What if it Repeated? (Oumasai/Saiouma)

Chapter 36- A Change in Fate

He felt the small device bumping gently against his thigh as he followed Monokuma along a stretch of hallway. He had swiped the remote just as they were leaving. He wasn't quite sure if Monokuma would have stopped him or not, but it didn't hurt that he hadn't seen. This way he would be able to make sure the remote was never used. Kiibo at least would be safe from that fate set out by the Danganronpa creators.
"As per the script, you'll be starting in a room with Kaede Akamatsu, the one that is good with a piano." The bear added probably with the thought that Shuuichi would have forgotten this information as well.

Shuuichi nodded. His stomach had returned back to its usual state of nausea and every step made him feel as if he was slowly walking to not only his own death, but everyone he had grown to love. They reached the end of the hall and Monokuma came to a halt, turning theatrically to face him.
"Well, have at it!" He smirked, his plush arm outstretched towards a single door that seemed to camouflage almost perfectly with the surrounding wall. Shuuichi didn't respond, but gave the bear a final look before pulling the rounded handle causing the door to swing open easily.
"W-wha...?!"
"Hop in~" the bear chirped, the grin on his face abnormally large.

Shuuichi stared blankly at the shallow alcove ahead.
"But..." he began, resisting the urge to step back, "there's nothing there." The bear simply cackled loudly and beckoned for him to step inside which Shuuichi did not. The bear's face faltered momentarily, but he continued to have that snarl of a grin plastered on his plush face.
"What, you claustrophobic or something? You won't be stuck there for too long~ I doubt you'd remember, but Akamatsu will wake up soon after."

Shuuichi did a double take. This was the locker?! If he remembered the layout of the school correctly, the classroom he had woken up in was on the second floor and meant that this area that they were occupying at this moment SHOULD have been devoid of anything. Thin air. Was this place always here?! There's no way he wouldn't have noticed it, there must be a trick to it, whatever that might be.

Taking a deep breath, Shuuichi took a tentative step inside the locker and he heard the grinding of gears as soon as his foot had lost contact with the hallway containing Monokuma. He span around to see Monokuma waving cheerily at him as the door began to creak shut automatically. Monokuma seemed to be getting further away despite him not moving an inch from his position. He glanced at the floor and to his horror saw it receding as slowly as the door seemed to be closing. The hallway he and Monokuma had been standing seemed to be some kind of extended bridge that could retract and extend at will. It reminded him of a plane about to take off from its destination- the plane being the school.

When the door finally shut the horrible grinding stopped and it was silent. He was confined. No way out except for into the killing game. It felt hot and this new role he was being forced to play didn't help.

He heard a muffled grown through the metal door. Kaede.
"Hey! Is there someone there?!" He banged on the locker. He hadn't been sure if Kaede had heard him so he rapped on the door again. "Hello!?" When there was no reply again he slumped back into the back of the locker. It was likely she hadn't fully woken up yet and was still groggy from whatever this organisation had put her on to have her unconscious.
"Hello...?" Shuuichi felt his heart pound faster. At this moment he decided to rap on the locker again and this time he got a reaction.

"W-wha!? W-who's there?" A high pitched voice shrieked. Shuuichi heard the scuffing of tables and chairs on the ground as Kaede jumped away from the locker- apparently knocking over everything in her path. Shuuichi tried to push on the door, but found it to be more temperamental than he remembered. He gave it a heave with all his might and the door swung open so suddenly it caused him to lose his balance and topple gracelessly onto the hard floor which thankfully, Kaede had just vacated.