Yo, its been a while. Over a week, I think, since I last made an update.

Well just to give some closure on this battle, I decided to end it now. I'm not trying to disrespect your character, but I'm very sorry if it seems that way. But I am really trying to get things to work.

Anyways, hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving, and enjoy...

Why?

That thing attached to Pikachi was made of the same materials as their tools.

It was supposed to be their way of fighting against the enemy. Something that was encased in a box until they came along and opened it.

So why did the Gunslinger, a soldier of despair, have it?

And even worse, it looked like hers was more advanced than theirs.

Alyson was stuck in shock, blanking out as the whole thing was a bit too much for her to handle at once.

She woke up after feeling something push her into the ground from her side. She focused her eyes to see Ami lying on top of her, covered in dust. Behind her, pointing at the spot that Alyson was sitting at only moments ago (now a small crater) was Pikachi. Giggling maliciously, like a clown. However the look in her eyes was anything but kind.

The gunslinger's eyes were twitching slightly, while her pupils were shifting all around, almost like the eyes of a machine searching out for a target. Yet contrary to her eyes, the rest of her body was calm and steady, almost as if it was possessed.

But there wasn't any time to look any further. Ami immediately came to, and dragged Alyson over towards a small alley in-between two abandoned buildings. There, she started to search around for something, and gave a small "ah" as it seemed like she found it.

She moved some of the debris to reveal a small hole into one of the buildings, just large enough for a person to crawl through. Alyson was momentarily reluctant about crawling on the ground. But right now there was no time to argue. She got on her knees and went through the hole with Ami following after. They went further in before Ami stopped her and had them sit down to talk.

"Geez, now what are we supposed to do?" the Linguist asked herself. "If we could pull of another soundblast, we might be able to win. But she seems even trickier to fight now…"

Alyson was listening, but she didn't care.

What was the point? They were fighting a pointless battle. There wasn't anything they could do to against Pikachi, and there were 4 more people who might be just as bad, if not worse. They were all just toying with them…with HER….just like…just…like…

"Hey! Allie! Can you hear me?"

Ami was snapping her fingers to try and get the musician's attention. Alyson turned her head towards her. Maybe she looked empty, because Ami looked a bit shocked before speaking.

"I need you to listen. When I say 'now', I want you to blow as hard as you can into that Clarinet of yours. It doesn't have to be good, just loud."

"…Why…"

"Um…I kinda have a plan, but I can't really use an instrument, and I don't have the time to learn. So I'm gonna need you to…"

"Why bother? What's the point of trying to win? We're all dead! We don't have any chance of winning!"

"Hey, come on…"

"No, dammit! Listen! You saw that crazy woman get equipped with the same kind of stuff we have! How do you know that they won't just turn on us? How do you know it can't be controlled by Monokuma or any of those freaks! What if you're all just working together and leaving me out of it!"

Alyson started clenching her head while slightly rocking forward and backward.

This is all a dream.

She'll wake up and see that nothing was wrong.

Any moment now.

These kinds of thoughts continued to circulate throughout her mind over and over. She mumbled to herself, blanking out anything else. This was just too much for her. She couldn't take this any longer. She just wants to have everything return to the way they were before all this happened.

Just then, a sharp jolt zapped through her cheeks, bringing her back to reality. She saw Ami shaking her hands with a look of slight pain on her face.

"Ah…I don't think I'm going to try that again anytime soon…" She grabbed Alyson's hands.

They felt nice. Granted, there was some gravel and dirt on them from crawling earlier, but they still felt warm and secure. Making her thoughts calm down

"Look Allie," Ami was making a more serious face as she spoke. "I can't prove to you that nobody will betray you, and I don't understand these black things any better than you do. But I promise that no matter what, I'll stick by your side. I won't betray you in any way, and I'll try to make sure you get through all of this alive. But right now, I need you to trust me, alright?"

Alyson paused for a moment. Like Ami said, there wasn't any prove that they were all trustworthy. But if she was going to die, she'd rather die while putting up a fight.

"Alright…"

"Geez, where the hell did they all go?"

Pikachi was slowly walking through the streets without a care in the world. The initial connection to the Monokumite was a bit rickety as the body and material were trying to get used to each other, but it seems like everything's is more or less fine now.

To be honest, Monokumite was still pretty new to her, since she never really needed it before now. She remembered hearing that it was a pretty malleable and unusual element that was discovered a while ago, and something about there being "endless possibilities" with its uses, or something.

The big thing though, was that Monokumite was somehow able to adapt to the user to utilize their talents in creative and unique ways. In her case, the Monokumite had sort-of fused with her arm to form a blaster-like equipment like the one that you'd see in sci-fi movies or video games. As for ammo, it would utilize pretty much anything around, even the air itself, to create something to fire. And since it also came with a special machine that would automatically aim, it was almost perfect for the one known as the "gunslinger".

A never ending supply of ammo with a gun that gives near perfect aim.

But she was still a bit shocked. The fact that all those kids had Monokumite as well. Perhaps they were traitors to the cause? Or maybe the group of hope had managed to steal some of Monokuma's technology? Well whatever the reason, it didn't matter anymore.

She had the opportunity to kill them now, so all that matters is finding them and having a little fun before sending them off to the afterlife.

"…..istin…How…."

There were faint voices coming over in the direction of a small alleyway. She smiled as she slowly crept closer, making sure not to make a sound as she started to overhear their conversation.

"I can't prove to you that nobody will betray you, and I don't understand these black things any better than you do. But I promise that no matter what, I'll stick by your side. I won't betray you in any way, and I'll try to make sure you get through all of this alive. But right now, I need you to trust me, alright?"

Trust? The gunslinger almost laughed as she overheard them. Trust doesn't really exist in this world. It was empty talk used to get people to do whatever you wanted. It's nothing more than an illusion.

She had enough.

She took her arm and aimed at the wall in front of her.

The compressed air bullet that formed suddenly shot out had enough force to break though the brick wall.

As the resulting smoke began to clear, two shadowy figures were in view. She brought her arm back up to aim at the figures, but when the area began to clear up, she saw that it was just pieces of debris. She shifted her line of sight to the area around her, but there was nobody in sight.

It must have been an echo from further inside. Her mistake for assuming that they were close.

Just then, something suddenly ran from behind one piece of debris to another. She aimed and fired, but more smoke came out and obscured her sight. The old building pieces were already crumbling, so she would need to aim more carefully to prevent them from taking advantage of a sneak attack.

The figure continued to dash here and there, but Pikachi was careful to just keep watch for now. She was starting to see a pattern in the way it was moving, and soon she'll be able to find the timing.

But she already knew what they were planning.

She shifted her eyes away from the figure, which she guessed as being Ami, and fired at the area around where she stood. Dust clouds formed everywhere, but she heard the sound of movement different from the first, nearby. Taking careful aim, she pointed at the south east and fired, just narrowly missing the musician of the group whose legs were shaking from the intentional missed shot she made earlier.

"Next time I won't miss…"

The gunslinger figured that the plan was something like the linguist catching her attention while the musician would let out another burst of sound to paralyze her. However this plan was WAY too simple to figure out and taking away the element of surprise would make this battle hers.

*Twang*

Oh right, there was one more…

She blocked the flying arrow with her armor, only to find another flying towards her. She kept swinging, knocking away the arrows that were heading towards her without even putting in much effort. Getting annoyed, she fired a compressed bullet into the direction where the arrows came from, to see Luciano rolling over to dodge the attack. Stepping on Alyson, she aimed at Luciano which shifting her bullet setting from "air" to "light".

It was a nice time to test out her new laser setting. Maybe start with the legs, then the arms, then the eyes…

Luciano launched another arrow at her, and she lazily knocked it away once again. However…

*Crack*

The feeling on her arm suddenly felt lighter. She turned to see her blaster break, leaving her arms open and vulnerable. She reached for another pistol, but then the linguist suddenly grabbed her arms, and held them tightly. She started to struggle, but she heard another arrow fly. There was a small shove in her chest, close to the heart, making blood ooze out from the wound.

"Dammit…dammit…dammit dammit dammit!"

She yelled out in anger before everything finally started to go dark…

Well, I've got to start studying for finals in for the next couple of weeks, but I'll probably end Chapter 1 sometime around a week or so. Please look forward to it...