Hwa ha ha ha! Fast updates! Course, they'll probably slow down now.

Anyways, here's the last part of the Prologue...

A young girl sat in the dark of a rather large room. She watched silently as a disgustingly insane laughter echoed throughout the entire area, along with rapid footsteps, heavy breathing, and rather loud gunshots. It sounded like she was going on her usual rampage again. Gawds, she hated her. It made her sick knowing that she was told to work together with her in the first place. Actually, it made her sick knowing she had to work with any of THEM, period. She hated so many other people for so long, she couldn't even remember if this feeling of hatred was something natural or a habit anymore.

"A HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

The laughter continued to echo throughout the room with an annoying pitch. The girl turned to look around at her other companions, but none of them seemed interested in stopping the crazy shooter anytime soon. Each of them were doing their own thing, but that was expected since none of them were really "friends" in the slightest. If anything, they're just a bunch of rag tag people who were gathered for a single purpose.

"Dance for me! Dance like your life depends on it! Because you know that it does! A ha ha ha ha ha!"

She turned back to the pathetic man that was crawling on his knees underneath the single light that came from a hanging lamp. The man had a very terrified look on his face, and was trying to move away by crawling backwards. His legs seemed to have given out and he couldn't think straight, so actually running seemed out of the question. An arm stretched out from the light, holding a gun and pointed directly at the man.

"W-What the hell do you all want?!"

Two shots rang out.

"AAAAAHHHHH!"

The man clenched his legs which were bleeding from the two newly made holes that appeared on his shins. There goes any chance of ever running at all.

"Awwww…that's so cute. You look like an injured little puppy who's been beaten like a bunch of school bullies…" The figure started walking into the light until only her head remained in the darkness.

The young shooter was wearing a black button-up shirt with short –sleeves which allowed maximum movement, along with a pair of black pants that had red vertical stripes on it, and black slip-on shoes that were attached with tiny red ribbons. The shooting girl's face couldn't be seen, but if one was able to read the atmosphere, there was a good chance that she was smiling.

"It's so adorable how you keep sniveling like a little child. Maybe I should give you a present…"

*CRUNCH*

"AAAAAAAAAAAHH!"

The man's hand was breeding profusely as the girl was repeatedly stomping all over it. She then followed it up by repeating it on the man's other hand, then his left feet, right feet, left arm, right arm, and so on until finally, the only thing that was intact was his head, which was hopelessly sobbing and sticky from all the tears and sweat that were covering it.

The shooting girl's excitement had continuously built up the more damage she caused the man. However this excitement seemed to have immediately faded at this point as she sighed.

"Great, now this is gonna be real boring…"

Taking her gun, she shot the man directly between the eyes, which rolled up as the last of his life was finally snuffed out. The girl went over towards rest of the group, took a seat, and started moaning.

"I am SOOOO bored…"

"Already? It hasn't even been minutes since you killed that man." The voice was a young man who held a calm tone. He was sitting with his legs crossed while reading a book.

"That's what I mean! Even one SECOND of not doing anything fun is a second wasted for me! I wanna go out and kill some more people! It doesn't matter who, it doesn't matter what! I just wanna have fun!"

"Upupupupu….It sounds like that I came at the perfect time!" Monokuma suddenly appeared out of nowhere like usual. Nobody really cared though, they all got used to it after the first ten or so times.

"Monokuma. What a surprise…" The young man closed his book and rested his head while using one of his hands for support. "What brings you here?"

The robotic bear folded his paws as it started pacing back and forth.

"The thing is kiddies, we've got a bunch of losers who are going off to find a special little tool that could seriously mess things up for my plans. So, I wanna ask you all instead to take up arms and defend the nation of Monokuma for the good of me!"

There was a moment of silence.

"What? Not enticing enough?"

Complaints were heard from everyone

"What a lame name!"

"You need to work on your country!"

"Change the stupid title or I'm gonna just leave on my own!"

"Give me details! I want more details!"

The boy sighed.

"We'll do it, but we're only going to do this for ourselves. That was the agreement we all made before joining you and your little group of despair."

"Man, what a bunch of killjoys." Monokuma made a sighing movement. "Ah well, whatever works for you…"

The five figures all stood up and started heading out the doors. Outside, they all passed through the large number of bodies that were laid out across in the immediate area. The first girl just glared at everything around her. Killing, living, torture, safety, none of this mattered. The only thing that stuck in her mind was sharing despair with everyone she knew. Despair was what people should suffer from, despair will bring the absolute truth to this damned world. Despair, despair, despair…

Alyson was gripping Ami's hand very tightly, like a child that clung to its mother. She knew that the others SAID that they weren't going to do anything, but she still couldn't trust them, especially the men. As far as she knew, their words were equal to trash that should be thrown away, burned, and then made into something, just so she could do it all over again.

Of course, she knew that getting along with the others would need to happen eventually, and it did seem like a good way to get over her problems from the past. But that's for later! All she needed was Ami for support right now, after all Ami is the most trustworthy one (That Fiorella isn't as bad as the guys, but she looks way too scary…)

"So it looks like we're all gathered here, but…" Rigby looked awkwardly at everyone. "We all need to agree whether to open this thing, right?"

The "thing" that Rigby was talking about was the large metal box that sat on the table that was in the room they were all in. When Alyson first saw it, she automatically knew that it was suspicious-looking from the beginning. But she could also tell that it was surprisingly well-made for a box. After all, no matter what they did to it, there wasn't a single scratch or dent made, so whatever was inside would definitely stay safe no matter what. But it still didn't help in learning about what was inside that seemed so important for such a box to carry.

"It'll be a pain in the ass to just carry that around, and we'd look way too conspicuous holding a giant metal box everywhere we go. Remember, we need to keep in mind that Monokuma will send out some of his 'soldiers' to try and kill us."

Fiorella had her legs crossed as she sat, and she was talking in a tone that made Alyson think of a teenager who was trying to act tough. She couldn't help but let out a small laugh, knowing that this tough girl was actually putting up an act.

Of course, she immediately silenced herself as she saw Fiorella turn her head in her direction.

"She must have heard me!" was the thought that came to pass as she cowered behind Ami.

Fiorella's face didn't seem to have changed much, but deep down, she was probably really angry at her for laughing. Alyson was scared, but in her defense, Fiorella did bring it upon herself. Being dishonest with herself and putting up a tough front while she was probably actually scared inside. Not like her. She wasn't putting up any fake act or anything! Actually, she was just waiting for the right time to be honest! Yeah, she needs to make sure that they can all be trusted before she starts showing a bit more honesty in her own actions. It's not like she's really worried or anything.

"Anyways, I think the first thing we gotta do is decide whether to open the box or not, and we gotta do it quick."

"Excuse me?" Luciano seemed to disapprove of this. "Who died and left you in charge?"

Alyson wasn't very fond of Luciano since they first met. He was rich and really well off for sure, but he was too stuck up and snobbish to be really friends with at all. But maybe, if she was feeling generous, she could let him be something like a "partner" or something, IF he starts acting nice.

"If you remember, Luciano, Monokuma had already mentioned that we've got about an hour before we start getting shot at. It probably hasn't been too long, but we should still get a move on to wherever the heck we need to go."

"Yeah yeah. I remember. I'm just saying that the leader position hasn't exactly been decided yet."

"Look, let's just decide about this box first, then we can decide on the leader thing, alright?"

Luciano grunted, but he seemed to have agreed.

"Alright then, all those in favor of opening the box?"

Alyson took a look to see who raised their hands. Rigby, Agustin, Ami, Kujou, and Fiorella all agreed together.

"And…those in favor of leaving the box?"

Alyson turned to Luciano, who didn't raise his hand for either decision, which seemed to look like he was neither for nor against the idea. She couldn't help but smirk again at the boy who seemed to be trying hard to look cool. He turned to her direction and scowled at her, but he didn't seem as scary as Fiorella, so she didn't mind a bit.

"Alright, seems like it's a unanimous decision…" Fiorella turned to check one last time before slowly moving her thumb onto one of the scanners on the box. A thin bright line suddenly came from the top of the grid, moved downwards, and moved back up before there was a small *beep*

Identity confirmed – Fiorella Montanari

They all waited, but nothing seemed to have happened.

"I guess we all need to press our thumbs onto these things…" Rigby deduced as he followed Fiorella's lead.

One by one, everyone had pressed their thumbs on the grid, getting the same result each time. Eventually, Luciano was the only one left. He seemed really reluctant to join in, but he eventually agreed and pressed his own thumb into the last scanner.

All identities have been confirmed. Commencing operation 'Heroism of Operating Powerful Equipment'

What a lame naming sense…

Eventually, the box began to hiss as a gust of air suddenly expelled itself from the openings that started to reveal themselves. It began to move itself like a self-solving puzzle, making turns and shifts in its parts until eventually, an opening appeared from the top. Everyone cautiously stepped forward to get a glance inside. However the light that came from inside was way too bright for anyone to get a clear look, so they had to rely on just reaching in to pull something out, and hope that nothing would hurt.

Agustin was the first to go. He hesitated before slowly putting his hand through the opening and reaching around before finally taking out…a grip handle. Everyone looked at the thing confused, but there was no mistake. Agustin ended up taking something that looked like a grip handle. Of course there was a blue line patterned on it, and the thing looked like it was made with some kind of black metal, but the overall appearance seemed to have resembled a handle like on those exercise tools people carry around.

Rigby was next. They were all a bit dumbfounded by what they saw, but he was still cautious in taking out whatever he found. The result was…a measuring triangle and a thin black object.

"Hmm, guess I could find some kind of use for these things…"

Rigby didn't seem too disappointed in what he got, but Alyson felt nothing but pity at the moment. The tools was similar to Agustin's with blue lines to show the marks and numbers on the triangle, and the same kind of metal was used, but aside from that, they didn't really seem like anything special.

At this point, everyone was less reluctant in taking what they would find, and started just reaching in without hesitation.

Luciano got something that resembled Agustin's object, but thinner and attached with a thin rectangular box with a similar design.

Kujou received something that looked like a glove made with the same material and design, as well as another box.

Ami ended up getting a cool-looking band that would fit around her wrist, as well as a small pen.

Fiorella was the only one who seemed to have gotten anything that even seemed to be an actual weapon, but it was just a small set of four switchblades, and instead of metal, they seemed to have used some weird transparent glass for the blade. She also received something like a hand-sized cube.

Finally, it was Alyson's turn. She reached inside and found that what she grabbed was…a pin in the shape of a music note.

"Well THAT ended up being a complete waste of time…" Luciano grumbled as he pocketed the objects into his pocket. "Guess it wouldn't have mattered if we ended up opening the box or not in the first place. And now, not only have we wasted more time…"

"Shut up Luciano…" Fiorella was a bit disappointed, but she put the cube and switchblades in the bag she had with her nearby. "At least we learned that it wasn't anything dangerous."

"Actually, I kinda feel the same." Ribgy was twirling the measuring triangle with his finger while pocketing the thin object. "I was kinda hoping it was some sort of clue, but at least it wasn't something like a bomb."

Agustin sighed as he put his own object away in his pocket. "That's true. But I would've expected that there was a better reason for that strange box to be so sturdy..."

"Aw, I don't think it's really THAT bad," Ami was admiring her new accessory. "I think it looks pretty fashionable on me. Hey Allie, what do you think?"

"Huh? Uh, well…" Alyson was shifting her eyes as she felt her face getting warmer. She was conflicted about all this. For one thing, she agreed that the whole thing seemed kinda pointless. But for another thing, she did think that the music note pin was pretty cute. Course, she didn't plan on saying anything that would make her sound stupid.

Kujou didn't say a word, but he just placed his little present away somewhere in his cape. She never really noticed, but he didn't seem to say much, even when he looks unamused by all of this.

"Anyways, we should get back to business," Luciano brought everyone's attention back to himself. "What is our next step?"

Nobody said anything. They all knew that they would have eventually needed to leave and find this "thing" that Monokuma told them about, but they had no idea about how to even start. They didn't have any clues, any hints, no puzzles, not even a stupid intro story like in a lot of those RPG video games. And with every moment they wasted, the hour of safety was slowing coming to an end.

"Uh, Firoella…" The tan-skinned girl turned to Rigby. "You are the SHSL Informationalist, so any clues on where to go?"

That's right! Someone who gathers information for a living must have at least an idea of where this "thing" is.

"Nope, I'm completely clueless on this."

That's what she gets for getting her hopes up.

"To be honest, I never heard of anything like this 'weapon' or whatever. I've been gathering information every day, and nothing about that has ever popped up before."

"So, this is something more recent?" Ami jumped in with a curious look on her face. "I mean if you never heard of this, then it was probably something that appeared while we were knocked out."

"Right. I don't know how long we've been knocked out, but I'm guessing that within that small time frame, this 'thing' popped up and became known to both sides."

"Makes sense. So then I guess the first thing we should do is…"

"Try and find a computer."

"Huh?"

Fiorella grinned. "I'm not really one to brag, but I'm actually pretty good at getting any kind of information anywhere at any time. Just set me up with computer, and I'll be able to hack into any database within a few minutes."

"Impressive," Agustin was grinning as well. "Then you might be able to find information on how this whole mess got started?"

"Probably. And I might be able to even find this location of where this 'thing' is as well."

"Then I guess it's settled."

Everyone gathered their things and went to the door that had a large "EXIT" sign hanging above it.

"You guys ready?"

Hearing these words, Alyson clenched onto Ami's skirt tightly as they all took their first steps into the world outside…

Man, what a disappointment huh? Turns out the box holds nothing but strange objects. Weird, kind thought there'd be more to it...

Anyways, first chapter starts next. Hope you guys get interested, and we'll see what we can do.

P.S. If you guys want to offer better names, go ahead. I'm not guaranteeing a change, but we can see...