Danganronpa v3:Monokuma's Evil Genderbending Motive

Part 5: Submission

As they walked towards the gym, Kirumi gave Shuichi an overview of time. "You blacked out for 20 hours, so it's technically 9 am the next day today. I think the flashlight was set to extreme power the first time, your clothes were smoking and everything. It seemed like the most important changes, like changes in body shape, came almost immediately, but your hair and eyelashes were gradually growing out, it was so weird."

"It was better than Akamatsu san's," Korekiyo said quietly. He had joined the steady trickle of students heading for the gym."Her hair kept shooting back into her head. That couldn't have been comfortable."

Shuichi tried imagining that, but decided not to. It would only confuse his already befuddled brain cells. All he focused on now was the plan that Kokichi and Miu had devised. If it succeeded, Kaede would block the flashlight from hitting Rantaro, who was slated to be the next victim, and run to her dorm room. "It isn't even against the rules," Kokichi assured them. Then, someone else(Kirumi had already volunteered) would get hit, and Shuichi would cover the person hit after that, then escape. This cycle would continue until all but one of them would be their original gender, successfully escaping the motive.

It seemed too good to be true. But they had to have good luck sometime, right?

All 16 students reached the gym. Monokuma was sitting there, impassive as ever. He was, once again, holding that giant flashlight that made Shuichi uncomfortable. Without any preamble, he turned the flashlight on and shot it at Rantaro.

However, Kaede came in. She dived in front of Rantaro and closed her eyes, preparing to turn back into a girl. The light hit her full in the face. The plan was working! Now, all she had to do was......

Wait, something was wrong. Kaede wasn't turning back into a girl. She was sprawled on the gym floor, looking around in utter confusion. The light had passed through her and hit Rantaro, who was now stuck in the light like a fly in amber. Shuichi watched in terror as his green-haired friend slowly morphed into a female. 

And at that time, the light was turned off.

At least, that was what Shuichi thought. Rantaro stood there, examining himself with an appalled look on his face, before staring straight ahead of him. Shuichi looked where he was looking and realized that Monokuma had simply shot the flashlight at someone else--Himiko. 

Tenko was raving. She hugged Himiko, desperately trying to pull her away from the light and save her from becoming a guy, but her efforts were futile. Monokuma had seemingly developed a new system for getting the genderbended students to change, using new, smaller flashlights to morph the students' clothes. The Monokubs were using them to shoot Rantaro now. 

"You thought you could get past my motive, didn't you?" Monokuma laughed. "I knew something like this would happen, so I made a setting on the Genderbender Machine!"He showed them the buttons on the giant flashlight. Which were each shaped like a pixel drawing of each student's head. "When I press the button on it, the light will automatically find and shoot the bastard matching the button, no matter the obstacle!"

He shot everyone in turn, making the entire room glow. Shuichi shielded his eyes from the light, which continued for about 5 minutes, until it finally turned off.

Shuichi gaped at all his newly genderbended classmates as Monokuma stowed the Genderbender machine away. 

"Well, that's the second motive! Now, get out of here, you bastards!" he said.