Ding Dong!

"It's now 7am students! Time to wake up!"
Monokuma's voice could be heard from the speakers.

I grumbled something to myself but refused to get up. I'd rather stay here in my bed for a while.

I sighed loudly and glanced at my nightstand. The pig lamp and the photograph were still there.

Something in my head began to pound and I rubbed on my temples to calm my thoughts down.

There was something about that photograph that is causing this pounding.

Maybe my lost memories are trying to reach me but something is blocking them from doing so.

Well whatever it was, it's a real hell of a headache.

I got up from my bed while muttering every known swear word to me and took the photograph from the nightstand.

I stared at it fondly.

They look familiar but...just who are these four? I wondered.

Knock knock!

A knocking at my door, snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Tommy are you there?" Lloyd's voice could be heard from behind my door.

I set the photograph down.

"Yeah I'm here," I said and walked up to open the door.

"We were waiting for you. Ever since...you know...we have been doing head counts at breakfast to know who is still here," Lloyd explained.

I hugged myself nervously at this.

"Yeah...sorry for worrying you all," I said.

"It's alright. Just come and join us for breakfast," Lloyd said.

I followed him to the dining room where everyone else was.

Papyrus was the only one missing but due to the smell of spaghetti, I could tell that he was in the kitchen.

Spaghetti...why is that one simple word seems familiar to me and not because it's food, I thought as I sat down next to Noya.

Lloyd sat at the head of the table. We all simultaneously agreed that he took up the mantle of leadership so that's why he sits there.

"I'm tired of this," Susie suddenly said.

"Tired of what?" Isabelle asked.

"Of all of...this! This sadness, this sickening feeling, all of this...despair! I hate it so much that I want to punch it in its face!" Susie shouted.

"And I'll hold its arms while you punch!" Kazuichi agreed.

Those two became friends in less than a week. Guess we can find friends in different ways.

"Well you have a point. We need to find a way to stop the killings and find a way out," Lloyd said.

"But how? How can we?" Ed asked.

"We can't give up! Daisy wouldn't want us to give up that easily. She would encourage us to keep going!" Mami exclaimed.

"Yeah Mami has a point. Those who died would want us to keep going! Keep going and not fall into despair," Hibiki backed her up.

The mood slightly shifted to a much better tone.

"Tada! Special spaghetti!" Papyrus appeared from the kitchen with plates of spaghetti.

"Let me help you!" Minami got up and took some of the plates that Papyrus was holding.

They both passed out the spaghetti plates.

I took a fork and stabbed the spaghetti before scooping it into my mouth.

My eyes widen with an anime sparkle!

"Mmmm!" I hummed as I continued eating more.

Looks like everyone else had similar thoughts on the spaghetti.

"Now we know why you're called the Ultimate Spaghetti Chef," Annabeth noted.

"Nyeh heh heh heh! Thank you kind humans!" Papyrus said.

He even gave Leafpool some spaghetti which she ate quickly.

"That was really good!" She noted, her whiskers twitching.

We finished our spaghetti.

Minami and Papyrus took the plates away to the kitchen to wash them.

Just before they were about to do that...

Bing Bong!

"Upupupu~ everyone head to the gym for a special announcement!" Monokuma said from the speakers.

Everyone groaned at this.

And just when we were starting to get the mood more cheerful.

We all walked to the gym but none of us were happy about it.

"Hello there students!" Monokuma said.

He was holding something in his paws.

"The f*ck is that?" Ed pointed it out.

"Oh this? Nothing special...other than it's a five second replay of someone's memories," Monokuma explained.

!

What?! I thought, shocked.

"Memories? You mean, you have such a device like that?" Annabeth asked.

"Yep! Yep! But I just can't give this to you, no no no! Consider this a special motive; if you kill somebody, I might just give this to you," Monokuma said.

And of course he had to make it about killing. Isn't there an easier way of gaining our memories back? I thought, bitterly.

"But this isn't the exact motive. You'll have to wait for later. But for now, the special announcement," Monokuma placed the cylinder behind his back.

"The rest of the first floor is open and a little bit of the second floor is open as well!" He cheered.

New rooms? This could be useful in finding a way out of here, I thought.

"New floors? What's your game here?" Mukuro asked.

"Game? Whaaa? No game here at all (other than the killing game of course), I'm just being generous here. You wouldn't want to spend the rest of your lives looking at the same rooms over and over again, would you?" Monokuma asked.

Mukuro still didn't look satisfied.

"Well shoo shoo then! Go and explore the new places unless you have something better to do!" Monokuma disappeared.

"Well guess we have one thing on our agenda. Explore the new expansions," Lloyd said.

"So we start where we left off," Hibiki muttered.

Everyone left but I stayed behind a little.

I wanted to reflect on what I saw today and yesterday.

Monokuma was acting unusually nice to Ash before his execution and it seems like both Mukuro and Kazuichi figured this out.

Also the "special" motive. Whose memory is it and why five seconds?

A lot of questions and not a lot of answers.

Damn, this was going to be tougher than I thought, I thought.

A/N: got inspiration to start Ch.3 so I started to write. Watched a lot of Multi-Fandom Fangan edits on YT.

Anyway, I'm excited to start this chapter.

Place your predictions somewhere!

Cya in the next one -Flare