Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 27, Dangan Ronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

After defeating Nagisa of the Warriors of and the brainwashed Connor; Shin, Komaru, Sachi, and Drake entered Big Bang Monokuma lead by a extremely excited Haiji Towa. At first they had tired to look for the distraught Nagisa, but they couldn't find traces of him anywhere, and Haiji pressured everyone to give up for search as they had more important matters to attend to. Haiji was just all too pleased to have finally acquired the Hope that he was looking for and started up Big Bang Monokuma. As he did Shin and the other Players received a shocking Notification from God. Komaru had the NPC status, so she couldn't hear the notification, but unlike Haiji who was in grossed in going over the controls of Big Bang Monokuma, she clearly saw shock on her comrades faces.

- HAVE ENTERED AND STARTED UP BIG BANG MONOKUMA. FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, TILL THE FINAL BOSS BATTLE PLAYERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DIRECTLY DESTROY OR SABOTAGE BIG BANG MONOKUMA. THIS RESTRICTION WILL LAST TILL THE START OF THE FINAL BOSS BATTLE OF "DANGAN RONPA ANOTHER EPISODE: ULTRA DESPAIR GIRLS". ADDITIONALLY, IF THE DESTRUCTION OF BIG BANG MONOKUMA IS BEFORE THE FINAL BOSS BATTLE OCCURS, DEDUCT 50,000 POINTS FROM ALL MEMBERS.

This notification was a big surprise to the Players, but once they calmed down they realized that it wasn't that bad and completely understandable. If say they used Big Bang Monokuma to reach Towa Hills and then destroy it to avoid the final boss battle, wouldn't the mission come to a boring conclusion? One without danger or risks of any kind? A team would only need to defeat Monaca Towa and the mission would all but be complete. This restriction only took away this easy short cut. On the other hand if they had a choice to destroy Big Bang Monokuma before entering the robot, putting aside if they would still get the rewards, God would have probably allowed it. The team could avoid the final boss battle, but they wouldn't have the support of the giant sized robot to clear a way towards Towa Hills like in the original plot.

Shin: (So we can't just use and discard it later, huh? Maybe something would have changed if Hikari was here. It's easily to forget, but she's a internationally wanted Hacker who only almost got caught because of her inexperience for a sixteen year old girl. If Hikari was here maybe we could have hacked Big Bang Monokuma security and took control of the giant killing machine? We don't have a means of taking this giant robot with us to the Terminal Lobby without at least a BB tier dimensional storage item, but we could use it to wipe all the Monokuma in Towa City for the Points. We could obtain tens of thousands of more points! Damn! This isn't the first time I thought so, but a lot of things would have been easier if I had my original comrades to fight alongside me.)

Like a lot of Shin's comrades, he was a pure fighter. It was his job to defeat those who would endanger the team, but there's more than one way to overcome a problem. Both in real life and the Missions. Shin could perhaps defeat any boss monster, but with more options than brute strength a lot of problems could be solved without much risk. He couldn't think up plans like Jin or Saki, can't hack computers like Hikari, the experience or a military officer or mercenary like Aqua, Kampa or Connor. There are more talents in Team Japan that could have saved him a lot of trouble and time, but at this time he couldn't make use of them. Thankfully, Shin had the strength of an assassin with the skills to hide and infiltrate security systems, a exorcist with unique abilities, and a main character and heroine with a weapon to overpower the Monokuma... but when Shin thought about what would have been if he didn't have these talents by his side... he could only envision a bleak and Despairing future.

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According to the plot of the game, Haiji would have suggested to immediately set off to Towa Hills for the final battle, yet Shin suggested that they hold off on attacking the kid's headquarters. His reasoning was that it wasn't to good to get too heated up after having acquired a new power and that they should come up with a proper plan of action on how to make use of Big Bang Monokuma and the adults of The Resistance. Haiji was clearly upset hearing this, but he was rational enough to agree to this after hearing the merits of doing so. In the original plot of the game Haiji and the adults just went straight for Towa Hills without a care in the heat of the moments. In the game Haiji misread the strength of the Monokuma's numbers and not even with Big Bang Monokuma could they hope to overcome them, so halfway through his mindless rampage he gave up his reckless actions, opting to get the Monokuma Controller from Monaca at Towa Hills.

Haiji agreed to wait to think up a plan, but he was adamant about not waiting too long. This was fine for Shin as he said they could begin the attack around noon of the next day. It was already night time currently, so they could think up a good plan and while having the time to rest up for the final battle. With this agreed on they left the secret Towa Group factor riding Big Bang Monokuma and returned to the rest of The Resistance wheel destroying all Monokuma in their way. With each step it took dozens of Monokuma were crushed to death and those that attempted to scale it were swatted down like flies by its staff. Shin and the other players were jealous of Haiji since if they were the ones operating the giant robot they would have acquired thousands of points from just this short stroll.

After returning Haiji temporary returned to the sewers to fetch all the adults seeing no reason to hide within the dark and damp sewers any longer, and once they saw Big Bang and hearing that this weapon was theirs they were overjoyed. They shouted with long lost vigor and some even cried tears of joy. The reason was that they finally began to see Hope in their uncertain futures and now couldn't hold themselves back. Each adult that could still move picked up any makeshift weapon they could find and quickly arranged themselves into teams to hunt down the Monokuma once it was time to set off. They no longer feared the Monokuma or death. They even went as far as to set up their new command center above grounds without care of the Monokuma or Monokuma Kids hiding around them in the shadows of the city.

Shin and the others were looking over the actions of the adults with amazement, but more so fear. It was a complete transformation that scared each one of them. Shin stopped watching the adults and set up camp for the night by taking out a large military grade survival tent from one of the Na Rings. Once it was set up everyone gathered inside. The adults saw them enter the tent and couldn't help getting heated up. The sole male adult of their group had lost an arm in battle and the woman in the nurse outfit lost a leg and had to be helped carried into the tent. The two youths had helped her, yet they too looked exhausted. The adults witness to their heroes who brought them Hope and seeing their condition felt ashamed of their past actions and aspired to live up to their example while fighting the kids. They never realized it, but their group had become another symbol of Hope.

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Inside the tent.

Shin: "Fuck! I can finally see how out of control these guys can get once they reclaim their Hope just like Monaca Towa knew they would. When you offer Hope to the utterly oppressed like this they go insane, yet they are still so focused so they won't lose that Hope it's frightening. If we were dealing with some evil army I wouldn't have a problem with this, but they no longer care that they are about to go off and kill children."

Komaru: "Yeah. Hey, is this really a good idea?"

Drake: "While I do have issues with adults Killing children, but there's no helping it when their hated foes are all children."

Sachi: "Huh, you guys are too naive. True, adults killing children in madness is Despairing, but what war isn't? In war there's no good or evil just like within God's Dimension. Good and evil don't exist after all."

Shin: "Sachi, those are the words of a villain you know. Only villains or heroes who have given up on helping others use nice logic sounding words to excuse their actions or look down on those who believe in good and evil. Good and evil don't exist? Justice is power and its determined by the winner? Don't fuck with me. Such words are made up by those that no longer care about the world around them and look down on straight forward hero types with contempt till the moment that hero proves them wrong. Really, it annoys me to no end that in recent years authors no longer have straight forward villains. Complex reasons behind their actions are fine. Desired even, but there should be a limit. They always have to have a bad back story and they always have to have a moment where they do good in the end, which somehow erases their past sins. Naruto is the best example. They always have to show that most villains had there reasons for their actions and will get to be a *good guy* at the end. The worst was fake Madara. He was god damn villain who killed tens of thousands people with his actions and was the cause of a lot of the hatred in the Ninja world beforehand the Fourth Great War, but everyone just had to try to save him and give him more one chance to redeem himself and die a hero. Fuck that! The man almost succeed in the genocide of the all Ninja and was responsible for killing 50,000 men and women in less than forty-eight hours! A villain should be a villain to the end, or else they shouldn't have become one with so little resolve. Do they think a good action in the end, or changing their lives around will make up for what they did? That it has any meaning? It even lead to the bullshit Kakashi power up-"

Komaru: "Shin! Calm down!"

Shin: "Ah, sorry Komaru. Everyone. This is a particular sore spot for me."

Sachi: "For that to be a sore spot for you... What a nice life you have lead. Anyways leader what should we do now?"

Shin: "Our first priority is to come up with a battle plan for tomorrow. This part will be easy as I have a trump card that allow us to complete the reminder of the mission with ease. Next we just need to rest up for the final battle and be at optimal condition. In a while I'll summon Drebin893 and exchange for medical tools to restore Drakes arm and Sachi's leg. I can't let you two keep fighting as cripples after all. There's nothing else besides this, so for now rest up. I'll call you when it's time to call Drebin893"

Komaru: "Um... What exactly is this trump card of yours?"

Shin: "It's this."

Shin with a confident look on his face reached into one of his two Na Ring's subspaces and took out a single object. Komaru, Drake, and Sachi looked confused at this action which he called their trump card. What he pulled out of the ring was an actual card. No one understood what the purpose of the card was and looked at Shin in doubt, yet he wasn't bothered by this and shouted out a command word, GAIN, as he threw the card towards a open corner of the tent. The card landed on the floor and them exploded in a poof of pink smoke. Once all the smoke cleared out of the tent everyone besides Shin was shocked by what they saw. Out of thin air after the smoke dispersed was a T.V set and on top of it a remote control.

Komaru: "Shin... What kind of magic is this!?"

Shin: "It's not magic per se, but Nen. My last mission was within the world of Hunter X Hunter and on the famous Greed Island. My team along with myself completed the Greed Island game and our prize for doing so was the right to take three of the one hundred Designated Pocket Cards out of the island with us as Quest Items. We chose the three Designated Pocket Cards, and this is one of them. This card was our greatest prize we obtained on that island, Hypothetical TV! We can pose a question to it and it will show us a thirty hours documentary of the various possibilities to answer the said question. In other words, its information about the future! This is the ultimate tool to complete any mission safely and efficiently! Long as there isn't 0% chance of success any problem challenge can be overcome and we also get to see what action lead to a Bad End and why. I won't have time to watch it all normally, so I'll fast forward most of it and watch it in Unlocked Mode to remember everything that I see and just pause at the important parts."

Drake: "Hey hey hey! Why haven't you used such a convenient tool earlier leader? With this maybe I wouldn't have lost an arm!"

Shin: "...There are various reasons why I waited till now to use it. The first was actually using it for this mission. As I just said nearly any challenge can be overcome by Hypothetical TV, but it's a one time deal. Meaning I can only use this power once. I would have preferred to use Hypothetical TV only when I'm highly certain that my team was going to wipe out to a overly dangerous mission or Team Battle, but thanks to the Guides Test the stakes are too high for me to hold back such a convenient trump card. For as to why I'm waiting till now to use it... I wanted accurate information about my immediate challenges. Defeating Monaca Towa, saving my important comrade Aqua, and ultimately defeat The Guide. Remember that I only get 30 hours of footage. Three days have already gone by and most likely the mission will take two more days to complete. Tomorrow we finish our business with the Warriors of Hope and the day after that I plan to face the Guide. That's 48 hours . If I asked how to complete the mission from the very start, just how much of it would be covered in the 30 hour video? Hypothetical TV won't give out the most accurate answer to my questions, but only 30 hours worth of possible scenarios. The less broad the question and the smaller the time frame will give me the best answers to my imposed question will be."

Hearing this everyone agreed with my reasoning for holding back such a power tool. They even understood why I wanted to hold back on calling Drebin893 since I can only call him once per mission and for a limited time. If I could gather information about the future than waiting to make the final preparation was logical since I can know what we would be encountering. They then asked me what question and I told them and Hypothetical TV at the same time.

Shin: "Hypothetical TV. Under the conditions that I will complete the mission within the next 48 hours, tell me the most efficient methods available to fight the army Monokuma, defeat Monaca Towa, defeat Big Bang Monokuma, save my fellow Player Aqua, and ultimately defeat the Guide, Izuru Kamukura!"

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My question was heard by the Hypothetical TV and the TV screen turned on to life. The screen was covered with static at first, but within a few seconds high depth images superior to modern entertainment systems began to play. Now, the next ten hours watching the video of all the possible scenarios, fast forwarding with a few exceptions, night slowly faded to the early morning and I had all my answers.

Shin: (...Now I should almost know everything that's about to happen in the next forty-eight hours and then some. Each question wasn't exactly short and concise, but each part was connected to the other, so it wasn't all over the place... although some were way out there. Like charging towards Towa Hills on foot before Big Bang Monokuma moves out. Fuck, does this T.V really think I'm so stupid that we'll charge towards the enemy base alone? We got killed by over a 5,000 Beast Monokuma and Destroy Monokuma! Drake and Sachi got mauled to death and Komaru and I got blasted by lasers! There are absolutely dumb deaths like scaling the Towa Hills and falling to the earth head first! You have fucking Void Movement for a reason, me!)

Shin was dissatisfied by most of the all to graphic failures of his group displayed in the 30 hour long documentary, but in the end he learned a lot by watching the video.

◆ Monokuma Army - By asking about how to overcome the army of Monokumas resulted in a unexpected discovery. He just meant it as to how to avoid them, but ended up discovery what could only be called a Hidden Side Quest. An extra mission within the plot. This mission was very dangerous, but to avoid a even worse fate later on it had to be complete.

◆ Monaca Towa - Defeating Monaca Towa was surprisingly simple, but unless the Hidden Side Quest was complete it would turn dangerous for the team.

◆ Big Bang Monokuma - The video revealed that during the final battle the giant robot Big Bang Monokuma would enter Suicide Mode early on and almost all attacks are ineffective, but long as they relied on Komaru and the Hacking Gun with a unique method it was simple to destroy the giant robot. The only danger here was Komaru not being able to fight or that Big Bang Monokuma destroy Towa Hills with everyone inside or aboard the ship onto of the building.

◆ Aqua - Defeating Aqua was the most difficult part of today's battle. Needles to say she was extremely powerful and 9 times out of 10 she would separate Shin from everyone and they would die long as the Hidden Side Quest is left in complete.

Shin: (As for The Guide Izuru Kamukura... for whatever reason it won't show me the fight. Just a single image of him grabbing a battered and broken me by the neck and lifting me into the air. That's it. Nothing I can do about why Hypothetical TV won't work on the Guide, so let's focus on today's battles first. Now that I know about everything that's about to happen I'll call for Drebin893 for supplies and then rest up till we begin the attack at noon.)

Shin looked around the tent and found his comrades resting. They tired to stay up alongside him, but each one of them crashed and fell asleep within a few hours. Shin wanted to rest himself, but there were only 5-6 hours before The Resistance begins the attack and he still had things to so. Shin calmed down to rid his mind of all unnecessary thoughts. Within his mind he found something close to a switch and flipped it and upon doing so a signal was sent out. Moments later a location five miles away from The Resistance camp popped up in his mind and he now knew where to get his supplies. This was the method Drebin893 set up within the minds of Team Japan when they wanted to call him. Only Sachi and Drake didn't have this mental switch installed as they have yet to meet him (Kisara met Drebin893during the call in HxH).

Shin: "Alright! Drake, Sachi, Komaru! It's time to get up! We have to go meet up with our merchant of death to pick up the goods. Only a few hours are left before the start of the final battle!"

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