of him.

"Ack!" I look on at the horrible sight.

Pibu falls over, exhausted as I hear some giggling coming from behind me.

The lights came on and it was then that I saw that I was in my Franchouchou idol outfit.

"Hee hee hee, aww. The wittle guy's all worn out! Gosh, if only I had chosen Red and/or Yellow for this game. Then I could have had two Pikachus powering up the execution much faster!"

"Tsumugi… I see you're taking your time preparing. Why haven't you killed me yet, huh?" I asked her as I attempted to move my chained limbs.

"Simple, this execution takes a lot of power. If I just keep draining Pibu, then I won't have to rely on the city's power supply. Plus seeing such a cute creature be tortured like this is bound to boost despair to our audience!" She explained with a smile.

I raised an eyebrow at that last statement, what does she mean by audience?

She caught on to my confusion, "By audience I mean the billions of people I'm broadcasting this killing game to throughout the multiverse. That includes Saga, and the other worlds your friends are from. Basically I'm going to push them all into despair in order to take over and cause chaos."

I look at her with a face that is both disgusted and unsurprised, "I didn't expect someone like a cosplayer to want something like this. I doubt you have a well thought-out reason for doing so either."

"Well, I just recently received a second chance in life thanks to the efforts of one of my companions. I was the mastermind of another killing game before this, and it did not end well… putting it plainly."

"I can tell by the look on your face that it didn't. Why drag us into it then?"

"The world we're currently in right now is the world of Danganronpa, where the killing game originated. The world outside of mine, the 'real world', rejected Danganronpa, rejected the killing game, so I'm just bitter. Multiple worlds was something that I'd only imagine from both anime and video games, so discovering that they were REAL instead of FICTION…. That gave me an idea. Forming a group… of remarkable people." She smirked at the reference she just made.

"Villains from other worlds that could help you gather people for more killing games. Thus spreading despair by showing it to audiences in many worlds, am I correct?" I continued to struggle with my chains.

"Hit the nail on the head there, Mizuno. Although we're doing more than just killing games. If the real world won't be entertained by the killing game, then it will be a guilty pleasure for me and my colleagues. Oh! By the way, I forgot to tell you something. You know our first two motives, where all your loved ones were turned to despair?"

My eyes opened wide when she said that, after all we went through with the killing game, I nearly forgot about it.

"Yeah…they were lies. Aside from the destruction of some of your home worlds, I just cosplayed as your friends! Where I come from, you're all fictional characters, so I can dress up as you anytime I want!" She laughs loudly.

My anger towards her just continues to grow, "Tch… I should have known that it could have been a trick. I did find it strange at first that you would choose to murder Misato that early. But using a motive like that to make us believe you were the real Kaiba, plus making you able to start the killings…"

"Smart, huh? Nothing a third-rate duelist could even comprehend! Although since you never met the real Kaiba, my cosplay could have fooled you even if I didn't go all out with acting like him!" She briefly transformed into Kaiba before turning back.

"Yeah yeah, I get it." I bluntly tell her.

Tsumugi looks annoyed that I'm not taking any of her crap, "Man, I should've gotten someone like Sakura instead of you. From what I've seen she would have been MUCH EASIER to crush her spirits..."

"Don't you dare say that about her! She's much stronger than you realize, and so are my friends here." I raise my voice, but she just brushes me off.

"If you say so, I dropped your anime after episode 5 anyways. But that little clip that Aoba showed us from episode 6 gave me the inspiration for your execution. Now then I should get back to prepping fo— Huh?"

An alarm goes off and Tsumugi dashes over to her computer. And when I saw what was happening, a smile grew on my face.

"Wh-Wh-What are they doing?!" Tsumugi looks on in shock.

Everyone's wreaking havoc all across Monocity.

Ryuji smashes the head of a Monokuma statue at Enoshima Park with a metal baseball bat. Miles doing graffiti on a "Re-Elect Monokuma" billboard. Gold knocking down security cameras left and right.

Pure destruction, as they all give up on the rules of the killing game.

I couldn't be more proud.

"You think this is funny, don't you Ai? Fine, you can continue watching the execution machine gain more power from Pibu. I'm sending in the authorities to gather your friends for your performance!" Tsumugi clicks a button in annoyance.

"The authorities?" I ask before I see what she meant, "Oh no."

"Okay, we're almost at the school. Just gotta hurry." Emma tells the rest.

"If we're in such a rush, then why did we go around being public nuisances?" Ishigami questioned.

"It's our way of showing that bitch, Shirogane, that we're not putting up with her shit anymore. That we're coming for her, kinda like a calling card." Ryuji replies.

"It's a little fun too, I can only imagine the look on her face when she sees what we're doing!" Miles chuckled.

Emma giggles as Ishigami sighs, "Come on… she's the mastermind right? She could just kill us all for doing this. At least breaking the security cameras can help us be unseen, but did we really have to do all that other stuff?"

"Come on, what's the worst that could happen?" Gold held his pool cue over his shoulder lazily.

"What could happen?" Ishigami pinches the bridge of his nose, annoyed.

It was then that Miles's Spider-Sense went off, as footsteps from afar began to grow louder and louder. Eventually the source of that noise was found all around the five of them.

A crowd of Guard Monokumas.

"THIS COULD HAPPEN!" Ishigami pointed at the army surrounding them as he looked at Gold with anger.

"I can see the school building right over there! We just need to get out of here quickly." Emma looked to see their target location.

"Easier said than done, I feel like fighting this crowd would be easier if we all had the right gear and weapons!" Ryuji swings his bat at one of the Monokumas, but two more take its place.

"I feel like swinging over them would be more difficult with all of us. I'm strong, but I don't think I can balance FOUR people and shoot webs at the same time!" Miles punches the head off another Monokuma.

"Well, you got any more bright ideas, goggles?" Ishigami asked Gold.

"Just one… surrender."

"HUH?!" Everyone reacts to him, including the Monokumas.

"... Nahhhhh sike! I've been itching to do this ever since I've got here. And now that I got 'em all back, let's let loose partners!"

(Insert Song: Hall of Fame, Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Six red and white balls are laid out in front of him like a game of pool, and Gold hits a seventh one as the cue ball, knocking them all around. All seven balls hit Monokumas straight in the robotic skull as they burst open with a bright light.

"TYPHLO!"

"POM!"

"POLI!"

"FLORA!"

"SUDO!"

"KISS!"

"MANTINE!"

Seven creatures emerge from their Pokéballs all crying out, ready to fight. Exbo, the Typhlosion. Polibo, the Politoed. Aibo, the Ambipom. Tibo, the Mantine. Sunbo, the Sunflora. Sudobo, the Sudowoodo. And Togebo, the Togekiss.

Gold's full Pokémon lineup, aside from Pibu of course.

"WHOAAAAAA!" Emma's eyes sparkle as she observes each one.

Gold spins his pool cue and smirks, "Y'know, I'm usually only allowed to carry around six at once, but in a situation like this... to heck with that. It's party time!"

Here we are peeps, the final chapter of Fictional Nexus (there will be an epilogue of course). That ending is what I REALLY wanted to do since taking Gold's Pokémon away. I am so happy, yet sad that this will all come to an end soon. But regardless, I hope you enjoy what I have left for you all. Catch you all next time, when it is party time.