Danganronpa: Cannonball Run
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Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
The Cannonball Run are owned by Brock Yates and Golden Harvest
Hello, fellow fic readers! First of all, I want to thank you for the reviews you sent. It really meant a lot to me and this inspired me to work on the next chapter, and I promise you're going to enjoy them as I'll make sure you won't be disappointed at what you're about to see, and the story is now underway as more of the Danganronpa characters appear here and shows what they are doing while watching the charity racing event is taking place, which would soon form a bridge with the story's upcoming chapters.
And the Arabian multibillionaire, a.k.a. the shiek, is shown to making plans to push through with his proposed racing event under the guise of a reality show while he gets to know more about the Danganronpa casts which will soon become apparent once he meets with them in person.
So buckle up and enjoy.
Tokyo Japan...
The scene shows that it was Day 2 of the charity racing event in which famous racers in Japan, as well as international car racers, and there the scene slowly shifts to a racing circuit where several people flocked the racing arena where several racing cars are cruising around the racing circuit, where some of Japan's well-known car racers, as well as foreign ones, are driving the circuit much to the delight of racing fans and enthusiasts, as well as avid car collectors alike, as it was revealed that every summer, an annual racing event is held which it is sort of a charity-like event, and this would attract racing fans and non-fans to the event, and there the proceeds would go to charity, and the audience being drawn included high school students.
While yesterday drew a lot of crowd, today it attracted a BIGGER CROWD as even Japanese celebrities, such as movie actors, idols and even politicians, flock the circuit and are enjoying the scene they are watching, and unbeknownst to the other crowd, some of the politicians are secretly betting on which racing car and driver are going to win, and to their dismay, the one whom they bet against turns out to be Celsetia Ludenberg, and surprisingly, she managed to win the bet as her betting racer won, and the politicians begrudgingly honored their promise and gave their betting money to her.
"Here..."
"I can't believe I lost the bet..."
"I'll never bet on a lady gambler again..."
"One day I'll get my money back..."
"I'll bet against you one day..."
"You'll see...I'll definitely win again next time..."
"Gambling bitch..."
"Thank you, gentlemen...hope to make business with you again..."
As the day went on, the racing event proceeded without incident, and the scene zooms in towards some of the audiences, where it is shown that some of Hope's Peak Academy students are among the spectators, and are watching the event which seemingly sparked interest on some of the academy students, and one by one the students were somewhat enticed to participate in a race even though the chances are near zero due to them being minors yet they see nothing wrong in dreaming.
The scene shows that Byakuya Togami is watching, and with him is his twin brother, Byakuya Togami II, and it was revealed to the public recently that Togami's biological mother, who was dying from a rare illness, revealed that Togami had a younger twin brother and had the same abilities as the elder Togami twin, and managed to persuade the Togami patriarch to allow her youngest son to live with the Togami family which she assured that he will be a GREAT ASSET, in which the Togami patriarch reluctantly accepted even though the rule was only one heir can be groomed, and as the Togami's biological mother passed away, her son was introduced, and to Togami's exasperation, he finally meet with his twin brother, who is identical to the Super High School-level Heir, the only thing however, is that he is chubby and overweight just like Hifumi Yamada, yet he has the same mannerism as Togami, and the younger twin is introduced as Byakuya Togami II, and the Togami patriarch "formally" welcomed him to the family and Togami is ordered to "get along" with his younger twin brother, much to his chagrin.
At the racing event, Togami sighed as he mentally wondered why he had to act as the "big brother" to his twin brother and is rather irritated at how much of an eater Togami II is, as he is seen holding a bucket of KFC fried chickens, eating like a hungry person yet he is composed enough to keep the Togami family in good light. As Togami is watching, Togami II was also watching and an idea came to his head and talked to his elder twin brother about what's on his mind.
"Nii-san..."
"What?"
"I have an idea...it's like this..."
"You want us to participate in a race?"
"Why not? It's a good opportunity...and if we win...it'll put our family name in good light...and to show how we rule over everything..."
"For someone like you you sure have a brain beneath your behemoth body..."
"Thanks for the compliment, nii-san..."
"Hmph..."
Togami smirked as he finds it rather entertaining to hear his twin brother's idea, and decided to humor the conversation to alleviate his boredom, though he knew that Togami II's idea is near-zero given that they are not licensed race car drivers and thus can't compete in racing events, and told his twin brother about this, but Togami II replied that it is not bad to dream, and said that if this becomes a reality, and if either one of them win, it would put the Togami family in the spotlight, thus showing the Togami Family's superiority. Togami wondered about that and sees that it is a good idea and is pondering on entertaining his twin brother's idea.
-x-
The scene shifts to another scene where Mondo Ohwada is watching the event, and with him is Takemichi Yukimaru, and the two are rather enjoying the event, as they recalled the last time the Crazy Diamond Gang traveled together, and Yukimaru suggested that the Crazy Diamond Gang go on a "field trip", which Ohwada finds it a good idea, as summer vacation is just two weeks away, and agreed to the idea, and Yukimaru asks what if the Crazy Diamond Gang was to participate in a racing event, which Ohwada finds it an enticing idea yet it was near impossible to pull off.
"A race, you say?"
"Yeah, boss...imagine it...we're gonna be the stars and king of the road..."
"Sounds like a good dream, but we can't...we could jeopardize our biker gang..."
"Aw..."
"But still...its a good dream..."
"Who knows? It could happen.."
"Hmm...I'll think about it..."
"Okay..."
As the two biker friends talked while watching the racing event while the scene shifts to another part of the crowd where Sonia Nevermind is watching as well, and is rather entertained at watching an event like this since an event like this at her home country of Novoselic had very few racing events. She wondered what is like to participate in a race and is now getting ideas of using her country's monarchy to make racing events more prevalent, but her musing is interrupted when Gundam Tanaka is there, "talking" to his pet hamsters about participating in a race. She giggled and approached her classmate and the two began chatting.
"Talking to your "loyal subjects"...?"
"Ah, Sonia-sama..."
"What are you talking about...? You're considering in joining a race?"
"Why not?"
"I too am thinking of participating...but we are still underage...We only get a student license..."
"Hmm...perhaps...huh...? Isn't that...?"
"What's he doing here?"
"It appears that..."
By then they saw another of their classmates, Kazuichi Soda emerging from a pit stop, and there they saw him doing some maintenance on one of the racing cars and realized that he is working at this event as its mechanic, and Gundam is rather envious that Soda is earning money through "honest work" yet Sonia is less receptive towards Soda.
The scene later zoomed around where Kyoko Kirigiri and Yui Sumidare are watching the event, and are rather enjoying the race until a client came and the two girls talked to him, which revealed that Kirigiri and Yui are working as detectives and are doing an investigation request from a client, and now they solved an unspecified case and the client thanked them and gave the two girls his payment. As the client left, Yui wondered if their next case would be an adventurous one and is even pondering if it would involve riding cars, but Kirigiri sighed as she told her "onee-sama" that her suggestion is bordering on fantasy and there Yui responds that her "lack of imagination" resulted in Kirigiri having "no suitors", which Kirigiri blushed.
"Yui onee-sama!"
"Ha-ha-ha! See? Underneath that stoic appearance you put up with, you're still a normal girl!"
"Please..."
"Come on...you need to loosen up a bit..."
"I'm fine..."
"I'm sure there are cute guys at Hope's Peak...how about that Luckster you told me about? Though he looked ordinary..."
"Yui onee-sama! Naegi is..."
"Bingo! You like him!"
However, their conversation was interrupted when they heard a voice booming and the two detectives turn around, only to find out that Sakura Ohgami and Nekomaru Nidai, who are pinning a race driver against the barricade after he attempted to secretly molest Aoi Asahina but Ohgami and Nidai caught the perverted race driver and are now threatening him with harm seeing he tried to make a pass on their friend.
"You!"
"Hentai!"
"Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow!"
"You dare attempt to molest my friend!"
"You have no shame!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Don't deny! We saw it!"
"You will pay!"
"It's a misunderstanding!"
By then Asahina came with some guards and told them about the pervert and the race driver is escorted towards a waiting police car and there Asahina thanked Ohgami and Nidai for saving her and by then Michael Shumacher came, having witnessed what happened and apologized for the unfortunate event, and there Asahina was surprised to see a famous race driver and is even surprised when Shumacher asks the high school students if they would like to pose a picture with him.
Ohgami is honored and Nidai decided to play along as they and Asahina accepted and took a selfie picture with Shumacher, while Yui teased Kirigiri to find a guy so she can have a boyfriend which Kirigiri rebukes, saying she has no time for love life and for now she is focused on being a detective while at Hope's Peak Academy.
As Yui and Kirigiri left the event and are passing by the parking lot, they saw what appeared to be a race car driver emerging from a sports car, but Kirigiri's eyes went sharp and approached the driver, noticing that he is a high school student and immediately confronted him and revealed that the driver is none other than Yuto Kamishiro - the Super High School-level Secret Agent. Yuto smiled seeing that Kirigiri managed to deduce that it was him despite going undercover as a race driver and there Yui asks him why dressed as a racing driver.
"I did not expect I'd see you here, Yuto-kun..."
"Ah, Kirigiri-san...I didn't think you could see me through my disguise..."
"Your face and build gave you away..."
"Damn..."
"Why are you here?"
"Same thing as you..."
"What do you mean?"
"It's right behind you, my dear..."
By then several policemen emerged with a suspect being in handcuffs and is bad-mouthing Yuto, and it is shown that due to Yuto going undercover, it is revealed that the suspect was secretly selling performance-enhancing drugs to stimulate a race driver's stamina so the driver can have "extra energy" while racing, and Kirigiri was seen clenching her fists as she did not realized that something like this is already going on, but Yuto congratulated and complimented Kirigiri for solving a case and yet he attempted to make sexual comments towards her and expects to have a romantic subplot, but...
KA-PLAG!
Kirigiri did an uppercut which sends Yuto upward before landing inside his car and Kirigiri shouted at Yuto for being a "maniac" and Yui restrains her friend and tries to calm her down, which had little success as Yuto came out of the car, and despite sporting a punch mark on his cheek he made more sexual comments while implying that she has a crush on him, giving more romantic subplot, and Kirigiri punched Yuto on the face which finally knocked him out and Kirigiri uncharacteristically loses her cool and Yui again attempted to calm her friend down.
"Kyoko-chan...calm down..."
"LET ME GO!"
"Easy...he's already knocked out..."
"I'LL BEAT UP THAT HENTAI! ALL IN MY LIFE NO ONE HAS EVER MADE A SEXUAL PASS AT ME BEFORE!"
"Come on, Kyoko...you're making a scene..."
"JUST LET ME PUNCH HIM ONE MORE TIME...!"
"Let's leave now..."
The day went on without further incident and the students eventually went home as the racing circuit is closing, concluding its two-day event. However, the students who attended the event are unaware that they are soon about to be embroiled in an upcoming racing event which the Arabian billionaire is cooking as he is due to arrive in japan in a few days from now.
-x-
A few days later, the scene shifts to the Middle East continent of Saudi Arabia, where the scene zoomed towards a posh mansion which houses a very wealthy Arabian businessman, a multibillionaire, who is also a shiek, and appeared to have a love for racing, as you can see he is watching a show on TV about an F-1 racing event and is enjoying seeing several race cars racing on whoever gets the lead and he is holding a DVD case titled "CARS" and "CARS 2", revealing that the Arabian businessman is an avid fan of racing. He is also seen eating his favorite food while watching the racing show where his favorite car racer, Michael Shumacher taking the lead and he is nearing the finish line, and the Arabian businessman is seen cheering. But his musing is interrupted when his servant arrived and talked to his master about today's events.
"My shiek..."
"Yes, my servant?"
"The hacker you asked me to request his presence has arrived..."
"Really?"
"Yes...he's waiting at the living room..."
"I'm on my way! Thank you!"
"You're welcome, my shiek..."
"Ah! It's been a long time, my friend!"
The servant then summoned an Arabian "hacker" and there he introduced himself to the Arabian billionaire, while telling him that he was told by the servant about the billionaire's plans to "enlist" the academy students to participate in his planned racing-themed reality show in Japan. The hacker, who boasts himself over his skills, then brought out his laptop and showed his hacking skills and soon he showed to them the list of the Hope's Peak Academy students and their "titles", as well as the list of the people running the academy, in which he stated to the Arabian billionaire that it would be difficult to make contact with the academy's headmaster as he investigated Jin Kirigiri, and stated that the chances are, Jin would downright turn down an offer to lend his students to the billionaire even if offered a "monetary donation".
"Eh? Is that what you think?"
"Yes..."
"Looks like I hit a roadblock..."
"But all is not lost, my friend..."
"Oh?"
"I do came up with a way to get past that certain...loophole..."
"Tell me..."
"It's like this..."
The hacker, however, said that it would be a good idea to try to go to Japan and try to coax some "political bigwigs" into thinking that he (the billionaire) came here to do a reality show while he try to coax some network companies to financially back his idea of a reality show then send some "feelers" to the academy students he thinks can be easily enticed with a prize money, and the Arabian billionaire felt that this is a good idea, and thanked the hacker for his suggestive input and after a few days, he secured his visa and heads for Japan to begin his plans to make a reality show using a cross-country racing as its main theme.
-x-
A few days later, the billionaire shiek arrived at Japan, via the Tokyo International Airport, along with his servant, and while waiting at the airport lobby his servant came and gave him the map of Japan and the shiek began glancing at the map, where he realized that the country is quite something he did not expect, and seeing the areas, the roads and key areas, he became intrigued and decided to scout the entire country to see how he can cook up ideas on how to entice the Hope's Peak Academy students to participate in his panned race.
"My shiek...here..."
"Is this...?"
"The map of Japan..."
"My...I did not expect this country to be such...vast..."
"After we secure a place to stay...why don't we plan ahead..."
"Of course! We scour the whole place from the south to the north! Check out the roads and which areas that can serve my means! We will commence everything by tomorrow!"
"As you wish, my shiek..."
"Let us go then!"
As the billionaire and his servant leave the lobby, they were unknowingly being stared by the passengers who are either departing or arriving having seen the Arab's enthusiastic outburst and soon the fate of the academy students are about to be decided once the planned race is about to be placed together.
To Be Continued…
Hope you like this chapter, as some of the other Danganronpa casts have been shown, including others from spin-off series, such as Danganronpa Kirigiri and Danganronpa Zero.
The Saudi Arabian businessman, who intends to bring the cast together, has managed to gain information about their "titles" and is now planning on how to entice them to participate after anticipating the fact that Jin Kirigiri would be less willing to allow his students to appear in his planned "race".
And lastly, he has arrived in Japan, and now he is going to tour the entire country to see if he can get ideas on how to make his plans come true, so it is just a matter of time before he puts his plans into action…
Preview:
The next chapter jump-starts the story as the businessman-shiek from Saudi Arabia began "touring" in several key areas in Japan, and uses scrupulous means to get permission from the Japanese authorities to do a "reality show" while initiating the plans to "recruit" some of the Danganronpa casts to participate in a racing-themed reality show with a "prize" going to the eventual winner…