AN: I've decided to try typing this chapter the same way as the first, so hopefully I do this well. Enjoy

Huh?

I feel a powerful gust of wind at my neck. That's strange. I had closed my eyes in acceptance of my death, so why do I still feel perfectly normal? I open my eyes to be met with a pair of seemingly glowing red ones mere inches away from me. That's right, Peko was supposed to kill me, so why am I still standing here?

"Master... what..."

Huh? Peko's saying something. 'Master' must mean Fuyuhiko. Her lips are moving but I don't hear anything. I have to focus dammit. I close my eyes to focus.

"Peko, come... Important... Could... Despair"

What the hell's wrong with me? I should be able to hear them fine unless they're whispering. No, even when Peko was in front of me I couldn't hear anything. Fine, focus on what I know. Fuyuhiko called her back, and they're discussing something important about despair. The feeling, the group or the twins I'm not sure. Fuyuhiko's walking to me. He stops a few meters away from me, and like a shadow Peko stands behind him. Her sword may be sheathed, but she's definitely on her guard.

"Hey kid. You looked ready to give up there. You didn't even fight back anymore or say something, you just quit. Why?" He asks. Fuyuhiko is talking to me for some reason. He's an Ultimate Despair, why is he bothering with this? I might as well answer him.

"Cause I had no escape. No need to be a sore loser. If I'm gonna die, and I can't do anything about it, that just means I screwed up." That's right. If it's over, then it's over. There's no point fighting a lost battle. Fuyuhiko looks like he's thinking. I wonder why he stopped Peko? Maybe he saw a potential use for me? Maybe to postpone my demise so I'd fall into despair first?

"Alright I got a proposal for ya." He says. This won't be good. "Earlier you refused to come with us, so you clearly aren't gonna come quietly. Now you have 2 options: either you follow us, no funny business, or Peko here will show ya what it feels like to lose all your limbs and die of blood loss."

Crap. He's serious, but what do I do? If I follow him, he'll do one of two things: Make me work for them, or torture me until I fall so far into despair I'm begging for death. If I don't go, I die right here right now, and not in a pretty way either. What do I do? Ah, I remember. I can't die, no matter what. I must survive this, no matter what.

"Alright. You win, feel free to torture me or whatever." I say. This is the only way to survive. At least for now, I need to go along with them. Fuyuhiko smirks, the cocky bastard.

"Great, it'd suck to lose another one. Follow us." He says, turning and walking away. Another one? Another what? It doesn't matter, I gotta follow him. He's talking to Nekomaru and Peko. Probably discussing where to take me. Nekomaru nods and runs, and Peko continues to stand by, her face remaining completely emotionless. I start walking, and I stop right behind them. Fuyuhiko reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tablet, and starts to call what I'm guessing is a ride. "Alright, I've called a couple cars over to pick us up." He says. "I'll be riding with you and Peko will be watching your every action. Make one move against me or her and you're dead, got it?"

A rhetorical question, but I nod nonetheless. It'd be best not to piss him off, at least not while his 'sword' is still here. Did I just call Peko a sword?

KNOCK KNOCK

"Come in." I say. Yell would be more accurate with how big this room is. The door opens and in steps a man with messy blonde hair. Behind him enters a tall, muscular man with short dark greenish gray hair. "Mr. Kizakura, Mr. Sakakura, what is it?" I ask as they close the doors.

"No need to be so formal, Kyosuke." Kizakura says. "Anyway, I brought Juzo with me because I found something interesting, but I thought it'd be better for me to tell you both at the same time."

"Get to the damn point. I was in the middle of preparing the next few missions when you called me." Sakakura says impatiently. Kizakura simply laughs lightly, and nods.

"Alright alright. Basically, I found someone who looks like he could be useful. He seemed interesting so I got a few guys to record his actions and send the footage to me. He's fighting to survive out there alone, but he's still alive. Recently, he accidentally went to the same place as Ultimate Despairs Nidai, Kuzuryuu and Pekoyama. He managed to escape Kuzuryuu, and distracted Nidai enough to escape from him. But a few minutes ago, he tried to get away from them again and got cornered." He says, stopping.

"What does this have to do with us? If he's gone then you can't recruit him, right?" I ask, wondering what Kizakura could be thinking.

"Well, he was gonna die, but for some reason Kuzuryuu stopped Peko from killing him, and the last thing we saw was him giving himself up and getting in a car with them. So what I'm saying is that this guy managed to pull off some pretty amazing feats, and he could be really useful as one of us. The problem is, there isn't much time before-"

"I get it, you're asking if we can spare some resources to rescue him." I say, cutting him off. He could've said this from the start rather than try to convince us. "Well, if you think he's of that much importance, then I'm fine with helping. Juzo, are you on board?"

"Alright, fine. This guy better be as worth it as you say he is, Koichi." Juzo says as he prepares to leave. "Just call me if you need something. Gotta finish my work for today."

"Thanks, guys." Kizakura says as he too starts to leave. "You won't be disappointed, at least that's what I hope." He says, smiling as he closes the door. I damn well hope so, this guy's gonna cause us some trouble having to go offensive against the former Ultimate Yakuza.

"We've arrived." Fuyuhiko says. That's the only time he's spoken during this ride. I look out the window.

"We are?" I ask. It's too strange, he dragged me all the way over here to... well I don't actually know where I am.

"I just said so didn't I? We're here. C'mon, follow us." He replies as he exits the vehicle. Peko and I exit too but it's too unusual. This looks just the same as everywhere else in the world now, abandoned streets, burning vehicles, destroyed buildings and so on. Nevertheless I follow him, and I can practically feel Peko watching me. He continues to walk, and he clearly has a destination in mind, but where?

"Uhh... Fu- I mean, Mr. Kuzuryuu, where are we going?" I ask. I'm gonna address him formally just in case for now.

"You'll see." Is his only reply. Great. I'm either dead or at best he's gonna demonstrate what happens to 'bad kids' and show me a human slaughterhouse. Well I guess we just keep walking. Wonder how long this'll take.

1 hour later

At some point during this strange walk a bunch of weirdos with Monokuma heads showed up. We're coming up to a bridge, and although I expected it to be abandoned it's still eerie. For the first time since exiting the car, the yakuza spoke up.

"We're here. Now prepare for a show." He says, a faint smirk tugging at his lips. He continues walking and all of this unusual group follow him. As we near the middle of the bridge I see a slightly hunched over figure. As we keep walking it becomes clearer, and I see an old man with silver hair and a beard. What the hell's an old man doing out here?! "Peko."

What? I barely react before seeing Peko lunge forward from behind me. She runs towards him, and just as she slashes towards him, something blocks her and the sound of metal hitting metal rings through the silent bridge. Focusing I see a tall man with white well-kept hair wielding a blade against the Ultimate Swordswoman. He swings at her but she jumps back and stops next to Fuyuhiko. Subconsciously I had started backing up, and now I'm near the back of Fuyuhiko's small army watching intently. Now that I get to look properly I see that beyond the horribly polluted air I can just barely make out other figures, such as two giant muscular people, one of whom had a head shaped like a bull. Perhaps a mask? There was also another figure, not as muscular but definitely still very built. Not far back are a couple of silhouettes, but one seems to be two people, possibly one of whom is protecting the other. As I finish processing this information, a loud stomp directs my attention back to Peko and... wait, when did Nekomaru arrive? And... Who's that brown-haired girl? Must be... former Ultimate Gymnast Akane Owari, based on who I remember are Ultimate Despair. In the distance I see one of the figures take off his coat whilst another from further back jumps forward, his hands wielding different small weapons. I guess they're preparing to fight. Better watch closely...

15 minutes earlier

"Munakata, not to doubt you or anything, but this is more than a little risky for one guy." Sakakura says, looking at me.

"I know Sakakura, but I trust Kizakura's word. If this person can help us as much as Kizakura thinks he can, I'm willing to take some risks." I reply. Of course this is risky. We invited the Ultimate Yakuza to meet us on a bridge for a fight. That's why so many of the heads of the Future Foundation are flying there together. "Besides, this is a rescue, not a battle. We're supposed to fight while Kizakura sneaks him away, then we'll retreat ASAP."

"I guess you've got a point. I trust you." Sakakura says, face full of determination.

"Are you sure you'll be okay, Kyosuke?" Asks the Ultimate Housekeeper hugging my arm, Chisa Yukizome.

"Don't worry, Chisa. We'll all get out of this fine." I reply with confidence. I will survive, Chisa. I won't allow your despair-fueled students to use me for despair. I pick up a radio. "Chisa, you and Daisaku take care of communicating with Kizakura. When the fight heats up, tell him he's good to go. I don't know what he's going to do exactly, but I can only hope it isn't too crazy."

Chisa nods, smiling as she takes the radio. "Good luck, Kyosuke." She says as we arrive at our destination. We all alight and the helicopters fly away to stay clear of the inevitable damage. I perform a quick head count and nod towards Tengan, who starts to lead the way. No one speaks anymore, all of us preparing in our own ways for a dangerous encounter.

The scene I bore witness to was something most people would probably pay to see. Hell if I didn't know any better I'd call this the shooting for a scene from an action movie. But no, this was real. Two hulking figures, one being Nekomaru and the other being the person wearing a bull mask, are engaging in a very heated fight, but interestingly for as muscular as Nekomaru is he's playing defensively, dodging as much as he can or blocking those he can't. Nearby, the Ultimate Swordswoman was actually struggling to break this tall man's defenses, and he very rarely attacked, only slashing when Peko was incapable of countering. Despite this, she still managed to move out of the way, and neither side had suffered any injuries yet. However a little further to the side was a slightly taller, more muscular man trying to punch Akane, who is constantly jumping around him as if she had trampolines surrounding him. Interestingly, despite her being the Ultimate Gymnast he's come close to hitting her quite a few times, but Akane seems to be focused on wearing him down, which makes sense seeing as how she doesn't pack too big of a punch. But the thing that confuses me is this man in a red trench coat. With a seemingly infinite amount of weapons in said coat, he's been fighting wave after wave of the Monokuma headed goons, who I will now call Monomen. Logically it makes more sense for him to fight with the others so as to take out the Ultimates related to fighting first, and then move on to Fuyuhiko and his Monomen afterwards. Perhaps his objective is to focus on these Monomen so that they can focus completely on the Ultimates afterwards?

vrrrrrrrrr

What the hell? Behind the sounds of swords clashing and metal cutting flesh and fists hitting people, a strange noise can just barely be heard. And it's getting louder. In fact, it's literally behind-

vrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOM

Suddenly, a motorcycle drives straight into Fuyuhiko. The Ultimate Yakuza had seen this coming however, and had just moved out of the way. Sitting on said motorcycle was a blonde man with a dark blue suit. He looked around quickly and stopped upon seeing me. On making eye contact, he nodded as if he just confirmed something, and simply said, "Get on."

I see, this was a rescue operation. They started this straight-up fight to distract them, and to bring me to the open where they could easily sneak me away. With people who can stand up to the Ultimate Despair, and a well-coordinated plan, this means they can only be one thing: The Future Foundation. I hop onto the back, holding onto him. He smirks, and drives straight... Into the fight. Worried, I reach one hand back and fumble through my bag for my gun. Finding it I hold it in my right hand and zip up my bag with the other. In the next moment, I cock the gun and stretch my hands over his shoulders and around his head, effectively making him see perfectly down the ironsights - not the best thing to see while driving.

"Drive straight!" I yell as I fire the first shot. I aimed for Peko but as expected of the Ultimate Swordswoman she deflected it with her blade, a normally impossible act. The white-haired man seems to understand the purpose, and swings at her. She reacts in time to back off, but he manages to cut her arm slightly. However, Nekomaru is running to us. I start to point at him but his opponent is already restraining him. Off to the other side Akane jumps towards us, but as her leg flies towards us for a flying kick the motorcycle tilts towards her, forcing her to overshoot and land just past us. I keep my gun as we drive past the other people who were standing near the back. As the vehicle stops I jump off and the old man speaks up.

"Mission accomplished everyone! Regroup!" He shouts, and the fighters quickly run back. As they approach us, I notice the Ultimate Despair are just standing there. Perhaps they accept defeat? Or maybe they have another...

"RUN!" I yell, turning and running past the motorcycle to escape the bridge.

"Where the hell are you going?!" Yells a voice.

"Sakakura, just run!" Yells another, and I hear everyone's footsteps behind me. Eventually we reach the end of the bridge, where the blonde was waiting for us on his motorcycle.

"So, what was that for?" Asks the tall, muscular man with dark greenish hair. As if on cue, the bridge starts to explode from the center, and a chain of explosives go off, destroying every last part of the bridge.

"That, is why I said to run." I reply. "So, the only thing I can guess is that you guys are Future Foundation guys. Why'd you do this?" I ask.

"We'll discuss this later." Says the tall white-haired man. "For now, get us back to HQ Kizakura."

"Yeah, yeah." The blonde replies, speaking into a radio. As he talks the rest of us wait, and I start to feel a bit tense. I'm surrounded by the Future Foundation guys. I wonder if all of these guys are Ultimates too. The blonde, Kizakura, speaks up. "The helis will be here in a few minutes. Why don't we all introduce ourselves real quick to him?"

"Alright, why not?" Says the old man. "I'm Kazuo Tengan, and..."

After a few minutes passed and everyone introduced themselves, it was my turn. Where to start... "First things first, are you an Ultimate or not?"

"Yeah, I'm like the rest of you guys." I say. Damn it's annoying but the facts are the facts. "I don't remember my name, but I'm the Ultimate-"

"Wait, you forgot your name?" Asks the man now known as Munakata. I nod and he narrows his eyes at me. "I see. Then what's your talent?"

"I'm the Ultimate Strategist, from what used to be one of the 77th classes. Yes, I knew the Ultimate Despair before they became who they are now." I say. The others think for a moment and before anyone could speak the helicopter could be heard nearby. The radio goes off in Kizakura's hand and a voice says they're landing, probably the pilot. The helicopters land and I get in one with Tengan, Chisa and Munakata. After a short while they take off and start flying, apparently to the Future Foundation's Headquarters.

"You should get some rest." Says a woman's voice. I look up to see Yukizome's warm smile.

"How long will the ride take?"

"About thirty minutes. Just rest yourself for now, you've had to deal with quite a bit today according to Kizakura." Munakata responds, and Chisa puffs her cheeks out and says something to him about sincerity and not needing to be so commanding all the time. Smiling, I close my eyes. I might as well rest for now, they'll probably interrogate me in the next 45 minutes. Eventually their voices fade out with the engine and rotor, and I fall asleep.

AN Stuff:

So what do you think? Did you like the protagonist being rescued by the FF or would you have been happier seeing him die? Maybe you wanted him to be an Ultimate Despair or something? Well too late now! Anyways, as always feedback is appreciated, and if this goes well I'll post the next chapter a lot sooner than this one, so yeah. Thanks for reading!

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