Continued from here.
Chapter Three DEAD END
"Heart-Throbbing Execution!"
"..."
Monokuma stood in silence, his face lowered toward the ground. As the final vote had come and made him the chosen killer of this trial, he had fallen into a strange sort of silence. "... Me?" he eventually asked, sounding depressed. "You really think... it's me? I can't believe it... to be caught like this. In all the days we've spent together, it didn't occur to me that my students would outgrow me. But now it seems that time has come. You've manage to best me, the top percentage of bear and plush kind. I am truly honored to have lost to you all."
A swerve at this point seemed inevitable, but Monokuma continued with his despondent behavior. He sighed loudly and raised one hand, signaling for the display behind him to change to the roulette wheels.
"It's time for this bear to face the music. In this latest bloody murder, did you guess right? I don't mean to spoil the surprise... but it seems my time as your headmaster is up."
The wheels began to spin, cycling through all of the suspects' faces.
The slot machine eventually stopped, landing on Monokuma's face three times in a row.
The text below flashed...
GUILTY
Jude let out an excited yell.
"Guys, we did it! I knew it!"
Monokuma let out a contented sigh as the mechanical hand rose from the ground and approached him.
"I guess this truly is how it's supposed to be. Isn't it despairing? The inevitability of it all... I guess I should say before I go what occurred between the Witch and I..." Monokuma cleared his throat. "You see, after she took that gun, she found my and aimed it at my pretty bear head! She said she would beat me at my own game-- isn't that exciting? She said no matter what I or the darkness did, she would find a way to survive... and I suppose she did, in a way."
"What do you mean--"
"Pipe down! Let a bear have his final confession! You see, me and my beary bad bod wasn't going to just let her say whatever she wanted! A headmaster has to put his students in their place... The poor thing, though! She knew she couldn't keep the darkness at bay for much longer. She knew she would give in eventually, like any other addict! If you want to talk about shady pasts... Wanda's one of the shadiest! I bet if I gave her the chance, she'd go,
'No more bears.' That would be so bad of her! Think about the bears, people!"
"Can you get to the damn point?!" Shane yelled.
"I'm just about to, thank you very much! I guess the Witch didn't like what I had to say much, so she started becoming a little... unhinged. You know how it is. Magic going haywire, darkness threatening to control her... she had a plan, a last-ditch effort to contact the outside world. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. All I know is that it involved the Witch using all her energy! I had to put a stop to that, obviously! A stuffed animal such as I picked up the gun she dropped and -
BAM! BAM! - down she went!"
The mechanical hand loomed closer, its fingers hovering just over Monokuma.
"So now you know the story. But..."
"... is it the whole truth!"
The mechanical hand suddenly turned right around, flying toward the group to grab at little Monomi. The text under the roulette wheel changed to--
INNOCENT
The faces on the wheel then switched to that of Monomi.
And the text once again displayed...
GUILTY
"N-No!! Wait!"
"Monomi didn't! I-I'm not--"
Jude stared up at the hand holding Monomi in shock, his mouth wide open.
"No... he's lying. He has to be! Monomi would never-- Monokuma is changing the rules!"
"Nothing quite so dramatic, I'm afraid! Everyone was simply wrong... Little Sis' Monomi was the true killer all along! She did very well in lying to all of you! Who else but she would clean up the body and make it look nice and presentable?"
"This is--" Monomi squirmed inside the hand.
"This is what Wanda wanted! She begged Monomi... She said her power was becoming too much! She said I had to... I had to shoot her and try to make it so Monokuma was blamed! I didn't want to. I really didn't want to! But she begged and begged, and then when she was rising into the air, screaming as she burned... There was no choice! It's what she... What she... Noooo!! They voted for you! This isn't fair!"
"Oh, my lowly pathetic sister..." Monokuma shook his head, grinning ear to ear. "I never once stated what would happen if you guys voted
wrong! It is up to my discretion! Someone has to be executed, and in this case, why not
you? No one will
mind... you're a murderer!"
Monomi shook and yelled, her crying loud enough to fill the room.
"Monomi was just trying to do what was best! I wanted to protect everyone...! Wanda said she was a danger... And you... why won't you just go away!"
"No can do, Sis'! You
lose."
"Nooooo--!!"
The little rabbit's screams died out as she was pulled into the deep, black hole. She appeared on the screen moments later in a dark, blank abyss. The little rabbit looked around, shaking. A light eventually shone from above, revealing the dead body of Wanda. Monomi flinched away from the sight, only to back into another body-- a light turned on, revealing it to be Jude. More and more lights turned on, revealing the dead bodies of all the students, their bodies in various states of decomposition. The little rabbit screamed and fell to the ground, burying her face into the floor. She shook violently, refusing to move or look up.
The bodies around her then stood. It almost seemed assured they would converge on Monomi like they had with Dan, but they only stood and stared. They all eventually pointed her away, beginning to chant something. This caused Monomi to look up, though her face expressed the notion that their words were causing her pain. This turned out to be literal as every word chanted by the group began to cut at the rabbit, her stuffing and mechanical part beginning to leak from her body.
Even without sound, it was easy to tell that the bodies were blaming her. Their eyes conveyed true hatred.
It wasn't long before Monomi was little more than a pile of broken parts, signaling the feed to cut out.
"W-What...?" Jude couldn't believe it. The boy staggered on his feet, eventually collapsing down on to his knees.
"She... I didn't think she would ever..."
Victoria sighed deeply, rubbing at her eyes. Nearby, Diana was staring blankly at the ground. The sound of laughter eventually filled the room.
"Upupu... Upuhuhuhuh! Gyah-hehehe! You idiots! How could you be so dim? Why would I ever kill you, when you all do it so much better! The most satisfying kill of all is the one you get to
watch! You thought Monomi was your hope...? Huhu... You have no hope! Even with an annoying little rabbit or not, your hope of escaping is zero! Zilch! Nothing! All you get is a big fat failure... to which you must face punishment for, right? Losing's gotta mean something!"
Monokuma tilted his head to the side. "Hmm..." He eventually raised a hand to point at
Felix. "I choose you!" The armored man then flinched violently, his neck bending at an unnatural angle. He collapsed to the floor in a heap, dead before he even hit the ground. "Hmm, but we wouldn't want that armor to go to waste, right?" Monokuma shrugged, and the armor suddenly disappeared from Felix and instead appeared around
Tharja, trapping her inside. "Might be a bit hard to move around in that!"
"You damn monster! Monomi wouldn't have-- she wouldn't have hurt anybody if not for this horrible situation! She was... She was just trying to..." Jude shivered.
"What's the point anymore...?"
Monokuma then casually hopped off the stage and moved to leave the cafeteria. "You still have a few hours before the sun rises! I suggest you get some rest, because... as you may have guessed, without the Witch and Monomi, your last line of defense is gone! It's only a matter of time now..."
And then Monokuma was gone.
***
CAST LIST
@C.T. as
Arya Stark "Ultimate Killer" [Game of Thrones]
@Kaykay as
Chikage Kushinada "Ultimate Jujutsuka" [History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi]
@Chewy Rabbits as
Catbug "Ultimate Cutie" [Bravest Warriors]
@Minerva as
Corrin "Ultimate Protector" [Fire Emblem]
@DapperDogman as
Darv "Ultimate Saltborn" [Salt & Sanctuary]
@Yun Lee as
Edmond Honda "Ultimate Sumo Wrestler" [Street Fighter]
@BarrenThin as
Genji Shimada "Ultimate Forgiveness" [Overwatch]
@The Tactician as
Jack "Ultimate Samurai" [Samurai Jack]
@york as
Jack Frost "Ultimate Funhouse" [Rise of the Guardians]
@Verite as
Kyoko Kirigiri "Ultimate ???" [Danganronpa]
@Gummi Bunnies as
"Lapis Lazuli" "Ultimate Crystal" [Original Character]
@LuckycoolHawk9 as
M. "Stiles" Stilinski "Ultimate Sarcasm" [Teen Wolf]
@Crow as
Morikubo Nono "Ultimate Wallflower" [THE iDOLM@STER]
@Jeremi as
Poison "Ultimate Manager" [Street Fighter]
@ShiroKiyoshi as
Rant T. Mouse "Ultimate Rat Mouse" [Original Character]
@Crimson Spartan as
Seamus "Sledge" Cowden "Ultimate Breaching Charge" [Rainbow Six: Siege]
@Hospes as
Tarlotte "Ultimate Tantrum" [Kyoshiro to Town no Sora]
@CrunchyCHEEZIT as
Tekhartha Zenyatta "Ultimate Teacher" [Overwatch]
@Periodically Incorrect as
Terezi Pyrope "Ultimate Justice" [Homestuck]
@DBZ7 as
Tharja "Ultimate Hextress" [Fire Emblem]
@Nater Taters as
Tomoko Kuroki "Ultimate Loser" [WataMote]
@Atomyk as
Victoria Maribeth Chase "Ultimate Bitch" [Life is Strange]
@Takumi as
Yurick "Ultimate Arcanist" [The Last Story]
@Klutzy Ninja Kitty as
Zinnia "Ultimate Lorekeeper" [Pokemon]