Craig was crying at this point, whether or not it was tears of joy at the fact that his husband was still alive, or tears of pain at the fact that his husband has been the one responsible for the deaths of our friends and is now our enemy I could not say for sure.
"First things first" Tweek started, "let's change the scenery a little bit." Tweek pulled out a remote control and hit the button on it. When he did, the entire trial chamber began to change. The four survivors' podiums were put next to each other and Tweek and Kenny's podiums were opposite us. The rest of the fallen classmates' podiums retracted under the floor leaving only our six podiums. Tweek jumped off of Monokuma's platform and landed next to Kenny.
Tweek walked over to Kenny, looked at him, smiled, and then stabbed him with the shiv he'd been hiding in his pocket. Kenny fell to his knee as we all gasped in shock at what Tweek had just done.
"You got to hide your emotions better Kenny" Tweek said, "Mike toyed with your emotions about Butters and caught you in his trap.
"Sorry boss" Kenny said holding the side where Tweek struck him. He fell to one knee and chuckled.
"It's alright, the next killing game will be much easier since it won't be all of our friends that we watch kill each other" Tweek said. He started laughing maniacally again.
"Tweek, what, what happened to you" Craig asked. "Did, did I do something wrong, am I the reason you did this?!"
"Oh Craig, don't take it personally it's not your fault" Tweek said. "What can I say, despair is so much sexier then you are." Craig grit his teeth and his sadness turned to anger.
"Was any of it real, Craig asked, the nights we've spent consoling each other when this game became too much for us, the times we made love, even our wedding. Tell me, was any of it real?!"
Tweek scoffed at him before he spoke "nope, none of it, sorry sweetie I used you to make myself seem less suspicious, especially after the evidence that lead to us deducing that there was a mastermind in the first place. None of it was real, so make like a guy who just got dumped and move on." Those words destroyed Craig he looked at the floor and tears fell from his eyes as he did.
"What was it Tweek" I asked, "What drove you to this?"
"You really wanna know huh" he said, "fine then since you're so interested I'll tell you. Tell you the story of the birth of the Ultimate Despair." Kenny was able to stop the bleeding and took position at his podium just before Tweek spoke.
"It all began the night of the incident Craig told you about on the pool deck the other night Mike. Everything Craig said had happened was true, but there was more to it than what he knows. The true reason behind my parents putting a gun to my head and burned my face with scalding hot coffee. Craig was told that it was because of the project UA recruiting but he was wrong. In truth my parent's coffee shop was going under, it had been ever since Craig dumped me. My parents blamed me for it all and had been abusing me for years even before Crag and I broke up. The night after I received the UA information was the breaking point. Before Craig arrived my parents and I were arguing and I told them that I was tired of them drugging my coffee and that I've known for a while that they had been. That's when they told me the truth, that I was just an accident that I shouldn't have been born in the first place, I was just a broken condom baby that my parents couldn't afford to abort." Craig's expression was one of emotional turmoil he was still crying but he had looked up from the floor and was staring wide eyed at Tweek.
"Tweek I, I didn't know" he said.
Tweek didn't even acknowledge him, "After the snipers took out my father, I was brought to the hospital to recover from my burns but I was unconscious for a few days and when I woke up I was completely alone, the UA goons walked in and took me to some rehab facility, they left me there and said they'd come back for me once my mind and body were fully recovered." Tweek looked over to Kenny who had looked back to him.
"That's where I met Kenny, he was sent there because his family thought he was crazy. That his immortality wasn't real and he was imagining himself dying and being reborn. His despair came before mine and he had already been in contact with the remnants of despair. One night we broke out of the rehab facility and he took me to the remnant's hideout. We spent days there, I told them my story and everything that happened and taught me embrace despair and they were right. My life had been nothing but pain same with Kenny's. We didn't fall into despair and the remnants didn't force it on us, we chose it, the world condemned me, so now I'm going to destroy it that was the philosophy I decided to make my own. The Remnants noticed how much despair I had and how easily it grew, they could see it in my eyes. They told me that my indifference to human life and desire for destruction, it created levels of despair that rivaled even that of the original Ultimate Despair. I could never be as powerful as she was but my despair was powerful enough for me to gain the unofficial title The Ultimate Despair."
"Kenny and I were sent back to the rehab facility and in secret we began to plan out the killing game. While we were planning it, we needed to figure out who we'd make play it. At this point the Ultimates had been revealed publicly and that they were being trained at undisclosed location in order to protect humanity. I knew who you guys were obviously and when I told Kenny this, we both agreed that the best way to throw humanity into despair was to kidnap their newest protectors and have them play a killing game for the entire world to see."
"You guys planned an entire killing game from that rehab facility" I asked.
"Well when you're in rehab, you get some crazy ideas" Tweek answered.
"You think that's crazy" Kenny started, "check this out!"
He looked at Tweek and Tweek gave him malicious grin back. Tweek hit a button on his podium and digital screens appeared all around us. They showed a world map and different parts were highlighted in different colors. North America was highlighted red as were parts of Europe and South America.
"See the red areas, those represent areas of the globe where this killing game has the most popularity. Notice anything interesting? Our home country of the United States and our neighbor Mexico has the most viewers. People love seeing humanities saviors massacring each other in a high staked killing game, in doing so they've embraced the despair and done the damage we've wanted them to do for us."
"What do you mean" Token asked.
"Observe" Kenny said pointing at the screen. The screens changed from the map to footage of destroyed cities and burning landscapes, what was the most horrifying to see was South Park Colorado, our home, lying in ruins. There was nothing left, nothing at all, nothing for us to go back to.
"South Park has been completely destroyed, along with most of the country. Besides New Jersey and California on the two coasts most of the other states have had massive damage if not total devastation to their cities. The war between the Future Foundation, who kidnapped you guys, and our friends the Remnants of Despair still rages on to this day. Do you understand what this all means? This entire trial is pointless you guys want to escape so badly and return home, well guess what fat chance of that happening now."
All of us were in shock we couldn't believe our eyes, had the world really fallen into despair? Was there nothing left to return to? Had hope really lost?
"The Oceans weren't spared the fallout either I'm afraid, thanks to our positioning we're safe, but even if you use the speedboat in the dock to leave this place you won't survive the trip back. Now do you understand, see how pathetically hope has failed? How powerful despair truly is? Face that facts guys there's nothing left for you out there. Your only choice is to join us in despair or be killed at the hands of the outside world. Now tell me Ultimates what will you choose, I hope you're ready because this is it!" Tweek looked at the cameras of everyone watching.
" The time has come, the heart racing excitement as hope and despair face off is about to begin!"