Danganronpa: The Greatest Japanese Hero
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
The Greatest American Hero is owned by Stephen J. Cannell
Okay, fellow Danganronpa fans, I would like to say many thanks to those who reviewed this fic, I really appreciated it and this gave me inspiration to work on the next chapter and before I proceed, here are a few responses from some reviewers who submitted their reviews on the previous chapters.
1) Yes, most of the villains that appeared in the previous story arcs are from Danganronpa 2, given that they were members of the Remnants of Despair, and that some of their high school talents, as well as their appearances, helped me determine what role they would play, and how this would affect their interactions with the Danganronpa 1 casts, but not all of DR 2 characters will be the bad guys, as shown that Chiaki Nanami played a significant role in the previous arcs, while Sonia Nevermind made several cameo appearances in the previous arcs as well yet she did not display any villainious traits.
The next chapters and future story arcs will show some DR 2 casts would play hero roles, though I can't say when...
2) This is definitely an AU (alternate universe), though I did retain some of the settings from the game and anime, yet the DR 2 casts are portrayed in a different role, and since this is an AU, certain elements are changed, such as Chiaki becoming a REAL person instead of an AI. There won't be any Tragedy, though I might make something similar to that, though it's still a long way as future story arcs would still cover the DR and DR 2 casts, yet Enoshima and Ikusaba would eventually become the final villains.
Now then...getting down to business, we are now here as a new story arc commences in which it would focus on the Super High School-Level Scion himself, Byakuya Togami, in which he becomes the focal point of this arc which means he would get first-hand in witnessing the SUPER GUY that he has been denying for a long while, so get ready enjoy another adventure here, so read on and enjoy!
At the streets of Tokyo, the scene shifts to an alley, where two groups are there, and are seen exchanging briefcases, one filled with cash, and the other filled with narcotics, and the two leaders of the two groups are exchanging the items and are happy with the flow of business as they are engaged in distributing Ecstacy drugs to teenagers within Shibuya, and they are planning to keep this up as long as there are no cops around.
"You got the STUFF?"
"Yup...and the DOUGH?"
"Here."
"Okay...let's exchange..."
"Oh yeah...20 million Yen..."
"The drugs...we're gonna make party poops out of those Shibuya teens..."
"Nice doing business with you..."
"Yeah, same here...huh?"
Suddenly, a person appeared, dressed in a black tights, which would make the person look like a ninja, as the person's face is covered all over, and you can tell it is a female given her athletic figure, and there she went into action as the masked person began beating up the two groups single-handedly, and you can see that the person is using gymnastic moves and in less than two-and-a-half minutes, the two groups are knocked out.
After tying them up and secretly calling the police, the masked person left the scene and the police arrived to arrest the suspects, and the scene shifts to the masked person watching, and removes the mask, revealing to be Akane Owari, who is revealed to be studying at Hope's Peak Academy, with the title of SUPER HIGH SCHOOL-LEVEL GYMNAST, and she is pleased that she took down those two groups for trying to sell drugs in secret at the academy.
"Good...that'll keep those goons from making addicts at my home turf..."
Akane then leaves the scene feeling that her work is done, and she seemed to be enjoying doing vigilante work.
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. 59: Musuko no Yume
A few days later, the scene shifts to the Togami mansion, where it houses the famous, and rather infamous, Togami family, where its heir, Byakuya, lives as well, and he had just arrived home after spending the past week living out as a president of his company, and as a student at Hope's Peak Academy, and he is rather stressed as the past few days showed that he had just fired some erring employees, doing school works, putting up with his father's PHILOSOPHY, and hearing reports about a GUY IN A RED SUIT wandering around, which he continues to deny up to this day due to him indirectly witnessing Naegi running and flying, as he is sure that, to him, it is logically impossible for that to happen.
As he arrived, he is greeted by his faithful butler, identified as Aloysius Pennyworth, and there he asks his master how his day is, and Togami voiced out what he is feeling right now after coming from the academy, having seen several academy students going crazy over the manga that Komaru made, as well as he indirectly saw the SUPER GUY prancing around.
"...I see..."
"And that's why I'm in a foul mood, Aloysius..."
"Perhaps you need a bit of a vacation, young master..."
"I wish I could..."
"Why not go take a rest..."
"I'll do that...take care of my stuff, okay?"
"Will do, young master..."
"Thank you..."
As Togami went inside, he did not notice that someone is out there holding a binocular, his eyesight focused on Togami himself, and an evil smirk is shown as the culprit appeared to have a devious plan in mind and his target is none other than Togami himself, but then the culprit is forced to retreat as several guards, with guard dogs, came and are patrolling the mansion, which became a daily routine for them, making sure there are no intruders within and outside the mansion.
-x-
As the day ends, Togami went to bed to go to sleep, and he is still feeling stress at what happened during the day, especially recalling how he saw several academy students going gaga over the manga that Komaru made, and recalling that he indirectly saw Naegi running before flying during the Hiroko Hagakure case, and he is wondering if those two cases are related, and as Togami sat on his bed, he saw a manga and looked at it, and is irritated to see that the manga is about CAPTAIN GONZO, and saw the manga character resembling Naegi and he called for his servant and asks if he owns the manga, which the servant admitted.
"HEY!"
"Yes, Byakuya-sama?"
"Is THIS yours?"
"Yes..."
"Then get it out of my room!"
"Sorry, sir..."
"This isn't a stock room, you know!"
"sorry, sir..."
Togami told the servant to take the manga and leave, and as the servant leaves, Togami saw him waltzing around as if he is imitating the manga character, and the Scion sighed in annoyance as he turns off the light and close his eyes, wanting to sleep and hoped that the next day would be good for him, and wanted to forget what has happened today, and thankfully Togami slowly drifted to sleep, and his slumber became peaceful and eventually began to dream.
As the hours passed by, Togami is roused from his slumber as he felt someone stepped on his bed, and as he turns on the lamp, he is surprised to see someone sitting next to him, and it was Makoto Naegi, wearing the red suit and cape, and he is smiling at him and Togami stared wide-eyed, having finally see who the GUY IN THE RED SUIT is, and demanded to know if Naegi is really the one he is seeing right now, and Naegi nodded saying that right now, he is Captain Gonzo
"N-Naegi...?"
"Yes..."
"Th-then you're..."
"Yup...the SUPER GUY himself...Captain Gonzo..."
"Then it was you...you're the one I saw...!"
"Indeed...so...do you believe me now? That I really existed...?"
"You got to be kidding me...why would I believe in something that is LOGICALLY impossible?"
"I see...then perhaps I should educate you..."
As Naegi grinned, he suddenly carries Togami in his arms and went towards the window, jumped through and they are flying in the air, and Togami is bewildered at the situation he is in, seeing that they are flying high from the ground, and going upward passing through the clouds, and he demanded that he bring him back to his mansion, saying that he does not acknowledge him and said that there is no such thing as a SUPER GUY in a red suit, and Naegi grinned again as they suddenly flew downward in a fast speed, and Togami is getting nervous as if he felt like he is about to crash down towards the ground.
"Wha...what are you...?"
"Do you acknowledge me? Say that you believe in the SUPER GUY...?"
"I WON'T! I WON'T BELIEVE YOU! THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FLYING GUY IN A RED SUIT!"
"You won't...?"
"ABSOLUTELY NOT! YOU'RE NOT REAL! NOW BRING ME DOWN THIS INSTANT!"
"Very well..."
"WAIT! WE'RE GOING DOWN TOO FAST!"
"Say you believe me...acknowledge me...say the SUPER GUY exists..then I'll let you go..."
"NO! NEVER! I WON'T BELIEVE IN A FLYING GUY IN A RED SUIT!"
Togami is starting to panic as he couldn't break free from Naegi's hold and then screamed as they are nearing the ground and feels that they are going to crash. The scene faded as you can hear Togami screaming in terror, and the scene lit up where you can see that the scene shows that Togami is on the floor of his bedroom, where it revealed that he had a nightmare, and his servants came in after hearing the screaming and saw their young master sprawled on the floor and they checked on him, worried for his well-being.
"Master!"
"Byakuya-sama!"
"Are you okay?"
"He had a nightmare!"
"Someone bring him a glass of water!"
"Hurry!"
"Up you go, master..."
"Easy...easy...there..."
Togami is slowly carried to his bed before being given a glass of water and soon they figured out that Togami had a nightmare and they tried to lift his spirit but Togami told them to leave him alone for now which they did, and when alone, Togami was seething on why he had this dream and wondered why he is taking this matter seriously when he denies something like THAT do not exist, and he tries to reassure himself that a GUY IN A RED SUIT do not exist.
After that, he forces himself to go to sleep, and he hoped that he doesn't get another weird dream and not wanting to make a big deal out of it, and soon he eventually went back to sleep, seeing that it is 03:00 in the morning, and he did not want to get blamed for causing a ruckus for having a nightmare.
-x-
The next day, the scene shifts to the dining hall of the Togami mansion where Togami is having breakfast, and there his father joined him and began lecturing him on the importance of being heir to the Togami family, and told him that he heard that the heir had a nightmare and soon deduced that the cause of this is his constant denial about a GUY IN A RED SUIT, which us traced from the manga that he heard about and told his son not to let something so trivial affect him, much to Togami's irritation.
"...do you understand me?"
"...yes, father..."
"Good."
"..."
"So please...no more about this so-called FLYING GUY IN A RED SUIT...you know it does not exist..."
"...fine..."
"You are the heir to the Togami Family...live up to the family name...show the world that we are a force to be reckoned with..."
"...fine..."
Togami reluctantly nodded as he got a mouthful of sermon from his father and hurriedly leaves for Hope's Peak Academy as he did not want to make another fuss about the nightmare he had and after 45 minutes Togami arrived at the academy, and today is Wednesday, in which it was wash day, which means that just for today, the academy students can wear civilian clothes, and Togami is wearing his usual clothes, and as he is walking towards the classroom, he saw Naegi with his back turned, and saw him wearing something familiar: red clothing and a black cape and he flipped...LITERALLY... as he confronted Naegi and asks if he is the FLYING GUY, and Naegi is surprised at his classmate's actions.
"Naegi!"
"Huh? Togami-kun?"
"It was you, isn't it?"
"Huh?"
"You're that FLYING GUY IN A RED SUIT, are you?"
"What...what are you...? I'm wearing a sweater and this black towel fell on me..."
"What..?"
"Look..."
Togami glanced at Naegi, and saw that his classmate is wearing a red sweater, red jeans, and is draped in a black towel, and the Class of 78 sweat-dropped at seeing their classmate acting so weird, and Hifumi Yamada guessed why Togami is accusing Naegi of the charges, saying that Togami must be jealous because the manga character, CAPTAIN GONZO, resembled Naegi and Togami wanted to stand out as well, and Togami rebuked the claim saying he is not interested in some manga character and said that there is really a flying guy in the red suit that is seen prancing around the city, which Yamada thinks that Togami is losing his mind.
"Oh...Togami-dono must be losing his mind..."
"What...?"
"You must be jealous...because the Captain Gonzo character is getting popular..."
"Are you trying to...?"
"Maybe Togami-dono is insecure at a manga character..."
"I DO NOT!"
"Really...?"
"REALLY!"
By then a teacher arrived and announced that classes will start, and everyone went to their seats and classes commenced, and during the class, Naegi started to get a bit nervous as he guessed that Togami must have seen him flying with the red suit but failed to identified him, and he hoped that Togami doesn't figure it out, otherwise it would create problems given how keen Togami is, while Togami is still preoccupied about the dream he had, and yet he had to stay focus as he did not want his father to find out that his son gets sidetracked by some guy in a red suit.
-x-
Later, it was lunch time, and Togami is eating at the academy cafeteria, and he is still in a bad mood due to still being haunted by the nightmare he had earlier in the morning, and by then an academy student came and began talking to Togami, asking him if he has any interest besides managing his company, which Togami said he no other interest that would interest him, and the schoolmate chided Togami for not having any hobbies which is common for a high schooler, and told him to try to relax a little and offered him a manga, and Togami choked on his food upon seeing the manga, which is the one that Komaru made, and the source of his nightmare.
"Huh?"
"G-get...get that accursed item away from me!"
"Huh? Are you...?"
"Get that thing away!"
"Are you...afraid of this manga...?"
"JUST GET RID OF THAT TRASH!"
"Hmm..."
"What are you...?"
Togami is twitching his eyes seeing the ACCURSED ITEM and told the schoolmate to take it away, and the schoolmate saw Togami's reaction and grinned, assuming that the Super High School-level Scion had a phobia on CAPTAIN GONZO and began holding the manga and bringing it near Togami's face, and the Scion screamed at the student to keep it away, getting irritated and pissed off at the same time, and the other students were bemused to see the scene and they find it entertaining until Togami walked away in irritation, and Naegi saw the whole thing which made him worried, and Kirigiri confided to Naegi about this and told him to be careful as she believes that Togami is onto him as he is starting to suspect Naegi of being the SUPER GUY.
"Naegi-kun..."
"Huh?"
"Be careful...I believe Togami-kun is onto you..."
"Y-yeah..."
"He may have seen you in the red suit indirectly..."
"Yeah...that's what I'm guessing..."
"Be more careful of your surroundings..."
"I will..."
The day went on until it was dismissal time and Togami is rather anxious to get out of the academy as he had a bad day today thanks to a schoolmate who picked the wrong time to play pranks, and as Togami is heading for the school gate, he is startled by someone who is wearing a poor imitation of the red suit, and that person turn out to be an escaped mental patient and began harassing the Scion, much to everyone's surprises seeing how the scene would entertain them.
"HA-HA-HA!"
"What the...?"
"I'M THE SUPER GUY!"
"..."
"I HAVE SUPER POWERS! HERE...LET MEW SHOW YOU...!"
"HEY! GET OFF ME!"
"HAVE AT YOU, YOU SUPER VILLAIN!"
"GET OFF ME, YOU MORON!"
The mental patient began to physically harass Togami and the Scion is forced to run away but gets clobbered and the mental patient began riding Togami like a horse, but ambulance workers arrived and restrains the mental patient while apologizing to Togami for what happened, and Togami berated the paramedics for letting the mental patient escape and cause trouble for everyone.
"We're sorry, sir..."
"DAMN YOU!"
"Please..accept our apology..."
"BECAUSE OF YOU I GOT ASSAULTED BY SOME SICK WHACKO!"
"It won't happen again..."
"GET OUT OF MY SIGHT BEFORE I PRESS CHARGES AGAINST YOU!"
"We're going..."
"NOW!"
As the mental patient is loaded inside the ambulance, Togami angrily went to the limousine where his chauffeur is waiting and the vehicle leaves the scene, where a pair of eyes is eyeing Togami and the unseen person appeared to be fixated at the Scion and is hatching plans against Togami before leaving the scene as well.
To Be Continued...
Hope you like this opening chapter of the new story arc and things got into a rather hilarious turn as Togami had a bad night...and a bad day, due to him having VISIONS...and a nightmare... about Naegi wearing the red suit. Expect him to have more of his irritated moments in the next chapters before the focal point of this arc appears.
And surprise, another Danganronpa 2 character makes an appearance, and it is Akane Owari. Surprisingly, she is also an academy student, but is also moonlighting as a vigilante. Looks like Naegi might find a potential ally to fight crime whenever he is not available. Expect Akane to show up once in a while...
Preview:
More on Togami, as he gets to ENCOUNTER more about the SUPER GUY...
See you in in 12 days or less...
Reviews are welcomed...
:)