Danganronpa: Fallout

Ch. 1.1 - Ain't No Fortunate Son

"Komaru, you there? It's me, Makoto. I've come to see you." The lucky student knocked a few times on the seal door. This is the place, all right. A4.

The seal door hissed open. Makoto was surprised to see Seiko answering it, and she seemed surprised yet also relieved to see him.

"Oh, Mr. Naegi. Just the person I was looking for."

"Uh, what?" What's she doing here?

"Your sister has asked to see you. I was finishing my medical examination of her, and I have concluded that she is healthy enough for you to speak with. Come on in." Seiko gestured to him.

Makoto slowly entered the room to see his sister in a vault jumpsuit, sitting on a dark blue bed, her legs fidgeting in anticipation. As soon as Komaru set her eyes upon him, they hopefully lit up, pounced from the bed like an over energetic child and made a beeline for her brother.

"Makoto! You're okay! Thank goodness!" Before he knew it, Komaru had trapped him in a tight bear hug.

"W-Woah, looks like someone's happy to see me!"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Komaru started jumping up and down before releasing him. "You have no idea how scared I was for you, big bro! I thought you were gonna be stuck in a coma for who knows how long! How are you feeling?"

"I'm doing better now," Makoto replied, not really sure how to describe how he felt. "Have you gotten to meet the vault members yet?"

Komaru's joyous expression died down into a more depressed one. "No, not really. I mostly stayed in this room because I had a mental breakdown after... the carnage at our vault... and heard about what happened outside..."

"Komaru, do you remember what you saw?"

Komaru mustered up some courage to continue. "It started after Dr. Kimura and that Rantaro guy woke me up from freeze sleep. When my eyes stopped spinning and my brain stopped being all fuzzy, I was... shocked. I saw d-dead bodies bleeding out on the floor, and so many empty freeze pods, and I c-couldn't find Mom or Dad anywhere. At first, I was so scared that I thought that Dr. Kimura and Rantaro were the ones that did it." She turned to the pharmacist briefly. "Sorry about that, doc."

"I told you it's fine. I completely understood your reaction," Seiko said.

"Did you find anything strange in the vault? Any clues as to who did it?", Makoto asked her.

"W-Well, that's kind of the thing." She was hesitant to answer. "I was focused on getting you out of there as fast as possible. I could have cared less about what was going on while you were out cold."

"Our search didn't provide too many results," Seiko intruded. "The majority of the terminals we found were smashed or scavenged by the time we arrived. So Rantaro's account is the closest thing we have that gives us information on the attackers."

In a split second, Komaru's depressive state turned into brief rage. "We gotta find the bastards who took Mom and Dad, Makoto! If there's even a chance that they're still alive out there, then we have to try to save them!"

"Komaru, I'm just as upset about this as you are." Makoto placed his hand on his sister's shoulder. "But right now, we don't know enough about the attackers to go looking for them." That and they don't sound like anybody we should try to mess with if.

"He's r-right," Seiko told her. "Even if we had adequate information regarding their location, we are in no shape to take on people with this kind of firepower. If Rantaro's synopsis of the raiders is correct, then it's clear that they are too powerful for us to take on. Besides, we have been more focused on survival and exploration than combat at the moment."