Danganronpa: The Greatest Japanese Hero
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
The Greatest American Hero is owned by Stephen J. Cannell
First off, many thanks to those who reviewed this fic, I really appreciated it and this gave me inspiration to work on the next chapter and here the story reaches its climax as Naegi and Kirigiri pooled their resources in order to find the culprits in order to prevent the advent of World War III, and Chihiro finally gets involved, and something is about to be revealed that would shock the characters involved in this chapter...
The conclusion of this story arc…so read on and enjoy…
The scene shifts to the Japan Special Defense Forces where it shows that the people there are still scrambling on how to override the computers' programming and stop it from launching the missiles that are set to target North Korea, China, Russia and Iran, and the scene shifts at the computer room where you can see several computer technicians are working non-stop as they are determined to find out how to stop he computer from automatically launching the nuclear missiles.
The scene then zoomed towards the wall where the timer is displayed, and it shows that the timer is ticking away with only 06:55 left, and there the Minister of Defense entered the room and talked to the lead computer programmer and asks for the progress of the situation.
"How are things here?"
"Nothing much..."
"Blast...we have six hours left..."
"We are doing all we can, sir..."
"Try and find a way...we can't let a tragedy struck Japan and the world..."
"We are doing everything we..."
"Keep trying and stop the computers!"
"Yes, sir..."
The Minister of Defense is not pleased with the current situation and he is starting to run out of options seeing that unless the computers stopped its launching programming Japan will be entering a global storm and subjected to reprisals from the countries that are set to be targeted by the missiles, and by then the Prime Minister came and talked to the Minister of Defense and the two talked about what to do next as he is tempted to tell the Emperor about the current situation but the Minister of Defense begged the Prime Minister to wait first as he still believed that he might make a breakthrough.
"Prime Minister...please be a little patient..."
"I can't...!"
"Please...we are doing..."
"I can't keep the Emperor in the dark about this matter...he has the right to know..."
"We still have time...I'm sure we can make a breakthrough in this dilemma..."
"But..."
"Have faith in me..."
"..."
However, the Prime Minister is unwilling to keep the Emperor in the dark and told the Minister of Defense that he has only three hours to try and stop the computers from launching the missiles, and if hat time is up and no results are shown, he will tell the Emperor about the situation at hand and the Minister of Defense felt the pressure as he did not want the situation to escalate further and started to get to work in order to beat the deadline given to him.
Believe It Or Not by Joey Scarbury
(Opening Song from The Greatest American Hero)
Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself;
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
Should've been somebody else.
Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.
Just like the light of new day,
It hit me from out of the blue;
Breakin' me out of the spell I was in,
Makin' all of my wishes come true.
Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.
Ch. 42: Misairu Merutodaun
At Kagoshima, the scene shifts to the secret base and there it shows that the unseen captor is being told of the situation and seeing that Chihiro Fujisaki is seen in Tokyo, he decided to have Chihiro apprehended so as to have the teen to pressure Taichi and Chiaki to work faster and override the computers at the SDF so that he can gain control of the missiles and launch the missiles at ASAP instead of waiting for six hours, and there he directed his spies to pinpoint Chihiro's location so that he can send his soldiers to apprehend the target, and right now he is talking to the spy right now and is told of what is happening right now.
"What's the status...?"
"We found the target...but the target is joined by two teenagers..."
"Anyone else?"
"No one...only three teenagers..."
"Keep an eye on them...and if you find the chance...abduct the target..."
"Yes, sir..."
"And make sure there are no witnesses..."
"Yes, sir..."
Meanwhile, Taichi and Chiaki are at the computer room and Taichi is stealthily sending text messages to Chihiro about his current location and had Chiaki looking around to see if anyone is coming as they did not want his captors to know what he is doing and right now he is intentionally stalling and undermining his captors' plans as he did not want them to launch another missile and hoped that Chihiro would get help and expose the culprits to prevent them from gaining power should he missiles be launched.
-x-
Back at Tokyo, the scene shifts at a parking lot of a fast food restaurant and there the scene shifts inside the car where Kirigiri and Naegi are told about the situation and Chihiro believes that the soldiers conducting a raid at the Fujisaki house last night may be tied to the disappearance of Taichi, and begged the two teens for help, and Kirigiri deduced that they are connected to what the aliens told her and Naegi and told Chihiro that she and Naegi will help, much to Chihiro's relief.
"Chihiro-san..."
"..."
"We will help..."
"Really?"
"Yes..."
"Thanks!"
"Then we're all set..."
"Okay!"
Kirigiri then suggested that they make their move until Chihiro receives a text message from Taichi and the read it which it says that he sent an e-mail to Chihiro and Chihiro came up with an idea and said that Taichi stayed at a condominium which has a wi-fi signal and said that it would be a safe place to check out the e-mail message and Kirigiri agreed and there she drives the car and head to where Chihiro is leading the two classmates, unaware that be spy is trailing them, and after five minutes the spy arrived and found the condominium, where Kirigiri and Chihiro went in, and there the spy followed the two teens and saw that the condominium is 30 stories with an elevator, and though the two teens have already entered the elevator, he talked to he receptionist and learned which room they went, and the spy informed his superior about it.
Moments later, at a room, which is at the 15th floor, Kirigiri and Fujisaki checked the e-mail, where it shows that the message states that a certain military official is behind the missile attack that struck Fukushima, and that Taichi is being forced to do as he is told or else Chihiro would be harmed, and as Chihiro is about to check the laptop for more info, Kirigiri accidentally touched Chihiro's chest, and she stared wide-eyed as she realized that Chihiro isn't female, and there Chihiro revealed that he is a boy pretending to be a girl.
"!"
"..."
"Chihiro-san...you're..."
"Yes...I'm rally a boy..."
"Then why...?"
"You see..."
"...I see...but that doesn't mean you have to keep hiding your real self..."
"..."
Chihiro told Kirigiri the reasons for his cross-dressing, but Kirigiri said that finding Taichi comes first, and the two teens began analyzing the message and uses the internet to locate Kagoshima and find the exact location of this secret base soon that they could find it and stop the military officials from launching the missiles, and at the parking lot, Naegi is wondering why he had to wait here and not go with her and Chihiro, but then he heard a helicopter approaching and began hovering over the roof of the condominium, and sensing trouble, he went inside the condo and used his cellphone to tell Kirigiri if his suspicion, and there she told Naegi which room she is in.
"The 15th floor?"
"Yes...use the elevator and meet us at the unit we are in!"
"But what about..."
"If the pursues are there and you meet with them...then go all out!"
"Oh boy..."
"We have no other options! They are after Chihiro-san!"
"Okay, okay..."
"Hurry!"
Naegi immediately went to the elevator and pressed the button that would take him straight to the 15th floor! And as the elevator is ascending, Naegi took off his academy uniform and revealed that he is wearing the red suit, and now he has to wait for the elevator to reach the 15th floor, as he is now at the 7th floor. However, several soldiers emerged from the helicopter after it landed on the rooftop and one if them finds the electrical box and disables the condo's electricity, and thus the building lost power and the elevator stopped midway between the 8th and the 9th floor, and there Naegi took out his cellphone and called Kirgiri, telling her of the situation, and Kirigiri sensed that something is going on and told Chihiro that they are leaving.
However, as the two teens opened the door and are about to escape towards the fire exit, the soldiers arrived and surrounded the two teens, and they have a positive identification of Chihiro and they took him while the other soldier took Kirigiri's school ID and read it, then uses a radio to tell his superior about it, and he is told to take Kirigiri with them, so they handcuffed her, then knocked her out, and the soldiers took the two teens towards the rooftop and soon forced them to board the helicopter.
By then Naegi managed to climb up out of the elevator unit but us still inside the elevator shaft, and despite sighing in annoyance, he had no choice but to jump up hard and managed to fly upward, but as he flew faster, he realized that he is going to crash at the ceiling, and since he still has little control of his flight, he knew he is going to crash, and he did, as he flew through the ceiling and is now at the rooftop yet he landed badly and fell onto the floor, and as he gets up, he sees that he is too late, as the helicopter is long gone, and realized that he couldn't follow it thus he is having difficulty in pinpointing the culprit's secret base at Kagoshima.
-x-
An hour later, the scene shifts to the secret base in Kagoshima, where Chihiro is reunited with Taichi, giving off an emotional reunion, but Chihiro is surprised to see Chiaki there and found out that she too have been abducted, and there the unseen captor confronted them, where he is revealed as General Harisu, and there he told them that he found out that Chihiro is also a programmer and told the father and son that he is rather bothered at seeing Chihiro dressed as a girl yet he said that with Chihiro, he can help Taichi in overriding the computer timer and have the missiles set off immediately, and to make sure they know that he means business, he ordered his men to shoot down Chihiro and Chiaki if they are unable to do the task in an hour, and claimed that Kirigiri will be the first to die, and the father and son, along with Chiaki, had no choice but to do as they were told for now. As they began toggling the computer, Taichi and Chiaki asks Chihiro why is he dressed like hat, and Chihiro told him about his problem, and Taichi comforted him and encouraged him to overcome his weakness.
"...I see..."
"Sorry, dad..."
"You need not to be insecure about your stature..."
"..."
"Face your fear...fight it...true strength and courage comes deep within yourself...not your physical appearance..."
"...I see..."
"Let's work together so we can get out of here and expose the bad guys..."
"Okay!"
Their emotional discussion, however, was interrupted when the soldier guarding them reminded the two and Chiaki that they have a task to do or else they would get killed, and the two teens and Taichi resumed their work, and are hoping for a miracle to happen, and hoped that Kirigiri would be okay and unharmed. Chihiro now mentally hoped that Naegi would do something seeing that he wasn't captured by the soldiers and hoped for a miracle to happen so that the impending disaster wouldn't happen.
-x-
Later, Naegi arrived at Chihiro's house and sighed, as he had a bit of difficulty in driving Kirigiri's car and thankfully he wasn't suspected by other people as he us still wearing the red suit, and seeing that time is of the essence, he went inside the house and intend to go to Chihiro's room to find some clothes and touch it so that he could pick up some VIBES and hope the red suit's power would allow him to access the suit's holographic image to pinpoint his classmates' location. As he went upstairs, he went straight to Chihiro's room, but before he could go in further, a woman showed up and asks him who is he and why is he in Chihiro's room.
"Excuse me, young man..."
"Eh?"
"Who are you?"
"Um..."
"What are you going top do at Chihiro's room...?"
"Well..."
"And why dressed in a red pajamas and a cape?"
"..."
The woman is revealed to be Chihiro's mom and Naegi is at a loss as he is still wearing the red suit and instead told her that he is Chihiro's classmate and said that he us here for an emergency errand and opened Chihiro' closet where he is taken by surprise upon seeing he closet's content, in which it consists of boys' clothing and wondered aloud why there are clothes for boys, and Mrs. Fujisaki said that it is natural for Chihiro to have those clothes because he is a boy, but then she saw one of Chihiro's female academy uniforms and wondered why her son has one.
After a few discussion, Naegi realized Chihiro's true gender but took the academy uniform and held it hen stared at the wall, where the suit's power activated and got a holographic image of Chihiro and Taichi, and then the outside of the base at Kagoshima, soon he lost the image and he asks Mrs. Fujisaki for a map which she gave it to him and he studied it, where he soon found out that Kagoshima is located at Kyushu Prefecture, and he reluctantly told her that Taichi and Chihiro are in danger and said that he is going there to rescue them, intending to go there by car, but she said that it would take several hours to get there by car and said that he would need a professional driver's license to use a car when traveling to other prefecture, something Naegi realized and puts him in a dilemma.
"You need to be at least 18 to get a professional driver's license..."
"!"
"You'll attract the cops if you travel that far even if you use a student license..."
"..."
"And what are you going to do dressed up like that?"
"Well..."
"Are you really my son's classmate?"
"..."
Nevertheless, Naegi is determined not to give up and leaves the house and boarded the car, and Mrs. Fujisaki followed, trying to persuade the teen not to act rashly, seeing him wearing what she perceives as a silly clothing, but then a strange light flashed and the car instantly disappeared, and in an instant the car is transported to Kyushu Prefecture, and Naegi finds himself alone and there he glanced at the side mirror where the suit's holographic image is activated where it showed the route towards the mountainous area where the secret base is located, and Naegi wondered how he got here in an instant, but then the car's radio spoke and Ophani's voice can be heard and revealed that it was she who brought him at Kyushu prefecture and told him that time is of the essence and he must find the secret base and stop the culprits from launching the missiles, and he radio stopped functioning as Naegi was about to ask more questions.
Naegi sighed yet he had no choice as he followed the route that he got from the red suit and drove the car as he traveled the road and later led him towards a mountainous area until he arrived at the place where a gate is seen, which is licked with a lock and chains. Seeing that there is no guard around, and knowing that he might be seen, Naegi leaves the car behind and jumped over the fence using the red suit's power and got through, and began walking the road as he looked around believing that there is a hidden entrance around the area.
Several minutes have passed and Naegi is still walking, his black cape flapping behind him and the wind blew a bit strong, and he is starting to lose a bit of patience as he hasn't found the entrance until he got a holographic image of where the entrance is, and after figuring out where it is located, Naegi went there and found it, just as he saw a jeep full of soldiers are patrolling nearby, as one of the guards inside the base saw him through the CCTV, and Naegi went immediately inside to avoid being seen, and soon he us inside the base, and as he stealthily wandered inside, he got another holographic image and saw Kirigiri being locked inside a room, apparently drugged.
"Kirigiri-san...!"
Naegi went towards that room and broke he door's lock and went inside, where Kirigiri is tied to a chair and untied her, and tried to snap her out, asking her what just happened, and she managed to speak up, telling him that a corrupted military official was behind the missile attack at Fukushima and is forcing Taichi and Chihiro Fujisaki to use a program to control the SDF-controlled missiles and have it launched and strike several selected countries to provoke a third world war while the evil general injected her with a truth serum to force her to reveal if anyone else knows about it and she managed to make it appear that a dead soldier told her and her captors believe that she does not know anything.
"No way...why would he...?"
"Naegi-kun...you got...to...stop them..."
"I will...come on..."
"Leave...me...I'll...just slow...you down..."
"I'm not leaving you...we'll stop this...just hang in there..."
"Okay...I'll...lead the...way..."
"Let's go..."
"..."
As Naegi helps her up, she told him to go and find Taichi and Chihiro and free them as well a to stop the computers from gaining control of the missile launching sequence which Naegi reluctantly nodded, but then a pair of soldiers came in and saw Naegi freed the prisoner and they opened fire, and Naegi shielded himself with his arms as bullets bounced off him and he ran towards the soldiers and threw them around, knocking them out and Kirigiri grabbed their weapons as she and Naegi began walking around until seeing a jeep and they boarded it and she had Naegi drive as she directed him towards the room where the Fujisaki's are being held.
At the computer room, General Harisu is watching the three prisoners toggling the computers as he watched the computer's timer ticking down to 01:23, and he is getting rather impatient and threatens to have Chihiro and Chiaki shot down which Taichi pleaded to give him a bit more time claiming that he is almost finished and after a minute Taichi claimed that he has finished and Harisu began toggling the computer and is overjoyed that he has gained control of the missiles and began setting the coordinates and immediately had it launched in 60 seconds and by then Naegi and Kirigiri arrived, and asks Chihiro where the computer that controls the missiles is, in which Taichi pointed it there, and Naegi went there and smashed the computers and pulled off the wires, but Harisu laughed maniacally stating that it is too late as the missiles are about to be launched and there is no stopping them.
"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"
"What...?"
"You're too late!"
"Eh?"
"Even if you smashed the computers...the missiles are already been set to launched...and there is no stopping it!"
"Damn you!"
"Soon I will take control of Japan...and make it a REAL superpower!"
"..."
Naegi and Kirigiri gritted their teeth seeing that they were too late and instead went to Chihiro, Chiaki and Taichi's sides intending to protect them just as soldiers arrived and aimed their guns at the intruders and prisoners, with Harisu stating that once all witnesses are dead, no one will know, and he will still win in the end and that a shadow government will be installed once Japan has been decimated by Russia, Iran, North Korea and China, but then one of the soldiers came rushing in, and said that the launched missiles are heading towards the Kagoshima base and not the four countries that were supposed to be targeted, alarming Harisu.
"General Harisu!"
"Not now! I'm basking in on the glory..."
"We have a situation..."
"Tell me later..."
"The missiles are heading towards this base!"
"What?"
"In matter of minutes this base will be blown to pieces!"
"You can't be serious!"
Taichi revealed that he instructed Chiaki and Chihiro to secretly placed a bug which causes the computers to redirect the missiles to another target and programmed it to target Kagoshima base instead of the four countries, and they intend to kill everyone here to ensure that Harisu and his cronies won't cause any more harm to innocent lives and apologized to Naegi and Kirigiri, knowing that there is virtually no chance of escaping the base as the missiles are heading here in a minute, and it would require five minutes for the two teens to escape the base and get to a safe area to escape the missiles' shrapnel effects.
In anger, Harisu opened fire using his gun, hitting Chiaki, and Taichi pulled her towards him, and as Kirigiri hugged the three prisoners preparing herself to die, Naegi hugged them as well, mentally saying goodbye to his family and classmates knowing that he would die, but then he unknowingly tapped into the red suit's power, activating the suit's teleportation power and the five of them teleported away, leaving Harisu and his conspirators inside the base, and as the villains scrambled to escape the base, it was too late as the missiles arrived and bombarded the base, causing a huge explosion which leveled almost 90% of the mountain area and the shockwave reached the nearby town, alarming the residents and caused a panic.
By then Naegi, Kirigiri, Chihiro, Chiaki and Taichi teleported at a safe distance, and are unharmed, and there Naegi find themselves at a clothing shop just as the customers flee after hearing the explosion, and he took a trench coat to wear it as Kirigiri told the other two hat they are safe, yet with the villains killed off, they have no evidence to show that Harisu is behind the Fukushima massacre, but Taichi revealed that he managed to obtain data via a USB and it contains the data of Harisu and his conspirators and she advised him to send it to the SDF in order to expose the culprits, in which he did and there Kirigiri found an abandoned car and they all boarded it as they drive the car and left Kyushu prefecture and head back to Tokyo so that they can take Chiaki to a hospital and in order to give the USB to the SDF to alert them of the culprits before the villains could get the chance to escape the law.
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Several hours later, After Chiaki is admitted to Tokyo Hospital, Kirigiri accompanied Taichi to the SDF base and gave the USB to its commander and proved to him about the conspiracy and how and why the missiles were launched remotely and the SDF commander immediately directed the soldiers to apprehend the culprits and after listening to Taichi and Kirigiri's testimonies, the SDF immediately informed the Minister of Defense and he Prime Minister about what he was told and they all agreed that the case has been solved, and the conspirators have been arrested and are scheduled to undergo court martial, and the two ministers thanked Kirigiri and Taichi for saving Japan from a possible crisis, and things went well without problem.
Later, the Fujisaki family had a reunion as Taichi, Chihiro, and Mrs. Fujiaki got together and they had a long talk, and Taichi encouraged Chihiro to face his weakness and Chihiro took it well and soon went to Hope's Peak Academy and spoke to Jin about his true gender and though it did cause a problem at first, Jin nevertheless took it well and said he would try and sort it out and Chihiro did not get expelled, and soon Chihiro revealed his true gender to his classmates, surprising them at first but they soon accepted him as who he is, with Ohwada commending him for standing up to his weakness as a true man, and at the rooftop, Naegi told Maizono what happened and she came to understand him, feeling ashamed that her jealousy and insecurity got the best of her.
"I see..."
"Sorry to worry you, Maizono-san..."
"It's okay..."
"Well...just to let you know...Kirigiri and I are just friends...much like she's my adviser when it comes to the red suit..."
"..."
"Maizono-san...?"
"Ah, okay..."
"..."
Much later, Kirigiri talked to Chihiro and asks him to keep Naegi's secret a secret, in which he promised to keep it a secret, after being told about how Naegi was able to rescue him, his dad and Kirigiri, and there Chihiro became the fourth person to know about Naegi being a superhero, and he hoped that Naegi wouldn't let that fact get to his head, which Kirigiri assured that Naegi wouldn't get corrupted.
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At outer space, the scene shows that the three aliens are watching the monitor and they are pleased that Naegi has averted a possible crisis, though Cherubi questions Ophani on why is she spoiling Naegi to a degree, but Seraphi urged his fellow aliens to let it go as what matters most is that Earth has been saved and Naegi has proven that he is the right person to wield the red suit and are looking forward to seeing the Luckster do another good deed.
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked this chapter as it ended the missile arc, and Chihiro finally went out in the open and revealed his true gender and his classmates accepted him for who he is, and things went well in the end.
Chiaki is okay, yet she is under observation due to the gunshot wounds she sustained, at least she survived...
Naegi unknowingly unlocked another hidden power of the red suit - teleportation. Though it would take a while before he learn how to use it...
Preview:
A new story arc is under way...though I can't go into the specifics...all I can say is that Naegi is going to get involved in an adventure that goes beyond Japan. You'll soon see why...
And while at that...a Danganronpa 2 character makes an appearance...and you'll find out why he is going to be a THREAT to Naegi in future chapters...
See you in in 10 days or less...
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