Orion's Story

"..."

Everyone on the school grounds is trapped. Not even the slippery Peacock could escape Monokuma's traps. A giant rift is stopping the police from getting near the school.

Zenmei didn't want to admit it, but...all this was hopeless.

"...Is this it..." Zenmei said to himself. "Is this how it ends...?"

"Pfff, 'course not!"

"(?) Wha - ?" Zenmei looked around in response to this new voice. "W-Who said that?"

"Er, wasn't me...!" Chaperon said.

"Nor I," Alastor said.

"I-I've been quiet," Quartz said.

Just then, what looked like a large star flew out and struck the rift's edge, stopping its suction on the spaceships. All the ships are freed, and the officers were levitated back down to the ground. It also cut power to the barrier, breaking it down.

Wh-What?! Who did that?! HOW did you do that, even...?

"Over here!"

Atop a nearby building is a new face - a cyan-haired boy with a magic bow in his hand. He pulled down an eyelid at the rift, taunting.

(!) You...!

"Yeah, me!" the boy called back. "So, Mr. Distant Voice, you don't seem to be the principal-usurper I've heard a lot about. What's your deal here?"

...

"Well, whatever. I'm here to topple this punk's regime!" The boy leaped off the building top and over the broken wall, joining up with Zenmei, Chaperon, Alastor, Quartz, Kotonoha, and the others.

"Um, who - ?" Chaperon was interrupted by the mystery boy presenting her her Sigurd's Aegis.

"You drop this?" he said.

"..."

"'Sokay. I got a plan for this plush-head."

"...Very well." Chaperon accepted her Sigurd's Aegis, turning it back into Fafnir and Gram.

"Uh, no, seriously, who are you?" Zenmei asked.

"There'll be time for that later, New Angel," the boy replied. "So what's YOUR deal, huh? Thinkin' of bowing to that piece o' junk? Puh-leeze! That ain't how life works. If you can do something, then do it! Simple as that."

Tesla had just come back to the front after running around looking for a way inside the building.

"This place is locked up tight. What the hell?!" He shouted. He looked back at the rest of the group he left and did a double take when he noticed the newcomers that arrived since he walked off. He tapped the boy in the suit he saw come in earlier (Quartz) and asked. "Hey, who're the newbies? And do they have a way in 'cause I've been looking and found jack squat."

Suddenly, the speakers let out a small chime.

Monokuma: Attention, attention. All students and faculty should report to the library at once for a very special meeting. Again, every bastard in this school should report to the library pronto!

While everyone was distracted by the announcement, Monokuma had vanished.

"A'ight..." the pale-haired boy said. "Let's do this!"

The boy, Zenmei, Chaperon, Quartz, and Kotonoha entered, making their way to the library.

Tesla went inside with the others but before he started looking for the library, he stopped in the main hall.

"Connor!" Tesla called out. "Where are ya, man?!"

"Tesla?" Connor said, peeking out of the janitor's closet. Seeing Tesla, he ran out to meet him. "You're back in? What happened?"

"We're gonna find this guy. That's what happened." Tesla said, starting to go down a hallway. "Come on. I think the other guys went this way."

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Meanwhile, one of the first people to get to the library was a guy with a blue shirt and blue jeans. While he knew the basics about what was going on he thought it would be best for him to stay in his room. Then, the thought occurred to him that he might find some help there. So he walked to the library, hoping to find someone.

"Hello, is anyone here?" he asked.

Ted and Kaoru arrives at the Library.

Ted brought some snacks and start to eat.

Mister Torgue: AWW SNAP! THIS LOCATION HAS ALMOST REACHED ITS MAXIMUM CAPACITY!! BLAME THE POPULATION!!!

The rest of the students and faculty arrive at the university library. It wouldn't be quiet anymore now that there's so many people around here. Many people complained about Monokuma's dictatorship, but some people are cool with it. A few wouldn't care less because they think Monokuma wasn't serious.

Meanwhile, Mordecai sees a notification window that nobody can see, saying that he completed his quest and earned 500 experience. He gained a level.

"Okay... this is starting to get weird." Mordecai commented, "Should I go to the doctor about this?"

"I dunno." Rigby shrugged, "It's like you're in a video game or something."

"Tch, as if "Trash Boat"." Mordecai read Rigby's text above his head, that somehow shows his name, "Heh heh heh..."

"I thought we agreed never call me that stupid name!"

"I know, but what I'm seeing is that your name's Trash Boat above your head, and you're level 1."

"I'm level 1?! How does it even make sense?! I'm much skilled than that!"

"Minions!! I thought I told you two to protect me from murderers?!" Claptrap meet up with the slackers, "You know I can deduct your salary until you hit rock bottom. As your new boss, I will give you orders, and if you do what I asked, then--"

"You're level 5." Mordecai commented Claptrap, "And your title said your a cowardly robot."

"How do you know...?" Claptrap noticed Mordecai has something, "Oooh, I get it! You got a gift for playing too much video games. Allow me to explain to you, meatbag! Every time you level up, you get to pick which ability you want to put in. The more you input, the better skills you get. Your stats will affect yourself and thus making you a badass! How's that for a small explanation, minion?"

"Dude... sweet!" Mordecai smiled.

"I learned that by reading a manga... from South Korea!" Claptrap guessed.

"Is this gonna take hours?" asked Gutentaag, "Ja, it will take hours- it just puts people to sleep while in a middle of a meeting. Why does he have to invite everybody over? It's ridiculous."

"Hell would be a better place than this mess..." Jurgen commented, "....Wait-- NO I DON'T WANT TO JINX IT!"

"Excuse me?" Gutentaag looked at Jurgen, "Huh. Nevermind. Just stop whining and we'll be fine."

"This meeting is boring. I'm going to get a cola..." Muscle Man walks off to the vending machine, only to find out that it only has Pepsi, "HEY! What gives with a cheap drink?!!" Then he destroyed it by punching it.

"You know this whole shit is your fault, Red." Blue is still mad at Red for ruining the university, "Just look at these people. They're scared right no-- what are you eating?!"

Red is munching Roger's hand. "Mwaff?" He talked with his mouth full, "Muff meaffin' mrieff fooff."

Kaoru was listening to claptrap's explanation. "Ah, that explains it. But the wierd thing is, the only game i've played was Sword Art Online, where I was trapped in for atleast 2 years together with this guy and Mordecai." Kaoru points at Ted.

"Huh, what?" Ted looked up while he was drinking the last cola from that vending machine.

"I wish I was trapped with you, babe." Red flirts on Kaoru, "'Cuz this red guy's gonna fuck ya allll night long!"

"It says you're level 2..." Mordecai spoke to Kaoru, "The red guy is... Level 9001?!"

"'Cuz I'm awesome!" Red grinned, "Best part is that when this meeting is over, I'm gonna teach this girl what sexual education is really about!"

"You really wanna get laid, do you?" Blue questions Red's attempt to bang Kaoru.

"Yeah, I just lvl'd up." Kaoru said, ignoring Red.

Suddenly a notification pops up in front of Ted:

You gained a buff by drinking a Cola that is over the date.

You gained 'Hyperactivity'
Buff duration: 2 minutes.
Movement speed increased by 2%

Ted started to run around the library like crazy.

Professor Layton arrives at the library, keeping his wits about him.

Zenmei, Chaperon, Alastor, Quartz, Kotonoha, and the new kid arrive as well, ready for whatever tricks Monokuma might have.

Peacock, of course, is still bound in the boiler room.

Ted calmed down and fell on the ground, very tired.

A notification popped up infront of Ted:

A skill has been created though special action.
Through running constantly for atleast 1 minute, the skill [Running endurance] has been created.

Running endurance [passive] lvl 1 exp: 2,54%

"Geinig." Ted said as he presses away the notification and continues to rest.


"Mordecai, we should check out what we can do with this abilitiy. We have to wait, anyway." Kaoru suggested.

Tesla and Connor arrived with the others, while Mike just looked at the large flood of people coming in.

"Good thing this place is big, because this is a huge crowd here." Mike said, looking around.

"What do you think, Connor?" Tesla asked. "Any chance we'll find this guy here?"

"Maybe," Connor answered. "This could just be another part of this wacky game they're playing, but we might find something."

<OOC> Omitting ladygeekiness's characters because it's unlikely she'll ever post.

Zenmei is so bored, he's scraping the fourth wall with his diamond claws.

"I said no breaking the fourth wall! Don't you people listen to your principal?"
"Ah, but there's the problem I called you all here to talk about."
"See, when I took over this school, I thought it would be a bunch of people killin' each other to get out, you know? People have places to be, other things they want to do... Plus it would be a barrel of laughs seein' powered individuals trying to prove how good they can kill without having powers! But..."
"NONE OF YOU PEOPLE ARE EVEN TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER!"
"And that kinda makes me sad, you know? So I figure, if I want to keep my rep as a big bad bear there's only one way to salvage this situation..."
"BLOW YOU ALL TO SMITHEREENS!"
"See, I warned you all I had bombs around the school ready to blow you to smithereens should anyone try anything funny! And archer man breaking in certainly counts as something funny!"
"Too bad, so sad, but at least you know who to blame when you're in hell!"
"See you later, suckers!"

A loud voice comes over the loudspeakers - "TEN SECONDS TO DETONATION"

"Eh? That's not supposed to sound so close to me. What the hell happe-"

A loud boom comes over the loudspeakers... but the school itself seems fine. Apart from a hole blown in the library wall, revealing an unconscious Junko next to a Monokuma puppet and several powered-down computers, one with an arrow-shaped hole in it. It seems the mysterious boy from earlier, in cutting off power to the barrier, also managed to cut off power to most of Monokuma's devices - without him even realizing it! As for the bombs, well, there appear to be several spent charges of C4 around Junko, placed there who-knows-when. It seems that the students were freed by the boys well-timed intervention - even the traps keeping Peacock in the boiler room are no longer working!

"That was anticlimactic..." Mordecai blinked.

"Does that mean we are free at last?! YES!!" Jurgen raised his arms in triumph, "WITH PURE LUCK, WE ARE FREE AT LAST!!!"

"The best part is that the principal is not here! You know what that means?!" Red starts a hardcore party, invites a lot of sexy girls over to school, and dance like a maniac, "PARTY IN TRACGAM UNIVERSITY!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The music started off with [url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg248PSWrCs‎]Red's favorite music of all time.[/url] As the music plays loudly, sexy girls are drinking booze and strip like drunken sluts. Colorful lights are everywhere with no chance of seizures.

"WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" Muscle Man rips his shirt off and starts twirling around, "Don't be a bunch of party poopers, ladies! With that stupid bear gone and that principal out of the way, we can do whatever we want!!!"

"WHO WANTS SOME BOOZE, MOTHER FUCKERS?!!!" Red shouted out loud.

"Oh God.... I am so... so... sorry.." Blue looked ashamed.

"Don't worry. Until the principal comes back, Red will have to sit through detention." Skips replied.

"See? Just gotta do what you know you're capable of," the young archer said.

"Um..." Quartz's body gave off some kind of azure pulse. "...there's nothing but dead bombs left. Don't worry! I'll help dispose of them."

"You?" Zenmei asked, raising a brow.

"Yeah, I've...actually been wanting to join the bomb squad when I grow up," Quartz explained. "My dad said it takes a steady mind and steel nerves...two things I...lack."

"In...any case, we should see about bringing this girl to a cozy high-security cell," Chaperon said, calling in the cops. "To think that she alone rigged all this..."

"Hey, you don't need special magical powers to be a threat..." the archer commented with a shrug.

A portal soon opened up next to Claptrap and Steve. Out of it hopped Peacock. "Phew! Thought I'd never make it outta that in one piece."

Kotonoha, meanwhile, is cheering while hugging Sekai and Makoto tightly.

"...Say, you never gave us your name, kid," Zenmei said to the archer.

"Oh, my name?" the archer replied. "...Orion."

"Orion...nice name~!"

This actually caught Layton's attention. A young stellar archer named Orion? No, surely this has to be a coincidence. Still...

"Well... I have no idea what this was all about. But I'm glad those bombs didn't explode." Kaoru said.

"FEESTEN!!!" Ted started to dance with some drunken sluts.

Suddenly, the lights went out. The music stopped playing, the sexy women did not make out, and the DJ just had a heart attack.

"AHH!!! IT'S THE GHOST OF THE DERANGED TEDDY BEAR!" Claptrap screamed.

Then the lights went back up. The party was ruined by Benson, who just arrived.

"Benson?" Asked Claptrap.

"Did you do this?" Mick also asked, "Wait a minute, I thought you were with us."

"Aww!! You're ruining the party! Party pooper." Rigby complained.

"WHERE'S RED?!!!" Benson screamed at Rigby.

"Ooooh ho hooo man... UNIVERSITY ROCKS!!!" Red was drunk and puked on the floor. Maybe he had too much fun. "WOOOOO!!!!!"

"AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!" Benson raged his veins out, "YOU TURNED THE LIBRARY INTO A STRIP CLUB!!"

"Strip club?" Makoto perked up with delight. Apparently there are sexy women swooning around him.

"FIRST THE ATTEMPTED MURDER ON THE PRINCIPLE, THEN THE TAKEOVER, AND NOW THIS?!!"

"Benson! Calm down! I'm sure we'll clean everything up." Mordecai begged, "Look, we'll do it tomorrow. How's that?"

"But the library is huge!" Rigby complained, "Besides, it's not our fault that we started this party."

"I can explain everything, please!!" Blue begged for mercy, "Red was like that ever since Monokuma was defeated by a group of individuals."

"AND YET HE STILL RUINS THE SCHOOL!!!" Benson screamed even more, "THAT RED GUY LEAVES ME NO CHOICE! RED, YOU'RE EXPELLED!!!"

"I'm graduated, bab--" Red belched and vomited.

"Serves you right, asshole." Blue said to Red, "School is supposed to be a place for learning, not for partying. Well, at least he won't attend to Tracgam University anymore." Suddenly, the faculty and students stare at Blue. It seems that Red is not at fault here since Blue got Red involved in a fiasco. "Why everybody staring at me?"

"AND AS FOR YOU, BLUE," Benson screamed at Blue, YOU'RE FIRED!!!!

"WHAT?! I didn't do anything wrong!!"

"You were supposed to restrain him from making property damage in Tracgam University! I will not allow your friend to keep treating this as his personal strip club!" Benson finished his reason, "Pack your belongings and get out of the university!"

"RED, YOU SON OF A BITCH! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!" Blue went berserk and thrashed on his so-called friend Red.

"BRING IT ON, COCKDANCER!" Red breaks the bottom of his beer bottle and counter attacked Blue.

A whistling noise was heard above Red and Blue...and they got pinned under a piano!

"You heard the gumball! Beat it!" Peacock chided, making a portal appear below the piano, dropping it, Red, and Blue out of the school. "Some people...!"

"(!) Oh my! Look how late it is!" Quartz said, accessing the time from his Chrono-Meter.

"What - ? How is it nighttime already?" Zenmei asked. "Damn, I knew we shouldn't have twiddled our thumbs..."

"{sigh} Well, this incident gave me a deal more papers to fill out tomorrow," Chaperon said, "so I must retire to to bed soon. Good night, all."

"We are ready to depart," Alastor said, clearing a way for Chaperon as they left.

"Makoto? I'm going to bed now," Kotonoha said. "See you tomorrow morning?"

"...And what about you, Orion?" Quartz asked the archer.

"Me? Uh...yeah, I'm just gonna find my own bed," Orion replied. "Right now, any bed will do." He was just about to leave...