«19-Despair! Get it?»

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An hour later.

«Makoto Naegi»
I groggily open my eyes, my lids heavier than lead. It take me a minute to realise where I am- am I in my bed at home, my dorm at Hope's peak, the hospital? But, as I feel my way around, the floor is freezing beneath my hands, hard and metallic. A trickle of liquid runs down my forehead- when I wipe it away, it's sticky and warm. Blood? Or... oil?
The memories flood back. I scramble to my feet- and smack my head on the ceiling.
"Oww."
Rubbing my head to dull the pounding ache, I crawl forwards. Where did Junko take me? It's pitch black, and the only sounds I can hear are the drip of oil and my ragged breath.
Blind, I crawl through the metal... tube? Maybe a vent, as I draw my fingers across the ridges in the metal. I sense diverging pathways but I just crawl forwards, terrified of losing my way. Forwards, on and on until-
SLAM
Dead end. Dead end. Oh god.
"J-Junko?" I scream, my voice nearing hysteria. "Byakuya? Help! HELP ME!" The yells turn to savage screaming, interrupted by ragged sobs. I'm never getting out I'm never getting out-
"Makoto. Follow me."
"R-Ryota?" I scramble around, my hands grabbing at a figure facing me.
"It's m-m-me." He sounds dead, like his heart stopped beating. Like...
"Ryota, did you jump off a bridge? Any bridge?" I ramble anxiously.
"W-w-w-what?" He stutters. His stutters got really bad.
"Doesn't matter. Please, where's the exit?" I ask desperately.
"Um, f-f-f-f, f-follow me." He mutters.
In deadly darkness, I follow the dead boy. I thought... maybe he survived? Because it wasn't Sayaka.
Sayaka.
Where is she now? Was she-
No. Byakuya. BYAKUYA.
My boyfriend. Where is he? Did- Junko place a bomb? Is he-
Dead?
Oh god. Oh no. Oh-
"We're h-here." Whispers Ryota. He shakily pulls open a shaft, flooding the tunnels with electric light.
The room is cramped, lit by crackling over head lights. There's a single desk in the corner, with a complicated set up of computers, screens and wires, and in the other, another shaft.
"Mukuro, get your ass back here!" Junko screams at her phone.
"No, you can't! I'll kill Sayaka and Makoto if you don't come back."
She pauses, her face scrunching up in anger.
"I will! Ryota's dragged him here. Sayaka's in the cage. I can easily."
Another pause.
"I can track you're phone. Oh yeah, a burner phone? Haha, good luck then sister. You're still causing me SO MUCH DESPAIR!" She screams, and girls the phone onto the floor. "Haha, she'll be back." She laughs to herself.
"J-Junko, I b-brought Makoto." Ryota mumbles.
"Oh thank GOD." She pulls me up by my hair, sending pain searing down my head.
"Get in there!" She orders, pointing at the small shaft in the corner.
"Why?" I stammer. Seeing my kidnapper up close is almost paralysing.
"What do you think Sherlock? It's a cage so I can't have you escape. Don't worry, Sayaka will be in there. You can have some 'fun' if you really want~" she giggles.
Dragging me by my ahoge, she rips open the shaft and throws me in. I bang my head on the metal.
"Why are you doing this?" I yell as my vision starts to blacken.
"DESPAIR! GET IT?" She shrieks manically. "And I want the whole WORLD to feel it too! Life is so so so so BORING, it needs excitement!"
"But why..us..." I gulp.
"Oh, Makky, you haven't seen anything yet."

Hi guys! Thanks for 1k reads! Also, who are you're favourite characters from THH, UDG and SD2? Because I will include them in the next chapter!

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