"W - what the hell?!" Knuckles shouts after seeing Jet's execution.

"H - hey, Metal... Was that real...?" Tails asks him.

"I scanned the events that happened, and..." He beeps. "It is truly real..."

"NOOO!" Amy covers her face. "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" She runs away from the room.

"WOO HOO!" Monokuma laughs. "EXTREEEEME!"

"You monster..." Sonic stares at him fiercely. "YOU'LL PAY!" He jumps and launches at him, doing a homing attack.

This is bad, Sonic's going to die...

Metal rushes to Monokuma and gets hit by Sonic instead.

"What?!" The hedgehog jumps back, realizing the mistake he has made. "M - Metal, you OK?!"

"Pheew, that was close!" The bear said. "I thought someone's going to die again back there! And by someone, I mean the Ultimate Hero! That would be a shame!"

Error

The robot lays down, his systems all shut. Because of the impact, he is forced to turn off.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Metal turn on again, looking at Tails. He then looks around to see that he's in his room again. He also notices that Tails has his toolbox on his hand, making it obvious to what happened when he was not there.

This is the second time this happened...

"Let me take a wild guess... You fixed me again, right?" The fox nods. "Thank you, and... Sorry for burdening you."

"No need to say sorry! I'M the one who needs to say sorry AND thank you. If you didn't intervene back there, Sonic would be as good as dead." He then looks at the clock. "Holy twin tails! Already 10 P.M.?! Sorry, Metal! I gotta go!" Tails stands up and leaves the room. "Oh, your E - Handbook is inside your desk!" He closes the door.

"Okay!" Metal opens the drawer on his desk and takes out his E - Handbook. "Good thing this is safe..."

"Excuse me. Can I come in?" Amy's voice is heard from outside, along with a knocking sound. "It's me, Amy."

"You can come in. It's not locked yet." The pink hedgehog then enters the room. "What do you need here?"

"Just wanna see if you're okay or not."

"You feel better now?"

"Yeah... Just need to face reality." A yellow flower on the desk draws her attention. The flower is on a white vase with a pink bow attached to it. "Nice flower you got there."

"Thank you. A friend from the past gave me this." He looks at the flower. "She's kind and nice... I wish I could remember her."

"You mean you don't remember her?"

"No, not really... I forgot everything about my past. I don't know how could that happen, but I still remember her giving me this..." Metal said to her. "You somehow remind me of her, Amy."

"Aww, thanks." The pink hedgehog slowly takes off the bow from the vase and puts it on Metal's forehead. She then takes the flower and makes Metal hold it with his hand. "You look beautiful now!"

"Um, I don't know what to say, but... Thank you."

...

This is how that friend of mine gave the flower to me...

"Hey, Metal! Feeling bett -" Sonic enters the room before staring at Metal with a surprised look. "Um, nice new look you got there, Metal."

"Oh, uh... Thanks."

"Sonic!" Amy quickly hugs him. "It's good to see you!"

"Uh, okay? We haven't seen each other for only an hour, by the way."

"It felt like ages!"

*Sigh* "Can I at least talk to Metal for a minute?"

"Okay, fine. I'll let you go, but only THIS TIME." Amy exits the room.

"Sheesh, she's so annoying in many ways..." Sonic approaches Metal. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Sorry for last time... And, thanks." He scratches his forehead. "If you weren't there to help me, I would've be a corpse right now."

"A shameful end for the Ultimate Hero? Like I will let that happen."

"Heh, yeah, I owe you my life." The hedgehog chuckles. "Well, it's nighttime. Better get some rest now. I bet tomorrow's gonna be a long day. See ya."

"See you later, Sonic."

...

"Oh, and don't forget to take off that bow!"

The next day, every students gather up at the cafeteria. It is decided that the cafeteria will be their meeting place from now on. Many of them are still shocked because of the events that happened before. This "execution" thing is by far the most messed up thing that could happen to them. Then again, being locked in a school to kill each other is already messed up.

"Everyone still thinking about yesterday?" Sally asks them.

"Totally. Even the Ultimate Detective's having a hard time." Charmy points at Vector, earning a glare from him.

"Hey, it's not THAT easy being the Ultimate Detective, ya know?!"

"Yeah, yeah. Keep talking."

...

The monitor in the cafeteria turns on. Then, a disturbing voice is heard. "Rise and shine, everyone! I just added some new rules to the school regulations! Go check it out!" It's 100% Monokuma's voice.

Metal checks his E - Handbook and notices 2 new rules:

1. The next day after an execution, other parts of the school will be unlocked and free to explore.

2. If someone commits suicide and the students found out, voting for the one who committed suicide after a class trial, a random student will be executed, replacing the dead student.

The first part was interesting, but the second part? An innocent random student getting executed? This is too brutal.

"T - this rule's messed up!"

"A random person replacing the blackened who committed suicide?"

"This is bad... This is bad!"

"Calm down, everyone!" Silver said to them. "Now, why don't we explore the new locations that are opened for us?"

They get skeptical at first, but then decided to do it.

After exploring the now - open 2nd floor, the students take note of the new rooms that are available there.

1. Swimming pool, a wide swimming pool used for obviously swimming practices. Can be used for fun too.

2. Gender - specific locker rooms, now they can change their clothes there. Above both locker room doors are cameras with guns attached below it. If a male tries to enter the girls locker room with his E - Handbook, the guns will shoot fast and deadly bullets at him, vice versa.

3. Library, a room filled with books and 10 PCs. It is confirmed that there are no internet connections. According to Rouge, some of the books contain "lemon", which Metal doesn't seem to know what that means.

Monokuma then tells them to gather up at the gym for a special announcement. Like always, the bear jumps from behind the podium, laughing. "Heeey! I see that you guys enjoyed the new floor, huh? Well, because the reason I do this is so you can be motivated to kill each other again, which seemingly doesn't work, I decided that I should try a different kind of motivation!" He goes to the back of the podium again and returns with a projector and puts it on top of the podium, the lens aiming at the blank wall. It then starts to project a video. "I'm going to tell you a certain someone's past secret! Is it gonna be embarassing...? Or is it gonna be terrifying...? Let's find out!" The video starts by showing an image of all 14 remaining students portrait. Then, a drum roll is heard before Metal's portrait starts to glow. "Oooh, the Ultimate Robot! What kind of secret does he have...?"

"Wait, what?! I'm chosen?!" Metal shouts at Monokuma. "But I don't even remember anything from my past!"

"Well, let's just say that this is how you're going to remember your past!" A paper falls down from the ceilings. The bear snatches it with his paw and starts to read it out loud. "Metal Sonic, the Ultimate Robot! A robot created by the evil scientist, Dr. Ivo Robotnik! A killing machine that has only 1 mission in this world, kill his 'other self', Sonic the Hedgehog, and show everyone that he's the REAL Sonic!"

They all get shocked, surprised to hear about Metal's past, especially Sonic. "Metal, is that true?" The hedgehog asks him.

"W - what...? I..." He shook his head, not knowing what to say.

"Here's his past videos!" The projector then projects short videos of Metal Sonic. He is seen stepping on animals, killing innocent citizens, destroying buildings, and more.

"Metal..." Big covers his mouth in shock.

"So all this time, you were pretending to be Sonic's fan?!" Knuckles approaches him, looking angered.

"N - no! I - it's not me! I..." The robot looks down to his feet. "I don't remember any of this... I don't have any data or memories of this at all... It's..." He raises his head, staring directly at the echidna. "It's not me!"

"Tch..." He walks away from him.

"Guys, you have to believe me! I haven't done these!" Metal said to them, trying to make them trust him.

"Say that to the video... I wish I destroyed you that time..." Sonic's words were like a stab in the heart, well, engines in Metal's case.

"B - but, Sonic!"

Many students glare at him, making it obvious that almost all of them doesn't even want to talk with him.

After this, Amy approaches Metal and turns around to look at the others. "Everyone, I believe in Metal! And all of you should too!"

"Amy...? You... Trust me...?"

"Of course! And that's why..."

...

"You have to apologize to them!"

"What?!" Metal takes a step back away from Amy. "But it is not my fault! Why should I apologize?! This is not correct according to the interaction law!"

"And do you think the others might believe you if you keep on covering the truth with lies?"

"I am not lying, Amy!"

"The video says it all, Metal! I just need you to apologize!"

The robot looks around, realizing that...

No one really trusts me here.

He runs away, back to his room. "Metal, wait!" Amy was about to chase after him before being prevented by Blaze.

"It's too dangerous, Amy. You know his real intentions, right?"

"But I..." The pink hedgehog stares at the door that Metal went through. "Metal..."

Back in his room, Metal is seen holding his yellow flower.

Why won't they believe me?

"If they think I'm the villain, then..."

...

"I'll BE the villain..."