[IC] Dangan Ronpa: Land of the Free, Home of Despair

[BlackCat]

Nova was frightened by the strange bear. It was an animal and that made it scary enough. And then add in a talking factor. Nova was terrified. She took a step back and bumbled into someone. She looked around people everywhere and a bear. Nova crouched down and covered her ears with her hands. It'll be okay, WHO AM I KIDDING THIS IS THE SCARIEST THING THATS EVER HAPPENED IN MY LIFE!! Nova thought.

[Spriggs27]

Gwen crossed her arms and looked to the teddy bear and wondered what the hell it was, she had a puzzled expression on her face wondering why it called them names, it also made her angry in the process of calling them bastards." Bastards, that's uncalled for you, talking bear thing. Take it back or I'mma drop you faster than Microsoft stock prices. " Gwen threatened, she wasn't gonna take being called a bastard by some stuffed teddy bear.

" Wait Gwen no, don't, it's not worth it. It's just a stuffed toy with a microphone." Nika said trying to stop her, Nika felt something was up with the teddy bear, it looked cute to her eyes, but something about it was bad, she could feel the feeling in her gut but she couldn't explain it. Nika put a hand on her stomach and thought about the bear and looked to Gwen." Seriously Gwen there's no need to get mad by it calling us names it's just a toy." Nika explained.

[Savo]

"Well th-," before Sam could finish his sentence, a strange voice was heard from the speakers. He stood completely still, listening to the creepy voice echo through out the auditorium. "(Wow this guy seems like an a-,)" and before Sam could finish his thought, the lights went out, shrouding the area in bleak darkness. "... This better be some kind of prank," Sam said, trying his best to keep his cool. Suddenly, the lights flashed back on, revealing a teddy bear looking creature being guarded by what he thought was people in strange costumes.

Sam stared, completely dumbfounded at the situation. The talking teddy bear announced to the students that it was the dean, and that its name was Monokuma. "(Is this some kind of twisted joke,)" he thought, his eyes fixated on the bear. A drop of sweat flows down Sams face, eventually dripping off to the ground below. "(None of this makes any sense... But,)" Sam thought, "(Maybe this 'bear' knows something... Alright, calm down, calm down.)" Sam took a deep breath, and exhaled. He took a few nervous steps forward, and stopped as soon as he was five feet away from Monokuma. He stared at the bear for a bit, before asking his question.

"Uhm, e-excuse me.. Monokuma," Sam said, trying to keep his cool. "Could you p-please explain to us what the hell is going on?! (Is this a robot, a puppet, a real bear? No, it can't be the latter, that's just crazy!)" He backed up a few inches, and stopped, awaiting Monokumas answer. "(Damnit, hurry up and answer! Its bad enough that we woke up in a creepy auditorium, but throwing in a creepy teddy bear with that other shit is just making it worse!... I might just call the 'bear' Pedokuma from now on because of how creepy this 'bear' is.)" Sam chuckled to himself, as that thought calmed him for a bit, makiing the bear seem less scary than before.

[Pudding]

Luna walked abit closer to the bear, so she could get a better view. It was black on one side and white on the other. Whilst the whote side was the cute... The other, was rather menacing. It appeared to be a stuffed toy of some sort, except it spoke, and, looked really oddly shaped.
"You're rather rude ya'know, just showing up like that without even so much as a warning, not to mention calling us bastards!" Luna giggled.
"But you're kinda cute, like a panda, so I'll forgive you" *wink*

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Luna, the cosplayer walked closer to that monochrome bear, his eyes dead, staring at the students. Before she cold get closer, Theo ran up and grabbed her arm. "Theodore? Are you okay?"
Theo shook his head and pulled her back to the group. Then asked the bear:
"B-bastards...? Why... W.. What... Di-did yo-u bring, u-us here?" He nervously spoke, shaking a little, the poor boy was scared out of his wits.

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Luna tussled Theodore's hair. "Don't worry, he won't get you" She said with a smile.
"But yeah, kids right! Are you behind all this or something? What are you exactly anyway, aaah monokuma?"

[Noklu]

After everyone had introduced themselves, Christian briefly wondered if they would start searching for an answer to how they all got here, before an announcement was made.
"Bastards... huh?" Christian muttered to himself. Once again, his thoughts were cut off as the lights went off, leaving them in the dark, before turning back on to reveal a... teddy bear... type of thing. It's colorations were black and white, just like chess pieces he had moved so many times before. It seemed to start talking, calling them bastards once again. Then, interestingly, it called itself monokuma, the dean of the school. Some of the people reacted to its claims, but Christian stayed silent. Different scenarios of what this could be ran through his head.
A school prank on the new kids? Probably not; there would be little to no point in the cardboard cutouts then, and it didn't explain how they got in the auditorium.
Maybe it was a test set up by the real dean, just to test them and see their reactions. Plausible, but seemed a bit far fetched just to see their reactions.
These questions continued, none seeming to fit until he thought of a startling one. Were they all drugged and kidnapped by a psychopath when they entered the school? Christian paused his train of thought. Scarily enough, that possibility seemed to be the most likely. He hoped he was wrong, as a psychopath would be random in playing out their fates in a scenario he/she set up, probably in a fake Unity Academy auditorium room.
Christian ended his thoughts with a decision that he shouldn't arrive at a conclusion until he had more information about the situation they were in. Instead, he stood back among the other students, and waited to see how things played out.

[sarcasticdevotee]

The answers from the children all entertained Monokuma incredibly. They were definitely an interesting set of students, some reminding him of the ones at Hope's Peak, some being unlike teens he had seen before. This would be a fun life of mutual killing.

He first turned to Luna, "Why, I'm a bear, can't you see? Upupupupu!"

"I think she meant, what are you?" Carlos interjected, arms crossed, "A puppet? You seem too responsive to be a robot unless you're some high tech animatronic."

"Look, loose lips," Monokuma rose a clawed paw at Carlos, "I ain't a puppet! Puppets ain't got shit on me!"

The bear then turned to Sam, "Oh, what's going on?" The bear burst out into a fit of "Upupupupus" that sounded reminiscent to laughter.

"Today is the first day in your new lives of mutual killing!"

The word killing caused Carlos to widen his eyes and ask, "Are you... What? Killing?!"

"Like a training simulator?" Ryan offered, hoping to find a good reason for all of this.

"If by surprising the gods you got to Heaven or splitting hell wide open is a simulator," Monokuma pondered, "Yeah, sure, why not?" It was obvious to tell the creature was serious.

[BlackCat]

Nova looked up. Mutual killing? Would that mean that their have to kill each other? And how would they bring themselves to do that? Would they be blackmailed? There were too many questions for Nova too handle. Nova flipped out.
"DID I REALLY GET TAKEN OUT OF A MENTAL ASYLUM JUDT TO GET THROWN INTO A SCHOOL WHERE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO KILL EACH OTHER!!" she shouted as she got up. This wasn't fair. This also wasn't the time to be terrified.

[Savo]

"Wh... What the fuck," Sam stuttered, staring at the bear in surprise. "There's no way we would kill each other! Why the hell would we do that?!" Sam was trying to be positively aggressive, even after what happened earlier. He stares at the bear like its just one whole joke, but there was one thought that was lingering in the back of his mind. "(We have to kill each other... B...) But why," Sam blurted out, looking more confused than before. "Why do you want us to kill each other, to prove something, or is this some kind of twisted game to you?!"

"(Ok, so the person controlling the bear must have a sadistic sense of humor or is actually a psychopath.)" Sam took a look around him, glancing at each of the people in the auditorium. "N-Nova, calm down.. There's no way any of us would kill each other... No... Frickin'.... Way," Sam shouted with confidence, staring at the bear in absolute anger. "Just let us out of here... Because no one here is going to participate in 'mutual killings.' Not them, not me, nobody," he shouted at the bear. "Right guys," he asked the other students, still staring angrily at Monokuma.

[Lilacs]

This entire time, Jinx was staring hard at Monokuma with a stony expression. Aiden, on the other hand was showing confusion and shock. First of all, they were being told by a stuffed bear--Jinx was pretty sure that there had to be some sort of technology involved. There was no way magic was involved, it was too intricate--that he was the headmaster, and now, they were being told that they had to kill each other. That's... not normal.

"Mutual killing?" Aiden repeated incredulously with a shake of his head, "No way, what kind of sadistic joke is this? Stuff like that only happens in horror movies and books..."

Aiden fidgeted awkwardly, taking a moment to glance at everyone else. Everyone looked as perplexed as he was, some even dangerously so.

Jinx was as calm as ever as she directed a cold glare to the bear. "Why." She demanded flatly, "Why would Unity Academy want the most promising members of the generation to murder each other?"

[Spriggs27]

When Gwen heard killing she was froze, she had a shocked look on her face and wondered if the bear was joking, but it was clear by the conversation Carlos had with the bear, that this was a serious situation, Gwen shook her head and walked up to the bear and grabbed it by it's head and held it in the air." Fuck you teddy, I'm speaking for myself and some of the others here. We ain't killing no one, you two toned asshole." Gwen told Monokuma.

Nika was as shocked as everyone else when she heard killing and like Gwen and Carlos she thought of it as a joke and let out a fake nervous laugh before she figured out it wasn't a joke and got worried, she began sweating feeling scared of what might happen next, when she saw Gwen pick up Monokuma, she ran up to Gwen's side and continued trying to convince that Gwen should calm down but it was just ignored by Gwen.

[Click This]

Like the composed Jinx, Iphigenia stared hard at Monokuma. But unlike her magical counterpart, she had to fight herself to maintain a flat, emotionless face. Because, for Iphigenia, she found all of this phenomenally entertaining. She had to bite herself on the lip to prevent herself from laughing outright at Nova, who had gone from aggressive and insane to meek and downright terrified. Somebody certainly had a sick sense of entertainment.

It was obvious to her from looking at the black and white bear that it was remotely controlled with a voice box and an expensive robotics. She would have liked to examine it herself, but it would be obviously inappropriate for the situation. Instead, Iphigenia decided to humor the Monokuma bear and the others and speak up herself.

“Entertainment,” said Iphie, in response to Jinx. She shrugged and threw her hands up. “You should be the most familiar with it. Movies like Battle Royale are very popular. Gladiators killing each other in the Roman era brought thousands to the coliseum. If you were a psychopath, a very rich psychopath with the means to do so, would you do it? I would. In the eyes of such a person –No, even a sane person-- this would be far better than a simple movie.”

And indeed it would be. One didn’t have to be a psychopath to enjoy such entertainment, after all. It would be amusing to participate in –She would relish in cutting up that obnoxious Nova into tiny itty bitty pieces. But there was no way anything like this would be legal. If it was, she herself would have already gone balls to walls setting up absurd things like this.

“I for one find this all very amusing,” said Isis in a dry, but ambiguous tone. “But I think I speak for all of us when I say this. I don’t see how this is legal or how you would expect to not be prosecuted for kidnapping and promoting such an act. This isn’t Somalia. Sure, it’s DC and there are high crime rates. But I don’t see what’s preventing a large SWAT team from rolling in and putting a couple dozen rounds of hot lead into your face.”

[BioHazard]

Silas was still looking at his cell phone in confusion trying to order some food when Isis passed by and told him that there was no cel signal in here. Silas went on his hands and knees, his head hanging down to the ground, depressed about the fact that he couldn't order pizza. That was until Monokuma suddenly appeared. The bear threw out the word killing. Silas saw some frightened, confused and amused faces around the room. But he was one of the confused ones. Silas stood up again and approached Monokuma. "Okay. But is there also food in this building? We can't kill on an empty stomach after all!" Silas said. "Not that I am going to kill anyone here." he quickly said to the others in the room while rubbing the back of his head.

Maria also saw the black and white bear suddenly appear. It was so frighting. One half of his body was white and seemed nice while the other part looked like a demon spawned from the pits of Hell and possessed the body of a regular teddy bear. Which was a reasonable explanation to why the bear could move around. Maria got angry when Monokuma was talking about Heaven and Hell in such a disrespectful way, but at least he was a believer. She was also displeased about the many curse words thrown around through the room. "People mind your words!" Maria said with a shocked and slightly angry face.

"It is clear what the origins of this demonic creature is. He is a high-ranked demon from Hell who has come up to the surface and took possession of a stuffed animal bear and now wants to make us kill each other because he is a demon. Do not give into this, committing a crime is a sin that can't be erased." she said as if she was holding a speech. She never was that talkative, but in her mind, this was the only explanation for it.

[Lilacs]

Jinx scoffed slightly in response to Iphie's words. "I wasn't asking you, I was asking that... thing. I mean, entertainment is a valid answer, but that raises even more questions. For who's entertainment are we killing each other for? Are we being watched? Why is there a need to do that, especially with the most brilliant people of our generation? Even the richest psychopath in the world wouldn't get away with the mutual killing of famous, talented people..." Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, Jinx looked up at Iphie. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap."

"Still, I agree with her." Aiden spoke up, "We don't live in a dystopian society or anything, this should be illegal. What even happened here? What about Unity Academy? Did you take us somewhere else instead? If so, when?"

Aiden quickly shook his head weakly, but still in a defiant manner. "You can't enforce this... What are you doing?!" His words quickly increased in volume as Gwen grasped Monokuma. "That's not a good idea!"

[Noklu]

Mutual killing... With two words, this... thing had thrown the group into disarray. Christian didn't want to believe it himself, but it fit within his theory of kidnapping. Sometimes it sucked to be right. He watched as some people got scared, some shocked, some angry (Gwen even picked the bear up by its head, which surprised Christian), and some took it in calmly. Christian tried to keep a straight face through it all, but his thoughts were going rampant. Isis and Jinx both mentioned the police, Isis expecting the police to come, but Jinx took that theory with disbelief. In fact, Jinx asked if they were even at Unity Academy, a similar question he had asked himself a while ago. Christian slightly admired that.
He snapped back from his deep thought when he heard Aiden call out to Gwen that holding that stuffed toy wasn't a good idea. His brain started working again, thinking of different scenarios around that, and came to the same conclusion Aiden did. If a pyschopath was controlling that thing, there's no telling what could happen with it, especially since the toy mentioned murder so casually. He decided to join with Aiden's call.
"You should probably drop that thing ASAP."

[Savo]

As chaos once plunged itself back into the auditorium, Sam noticed a few contridictions in peoples statements. The first one he noticed was in Isis statement when she pointed out that the students were in an auditorium in the capital of D.C. As Sam calmed himself, he turned around, and began talking to Isis. "Isis, that's not true," Sam says calmly. "The last thing I remember doing before waking up was standing in front of Unity Academy... Unity Academy is located near Hollywood if I remember right... I'm not so sure about my next statement, but I'm pretty sure that this is Unity Academy... I mean, if a SWAT team hasn't come yet, that must mean they think we are ok... I mean, we have no idea how long we were out. Besides, I'm sure the academy would of contacted the police and our guardians about us not being at Unity Academy, and I'm sure we wouldn't all be lying here in this auditorium... Then again, if the 'bear' isn't lying about being the dean and the killing, I don't think it would of contacted the police anyways."

Sam finished speaking his mind, and took a deep breath. He exhaled and saw how Gwen was venting her anger on the bear, and how she picked it up. Sam quickly walked over to Gwen and assisted Nika in trying to calm Gwen down. "Gwen, put Pedokuma down, we don't know what that thing can do if you harass it... I mean, if you do that, he might not even answer our questions... Please, vent your anger later," Sam pleaded to Gwen, staring at the bear in anger. Sure Sam was angry, but he was also confused, scared and confident. His emotions were in a melting pot, mixing and meshing with each other, boiling inside of him... However, he wasn't going let his emotions overflow.

[Spriggs27]

Gwen heard out Christan, Aiden, and Sam thinking that they were right, it did,Gwen swung the small bear she was holding in her one palm, she cocked her arm back and heaved it towards the wall away from everyone else, she didn't want to get anyone hurt or to get someone killed if something happened while the bear was in the air," I'm not angry you guys, I'm just reacting to this new info, it's hard to hear that you may have to kill someone you just met." She told all of them. Nika just watched as the bear was flying through the air after Gwen chucked it .

[Click This]

Iphie grimaced. That’s right, they were near Hollywood, not D.C. That was where she flew in to the United States. It made little difference though, despite it being one of her bigger slipups.

“D’oh. Sorry, I meant Hollywood.”

As she spoke, she eyed Gwen at the corner of her eye, picking up the Monokuma bear. Iphie knew nothing good would come of it, but she would, of course, not interfere. People already made enough comments, and hers would be redundant. Besides, it would be interesting if something happened to her.

“Perhaps they haven’t obtained the warrant yet,” mused Isis. “Even if they have no idea at this time, I think most of us have social lives. We would be noticed missing fairly quickly, and the last place we would have been at would be this school. And then, as I was saying, a SWAT team will roll in and steamroll everything. Naturally, since it’s American police, perhaps some of us might be killed in their hail of bullets, but that’s life.”

[Savo]

Sam gave a sigh of relief as she disposed of the bear. "Don't worry about it Gwen, we are all on edge at the moment, so its only natural that we get pissed real easily." He shined a smile at Gwen, and continued speaking. "Besides, there's no way we will murder anyone... We won't indulge in... Pedokumas sick fantasies of watching teenagers slaughter each other." He looked around at the other students, still full of optimism within the chaos.

As Sam was speaking with Gwen, he heard Isis statement. "Remember Isis, we have no idea how long we were out, so the police probably still think we're ok. Also, remember how I think we might be at the academy? The police might not even be worried about us, because they most likely know we are here. Also, they probably don't know how we spend our social life," he finished, still facing away from Isis. "(There's nothing right about any of her statements... Her last statement makes me kind of uneasy, knowing that she can think like that.)"

[Spriggs27]

Nika raised her hand wanting respond to respond to Isis, while keeping her hand in the air she spoke, " Y-your right, b-but I've watched in a police show where in america we would have to wait three days for us to be found." Nika informed Isis, she soon put her hand down and noticed that she didn't need to put her hand up in the first place making her feel a little embarrassed by what she had done, she looked away from Isis feeling stupid at putting her hand up like she was in a class room.

[Click This]

Isis shrugged. They were right, she wasn’t an American, and much of what she knew did come from movies or the internet.

“That’s a good point,” she commented, addressing both Sam and Nika simultaneously. She still kept an eye on Monokuma, in case he did anything unexpected to Gwen. “I’ll admit, most of what I know about SWAT is from action movies. Armed police isn’t really a thing in the UK. But there are certainly helicopter parents with a trigger finger on that emergency telephone number though. You see that kind of funny story on the local news columns every so often.”

Iphie tilted her head a bit, putting a hand to her head. “Once the robot bear is done with us, we should try to find out how long we’ve been unconscious.”