Haruka heard the cries from the corner of her mind, but she wasn't focused on them. She was only concerned with the growing pain in her heel, one that she had grown to tolerate in her years of constant bone breakage and aching, but the pain still took over her body, traveling through her veins and her flesh. As she felt the hands of whoever cared grabbing her, propping her up, massaging her heel and doing whatever they were doing, she couldn't help but cry a bit, mostly from the horrible, aching agony, but she didn't bother to wipe it away or hope nobody saw. She just let the pain overtake her, hoping that it would, eventually, make her pass out into a blissful slumber that would hopefully last until she recovered.

For one the had been very excited for the peace talk subject, the reality came crashing down all too quickly. Until Ai had begun glitching, the therapist had been looking forward to shining at his talent, sure he would prove himself, not that he had to. Either way, that came to an end all too soon in his book...And likely everyone else's as well.

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The floor was cold, unfamiliar, how did he get down here? Just moments ago he'd been standing in pure darkness, sure he felt faint but didn't think he'd actually do it..Damn, his side hurt a bit, he assumed he'd landed on it strangely. He bruised easily at the best of times so he was sure that that would be painful tomorrow. He pushed himself up to a kneeling position, looking around everyone else to make sure they were alright, then looking at the eerily strange bear.No way this could be happening...A bear the actual leader? What kind of joke was this...Some initiation prank perhaps? Yeah....That had to be it. No way they woulc be stucl here forever...No way no one would notice. They had family to get back to, friends! Patients...He couldn't stay stuck in this place forever. His rules seemed like one an actual teacher would give...Get up at a certain time, stay in your room at night, don't break anything. This had to be some teacher pulling an elaborate prank.

That was the way it seemed at least, until Haruka stepped up to the podium. He knew she'd have some inner rage but this was quite something, so much so he shuffled back a bit during it. The sight was a little strange to watch, was everyone so worked up...it was just a prank right? ....Right....? That's how it seemed...Until he started seeing double. Two bears. One was bad, two made him confused...The explosion is what made reality set in, no way...This was going to far. He took a while to gather his words as he looked at the bear, then at Haruka who seemed in severe agony. 

Keep a level head, Hitoshi...Don't panic...Don't panic...She'll be okay...That, it's just an injury. She said she got hurt easily...So long as no one tried that again, they'd be fine. Haruka would be fine...She'd be fine....I hope so..


He repeated this to himself, after all what kind of therapist panics like this, though he could feel his palms getting sweaty and himself tremble. He bit his lip and spoke up, so many questions going through his head but one still bothered him.
"You never said how we get out...The third rule...Assuming it's not the violence one" He looked at Haruka, worried, then back to bear. "So..Monokuma, if you've trapped us here...And there's a chance to get out...How do we do that?"
He hoped moving the conversation on didn't make him seem heartless, but people were dealing with Haruka...Plus, this needed to be answered. "And Doctors? If we can't get out how do we get her injury treated?" Man...he sounded more emotional than he intended, upset and worried obvious in his wavering voice. Damn...He hated it.

{OOC: I was told I could post since KashKey isn't around}

Darkness...all around him. Lucca was floating in a black limbo. He was alone with nothing but his thoughts. "Where am I? How did I get here? All I remember was that I was going to the ballroom from the library. Everyone was there and then suddenly everything went dark."

Suddenly Lucca jerked awake. His vision was blurry and he had a splitting headache. He rubbed his eyes and yawned. He felt as if he'd had been asleep forever. He noticed that everyone else was already standing up. They all seemed to be looking at something, and they looked, scared. Lucca stood up and saw what they had all been staring at.
His mouth was hanging open, his eyes wide open, and his voice shaky. "I-Is that....a bear? A real fuckin bear?" 

"Wait what? There no way a bear could ever be a headmaster at a school. B-but wait a minute. How the hell is that thing talking!? Bears don't fucking talk, i-it's not natural!" Lucca usually didn't cuss that much but it was times like this where he felt it was necessary.  Lucca was in a panic and he could see that everyone else was too.

When Lucca heard this he felt a sudden pain in his chest. "What about my sister and my mother. I won't be able to see them again? No way, I can't believe that. I refuse to believe that." Lucca fully believed that this was some sort of prank, there was no way this was happening. "N-no that's bullshit. THAT'S COMPLETE FUCKING BULLSHIT!" At this point Lucca had lost it, he was having a good day but then this stupid-ass bear comes along and ruins it. "You can't just kidnap us and expect to get away with it y-you fucking Satanic Build-A-Bear! Someone will find us, a-and save us."

Lucca was suddenly cut of when a girl ran past him and was screaming at the top of her lungs. He recognized the girl as Haruka Kobayashi. She kicked the bear and dug her heel deep into the bear's face, exposing the metal endoskeleton underneath all of its fur. Suddenly another one popped out and caused the other one to explode, luckily Haruka kicked it out of the way in time. But suddenly she just....collapsed. "Oh my god, a-are you ok!?" Lucca had rushed over and checked to see if she was ok. His eyes shot over to the second bear that came out of nowhere. "Look at what you've done, you fucking monster."

Amelia was truly excited for their first meeting. She entered with a light heart, a skip to her step. She felt at the top of the world. That is, until the lights went out. She did her best to contain the shriek her throat so badly wanted to let out. The dark was not her forte. All that could be heard from her was an internal whining as the panic continued.

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When she awoke, she felt a pain in her shoulder from how she landed. She tried to take her time, moving to her knees. The pilot wobbled a bit as she stood. Her hand rubbed her shoulder as she watched and listened to everything that was going on.
A bastard, huh? Making fun of my talent, huh?! Her American fighting spirit was starting to get the best of her as this bear was continuing to make comments. For once in her life, though, she decided to let the scene play out without intervening. At the rate this was going, she was only beginning to get frustrated above all else. She gritted her teeth, with each worried notion from her fellow students, she felt compelled to help- when she knew there was truly nothing she could do.

As Minako spoke out, she swallowed hard.


“Z-Zero bars? How in the world am I going to contact my gramps..?” That unbreakable spirit of hers was beginning to crack. She bit her lips inward, beginning to feel a strange emotion in her chest.


Fear.


Amelia had almost danced along through life. She was hardly afraid of anything. She could fly a plane alone with no problem if she wanted to, and not even that would scare her. But this. Seeing so many people quiver in fear or yell in detest due to a stuffed animal, she couldn’t help but be scared herself. This rare fear showed in the girls eyes as her expression darkened. To hide this, she slid her goggles from her head to a place over her eyes. She didn’t want anyone to see this expression of hers. She gave a bright smile now that her true emotions were hidden behind a pair of aviator goggles.





“Let’s not get too worked up, I---” Her voice cut off when the bear said a few certain words.
That’s what the bear said. They were caged. Caged.

Caged..

Caged!

With that statement said, Amelia felt her legs begin to shake. It only took a few minutes for them to give out. Her goggles fell from her eyes to her neck as she thumped to the floor. She looked confused, almost lost as the bear continued.

I’m not meant to be a caged bird. That’s not.. Her thoughts trailed off as conversing continued, though everything waved in and out.

The unbreakable spirit had broken so easily. Just from a few simple words.

She looked at her lap as she listened to the rules. These were no problem for her, but living here for so long? She couldn’t even imagine doing such a thing. When Haruka had gotten injured, she didn’t move from her spot on the ground. She was still trying to fathom her future in this situation. Her body locked up. Her mind was still there but she could not yet bring herself to respond. It wasn’t until Monokuma’s final statement came into play that she said anything.


She forced herself to her feet. It took her entire essence to hide that fear she had been feeling only a few seconds earlier. She had to remain strong. That’s what gramps would do. She brought her goggles back to her forehead. Her body still felt a bit locked, but it wasn’t anything that couldn’t be worked through. She gave a bright grin, though it was obviously fake as she was trying to be strong for everyone. She had to be. That’s just who she was.


"Don’t be stupid.” She spoke above the rest in her typical, loud voice.
“Killing each other? Sure, not everyone will get along! But we can find our own way!” She placed her hands on her hips. She soon believed in her own fake confidence, and her fake smile soon became a real one. Her hips swayed to the side as she spoke to the bear in her obnoxiously confident manner. Her natural voice booming with joy.
“We can’t be saved? Ok!” She gives a thumbs up. “Can’t destroy some things? Not a problem!” She waved her hand in front of her dismissively. “But if there’s one thing I can say, it’s that I have faith that no one here is selfish enough to take such an offer! Surely, we can find out our way!”



For a moment, she almost forgot her fear of not being able to experience the outdoors once again. But she refused to allow herself to be beat by such a detail. For now, she had to be strong. She had to show more confidence than she ever had, even if it was fake.

Monokuma simply gave everyone to take it all in, and he had already received some riveting responses.

"Oh really, hm? It's fine if not all of you are attuned to the lifestyle of mutual killing- every time, there's just some people who aren't up to snuff with the others. People tend to snap in order moreso than at the same time, so I'm not surprised- besides..." he added. "Some of you... are more suited to the role of 'victim'."

He straightened his stance, before hearing the rest of what people had to comment.

Upon Petre's insight, the boy would realize that the explosive was a time-controlled, manufactured version that began counting down once kicked by Kobayashi. It seemed to be activated by impact...

At Kiyomine's question, Monokuma spoke up again.

"Seen this before? Oh, sure I have!" he responded with a peppy tone. "Don't you kids start thinking you're special snowflakes or anything- I've already tried this game a couple times before this batch of lab mice- and each time, it's basically the same result. Given enough time and pressure, one of you people is going to lose it just a bit. It's a nice little something called despair- sort of like sadness, sort of like fear, sort of like anger... just this deep, bottomless hole of negative emotions in your heart that can only be filled by the accomplishing of a task. Ironically, make that task something destructive and it only tends to fester! Kind of beautiful, really." he explained.

And then, well... there was Zulfikar.

"See? One of you is already pretty off the deep end."