Second Chance

Anger and Agony! Akemi's Resolve!

((Thanks so much to my best friend, TheSaiyanJedi5, for ideas for this chapter!))

((No one's POV))

Clack, clack, clack. The Ultimate Programmer's fingers clacked against the keys one by one as he typed his orders to Alter Ego. "I'm about to connect you to the network. Once I do that, I need you to see if you can signal someone from the outside world. Someone who can help us." On the screen, Alter Ego nodded. "Understood. I'll do my best, Master!" he said, smiling. Chihiro frowned. "It's going to be very dangerous. If Monokuma catches you before we're finished, you're done for." 

Alter Ego's eyes filled with determination. "That's alright! Thanks to you, I've made friends with everyone else. I'm not going to let anything happen to them. For them, I'll be brave and keep my hope!" he said. Chihiro smiled and stepped away from the keyboard. He crouched down and began to look for the cable he saw earlier. "Let's see...I know it was around here somewhere..." he muttered.

Behind him, Yasuhiro Hagakure stood guard. "Chihiro...Please tell me you're almost finished!" he said, shaking all over. Chihiro located the cable and plugged it in to the old laptop's USB port. "There! I'm all finished!" he said. "Now let's get out of he-!" Suddenly, Chihiro gasped, coughing up blood. Buried in his side were the claws of a Monokuma. 

Yasuhiro gasped. "Fujisaki!!!" he yelled, charging Monokuma with the pipe in hand. With a swift blow, the Monokuma's head severed and rolled to the far end of the hallway. Chihiro freed himself from Monokuma's claws and the two kept running. They ran as quickly as they could, all the Monokumas in tow. Each time, one of them wounded Chihiro, and each time, Hiro killed it with his pipe.

But after a while, Chihiro's injuries, combined with his frequent blood loss, prevented him from taking another step. He fell to his knees and when Hiro turned back to save him, the Programmer shook his head. "Just go! Go find the others, while I distract them!" he yelled. Hiro shook his head and ran after him. "No way in hell am I leaving you behind!" 

He fought the Monokuma's valiantly. But even the most valiant of warriors runs out of steam. Hiro put Chihiro over his shoulders and tried to make a break for it. But his hope for escape turned into despair as a Monokuma slashed at Hiro's legs, rendering him immobile. All Hiro could do was watch as the Monokumas kicked the pipe away and, without mercy, attacked the defenseless programmer and fortuneteller. Chihiro...I'm...sorry...dude... Hiro thought as he was overcome.

-Time Skip-

((Akemi's POV))

I woke up as I heard a knock on my door. I yawned and shuffled my way to the door as the knocking turned into a constant banging. "I'm coming!" I said. I unlocked the door and when I opened it...a despair-inducing sight revealed itself right before my eyes. Hiro was bleeding heavily from his side and had several wounds on his face and arms. "H-Hiro?! What the hell happened?!" I asked.

Hiro coughed before replying in a shaky voice. "Chihiro...Alter Ego...Tried to connect to network...Then...Monokumas...One hurt him! I-I tried to protect him, but...! There were too many! We were...ambushed!" he said. I gasped as I saw how profusely Chihiro was bleeding. The crimson color began to seep through his shirt and dripped down his arms and his entire body. There were claw marks where the blood was pooling. 

From what I saw, Chihiro got the brunt of the punishment. My eyes widened and I looked at Hiro. "Get him to Mukuro, hurry!" I ordered. "I'll wake Mondo and the others and meet you there as soon as I can!" Hiro nodded and ran to the Nurse's Office (Mukuro had spent a large amount of time there lately.). I woke Mondo and the others and we followed the trail of blood to the Nurse's Office.

Once we were inside, we saw Mukuro had patched Chihiro up and she'd sutured Hiro's. She was applying the disinfectant as we arrived. "Owowowowow!" Hiro yelled. "That stings, dude! For serious!" Mukuro frowned. "Oh quit being a baby, Yasuhiro," she said. "I'm almost done." Hiro hissed in pain and cringed as Mukuro finished. "Damn, that smarts..." he said. "But thanks. I'd probably be dead if it wasn't for you, Mukuro!" Mukuro nodded and walked up to us.

"So? How are they?" I asked. "Hiro was lucky enough to pull through with some wounds that simply needed stitches," she said. "But...Chihiro was a different case. He had a cruel amount of wounds all over his body. It's a good thing Hiro brought him when he did. Any later, and we would've lost him." I sighed with relief. "So...he's going to be okay?" I asked. She nodded. "It will take him some time to recover. Maybe a few days, at most. But after that, he should return to his normal self." Thank god, I thought.

"I...promised...you..." Chihiro said weakly from his hospital bed. I walked over to him. "Chihiro, don't talk! Please....You need to rest after what you were put through!" Chihiro smiled. "I-it's okay," he said. "I...told you...That I'd...help...And I...did everything...I could...it's...connected...to the...network...We've...got some....hope..." I realized what he meant and my heart sank. Chihiro tried to help...to keep the promise he made to me on the first day. And that promise...Is the reason my best friend is in a hospital bed right now! I thought, angry with myself.

I smiled and patted his hand reassuringly. "You've done well, Chihiro," I said, despite my pain. "Now get some rest. This way, you'll be at full strength when we need you again." Chihiro smiled. "Thanks...Akemi..." he said, falling asleep again. I clenched my fists and tears of rage and pain flowed down my cheeks. My blood was boiling, and with each passing second, my self-anger grew. "Damn it..." I said, biting my lip until it bled. Then, I let out my pain in a scream. "DAMN IT!!!!!!" "Akemi, calm down!" Mukuro said. Taka nodded in agreement. "Mukuro's right! There's a place and time for everything, but this is neither!" he said.

I shook all over, struggling desperately to calm down. Mondo came up to my side, holding Ayumi. "Akemi..." "She's crossed the line..." I said. "Hurt me, torture me, break my spirit, try and kill me, do whatever the hell you want to me...But when you involve my friends and family, that's when I get pissed!!!! She's not gonna get away with her schemes any longer! I won't let her hurt anyone else!!! It's time I ended it..." "Ended it?" Taka said. "What do you mean?" I looked over at him. "I'm...I'm going to end this," I said. "High time I did something useful for a change...By killing Junko Enoshima!!!"

I'm not gonna let her do this to us anymore! Her despair, her Killing Game, her life...I'm going to end it all!!!!

To be continued..!

Next Time:Final Battle! The Downfall of Junko Enoshima!