SZ: Heya guys and gals. Welcome to the first original arc/mini-arc for GSE...and prepare for one heck of a curve ball on what we're choosing for this one.
GammaTron: It's next Tuesday for the cast of this story.
SZ: Yup, so while there will be a comedic moment or two still...things are about to get heavy in this.
GT: Yeah, so anyways...disclaimers!
SZ: Own nothing aside from original content! The series used in this belongs to their respective companies and the like.
GT: Great. So let's…*collars on rope shot out of the doorway and grab us by the necks before tying us up to two chairs back to back* ?! ...SZ, if this is your doing…
SZ: I swear to god it isn't.
Monokuma: *offscreen* Upupupupupu….
SZ:...Z0! Monokuma got into the building again!
Monokuma: Sorry, he's busy with my extras. As for you two...It's Punishment Time~! *pushes a button and a large rocket themed after Monokuma emerged from the ground*
SZ: ...Oh this is gonna suck.
GT: Ah well. *the rocket grabs them both before taking off* UCHU KITA~!
Z0: *appears behind Monokuma as a giant shadow with red eyes* Bear….. *wings sprout from back of shadow as it grows to the size of a mountain, followed by horns*
Monokuma: Oh not again!
Demon Z0: Tonight I dine on Stupid bear soup. For without my Co-hosts...the only things limiting my power are gone!
Monokuma: OH CR-!
"Hmm...another missing person's report," Tsubaki whispered, heavily focused on the main computer at Plumbers HQ as she went through a few Japanese newspaper articles.
"Everything okay, Tsubaki?"
"Hmm?" Tsubaki blinked as she looked over, seeing Max and Jin approaching her, "Oh...well I'd wish I could say yes, but...honestly, this has been bugging me for some time."
"What do you mean?" Jin asked.
"Look at this," Tsubaki spoke as she pointed at one of the articles, "Just three months after the Incursean Invasion, a few students in Japan have mysteriously gone missing."
"Hmm…" Max looked at them, "Kibougamine...Hope's Peak...Well, that's a name I haven't heard about in a long while."
"Magister?" Jin questioned.
"It's a unique school, dating back roughly several hundred years," Max noted, "A school so unique in not only being the first real school, but one that only picks the best high schoolers that they call the Ultimates in their subjects."
"So students with the best grades?"
"Oh, more than that," Max noted, "It's more about talents. If a high schooler is capable of performing something beyond what any other human can do, they're scouted and recruited for the school and given a title of 'Ultimate.' I think a good example for you kids would be if someone is so skilled at negotiations that even the most stubborn of beings would want to argue but just couldn't find a single thing to argue about, they'd be considered the 'Ultimate Negotiator.'"
"Hmm...A school focused more on talents...interesting," Jin noted, looking up at the articles, "What else have you learned, Tsubaki?"
"Aside from more missing person cases popping up, I was able to figure this out with Kajun's help. Something...or rather someone is trying to cover this up," Tsubaki stated, bridging her fingers together as she focused on the screen, "And I feel Kibougamine is somehow involved in it."
"Hmm…" Max frowned as he looked at some of the missing person reports, "Seems the latest were part of the latest year, the 78th class."
"I know that this isn't in our jurisdiction, but…" Tsubaki began.
"Say no more. Helping with this could help improve our image for Earthlings outside of what was done during the Incursean Invasion," Max admitted, "The current principle of the school owes me a favor when he was the Ultimate Detective and ended up getting involved in an Ectonurite-run Slave Trade that I saved him from, so I can cash in a favor he owes for it."
"Good to know," Tsubaki nodded.
"I advise we keep two seperate teams," Jin suggested, "One team to observe from the outside to see anything suspicious, and the other…"
"They'll act as inside moles to inform us if they see anything out of place," Tsubaki finished, "...and I think I know two of which can help with that front."
"NOPE!" Ben exclaimed.
"NO! FREAKING! WAY!" Makoto added.
"Come on, you two…" Tsubaki sighed.
"Listen. I took that online class as Grey Matter so I can finish school, not hop right back into it!" Ben argued.
"And uh...hello? I already went to school via the Military academy and graduated!" Makoto added, "Why do we have to go back to school?!"
"Makoto, our graduate degrees come from a school that won't be open for another two hundred years," Tsubaki replied, "You are the only one who hasn't done online courses to get an equivalent out of all of us. Even Kagura did them."
"Wait, what?!" Makoto gawked.
"Yes. Besides, we've rested for long enough," Tsubaki added, "And this is a rather important mission too, and you did say you were part of the Intelligence Department in the NOL, Makoto."
"D'oh…" Makoto groaned.
"As for you, Ben, I can't truly argue about you completing online courses so you wouldn't have to return, but you and Makoto make a great team and this would be good experience learning from Makoto about what to do in this kind of infiltration where you're a human and not Bullfrag," Tsubaki noted.
"...I...guess that's true…" Ben muttered, "...and this school we're looking into and infiltrating...it's exclusive, right?"
"One of the top exclusive schools in the world, Kibougamine."
"?!" Gwen tensed suddenly, losing focus of her meditation as she opened her eyes.
"What's wrong, Gwen-san?" Sena asked in concern.
"...I don't know why, but I feel like Ben just got 'accepted' into a highly-exclusive world-famous school," Gwen muttered.
"Gwen, stop playing and tell us what's wrong," Kevin spoke up, "...unless it's about what Ben and Makoto's future selves told us about Tuesday."
"...Hold that thought," Gwen whispered, pulling her phone out before dialing in Ben's number, "Come on...pick up…"
=Hello?=
"Ben, were you recently accepted into a highly-exclusive school?"
=What if I was?= Ben asked, Gwen feeling the smirk and ego emanating off his voice.
"...It's not my school, is it?"
=Nope=
"...Harvard?"
=Nuh uh=
"Yale?"
=Nope= Ben replied before a pause went on the line =...Wait, did me being invited to attend this place called Hope's Peak make things go weird in the universe?=
"...What?" Gwen whispered, her eye beginning to twitch a bit, "Y...you...got accepted...into Hope's...Peak…?"
"?!" Sena tensed as he quickly shot behind Kevin, "I don't like where this is going…"
"Me neither," Kevin agreed, quickly putting his hand on a wall and absorbing a layer of armor while Zed ran off out the doggie door, "Smart girl."
=Well...not just me, but Makoto too= Ben answered =It's more for a mission...something about students going missing and someone trying to cover it up=
=We believe it's someone that works there or something= Makoto chimed in.
"...I….see…" Gwen noted...her eye still twitching as mana began to emanate off her.
"...Run?" Sena nervously asked.
"I'll buy you time, Shorty. Get to the Plumber base down the road and they'll send you to Max...Something tells me this place is gonna be ground zero for a magic tantrum worse than last Christmas…" Kevin replied, forming a shield as they began slowly sidestepping to the door.
=I mean it's not like I wanna go...but I mean work is work...I'm just shocked I got in...like...they almost begged me to come...which sets off a lot of Red Flags= Ben muttered =Babe, get the explosives. I think I'm gonna have to burn the place down…=
=I love you so much…=
=Later...I'm serious. I get Crimson levels of Red Flags from this…=
"..." Gwen said nothing as she hung up, taking slow deep breaths as she tried to calm down...despite the massive amounts of mana coming off of her.
"Luna doesn't get it," Luna huffed, "What's this Hope's Peak place? If Ben got in, it must not be all that."
"...Not….all….that?" Gwen repeated.
"?!" Kevin tensed, grabbing Luna before bolting out of there.
"NOT ALL THAT?!"
"Yep. It's last Christmas up to eleven," Kevin gulped.
"Luna still doesn't get it," Luna grumbled, yet still hugged onto Kevin as the Osmosian fled.
"Trust me! It…!"
*BOOOM!*
"...You had to goad her, didn't you?" Tsubaki sighed, sitting in the ProtoTRUK with Jin, Ben, and Makoto while Rook piloted it.
"Only a little...To be fair...that was the worst case scenario I pictured," Ben explained.
"What was Best?" Makoto asked.
"She passes out and realizes the school she held up so high wasn't all that," Ben smiled.
"..." Tsubaki facepalmed.
"Look, let's just go over what we've been titled as in order to go undercover in this school," Jin spoke.
"Yeah yeah…" Ben sighed leaning back, "What you guys get?"
"You four got titles. Tsubaki is having me stay here to observe anything suspicious outside," Rook explained.
"To be fair, you are a tall man covered in a layer of soft fur…" Ben spoke, "So unless we gave the excuse you got a hair condition...you'd be hard to explain."
"Does that imply some humans are also covered in a layer of hair?" Rook blinked.
"Yep," Ben and Makoto nodded.
"Fascinating…" Rook blinked again.
"Ahem! As for the titles, Magister Tennyson was able to provide them given the Headmaster of Kibougamine owes him a favor," Tsubaki stated, pulling out some student IDs before handing three of them to Jin, Ben, and Makoto.
"Ultimate Hero...yup. Kinda sounds right," Ben smirked.
"Ben, sweetie? Your ego is starting to show again," Makoto spoke.
"I have earned this one!" he declared, "I mean...I'm being dragged back to the worst place ever imagined by a vile sadist…"
"How do you think I feel?" Makoto frowned before looking at her ID, "Let's see what I got...Ultimate Brawler, eh?"
"Certainly fits you," Tsubaki noted.
"Was that a compliment or a loving jab at your best friend?" Makoto asked.
"Yes."
"So what about you and Jin?" Ben asked, "Because I think Jin would probably be the Ultimate Ice Mage given how often he makes ice."
"...At least you're not making a jab at me for that," Jin muttered, "And as for what I got...Ultimate Snow Samurai."
"Snow Samurai?"
"Swordsman and Samurai are already taken by other students still in the school," Rook informed, "And Jin would still have that title if he were a girl since another student, a Peko Pekoyama, is the Ultimate Swordswoman."
"Peko Pekoyama...huh. Try saying that three times fast," Makoto commented.
"Very well," Rook replied.
"Ah, no Rook. She didn't mean for you to say it three times fast," Tsubaki noted, "Still, I find my title fitting as well. Ultimate Commander."
"Considering your record in the Plumbers on commanding missions, it suits," Ben noted.
"It really does," Makoto nodded.
"Alright, it seems that Jin and I will be transfer students for the 77-B class while Ben and Makoto will be in the 78-A class," Tsubaki explained.
"The headmaster of the academy has provided files on your classmates," Rook informed, holding up several folders, "Please take your time to review the basics as we fly to the academy."
"Gotcha/Understood," Ben and Jin nodded as they and the girls took the folders.
"Be warned that they are also the classes that students have gone missing in," Rook added, "I have marked those missing with a red dot on the upper right corner."
"Gotcha, Rook," Makoto nodded, "...Huh. We got a pop idol."
"Ultimate Videogamer...that's a thing?" Ben blinked.
"It is, apparently," Tsubaki noted.
"They even let Yakuza and Biker Gangs into this place," Jin noted, looking at a pair of folders.
"And a princess from Novoselic," Ben added before spotting a red dot on the corner, "Seems she's one of the missing students, too."
"Hey, I've seen this girl on magazines that Noel reads," Makoto noted, looking at another folder, "I get the feeling she'll want an autograph when she learns about this..."
"Ultimate Moral Compass…" Tsubaki read, "Hmm...interesting."
"Okay so...anything...that's just it...anything." Ben spoke, "Literally anything...which makes me feel like maybe it's actually not that special of a system…"
"There's even two students called the Ultimate Lucky Student," Makoto added, holding up two folders, "Seems each class year gets one. Some sorta raffle, it seems."
"Huh...must be really good at lotteries," Ben noted.
"Yeah," Makoto agreed, "Though...the level of luck this one is for Tsubaki and Jin…" she held up a pair of pictures showing a lanky white-haired teen in either of two things: one being him holding every single soda can from a vending machine that, in the background, was partially crushed due to a truck having landed atop it; and the other showing the same teen tied up like a mummy, upside down over a fountain filled with piranhas, "...Seems it goes to two different extremes. Either super good luck or super bad luck."
"...Already he unnerves me," Jin muttered.
"...Better keep an extra eye on him then," Ben noted, "Because if someone unnerves someone like Jinny…"
"Don't…" Tsubaki advised, lightly pushing down on Jin's hand reaching to Yukianesa.
"Then he might be trouble…"
"Well let's just hope it ends soon," Makoto sighed.
"Plan B is still burn it to the ground," Ben crossed his arms.
"Why do you two hate school so much?" Jin asked.
"We have our reasons," the couple replied in perfect unison.
"...I forget who I was talking to," Jin deadpanned.
Behind an oak desk, a man with short black/dark purple hair in a black business suit with a purple tie was signing papers. An intercom on the desk buzzed.
=The Americans have arrived, Headmaster=
"Thank you. Please, let them in," the man replied, continuing his paperwork for a few more minutes until the door was politely knocked on, "Come in." the door opened and Ben, Tsubaki, Makoto, and Jin entered, "Excellent. I welcome you to Hope's Peak. Thank you for coming to help with what's going on. I am Kirigiri Jin, Headmaster of the school."
"Your name is Jin?" Ben asked, looking back and forth between him and Jin.
"Resist...urge…" Makoto muttered, struggling not to laugh.
"Max-san told me one of you would share a first name with myself," Kirigiri noted, looking at Jin, "However, that is not the time or place to joke. You've all read the files that I was able to provide?"
"Yes," Tsubaki replied, "It's worrying that these students have gone missing, especially an actual princess."
"We're managing to keep that hidden from the kingdom of Novoselic to prevent any dangerous actions from happening," Kirigiri stated as he pulled out four black phone-like devices, "These are your Student E-Handbooks. They act as maps, access passes, and several other functions. Due to you being involved in the investigations, these four will let you access any area in the school."
"..." Ben raised his Omnitrix up to the device as his alien device scanned it, "And all of it on my watch."
"Thank god you read the manual," Makoto noted, taking hers and Ben's and putting them in her tail.
"Convenient," Kirigiri noted as Tusbaki and Jin accepted theirs, "You'll begin tomorrow. Classes start at 8:00AM exactly. You won't have to worry much on having to attend classes."
"Wait, what?" Tsubaki asked.
"So long as you can pass your exams at the end of the year, students are allowed to do anything they wish so long as they don't leave the campus during school hours," Kirigiri informed before opening a window and held up a hand with the palm to the window.
"..." the four began to raise their brows before an American football smacked into his hand, "!"
"Sorry!" a voice called out.
"Remember to aim and throw at what you're aiming for!" Kirigiri called before throwing it back out and closed the window all while keeping his back to it, "Nekomaru just had to be one of the students that went missing. Far less objects trying to break my windows."
"The Ultimate Coach, correct?" Tsubaki asked, earning a nod.
"Do you have any information about the disappearances?" Jin asked.
"Yes," Kirigiri replied before opening his desk drawer and pulled out a card shaped like a bear's head with one side black and the other white, "We find these on their pillow on their bed, regardless of if they live on campus or at their residence outside of the school."
"...A bear?" Makoto blinked.
"A really ugly bear…" Ben muttered.
"It's like they tried to make a panda and failed," Jin snorted.
"Yet it's our only clue," Kirigiri noted, he then flinched when a green light filled the room.
"Mm…" Wildmutt snorted as he nudged the pillow out of his hand and onto the ground as he began sniffing it, "Rrraah…" he growled in a calm tone.
"Either he's saying he's got a scent...or he wants a head pat…" Makoto explained, Wildmutt nodded his head once as he held up one clawed finger, "Good boyfriend!" she cheered, scratching his head making him fall over and begin kicking his leg.
"I suggest you be careful when using that form on campus," Kirigiri warned, "We have a few students with talents related to animals."
"Rrrah!" Wildmutt complained.
"He says: 'How rude! Good day, sir.'"
"Wait but…"
"Rah/He said good day!" both declared as they left.
"...I am so sorry for those two," Tsubaki apologized.
"It's alright," Kirigiri replied, "Max-san warned me about his grandson and his girlfriend."
"You've barely seen what those two are capable of," Jin argued.
"Which is why I have them in the 78th class," Kirigiri replied before opening the window without even looking, "..." he held up three fingers and counted down on them before pointing at the window when it got to just 'one.'
"EEK/RAWRG!"
"77-A has the Ultimate Hunter," Kirigiri informed.
"How did you do this?! Not even Khyber caught us this fast! And why can't we get out of these?! ARGH! YA RAZZIN' FRAZZIN' STINKIN' ROPE!" Makoto exclaimed as Kirigiri threw a piece of chalk out the window.
"ITE!" a girl's voice yelped.
"They're students, not animals or yokai!" Kirigiri called.
"Aw…"
"But they are a Beastkin and currently an alien called a Vulpamancer," Kirigiri added.
"Yay! Added to my list!"
"I feel that if adults were Ultimates, I'd have long since become Ultimate Headmaster due to all this," Kirigiri sighed as he closed the window once more, "I hope you both take to 77-B well despite the...eccentricities...of some of the students and the homeroom teacher."
"We will do our best, sir," Tsubaki nodded.
"...How eccentric are we talking about?" Jin asked.
"Yukizome wears an apron more often than not and utilizes her talent as the Former Ultimate Housekeeper to keep the class in line," Kirigiri replied, "Think of her as a balance of personalities of Ms. Yayoi and Ms. Nanaya."
'I'm doomed if she's more like Makoto…' Jin thought.
"Well….that happened," Ben muttered as he and Makoto walked along outside the school.
"What scares me is that such a tiny girl was able to catch us like that. Seriously, not even Khyber was able to do that and he's considered the Galaxy's Greatest Huntsman," Makoto noted, "Maybe there's more to this place than we thought."
"No kidding," Ben admitted as he looked around, "Makes me a bit worried we'll get jumped by someone."
"Oh please. Like th-" Makoto began.
"Ah!" Ben held a finger to her lips, "Do not tempt it."
"...Oh phew. Almost…" Makoto sighed after realizing she almost jinxed it, "Heh...kinda ironic that I was the one usually stopping ya form jinxing it."
"Yep. So let's just be careful and get the layout and talk with some of the students tomorrow," Ben spoke.
"Good idea," Makoto nodded, "Though it makes me wonder how our classmates are gonna be like."
"Given that we read the files on them, it should be interesting," Ben shrugged, "Though I bet the teacher is gonna be a snorefest."
"When isn't a teacher boring?" Makoto asked.
"If they're cool, then never," Ben smirked.
"Yup. You won't believe how often I pulled the 'painted open eyes' trick in class," Makoto laughed, "...only until Tsubaki catches me."
"Really? I just found it boring, but still kept awake because the teachers all had my parent's phone number," Ben shrugged, the two unaware of someone approaching from behind.
"Ahh…still, let's hope this teacher isn't all 'full-authoritarian' and plays favorites with certain students."
"Oh I would never do that."
"GH?!" The two jumped as they quickly turned to who said that.
Before them was a young woman roughly a few years older than them. She had big, bright, green eyes with her long orange hair pulled into a ponytail with a small part on the right side of her head curled. She was dressed in a blue skirt suit with a white button shirt underneath...and a pink apron over all that.
"...Eh?"
"I tend to think all my students are my favorites," she noted with a giggle, "Ah, I'm sorry for interrupting, just couldn't help but find the new students that the Headmaster told us about. I'm Yukizome Chisa, Homeroom teacher for Class 77-B."
"77-B? Oh! You're Jin and Tsubaki's new teacher," Makoto noted, "I'm Makoto and this is Ben!"
"Yo," Ben greeted.
"Soka...Then you're both the new students in Class 78-A," Yukizome noted before sighing, "Honestly, I hope you both take it easy on Suji-sensei. This is her first year of being a homeroom teacher and when she substituted for me, I had to be called back in because she couldn't handle my students...well...she was able to handle most of them...it was just two of them that caused the classroom to be blown open that caused her to faint."
"Ahh...Well, don't worry. We're not that crazy," Ben assured.
"I hope so, Tennyson-san. I've seen your track record on the news," Yukizome noted.
"...It wasn't Harangue, was it?"
"Who?" Yukizome asked with a tilted head.
"'Reporter'? He was on TV? ...Had Major hate for Ben and any other teenage hero and tried to get everyone to turn against them?" Makoto tried to clarify.
"..."
"...He's the guy that sold out Earth to that invasion a few months back and got fired after said invaders were forced to flee and what he was intending to do?"
"Ohh~! Him," Yukizome frowned, "The Emperor actually came on TV to declare that he was permanently banned from ever setting foot on Japan. I never saw any broadcasts since we converted the old campus building into an emergency shelter and holed up there for their occupation. Though the school does have an Incursean that actually took interest in Earth's online courses and is a teacher for the Reserve Course."
"Wait, really?" the two blinked.
"Huh...guess not all Incurseans are war hungry," Ben noted, "..Then again, that was mostly Milleous' fault."
"And his brat of a daughter," Makoto added.
"We were also told about the secondary reason you're all here," Yukizome quietly spoke, leaning in closer to them, "You're really here to help find our students?"
"Yeah. I got the scent of the thief, so when I get a chance to explore, I'll be able to find them using Wildmutt," Ben replied.
"That's a relief," Yukizome sighed in relief, "Everyone in my class has been worried about their classmates since they started going missing since two weeks ago. I've had to get Teruteru to work overtime to distract Akane from going out to find those kidnapped by herself."
"Well this mystery kidnapper should be lucky...because if they even touch my friends..especially my BF…they are gonna get a one way trip to the moon via my fist," Makoto stated.
"Great!" Yukizome beamed, standing up fully, "I hope you can get along with your classmates! And welcome to Hope's Peak!"
"Thanks!" Makoto smiled as Yukizome walked off, "Well, she was certainly nice."
"You noticed the apron, too, right?" Ben asked.
"Yep. Strangely, it fits her," Makoto noted.
"...Kinda does now that I think about it," Ben admitted.
"So we go to where we're staying for tonight then tomorrow we start investigations?" Makoto asked.
"Yep," Ben replied.
"Cool. I bet the bedrooms are themed after whichever Ultimate Student is staying in it."
"Nah. I think that might be taking it a step too far," Ben joked as the two resumed walking off.
"Eh, fair. Who knows? They might just customize their rooms themselves based on their tastes and talents," Makoto shrugged.
"True," Ben nodded, neither aware of someone watching from the very top of the school through a sniper rifle's detached scope lens.
"You ever get the feeling someone's watching you?" Makoto asked.
"You mean besides Jin with a sword drawn…?" Ben asked.
"No. Like a sniper or something."
"Babe, if I could feel that, I'd have one less annoying stupid nemesis…" Ben responded.
"...Ahh. I'm probably overthinking it," Makoto waved off, "Probably another student anyway."
"I'm honestly both interested...and dreading this whole trip. Interested cause this place looks insane in every way possible, and dreading…'cause I still hate school and I know school hates me," Ben explained, "I know for a fact there is no such thing as Holiday Detention...but I still got it!"
"Yikes," Makoto cringed.
"I told the principal it wasn't my fault that giant alien blob attacked the school…"
Yukizome paced before a pair of classroom doors the next morning, the sign above reading '7-B.' She stopped when she heard footsteps and turned to see Tsubaki and Jin approach, both wearing the school's uniform.
"Good morning," Tsubaki greeted, 'The headmaster wasn't kidding that the teacher for 77-B wears an apron over her suit…'
"Good morning. You're Kisaragi Jin and Yayoi Tsubaki, yes?"
"We are," Jin nodded.
"Wonderful!" Yukizome beamed, "Alright, please stand out here and I'll signal you both to come in to introduce yourselves. Have to keep up the belief you're both transfer students after all. Also, don't murder Teruteru, please? He's just...eccentric...is all."
"I make no promises…" Jin responded as Tsubaki elbowed his side.
"I apologize for him. He's rather-I apologize for saying this Jin-antisocial."
"I'm not antisocial...I just hate people." Jin replied.
"Ah, a cold exterior that only you can thaw out the interior fully," Yukizome noted, "I'll go greet the class now. Remember to wait for the signal."
"GYAHAHAHAHAH~!"
"What was that?" Tsubaki asked, "It sounded both painful and...aroused?"
"That was Teruteru pulled into a half nelson," Yukizome replied as if she was talking about the weather before opening the door and entered while closing it behind her, "Akane, release him at once! You know that doesn't punish him, but excites him!"
"Do we have to do this?" Jin questioned.
"Yes." Tsubaki spoke.
"Okay...Do I have to do this?" Jin corrected himself.
"Also yes...in case you forget...I am the superior officer here," she smiled.
"Technically...and...ugh...it should be Tennyson...but you're so much smarter, it'd be literal suicide not to put you in charge," Jin corrected.
"Ben's had a profound effect on you," Tsubaki noted.
"...Do not let him find out," Jin muttered
"Don't worry...I'll treat this as my own little victory," Tsubaki smiled.
"At least that I can accept defeat to...but never Tennyson...unless it's Magister...in which case...it doesn't count," Jin admitted.
"Okay! You can come in now, you two!"
"Of course," Tsubaki nodded as the two walked in.
"..." Jin looked over everyone else in the class for a moment, "Nope." he moved to leave once more.
"Jin, behave," Tsubaki whispered, grabbing his arm before he could step out.
"Everyone, please welcome our new students! Ultimate Commander, Yayoi Tsubaki, and Ultimate Snow Samurai, Kisaragi Jin!" Yukizome introduced with a smile to the students before her.
Tsubaki and Jin were quick to take note of the amount of students. Of the sixteen students that they had files on, only twelve were in there. Hanging over a desk wearing a chef's outfit was a short, pudgy teen tied up in rope with his face turning red from the blood rushing up it while a tall, shapely, dark-skinned girl with wild brown hair was glaring at him with her entire cleavage exposed due to her somewhat unbuttoned shirt. Another was a somewhat short girl with her long blond hair pulled into twin ponytails wearing an orange and green kimono and was sitting beside a nervous looking shapely girl with long black hair and several bandage wraps on one of her legs and arms. Tsubaki raised a brow discreetly on seeing a teen with long pink hair and his teeth filed into fangs wearing a backwards baseball hat on his head sitting near a pale-skinned teen with a streak of white in his black hair...with twelve hamsters poking out of several spots on his school clothes and long purple scarf. A young-looking teen with a sharp glare on his face seemed to be studying the two along with a girl wearing glasses with her long silver hair pulled into braided ponytails going over her shoulders. The only two not paying attention to them were a girl wearing a cat-themed hoodie playing a Nintendo DS and a young, sickly-looking teen scribbling away on a tablet.
"Oh wow!" the last of them, a girl with long black hair dyed several colors with several piercings, a spiked necklace, and ripped mismatching stockings with a ripped striped sleeve on her right arm exclaimed, "Snow Samurai? Do you fight with weapons made of ice? Ibuki is amazed! Summer must be hell for your skills!"
"...What is happening?" Jin blinked.
"Forgive Ibuki," a lanky teen with wild white hair that the two recognized from the reports apologized, "She gets so excited easily. Still, this is quite surprising. Was it just luck that we got new students?"
"Hmph. It matter not what the status is," the boy with the hamsters huffed as a very chubby golden-orange hamster on his shoulder shied away from the side Jin was standing in as , "Cham-P can feel the demonic ice that emanates from that one." an orange and white hamster carrying a sunflower seed tilted their head while looking at Tsubaki, "And San-D can tell something about the red maiden beside the winter's warrior."
"Hamsters…" Tsubaki muttered, 'I haven't a clue what he's saying...but those hamsters are just adorable…'
'Another idiot!' Jin hissed in his mind with a blank expression on his face.
"...Hey...Those names sound familiar to me…" the dark-skinned girl noted, scratching her head in thought, "Wait a second! Weren't you two part of the main group that fought off those frog guys earlier this year?"
"If we say 'yes'...will you have another outburst?" Jin asked.
"Le gasp!" Ibuki exclaimed, "We're students with two guys that fought actual aliens!"
"That's a 'yes,'" Jin deadpanned.
"Oh how wonderful!" the white-haired teen beamed, "A pair of Ultimates fighting off an invading force now here!"
"Don't be weird, Nagito," the pink-haired teen deadpanned.
'Too late...he's already the most weird one,' Jin thought.
"Hello. As Yukizome-sensei said, I'm Tsubaki and this is Jin. And we were part of the group that fought the leaders of the Incurseans several months ago," Tsubaki spoke with a bow.
"Hmph. You don't look like much," the young-looking male teen scoffed.
"I wonder how long it'll take to break you two," the young-looking girl pondered.
*THUD*
"No threatening to break people, Hiyoko," Yukizome stated with a smile...while having a small knife embedded in the other teen's desk, "And don't underestimate them, Fuyuhiko. Jin's title isn't a joke." she opened an eye a little to look over at the silver-haired girl that was blocking a floating shard of ice with the flat of a katana that had been aimed to graze the male teen's cheek, "As you can see."
"Jin…"
"What...I wasn't trying...It's not like he's Tennyson. I know full well he'd die if I tried for real," Jin argued.
"Wh-Wh-What the hell?!" the pink-haired teen freaked, "He just made ice outta nowhere!"
"He's like Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat," the game-playing girl noted, looking up from her game, "He froze the moisture in the air for his attack."
"...Heh," Fuyuhiko chuckled, "Well, you've got some big balls to threaten me. Color me impressed. Alright, I'm fine with you both for now."
"I can only hope Tennyson is having as much of an awkward time as I am…" Jin sighed.
"Yo! My name's Ben!" Ben greeted the class of eleven students while standing beside Makoto at the front of the class.
"I'm Makoto! Nice to meet ya!" the squirrel Beastkin beamed, her tail wagging.
"HEY!" one of the students, a boy with short black hair and red eyes, shouted as she stood up, "What are with those cosplay items on your person? That tail is completely against school uniform regulations!"
"Oh no...These are real," Ben spoke up first, a hand quickly on Makoto's shoulder to keep her from jumping the teen, "Like...totally part of her anatomy, and totally adorable."
"Wh-What?!" the teen gawked.
"Really? Wow, that's kinda badass," a larger teen with his hair put into a pompadour and wearing a black jacket over his uniform noted.
"Yeah, heads up...we're kinda weird in a sense." Ben smiled, "Well, for sure I am."
"But you look completely normal." the teen who marched up to them noted. He then flinched as a green flash replaced Ben with Diamondhead.
"Not really." he smirked.
"Whoa! How did you do that?!" a shapely dark-skinned girl gawked, her ponytail sticking up in surprise.
"He's Ben 10," a plain looking boy with messy brown hair and a cowlick noted, "Haven't you seen the news about him, Hina?"
"Huh? That was real?!" a tall student with wild brown hair with his uniform's coat over his shoulders gawked, nearly dropping the crystal ball he was holding, "I thought all that was just something a kid made up online!"
"Trust me…" Diamondhead smirked, "I'm very real." he laughed crossing his arms, "And me and my girlfriend have been saving this world for...how long now, babe?"
"Give or take 9-10 months…" Makoto shrugged.
"Exactly," Diamondhead chuckled before changing back into Ben.
"Gee...That's kinda interesting…" a shapely girl with thick, long, bleached strawberry blond hair, blue eyes, and red fingernails noted in a depressed tone before suddenly adopting a chipper, adorable expression, "Oh gee! You both seem so neat!"
"..." Makoto and Ben looked at the teen before them and at the last one repeatedly.
'Well...Not sure if I should get Noel that autograph…' Makoto thought.
"Ah, Junko has an issue with boredom, so she switches her personality every so often," he informed, "Ah!" he bowed, "Forgive me! I forgot to introduce myself as well! I am Ishimaru Kiyotaka! Ultimate Moral Compass!"
"My boyfriend could use your friendship in the event I am not around," Makoto smiled.
"Hey…" Ben complained, "That's Rook's job."
"Who is not here," Makoto smiled, causing him to pout, "Taka-kun! Keep my boyfriend from doing anything...dangerous."
"I'mma still try," Ben pouted.
"Taka-kun?" he blinked.
"You look like a Taka." Makoto explained, "Also it's part of your name."
"She's gonna nickname anyone who doesn't have a nickname." Ben explained.
"Kinda my thing," Makoto added.
"Great minds think alike!" Hina beamed, "I'm Asahina Aoi, but just call me 'Hina' for short! Nice to meet ya, Koto-chan, Ten-kun!"
"...Oh I like her already," Makoto grinned.
"Mmm…" a pale looking girl with glasses uttered, trying not to make contact with the newcomers, 'A-Another big t-tittied girl…'
"Just ignore them…" a male student with glasses whispered to himself.
"Aw...Antisocial people to make love me as their new best friend," Makoto smiled.
"How about no?"
"Dude, trust me...you can't shake her off," Ben spoke.
"Better then you have tried," Makoto smiled.
"Owhow!" Ben laughed.
"She's got you there, dude," the pompadour-sporting teen noted, "Said the same thing to Makoto and you became friends with him."
"Huh? But I'm a girl," Makoto noted.
"Um...My name is Naegi Makoto," the cowlick teen noted, "Mondo prefers using my first name over my last like the others do."
"Ahh. Gotcha, Naegs," Makoto nodded.
'A real live kemono-mimi...and taken by a shapeshifter...Ahh...The dangers of being around 3D women…' a rather plump student with a squirrely face, glasses, and his black hair neatly combed aside from a bit that pointed up in a needle shape thought.
"Name's Hagakure Yasuhiro," the tall student with wild brown hair spoke, "Nice to meetcha Bente, Koko! If either of ya wants a fortune, just ask! My success rate's thirty percent!"
"Dude...I don't think you should advertise the thirty percent part…" Ben chuckled.
"Eh? Ya sure?" Hagakure asked, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"..." Naegi pulled them to the side and quietly spoke, "I know it may seem weird, but when Hiro makes a prediction, there's a one in three chance it'll be a real fortune. He actually predicted that our class would end up with a change of numbers just before students went missing."
"Really?" the two blinked.
"Yeah," Naegi nodded.
"Huh...neat," Makoto noted.
"You would think so…" the pale girl in glasses muttered.
"...excuse me?" Makoto asked, looking over at her.
"Toko's not a fan of chests our size," Hina whispered, leaning in to where a human's ear was.
"...Ears are up here," Makoto stated, pointing at her twitching squirrel ears.
"Eh...Really?" she blinked, "Well, I mean that's obvious...but I mean...I'm not used to that. Also you are a bit tall…"
"Ah, I'm just joking," Makoto giggled, "I can hear ya just fine. My ears are sensitive enough to hear a lot of things all over a building this size. Though…" she tilted her head, "It's weird, but I don't hear a thing outside of the room."
"That's because all the walls in the school are soundproof," the teen in glasses stated, adjusting them.
"Seriously?"
"It's to prevent distractions, plebeian," the teen in glasses scoffed.
"...He's a rich douchebag, isn't it?" Makoto whispered to Naegi.
"Eheheheheh...It...It's a bit more complicated than that with Byakuya," Naegi sheepishly replied.
"AH! Did winter come early?" the chubby student asked, seeing snow rapidly falling outside the window.
"...Jin…" the two Plumbers groaned.
"Hmm?" a girl with Lilac-purple hair raised a brow at that.
"He's a...I want to say 'friend,' but…" Ben began.
"He's a pretty antisocial guy," Makoto finished as Junko opened the window in time to hear Jin shouting…
"YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT THIS INSTANT, YA GODDAMN BIMBO!" Jin snapped.
"CAN'T CATCH ME, ICEY BOY! WHOA! ALLEY-OOP!"
"HOW ARE YOU DOING ALL THAT?!"
"Ultimate Gymnast!"
"That is not gymnastics! That is more parkour!"
"..." Ben tapped his Omnitrix, "Tsubaki, you had one job…"
=Akane wanted to fight Jin and ended up pressing a button by accident= Tsubaki explained sheepishly on the line.
"And you rip on us for messing up," Makoto deadpanned.
"How the hell did the weather change so damn fast?" Mondo asked.
"Jin's the Ultimate Snow Samurai," Ben replied, "He can easily make a blizzard with just two words."
"And those are...?" the lilac-haired girl asked.
"SERIOUSLY! ALL I SAID WAS YOU'RE A TOTAL BROCON! I AIN'T JUDGIN'!"
"Summon...YUKIANESA!" Jin roared as the snowfall turned into a blizzard, forcing Junko to slam the window close just before snow could get in.
"Those," Makoto replied.
"Damn…" Mondo blurted.
"He'll be like this for a few more minutes then I'll melt it all," Ben shrugged.
"Normally, his brother is nearby to deal with him when he's like this, but no such luck," Makoto shrugged.
"Plus he doesn't seem like a school kind of guy," Ben added.
"Why?" Hiro asked.
"He seems more like a guy who prefers to go out and figure things out on the field than in a room," Makoto shrugged.
"Plus he's one of the no-nonsense type of guys," Ben added.
"So, uh...How are you gonna handle instant Winter?" Hiro asked.
"With an alien that can make supernovas," Ben shrugged.
"Wait, what?" Naegi gawked.
"..." Kirigiri sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose as Akane and Jin sat at the chairs on the other side of his desk with Yukizome bowing repeatedly, "Alright. Owari-san, no more saying that word around Kisaragi-san. Kisaragi-san...don't make the campus go through a blizzard unless it involves a high-level case such as an alien attacking that requires high levels of heat to fight at its full potential."
"Understood, sir," Jin nodded.
"Yeah yeah…" Akane muttered.
"Yukizome-sensei, take them out," Kirigiri ordered.
"Yes, sir," Yukizome replied.
"A blizzard on the first day...Not the worst event on campus," Kirigiri muttered, "That churro tornado from the Class of 56, however…" he shuddered, "The dentists rejoiced and the affected wailed in agony for weeks…"
"Did you have to do that, Akane?" Yukizome asked with a sigh of exasperation.
"Yep!" Akane beamed before wrapping an arm over Jin's shoulders and pulled him into a side hug, "If I didn't, then I wouldn't have gotten to see how awesome this guy is! You're alright, Jinny!"
"Aw great, another one," Jin groaned.
"Hey, let's go grab some food to eat! I'm starving after all that!" Akane beamed.
"...Oh god, she's l-" Jin began before Akane dragged him off, "Ahh!"
"Antisocial...Quite like Ryoma," Yukizome noted, "...Hmm...Perhaps I should ask Chiaki if she can get a Game Day going."
"Hmm...Japan certainly has quite the history," Rook noted, looking at some articles and videos, "Though...I would rather not meet these 'Asian Giant Hornets.'" he quickly shook his head as he began to watch some video footage from some security and traffic cameras, "I need to focus...see if I can find out anything suspicious. I c-"
*BOOM!*
"?!" Rook tensed, closing the other windows to focus on one displaying a now burning and destroyed monorail train, "What is this? A bombing?" he furrowed his brow as he looked at it, "This is terrible...so many lives gone in an instant. Who could have done this? ...Wait..." he zoomed in the camera on a picture of a woman seemingly calm while everyone else was panicking, "Why is this woman…?" he tensed when the screen suddenly blanked out, "?!" he tapped away on his keyboard with wide eyes, "This is...troubling." he pulled out his badge, "Magister Tennyson, my computer has been hacked."
=What?= Max asked =The firewall was made by Galvans. How could someone be able to hack into that?=
"I am unsure," Rook replied, "However, they deleted some video footage I was reviewing of a train bombing just as I was about to examine a woman calmly leaving the area despite all the panic. Fortunately, I was able to find the date and time of the explosion before it was deleted."
=Bring your computer back to the Japan HQ and we'll see about restoring the data= Max noted.
"Pardon?"
=Even if something is deleted, it's not completely gone from a system= Kajun spoke up =It will take some time to restore the data that was deleted. Give them your computer and it will be sent straight back here for us to work on=
"Understood," Rook nodded before frowning a bit, "Though now...I have a theory."
=Hmm?=
"Considering people have been disappearing from Hope's Peak and their disappearances are being covered up...perhaps whoever is behind it is the same person or people that deleted that footgate, most likely not wanting it to be seen."
=...How deep does this mystery go?= Max pondered.
"I am unsure," Rook frowned.
=Hurry and get to the Japan HQ, Rook= Max ordered.
"Yes, sir," Rook replied, putting his computer away and proceeded to drive...only for a police siren to go off, "..." he parked and the officer on a bike pedaled to a halt beside him and got off, "..."
"Son, you're aware that you were driving on the wrong side of the road, right?" the officer asked once Rook rolled the window down.
"My apologies, officer," Rook apologized, "I was unaware that driving on roads was different than in Bellwood."
"First time in Japan?"
"Yes, sir."
"Ahh...Well be careful next time."
"Thank you, officer," Rook replied, "I will do my best to be more careful."
"Good," he nodded as Rook drove off.
"Alright, time to get to work," Ben spoke as he and Makoto stood in the middle of the school's courtyard.
"Righty-o!" Makoto beamed before her ear twitched, "Hold on." she turned around to look at a corner, "Hey! I heard you over there!"
"..." the lilac-haired girl stepped out, "Your hearing is as strong as you claimed it."
"Can we help you...Kyoko, was it?" Makoto asked as the girl walked up to them.
"Let's drop all pretenses. You're not here to be students but to assist finding the missing students from the 78th and 77th classes," she stated, crossing her arms under her chest.
"?!" Ben and Makoto tensed up at that.
"My title is the Ultimate Detective," Kyoko stated, "You four showing up so soon after the students began to go missing screams that this has gone up to a level that requires external aid from an organization that only in the last year was forced to reveal itself due to the Incursean Invasion."
"...well…" Makoto began, taking a quick look around before whispering to ya, "We'd tell ya more, but...we don't know if the person possibly covering this up is overhearing us."
"Cover up?"
"We believe someone in the school is covering up the missing students," Ben explained quietly, "Considering one of the missing is an actual princess…"
Kyoko nodded, "Meaning that whoever wants to keep this covered wants to keep Novoselic out of this. Or, rather...letting this draw any negative attention to Hope's Peak."
"Yep," Ben nodded as he turned on his Omnitrix and turned into Wildmutt.
"We got a scent from the calling card of the kidnapper," Makoto quietly explained, "So Ben's gonna use his best sniffer to find them." Wildmutt sniffed around before letting out a few growls and whines, "Eh? Does that mean you can't smell 'em or that you found them and you're shocked at who it is?" Wildmutt held up one finger, "Seriously?!"
Wildmutt changed back into a frowning Ben, "I either washed away the scent after melting the ice and snow from Jin's tantrum or that was a false lead."
"Ahh mou~" Makoto pouted.
"More than likely, it's the former," Kyoko noted, "Keep the scent on hand on the off chance the next one has a different scent."
"Good idea," Ben nodded.
"We could use the assistance," Makoto noted quietly to Ben, "It would be useful to have someone that knows more about the school than we do."
"True," Ben nodded, "Care to assist then, Kyoko?"
"Of course," Kyoko nodded, "I've been performing my own investigations prior to your arrival."
"What do you have so far?" Makoto asked.
"Not out here," Kyoko replied, discreetly looking around.
"Know any quiet places?" Makoto quietly asked, "Particularly any spots where eyes or ears can't see nor hear?"
"The old school building doesn't have cameras," Kyoko replied.
"Good. Though…" Makoto paused, taking a quick look around, "We may need to stay close and remain hidden for now. Our mystery perp might be watching us as we speak."
"Which way is it?" Ben asked.
"That way. Behind the main building," Kyoko replied before a green light went off, making her close her eyes for a moment before she opened to reveal they were before an older building behind the main building with XLR8 putting her and Makoto down, "...useful."
"Th-" XLR8 began before Makoto put a hand on his mouth.
"Shh…" Makoto quietly hushed, using her tail to move Kyoko a bit as she pulled the two into the building, "...Okay. We should be good."
"What do you have?" XLR8 asked.
"You've seen the card that keeps getting left at the kidnapped's bed, right?" Kyoko asked.
"Yeah," the two nodded.
"This isn't the first time it's shown up," Kyoko informed as she pulled out a plastic bag with a burnt version of the card, "I found this at the scene of a train bombing."
"A bombing?" Makoto repeated with wide eyes.
"Yes. But what's troubling is that when I was looking at the video footage, my computer was hacked and the footage was deleted," Kyoko frowned, "I was smart enough to make copies of it, but when I went back to my room the day after, I found that it was ransacked and all but the one copy I keep on me was missing."
"Yeah...That? That is suspicious," Makoto frowned, "It's like they're really trying to cover up what happened at that train bombing. And the only connection between that and these kidnappings is that calling card."
"And unless I can get a clear track of the scent as Wildmutt, we're in the dark pretty much," Ben added.
"Hmm...Hey, Rook?" Makoto asked as she contacted him on her badge, "You got any info about this train bombing?"
=I did, but someone was able to hack into a Galvan-made firewall to delete the footage= Rook replied =I am currently at the Japan HQ in order to restore the deleted video file through sending it back to the Bellwood HQ=
"Wait. Someone was able to hack you, Rook?" Ben blinked.
"...Okay. This is starting to be too coincidental," Makoto frowned, "...Wait...what if…?"
"Hmm?" Kyoko raised a brow.
"I think whoever is behind the bombing and the disappearances...already knows about me, Ben, and our friends," Makoto theorized.
"?!" Ben and Kyoko tensed at that.
"It's the only logical answer we can come to after all that's happened," Makoto explained her reasoning.
"...Okay. We may need to warn Tsubaki and Jin," Ben spoke.
"I see...that is rather concerning," Tsubaki whispered into her badge in a spot in the school where the cameras weren't on her and Jin.
=Yeah. Whoever this guy or gal...or people are, they're good...really good at covering their tracks= Makoto stated.
=Rook says they got past a Galvan firewall...a feat that is pretty scary= Ben added.
"...Then it's best we keep communication to a minimum then," Jin suggested, "If they can accomplish something like that, then there's the chance they'll hack into our communications network."
=I'm starting to think so, too…= Makoto whispered =We'll have to meet up in secret then=
"Good idea," Tsubaki nodded, "Stay safe you two."
=Can do=
"..Things have already gotten complicated," Tsubaki muttered, "Not one day and already our perpetrator is onto us, and one of the students has figured out our plan."
"What did you expect...we brought Tennyson...a world famous hero with a thousand powers at his fingertips. Of course it would be suspicious," Jin sighed.
"What's done is done. We just...need to be extra careful," Tsubaki stated
"Especially around the other students," Jin added, making Tsubaki look at him, "There's a chance one of the students could be the person behind this."
"That makes this more difficult," Tsubaki nodded, "It means we don't know who we can trust."
"At least with us…" Jin sighed, "I assume those two will trust anyone even if dangerous."
"Least the student that found us out is also suspicious about what's going on," Tsubaki muttered, "Hopefully th-"
"Shh," Jin hushed, holding a hand up as his eyes narrowed, "Someone is spying on us."
"?!" Tsubaki tensed as Jin summoned Yukianesa.
"Be ready…" Jin whispered, getting into a defensive stance as he looked down the hallway, "Whoever that is, show yourself."
"Nee hee hee. Wow...talk about all serious," a voice laughed as a figure walked out from the corner, revealing it to be a young man with a thin build and very pale skin, wearing a white suit with multiple straps around his arms and two hanging loosely around his legs while the scarf around his neck was black and white, spaced like that of a chessboard, "I was just minding my own business and you have to pull a sword out...in school no less."
"I'm going to kill it." Jin spoke.
"Down," Tsubaki ordered, lightly pushing down on Jin's hand grasping Yukianesa's hilt.
"Smart move," the young man smirked, "Don't want to upset the wrong organization."
"...what do you mean?" Tsubaki cautiously asked.
"Hmm? Oh where are my manners," the young man chuckled, "I'm Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader...and trust me.." his cheerful looking face gave way to a slightly sinister looking smile, "You don't want to mess with me~ The group I lead...we're Illuminati and SHOCKER levels of secret...and just as dangerous~"
"Did...did he just make a reference to the children's TV show Kamen Rider…" Jin blinked.
"...nee hee hee! Just kidding!" Kokichi laughed as his cheerful face returned, "...or am I?"
'...I already hate this kid,' Jin thought, "Can I punch him, now?"
"...ah...Sure." Tsubaki sighed, deciding to give up.
"Wait what?" Kokichi blinked, he then cried in pain as Jin punched him, knocking him over.
"You held back right?" Tsubaki asked.
"Right...held...back…" Jin shook his hand, knocking off the layer of ice which covered his knuckles.
"Ow~"
"...Any ideas what class this little punk was in?" Jin asked Tsubaki.
"Not sure. Give me a second to check," Tsubaki replied, pulling out her E-Handbook as she began to search something up, "Okay...It seems he's in the 79th class...also known as the V3 class."
"V3? ...Like the roman numeral for '5' for the V?"
"Apparently so."
"Well...this place just gets weirder and weirder."
"It seems his title is Ultimate Supreme Leader," Tsubaki noted.
"So he wasn't lying about that part...Well...now I understand why Brutus killed Emperor Nero..." Jin muttered, "...what else is in this one's class?"
"...That's odd. It seems they're also dubbed the Ultimate Delinquents," Tsubaki muttered, "And yet some of the titles for these students contradict that."
"They must all be total pains in the ass then..." Jin sighed, "So what do we do with this brat?"
"We should probably take him to the nurse's office," Tsubaki noted.
"Do we have to?...correction. Do I have to?"
"Hmm…" Tsubaki responded with a glare.
"Fine…" Jin sighed dragging him by his leg...dragging his face across the floor the entire way, "If he wakes up, I'm going to punch him again."
"Ugh...honestly…" Tsubaki sighed as she followed him, 'Still...this worries me now. According to what I read on Class 79...there were a few missing students as well, yet Headmaster Kirigiri didn't tell us about it. Or rather...he didn't know...how deep does this mystery go?'
Meanwhile, in an unknown location laid eleven pods, each one holding a different student as some lights shone down on them. It was then a shadowy figure walked out of the shadows, a rather...unsettling grin growing on their face.
"Upupupupupupupupu….this is gonna be great," the figure grinned, "A hero...an actual hero here in the school...Oh I can't wait to bring them into the bringing depths of despair."
"You are aware one of them is Ben Tennyson, right?" another spoke as they walked in.
"Oh I know...ooh~ Which means if I can get him into Despair...the entire galaxy will feel it~!"
"You think it'll be that easy?"
"Well duh. First I just mess with him...then when he least suspects it, each and every one of his friends will vanish..and when I find him...I give his friends a Punishment Time right in front of him~"
"...and you sure that won't backfire?"
"...Are you actually doubting me?" the first figure blinked a bit, "...mmm. I thought you'd do anything for your sister~"
"..."
"Besides, those old fogies behind the Kamakura project are continuing covering up the missing students and me being a 'suspect' are distracting them, meaning they do not suspect a thing~" the first figure stated.
"..."
"...You know if you keep ignoring me like that, I'll just have to make the next disappeared student that boy you like..Naegi something…"
"?!"
"Upupupupupu…On second thought, that lovely expression just made it my goal. Tomorrow, Naegi Makoto is the next target!"
'...Naegi...be safe.'
GT: Hoo boy...This is gonna be something.
SZ: Indeed..and bet you all never expected Danganronpa to be in this story/universe we created here, huh?!
GT: I didn't. Z0, did you? *Sees him chaining himself up* Oh right...This is in Japan. Home to so many things that Z0 wants to add.
Z0: *mask opens* I'm failing...if you don't move it...I'm gonna make Guyver bust down the wall! Don't give me an opening...you know how many Japanese Hero manga I've read...too much man...Too much! Just look what I did to the bear *points to Monokuma's eye* I...I uh can't find the rest...that's how bad I got…
SZ;...wow.
Z0: *becomes Guyver 3* Your next if you don't get your butts moving…
GT: Ohh...And we kinda need him for W Trigger, too...Ah well. *picks up the eye and walks off* I'll go make another body for the bear for us to destroy via cat or sentient GaiaMemory later. Read and Review, folks!
Z0: *snaps chains as sonic blades extend from arms* Too late...the hype is coming!
SZ: OH GEEZ!