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

[Grey]

"We're checking out those student files the bear told us about," Anna answered Maria as she sifted through the files. A cursory glance over the names on the various files of the 'Kibougamine Gakuen' (helpfully translated into 'Hope's Peak Academy') revealed a few recognizable names. An MMA fighter, an Olympian, a novelist, and a few others.

"Well Isis you'd definitely be right about that," Anna said, holding up her file of choice, "This is Byakuya freaking Togami's file. Richest son of a gun in the world, name ring any bells?" She said his name in a manner full of contempt. From the information she'd managed to gather over the years, the entire family seemed to be a bunch of pompous asses who thought that more money meant more superiority. Not that that viewpoint was necessarily wrong in today's society, but they didn't have to be so arrogant about it. Take a look at herself, for example. She'd also been planning to steal quite a large quantity of their valuables right from their household before all this, but that was an objective to be completed later.

A thought occurred to Anna.

"Wait. If this is the second time this has happened, like Isis suggested, then why didn't we hear about it? I imagine that the deaths of 14 very remarkable individuals - and this 'Makoto Naegi' kid, whoever he is, - would get international attention," she said, putting her gloved hand to her chin, "Nobody's heard of anything like this happening outside of some novels, right? If so, we might be out a lot longer than we've thought."

[Click This]

“Yep. That definitely rings a lot of bells.”

Only a few months back, she had been asked by the head of the family to evaluate the security of his office building and his personal office. The commission for successful completion was a hefty sum, but she failed to even get into anyplace secure. That was a job she did not put on her resume. It did not make her happy, but she had to give them brownie points for their extremely stringent security.

“The only job I failed was with their family,” commented Isis. “Impressive electronic security system. Encrypted NFC pass cards, stringent security protocols, and armed guards in their office building. They know their stuff.”

Isis flicked past another file as Anna voiced her thoughts.

“Not necessarily. As you all successfully argued, the police likely have no clue. If they can pull off something like this, they’ve probably planned for it. On the flip side, they could be in the same situation as us, right now, in a different place.”

[Grey]

"Hehe... Imagine these guys reading our files and going through our thought processes," Anna mused, "Though if the Hope's Peak students' situation is occurring parallel to out own situation, wouldn't it be really difficult to run surveillance on two different places on other sides of the world, around 24/7? If that's the case, either we're dealing with a villain with a massive overdosage of coffee and-or drugs, or we're dealing with an organization dedicated to... This bear?"

She set down the file she was paging through and picked up another - a certain SHSL ??? - speaking as she read.

"Of course that's assuming that we're still in Hollywood, and that they're still in Japan.... I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up in a neighboring building, or the Mastermind of this operation messed with our sleep schedules to get us all awake at the same time," she added, "Either way, if this person or organization has the ability to get the police to ignore our plight by using whatever mysterious means, we'd best be on our guard."

[Savo]

As Sam made his way to the library, he decided to stop by his room to see what it was like. As he went up to what seem to be a pixelated portait of himself pinned on his room, he took a look at who his door 'neighbors' would be, before opening up his door, and entering his room.

His room was pretty simple, save for a little decoration and security camera set to watching his every move. "Lets see... I remember having my backpack with me, but where is it n-" as Sam turned around the corner of his bed, he spotted the same familiar tan hue of his backpack. "There it is! Now lets see if everything is still there." As Sam opened up his backpack, hchecked his clothes to see if everything was still there. "Tan shirts, couple of socks, pants..." Sams voice trailed off, before he zipped up his backpack, concluding that everything was still there.

As he finished zipping up his backpack, he took one final look around his room, and went to the library. As he qas walking, he noticed two students talking to each other. "(I shouldn't intrude on those two... Besides, I've got files to study, and all that good stuff.)" Sam continued on, ignoring the two, and whistled a tune as he headed to the library.

---

As Sam entered the library, he took a look at the people in the library, and what they were doing. "(Isis is doing something on a laptop, Christian is watching what Isis is doing, Gwen was finished fixing up something, Maria is seemingly looking around for something, Jinx is copying down something from a book, and Anna is taking a look at some files.)" Sam made his way over to the files Anna was by, and began taking a look at a few of the files. "Lets see if there's anything of interest here," Samuel mumbled to himself. "Sorry if I'm intruding on you Anna, I just want to take a look at a few of the files here," he said, giving her a little grin before taking out one of the files.

As he began rummaging through each of the character files, he mumbled a few names that were familiar to him. "You've gotta be kidding me... Sayaka... Mondo... Toko... Sakura... Junko... Leon... These guys were supposibly in this game?" As Sam ruffled his hair, he noticed that Anna had another file with her, and decided to go to her side to take a look at it. "And a member of the Togami family? Seriously?" As Sam finished evaluating the file, he could only stare at the other files, befuddled at how Monokuma still managed to pull this off. "(Ugh, I need a tic tac, this stuff is too overwhelming...)"

As Sam reached into his pocket, he could only feel his cellphone, and nothing more. "(Huh, must be in my other pocket?)" Sam extended his hand out of his pocket, and reached into his other pocket. He could only feel a leathery wallet, with a couple of change lingering at the bottom. "(... Did someone steal my tic tacs? Eh, doesn't matter at the moment.)" As Sam removed his hand from his pocket and back to his side, he watched as Anna picked up another file. "Hey Anna, doesn't your family's wealth almost rival the Togami family wealth?... Sort of? I mean, your family is one of the richest family's in the world... Uhm... Also, how did your family amass all that wealth anyways, because I never heard of how your family did it."

[Noklu]

Christian's head was reeling with questions as he read the files. 'This happened before in Japan? Does this mean it went uninterrupted before as well? Why didn't the local authorities do anything?' Christian continued to ask himself various questions like this, while the mood of the questions spiraled down quickly. Eventually, he asked himself a question he dreaded the answer to. 'If no one intervened, did something happen outside?' World War 3 could have started. The earth's atmosphere could have grown deadly. An epidemic could have wiped out most of earth's population. Chris stepped back from the files, shaking his head. Thinking what could have happened wouldn't help now.

Chris decided he needed to calm down and think for a while. However, when he looked around, there were a lot more people in the library than before. He fidgeted slightly. Chris wanted to think, but this many people was a bit unsettling for him. He decided to go to the cafeteria to sit down and think. Walking out of the library, Chris gave a small nod to the people there. Once out of there, Chris let out a breath of air that he hadn't realized he was holding before walking to the cafeteria. On his way to the cafeteria, he noticed some people in small groups in the halls, but ignored them for the moment, to focused on his destination

Once he entered the cafeteria, he looked around, only to see nobody was there at the moment. Not even the hungry kid, Silas. It was refreshing. Chris realized he was thirsty, so he entered the kitchen and got some water in a kettle to a near boil. He got a peppermint tea bag, and added it to the water in a mug, as well as a touch of honey. He brought the mug out with him to the cafeteria and sat down at one of the tables. As the tea cooled, Chris willed his mind to do the same. Right now wasn't a time for thinking 20 steps ahead. He needed to build his thoughts one step at a time. No use thinking about outside when there was no way to it yet. Well, no way out but murder, which wasn't a pleasant thought. Chris sat there as he tried to calm down and think.

[BioHazard]

Silas helped Sam and Luna with trying to get the plates off the windows. But as expected there was no way they would get them off, those things were put on by professional. Maybe the Super Duper High School Level Plate Maker did all of this. Not that there was anyone who wields such a title. Sam left to check out the library which left Silas alone with Luna. "So... hey Luna." Silas said with a grin on his face. "Shall we do something? We could drink something... or eat something together... if you want to? Or did you want to explore the school sum' more?" Silas asked. He really expected Luna to just walk away. Why hang out with someone of who his biggest desire was food. Some people wouldn't even realize that he was a Super High School Level Visual Artist, although he easily could show people he was.

---

Maria didn't get any reaction to her questions. Maybe she was speaking too quietly, or maybe people just couldn't care about her. She explored the library some more and eventually read some of the files that Anna and Sam had with them. She picked up the files and went to the two. "Hello fellow students. I overheard the two of you about the files of previous students. I don't know any of them because I was secluded from the outside world." she explained.

She grabbed one of the files and studied it. "I recognize one of these people." Maria picked up the file of Touko Fukawa. "Fukawa is a very popular writer and I have read some of her novels. They truly were fascinating." Maria said. She was glad that she at least knew one of these people. But would this mean that Monokuma played this game before, because upon seeing the amount of people this time and the amount of files are exactly the same. Did all of these people died? Did Fukawa die, that would be weird as she has read something of her recently. Or did someone else take over from her?

[Pudding]

The trio spent some time time searching the area for a secret escape, secret rooms, and attempted to rip off some steel plated on the windows. Soon after, Samuel decided he would leave to check whats in the library. In all honesty, Luna had avoided going there, she didn't feel as if reading would help in this situation, and could much less be even bothered.

After Samuel left, Silias opened his mouth for once, it had seemed he wanted to do something with her, albeit date like, he suggested eating, at this point, Luna had become aware of Silias' never ending hunger. Though, he also asked if she wanted to search the school some more, but was there really any point left in doing that she wondered... Searching again would deem pointless, so she decided to take Silias on his offer, after all rejecting him would be really unkind to her new friend.
She could see the puppy dog eyes he was making, she thought jt was cute.
"Sure Sili!" Luna nodded. "In fact lets, make cookies in the cafeteria for everybody! I feel as if it would strengthen our bonds with everyone! Ahaha~ OMG, I'll race you there!"
Without even waiting for Silias' agreement, Luna sprinted off for the cafeteria, her costume swaying as she ran, sparkling in the light, almost like she left a glitter trail.

---

Turning around to meet eyes with his creeper, it was...
James. The Ultimate plant guy. Theodore questioned him appropriately, why were you spying on me he asked, he got his reply, broken and in stutters, "I want, i-i want to be friends" asked James. Theo could see the small drops of sweat coming down James face, he was terrified, but why? Theo deducted that it must be because of the situation, not Theodore himself, he's on no way menacing... He thought.

"Sure, I accept James, I'm rather glad to have a friend now ahaha! Especially somebody as brave as you! To think you overcame the fact that I'm a complete stranger and wanted to be friends, that takes gusts!"
That would be something Theo could never do, ask a stranger to be his friend, yeah right, maybe if you payed him $1,000,000,00.
"So as friends let me introduce myself, I'm Theodore, but you can call me Theo ! It may seem dumb introducing myself again, but that stuttering mess back there... It made me look like an idiot" Theo scratched his head. "So, what do you wanna do?"

[Spriggs27]

Feeling ignored like Maria, Gwen huffed as Isis ignored her because she was too impressed by finding people that were apart of the same game they were. Gwen wiped a dirty hand across the side of Isis' neck and walked over to Maria," You think that you have anything that could help me clean up Sister ? These people are too damn busy feeling hype finding people they know by name which only half of them met in person." Gwen told her in an angered tone,

[BioHazard]

A wide smile appeared on Silas' face when Luna accepted his offer to go an eat something. His smile became even bigger when she suggested to bake some cookies for everyone, and for themselves of course. Silas feared that Luna immediately thought that he 'like' liked her. Well he did like Luna of course, but he wasn't sure yet... well he was sure he liked her. But maybe it would be too obvious, at this moment she seemed like a good friend. Luna wanted to race Silas to the cafeteria, and took off without saying anything else. Silas adjusted his jacket and ran after her.

They arrived in the cafeteria, unfortunately Luna beat him. She was quite fast in that beautiful angel costume. Her blonde hair was so beautifully long. Her turquoise eyes were sparkling as if anyone threw glitter in her eyes... that sounds a little bit weird, luckily Silas was no stranger to weird. He rushed to the door of the kitchen and held it open for her. Once Luna had entered Silas followed. "So you also like sweets?" Silas asked. He himself was also a sweet tooth, but he loved everything. He really was a nomnomnomivor, why does his sentences always revolve around food?

---

Maria was a bit irritated that people didn't listen to her. If one wouldn't listen to her back at the Vatican they knew what was coming to them. But in this case she had to rights to deal punishment on these people. She was used to people listening to her, but some of these people seemed really scary. For example the girl who did talk to her, Gwen. She seemed like a dangerous one, but there might be a turtle inside the hard shell. "I can feel your frustration, I really do. I wished it would be different for me too." Maria felt her habit and revealed a clean white napkin and handed it over to Gwen. "Hopefully this will help you." she said with a kind smile.

[Savo]

"Yeah, it is pretty surprising," Sam said to Maria. "Pretty scary knowing that Pedokuma has most likely pulled this off before... My english teacher made us read one of Tokos books as an assignment, and I'll admit, her works aren't that bad..." As he turned his head to face Maria, he saw an annoyed looking Gwen coming towards the two. "(Wonder why Gwen is so worked up this time...)"

As he heard Gwen talked about how people were hyped about finding familiar people they knew. Although it wasn't directed at him, he decided to speak up. "Sorry Gwen... Its just we are trying to find any necessary info that can help us get out of this place. Knowledge is power you know." As he finished speaking, he shoved one of his hands into his pocket, and saw how dirtied up Gwen was. "Hey Gwen, what were you doing that gotcha all dirtied up anyways?"

[Spriggs27]

" Thanks, at least someone isn't up their own ass looking for information and shit." Gwen said as she took the cloth from Maria and cleaned herself thoroughly with it, when she was finished with it, the cloth was completely covered in dirt," What are you blind ? I was fixing the copy machine, I went behind it first to make sure it was plugged up, then I needed to go into it and check it out from the inside." Gwen informed him while handing Maria the dirty cloth.

[Pudding]

Running for the cafeteria she swiftly made it in. Beating Silias by a mile! He ran in huffing and puffing, but he quickly regained his composure and opened the kitchen door like a true gentlemen. "Oh Sili, you really didn't have to do that! Now, what kind of cookies should we make..." Luna began to mumble to herself...
"Maybe Peanut butterscotch! Oh no, one of us could be allergic... Maybe sweet strawberry..." During her self thought process, Silias asked her if she liked sweets, which would lead to an obvious answer, "Yes! Yes I do! I'm particularly fond of cookies that have cream in them, they're most delicious mmmhmmm!"
She needn't ask Silias because it was fairly obvious he, himself, enjoyed any type of food.
"My guess is you like everything? Considering how you introduced yourself to everybody, are you a good cook? Because I'm going to need a very skilled assistant for this batch of cookies ahehehe!" Luna giggled but covered her mouth, so she wouldn't look like a spaz in front of Silias.
Luna walked around the kitchen and grabbed a few ingredients, plus the necessary ones being; Eggs, Flour and Butter. The other things she grabbed were, walnuts, strawberry flavouring, and chocolate chips.
"We don't have to use all of these, go grab whatever you want and we can figure it around from there!" Luna smiled and anticipated the fun that waited ahead.

[BioHazard]

Silas blushed a bit when when Luna responded on him opening the door for her. Luna went straight ahead and collected the materials needed to bake cookies. Mumbling to herself in the process, which to Silas was very cute. As it turned out Luna really liked sweets, so that something they had in common. She asked to same question to him, Silas had already grabbed a little snack for himself as they were in the kitchen. It was a healthy carrot. "Cool! Yeah I kinda eat everything, there's not a single food I don't like. I love them all! Ranging from sweets to meat to veggies!" he said a little bit too enthusiastic.

Luna then asked him if he was a good cook, which you could assume from someone who liked food very much. But to be honest Silas was far away from being a cook. Silas enjoys making sandwiches, omelettes and all those kind of home-meal things. Silas chuckled. "Meh, I just keep it with small things like lunches etc. But I do know how to make cookies." he said. He couldn't help to get the giggle of Luna out of his head, it was really goofy, so goofy it was cute.

Silas grabbed a big bowl and slammed it down on the sideboard. He grabbed the main ingredients and threw them into the bowl. "We seem to miss the milk though." he glanced at Luna and said in a creepy voice. "Can you get some milk for me..." Silas had no idea what he was doing. He was a complete idiot when it came to things like girls... he doesn't know any better. Though it seems like Luna and Silas fit together like a hot dog in its bun... that thought may have been a bit weird.

[Savo]

"Sorry Gwen, my mind is on a lot of things right now, heh," Sam gave Gwen a bit of an awkward smile. "Its just... I'm trying to figure out a way to get out of here without getting more unnecessary blood on my hands." The awkward smile soon turned into a sort of frown, as he retracted his hand out of his pocket. "Ah, anyways, I've gotten the info I need... Even though it only told me a bit about the students..." Sam stretched his arms upwards, and put his hands behind his head. "Anyways, Gwen, Maria, want to join me in the cafeteria once you two are done, because I'm going to need to digest this knowledge thoroughly," Sam said, keeping himself from letting out a stupid smirk at the bad joke he made. Before he left, Sam asked something of Maria and Gwen. "Could you two get everyone to go to the cafeteria once your done... We should discuss our findings there in the cafeteria. Well, seeya two later," Sam said with a smile as he left the library.

"(Gwen over there seems to know how to fix stuff... Hmm.)" As he got his thoughts going, he remembered the Monokuma that exploded in the auditorium. "(Hm... I wonder if there are any pieces left from that explosion, because maybe Gwen could figure out something just from identifying the pieces.)" As Sam made his way bqck to the auditorium, he took a look at each of the cameras, seemingly intrigued by them. "Yeah... Pedokuma is a fitting nickname for that damn bear," Sam chuckled to himself as he reached the auditorium doors. "Lets see if anything is left from the first Monokuma." With a huff, Sam pulled open the doorsto the auditorium, and quickly entered inside.

As Sam quickly entered the auditorium, he noticed that there were two people still in the auditorium. "(Ryan, and that other girl... I never caught her name because she never really introduced herself to the crowd.)" As he made his way to the two overlooking the pieces of Monokuma, he hummed a soft tune. "Hey, what are you two still doing here? Are you two interested in how Pedokuma works too?" Sam said as he walked past the two, and picked up a piece of the bear. As he was studying the piece he picked up he suddenly remembered something. "(Oh yeah, I never picked up her name.)" As Sam finished his thought, he dropped the Monokuma piece and went over to the heterochromiac girl. "I never really caught your name, what's your name miss?" As Sam waited for her to reply, he noticed she had two different colored eyes, and a bell earing. "(Huh, she looks kinda...) Cute," Sam said, accidentally letting a part of his thought slip out. (Crap, I just let one of my thoughts slip out! Oh crap, please don't get the wrong idea!)" If you were close enough to his face, you could actually notice a light amount of blushing after he accidentally uttered that word, along with a hint of nervousness.

[Pudding]

Just as expected, all of Lunas' question came back with the expected answers.
'There isn't a single food I dislike'
'I only really stick to small stuff when it comes to cooking'
But Silias mentioned that she had forgotten to get milk, which is strange, when you make cookied, you instantly think of the generic ingredients, milk, butter, flour and eggs. Its strange that she disn't grab some before. Silias asked her to get milk, but... The tone of his voice and... The way that he suddenly looked at her... It put her on a nerve...
"S-sure, don't worry, I'll be back in a flash!" Luna jogged over to the large shinning fridge, opening it she looked for the milk. Whilst looking she had a wuick ment to her thoughts.
(Sili... He... Looked at me funny... I hope he isn't getting the wrong idea...) The milk had been placed on the bottom shelf, Luna would have to bend to reach it, but before doing said task, she jumped around to yell at Silias. "Hey! Sili! I know I can trust you, so no peeking! None!" Turning to see a camra she began to yell at it too. "Thats double for you! You pervy panda!"
Luna bent to grab the container of milk, sliding it out of its compacted spot. Closing the fridge withh a kick of her foot she brought it over to Silias.
"Okay! Lets get baking!"

[Spriggs27]

Nika looked up from the pile of old Monokuma parts and looked to Sam from before, she remember him from when he introduced himself earlier, when he asked for her name she kinda stammered over her words and noticed that he was blushing," M-my name is Nika, it's a feminine version of the name Nikolai, and it means Victor of the people, at least that's what my mother and father told me." Nika explained while putting a finger on upper lip.

[Savo]

"(Whew, guess she didn't notice what I said... Or did she?.. Eh, doesn't matter, at least I know who she is now.)" As soon as he stopped blushing Sam gave a small smile to Nika. "That's a wonderful name... Nika. Its a pleasure to meet you." Sam rubbed the back of his neck, staring at the ground nervously, then moving his eyes back to the Monokuma pieces. "(It honestly doesn't look like anything here is salvageable... Oh well, at least I learned her name... She was stuttering a lot... Was she nervous, or did I make her nervous?)" As he let his thoughts roam free, he moved a piece of Monokuma to the side before speaking again. "Hey, Nika, Ryan, you want to go grab something to eat? You two must be kind of hungry," Sam said in an inviting voice. "If you guys are, wanna head to the cafeteria? I could make you two sandwiches if you like."

[Spriggs27]

Nika put on a smile and cocked her head to the right when Sam offered to make them sandwiches, but her response was to the invitation for food it was to what he was thinking," No you didn't make me nervous." she responded to what he was thinking instead, she closed her eyes and moved her head back to the regular position making her erring bell jingle while she moved her head around, she waited for his response to what she said still smiling.

[BioHazard]

Silas facepalmed himself after his creepy glare at Luna. She probably must think he was up to something, or suddenly didn't like her anymore. Yeah, he loved food but would not someone for something as minor as this. Luna opened the fridge and said she had to bend over so Silas couldn't look. His whole face became red when Luna did so. She also mentioned Monokuma, or in this case Pedokuma as Sam called him, could watch this. instead of peeking at Luna he jump up and down in front of the camera. Silas heard the fridge close behind him and saw Luna with the milk in her hands.

"Yeah it's Cooking Mama time!" Silas shouted and fist pumped into the air. Silas and Luna would throw all the ingredients into the bowl, both of them probably didn't exactly know how much of everything was supposed to go in it, but Silas made up some numbers so that at the very least the cookies wouldn't taste terrible. Once they poured the cookie dough into their forms it was time to go decorating. They had walnuts, strawberry flavoring, and chocolate chips ready to in the cookies. The walnuts and the choco-chips could be put into the cookies, but the strawberry flavoring had to be done after the cookies were baked.

"Wow Luna, you really know what things to pick to create a delicious cookie!" Silas said with admiration. "I really love you...r way of making cookies." Silas said awkwardly. Silas immediately looked down to the cookies and the extra ingredients and quickly threw a choco-chip into his mouth.

[Savo]

"Huh? How did you know what I was thinking," Sam said, surprised at her response. "Hmm... You must be an esper, right?" Sam, smiled at Nika, before continuing his statement. "I'm just kiding about that, you probably just have natural intuition," he finished, chuckling a bit. "But still, you and Ryan probably haven't had anything to eat, and I thought it would be nice to make you something... So, you two wanna come with me to the cafeteria?" Sam stepped away from the rubble, and went to Nika's side, awaiting both of their answers.