Danganronpa: Painful Truth

Violent Degenerates

Yoshi landed on the elevator with a small whimper. As he lowered himself through the hatch, Ryu arrived, slamming heavily into the metal surface. "AWWWW YEEEAH TIME TO FUCK SHIT UP!!!"

"A-ahhh!" Yoshi gasped as his partner landed beside him. "Y-you s-scared me!"

Ryu laughed loudly and put his arm around Yoshi. "Sorry 'bout that Yosh! I'm just hella pumped and fulla' adrenaline after that ride! Besides, ya knew I was right behind ya!"

"Y-yeah...well..." Yoshi turned slightly red.

Ryu couldn't fit through the existing gap in the door, but had no trouble forcing it fully open."Hell yeah! We're in!" He pointed at a corner where two walls and the ceiling met. "That little shiny thing's a camera, right? Kick its ass!!"

"W-where?" Panicking, Yoshi pulled his slingshot from his pocket and swiveled toward where Ryu was pointing. Without pausing to aim, he fired a pellet, hitting the tiny lens dead center. It shattered with a small pop.

"WOOO! First try!"

"Y-you s-scared me again..." Yoshi whined as he examined his handiwork. "At l-least this m-means the c-curse is gone..."

They meticulously combed the hallways and adjoining rooms, smashing anything that looked useful. "This is great!!" Ryu roared. "Feels like my birthday!!"

"Is th-this r-really w-what you d-do on your b-birthday?" Yoshi asked, looking pale as he disabled another subtle camera.

"Well I always get to spar with my dad on my birthday, an' he said he was a robot one time! So this is pretty much the same thing!"

"N-not r-really..."

As they left another thoroughly ravaged room, a distant cacophony of metallic sounds and shouting caught their attention. "W-what's that?" Yoshi asked nervously.

"Hell if I know! Let's go check it out!" Ryu grabbed Yoshi's hand and pulled him along.

He followed reluctantly, but when they rounded the next corner he nearly fainted. Several battle-ready Monokuma robots were gnashing their steel teeth at a dark-haired girl in a tiny sailor uniform. She was poised in a strong martial arts stance, as if planning to take on the whole group of Monokumas herself. The discarded parts from one she had already dealt with sat at her feet.

"Hiiiii-yaaaa!" With a sudden shout, she lifted her leg and aimed a high kick at the head of one of the approaching robots. The sharp steel teeth nearly grazed her skin, but the kick dislodged the head from its shoulders. It collided with the head of another robot, disabling them both. "That'll teach you to chase after girls!"

"Hell yeah!!" Ryu cheered excitedly for the violent display. "Come on Yosh, let's help her out!!"

"O-okay!" Yoshi pulled a few pellets out of his pocket and aimed carefully at the exposed metal that connected the robots's heads to their bodies. It was a small weak point, but easy enough to exploit. He disabled two of the Monokumas just as Ryu finished punching two of his own into scrap metal.

"WOOO!!" Ryu roared with satisfaction while Yoshi sighed with relief. "Badass!! Hey lady, ya sure can fight!!"

She turned her attention to Ryu and Yoshi, but the rage in her eyes stayed firmly in place as she approached. "Hey! I know what you degenerates are up to! You were just trying to look up my skirt while I was busy fighting!"

"H-huh?!" Yoshi looked appalled. "R-Ryu, you weren't r-really t-trying to d-do that, r-right?"

"Aww, come on Yosh, ya know I wouldn't do that to ya!" He put his arm around his partner again and pulled him into a tight side hug.

"Hang on..." The girl frowned at them for a few moments before realization dawned on her. "Ohh! I see!" She smiled brightly. "Maybe I can trust you two males after all!" She gave them a small bow. "My name is Tenko Chabashira. Were you trapped here too?"

"Hell nah! I'm Ryu'n this is Yoshi! We broke in so we can break shit and break out!!" Ryu pumped his fists.

"Ugh." Tenko made a face. "Males are so mindlessly aggressive."

"N-no! W-well, R-Ryu k-kinda is..." Yoshi frowned worriedly. "B-but we j-just want to m-make s-sure they c-can't m-make any more k-k-killing games!"

"I don't know if breaking things is gonna be enough, but I'll help in any way I can!" Tenko clenched her fists determinedly. She looked slightly sad as she continued. "I don't want anyone else to have to go through something like that!"

"That's the spirit!" Ryu grinned. "But we ain't just breakin' shit! Our boss's gotta whole ass plan! Roughin' this place up's just our part of it!"

Yoshi suddenly gasped. "T-Tenko, I r-recognize y-you! Y-you w-were the one who d-died in the s-seance..." He gripped his slingshot tightly in both hands for comfort. "I-I'm g-glad you d-didn't really d-die, your s-soul would have b-been c-cursed for s-sure!"

"Oh yeah! You were there!" Ryu looked thoughtful. "Hey, how'd ya live anyway? The boss doesn't wanna talk about it!"

"Died at the seance?" She frowned. "Oh, you must mean that thing!"

"Th-thing?"

"The thing that happened to me at the seance! It was really weird, actually. As soon as the lights went out, it felt like the floor moved down, and someone pulled me away!"

"Woah! Didja fight 'em off ya?" Ryu asked excitedly.

She scowled. "They must have rendered me unconscious somehow, like the filthy degenerates they are, because the next thing I remember is all these people in suits trying to corrupt me to join them! But neo-aikido requires an earnest and unwavering heart! I told the others I wanted to end the killing game! There's no way I would join the people responsible for putting us through all that suffering!"

"W-wow..." Yoshi looked impressed. "W-what h-happened n-next?"

Her determined expression faded into a sigh of disappointment. "They knocked me out again. Then I woke up in a lab with the door destroyed. I've just been trying to fight my way out since then!"

As she finished explaining, a distant metallic rumble began, approaching swiftly. Tenko's eyes widened. "Oh no, there's actually more?"

"I w-was afraid of th-that..." Yoshi whimpered, clutching his hands into his fluffy red hair.

"Awww come on guys, this is great!! Ain't no way our team's gonna lose to some shitty robots!" Ryu pounded his fists together. "LET'S FUCK SHIT UUUUUP!!"