"I'mma be, I'mma be, I'mma, I'mma, I'mma be

I'mma be, I'mma be, I'mma, I'mma, I'mma be
I'mma be, I'mma be, I'mma, I'mma, Imma be
I'mma be, be, be, be, I'mma, I'mma be
I'mma be, be, be, be, I'mma, I'mma be
I'mma be, be, be, be, I'mma, I'mma be

I'mma be on the next level
I'mma be rockin' over that bass treble
I'mma be chillin' with my motha'-motha' crew
I'mma be makin' all them deals you wanna do, hah
I'mma be up in that maylist flicks
Doin' one-handed flips, and I'mma be
Sippin' on drinks, 'cause
I'mma be shakin' my hips
You gon' be lickin' your lips
I'mma be takin' them pics
Lookin' all fly and shit
I'mma be the flyest chick

So fly!
I'mma be spreadin' my wings
I'mma be doin' my thing

Do it, do it

Okay!"

Ganger and Yuki were in the Dark Room.

"Hello there, Yuki. I'm Ganger. I've-"

Yuki tried to punch Ganger in the face. It passed through him.

"YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"

"Easy, easy! Silly boy, I haven't fucked my mother!" He paused. "Diabolus won't let me. Anyway, you can't attack me. I'm in a spiritual state, I'm not real."

"What are you?"

"I am the Lord Of The Flies and the Lord Of The Dance. I am the post-postmodern Prometheus. I am the dirty pair of vampire gloves you bought on a perverted, lustful impulse and are ashamed, yet aroused, to look at. Just call me your evil twin. Now you, Yuki Amano, are absolutely pathetic. Just like your father."

"I know."

"You can't ever hope to stop me. You are a silly little boy, just an ignorant, silly little boy. Don't you agree? Aren't you just a silly little boy?"

Yuki stared at him in silence.

"Well then," said Ganger, "You better steer Yuno in the right direction. You'd better make her 'run off and play with the others,' in a manner of speaking. They think she's batty. You don't want Keigo to think she's batty, do you? You like Keigo a lot, don't you? And Tsubaki, and Minene?"

Yuki looked up at him. Ganger seemed just a little taller now. The Dark Room became a twisted parody of Yuki's house, the one he used to share with his mother. There were small pools of blood everywhere. His mother was nowhere to be seen.

"What are you doing out here all alone? Aren't you afraid of me? There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm Ganger."

Yuki looked the beast pretending to be him in the eye.

"Stupid fucking coward."

"Fancy thinking I was something you could attack and kill!" The walls around him echoed with sickening laughter, like the laugh of a mental patient with lung cancer. "You knew, didn't you? I'm a part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?"

The walls laughed again.

"Come now," said Ganger, extending his clawed hand in mock gesture of friendship. Shadows of the Diary Holders, his friends, and his parents were on the walls, each mutilated in horrific ways. "Get back to the others, and we'll forget the whole thing."

Yuki simply opened the front door and walked out of the house, into the "normal" Dark Room. Ganger shouted at him from the doorway, annoyed by what he had done.

"This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you'll only meet me out there- so don't try to escape!"

Yuki continued to calmly walk away.

"This has gone quite far enough. My poor, misguided child, do you think you know better than I do?"

Yuki stopped.

"I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun in this room. Understand? We are going to have fun in this room! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else-"

A legion of dark, powerful arms shot out of the walls and grabbed Yuki.

"-Or else," said Ganger, "we shall do you? See? Minene and John and Karyuudo and Marco and Aru and Tsubaki and Keigo. Do you. See?"

The arms threw him on the ground and disappeared. Yuki got back up.

"Like the reference?

"What reference?"

"...Good Lord, you uncultured piece of shit."

"Better than being a psycho like you."

Ganger grinned. "You can't beat me."

"Probably not," stated Yuki calmly.

Ganger looked at him strangely. This wasn't working, time for a new angle. "Um...your mother...is a slut?"

Yuki clenched his fists. He paused and relaxed. "Well, you know what? I've thought about that, and while I don't want anyone taking advantage of her loneliness, she's an adult and she can make her own decisions."

Ganger glared at him. "I'm going to kill your girlfriend."

"I won't let you." The boy glared back at the creature.

The monster smiled. "There we go. But I'm not really going to kill her, no, Diabolus needs you two alive."

"Did Diabolus tell you to do this?"

"Well, my superior told me to 'prepare' you two without killing you. I wasn't told not to psychologically torture you, so I assumed I could. Anyway, you're boring me. I'm going to play with your precious Yuno a bit more." He laughed. "We've only just begun~"

"I liked that movie."

"I liked the short story better. It was made more clear that the 1408 entity wasn't a ghost."

"You read for fun? Like actual books?"

"Yes."

"You disgusting monster."

"Idiot." Ganger vanished.

"I'mma be rockin' that, .ap infinite

BEP, we definite
We on some next level shit
Futuristic musically
Mind will fold with energy
From the soul we sonically
Sending positivity
Crossed the globe, and seven seas
Take care of our families
Rockin' shows, makin' cheese
I'mma be out with my peas
Livin' life, feelin' free
That's how it's supposed to be
Come join my festivities
Celebrate like I'mma be."

Ganger appeared next to Yuno again. "Oh, I do love these Dark Rooms! A nice little piece of Dreamland, right inside every human mind! So Yuno, I was thinking that I could taunt you about your parents, and-"

"CLICK!"

Ganger paused. He looked at Yuno and saw she had cocked her gun, which she was pointing at her head.

"Where did you get that?"

"It's my dream. I willed it into existence."

Ganger smirked. "You can't die in a dream. Not unless I kill you. You'll shoot yourself and just wake up."

"That's right, I would...if I were using a dream gun."

Ganger's eyes grew wide. "What are you talking about?"

"Sleepwalking, for lack of a better term. Tsubaki taught me how to do it willingly. I'm really holding a loaded gun to my head."

"And...what do you think that will solve?"

"I know that you're not really here. Your body's somewhere else, but your mind is inside this dream. Essentially, you're in my mind."

"And your point is...?"

"What happens if you're still here while I shoot myself? If my mind dies, so does everything that's in it." Yuno smiled. "Including you."

"That's...that's not...I'll just leave, then." Ganger looked quite proud of himself, believing that he had beaten her. He hadn't.

"And leave me to die? See, there's just one thing you might not know about Yuki. Something you never cared enough to learn." Yuno laughed. "He talks in his sleep."

Ganger was silent, his eyes wide with the realization of what she meant. Yuno continued to talk.

"That's right. I know Diabolus, whatever it is, needs me and Yuki alive. And if it's your superior, it's probably a lot stronger. So what happens if I die and it finds out? I can't imagine it would be happy."

"...You're bluffing."

"Try me. One step forward, and I'm dead. You leave me and the others alone, and I live. It's that simple."

Ganger was shaking with impotent rage. "That's...that's not...that's not fair." He growled. "THAT'S NOT FAIR!" He stomped his foot on the ground repeatedly. "THAT'S NOT FAIR! YOU CHEATED!"

"You're just pissy that I beat you."

Ganger breathed in deeply and calmed down. His eyes, along with the veins in his face, briefly turned pitch-black, and then went back to normal.

"This isn't over. It's not. I'll be back again someday. I'll talk to you and your friends a bit more, and then I'll be on my way." He laughed. "Honestly, Yuno. I'm just a little impressed." He walked away and disappeared, muttering, "Bisexual, arrogant assholes," under his breath. He popped into each of the gang's Dark Rooms to talk to them one last time:

"You're a loser, Yuki. Always have been, always will be. Just like your dad. I wonder if you'll ever hit Yuno like he hit you and your mother?"

"You can't control yourself forever, Yuno. One day, you'll hurt Yuki just like my Yuno hurt me."

"You are nothing , Takeo. You are nobody."

"You're not a hero, Keigo. You know, sometimes, I think this house is a looking glass. A mirror. And all the criminals and sociopaths...they're you."

"Nobody loves you, Rei."

"You're very flat, Tsubaki-"

"A C-CUP IS NOT FLAT!"

"...What? I meant your personality. It's just sex, drugs, and self-hatred."

"Oh."

"You can't fight forever, Marco."

"They will all know your secret one day, Ai. And they will despise you for it."

"You are just a stupid old woman, Kamado. You don't deserve children."

"Look at the remains of all who you've killed, Minene. The men, women, and children. Or better yet, go to their grieving families. Ask them if your crusade is worth it."

"Everyone hates you, Karyuudo. Even your own daughter."

"You're going to die first, John. You're just a tired old man, not the next Hitler."

"You can't save anyone, Yomotsu."

"My Aru had something you'll never have."

"What?"

"A family."

Ganger disappeared for the last time. The gang all woke up at once. It was morning.

Ai immediately got up and went to look in the mirror. There were three long, red marks on her back.

In Tsubaki's room, she woke up crying.

"What's wrong?" asked Aru, who was lying next to her.

"I...I dreamed I had a baby."

Yuno put her gun back in its drawer. She walked into the living room and called out to everyone. The gang came into the room, along with Nigger Man and a few of Karyuudo's smaller dogs.

"It's over. Ganger's gone. He won't be coming back."

The radio in the kitchen turned on by itself, surprising everyone. It began to play music:

"Why are there so many songs about rainbows

And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions
But only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told
And some choose to believe it
I know they're wrong, wait and see

Someday we'll find it
The rainbow connection..."

On Earth-1C, Yuki Amano and his girlfriend, Moe Wakaba, were going on a triple date with their friend Aru Akise and his new girlfriend, Tsubaki Kasugano, along with their two other friends who had recently started dating, Hinata Tsukishima and Mao Nonosaka.

"The lovers..."

In Earth-C's Cathedral Of Causality, an extension of Heaven, the god Yuki Amano, his beloved wife, Yuno Gasai, and their two loyal servants, Murmur-2 and Murmur-3, were watching over the date, smiling warmly.

"The dreamers..."

On Earth-1A, in the top room of a tower of bone, Diabolus Ex Machina sat in its obsidian throne. It was covered in a large black robe, obscuring its body except for two decayed, nearly mummified hands and a small, glowing pink light originating from its left eye, which was kept in darkness by its hood.

"And me," the figure croaked in a raspy, androgynous voice.

On Earth-YY-1, in a Japanese middle school classroom, a tall, white, faceless humanoid wearing a straw hat, a barbershop quartet-style jacket, and wielding a golden staff with an eighth note at the top was inspecting the unconscious body of Ganger. Next to it was a Japanese man in his early twenties. He had light blue hair, green eyes, and a stoic look on his face. He was wearing glasses and an orange prisoner's uniform. His lips were gone, as if they had been chewed off. Next to the man was a pink-haired Japanese girl in her early teens, wearing a red and white schoolgirl outfit.

"Is he dead?" asked the creature in a voice resembling a mix of David Bowie and Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls.

"I'm not that kind of doctor," said the man in an annoyed tone.

"But you've seen dead bodies before!"

"So have you."

"...Good point. Hey, kid, poke it with something."

"W-what?!" asked the girl, disturbed by the possibility of coming into contact with a dead body.

"Hey, I tried screaming 'humans suck' at him, and that didn't work, so I'm out of ideas."

Before the girl could poke it, Ganger awoke and sat upright.

"I apologize for the delay. I had to take care of some business first." He stood up. He looked at the man. "A pleasure to meet you, Dr. Inumuta." He looked down at the girl. "Miss Yoshikawa." He looked at the monster. He smiled. "Private Bl-"

"Who are you and what do you want?" snapped the creature angrily. "Are you Yuki Amano?"

"Oh, I'm not him. I'm better in every way. Song And Dance Man, Doctor Houka Inumuta, Chinatsu Yoshikawa, my name is Ganger. I believe we have the same goals."

"Which would be?"

Ganger grinned wider, revealing his sharp, thin, needle-like teeth, which frightened Chinatsu. "Doing whatever the fuck we want."