A thick veil of mist surrounded me, obscuring my vision. Confused, I began to walk forward slowly, desperately trying to wave the mist away from my face. Eventually, I could just barely make out a person’s outline in the distance. As I ran closer, it began to look like the Doctor… and someone was there too, standing behind him with a knife in their hand.
“DOCTOR!” I shouted with all my might, but it didn’t reach to him before the knife stabbed into his back. “NOOOO!”
I shot up in my bed, breathing heavily. “What a nightmare.” I looked around, seeing that I was still in the house I’d been assigned to yesterday. Unfortunately, that part hadn't been just a nightmare. I looked at the clock and saw that it was 6:51 AM.
I took a deep breath to calm myself down. “I guess I should go make some breakfast.” I got up and headed to the kitchen with a sad look on my face.
Time to start my new life, I guess...
Chapter 1: The new murderous life.
I pour myself a bowl of MonoKuma-O’s. A custom made vanity product, I presume. Once the time hits 7:00 AM, the monitor in my house turns on. The screen shows MonoKuma wearing a top hat and a paper around him saying Congratulations, New Mayor. Oh ha ha.
“Alright everybody! It's time to rise and shine as you have a big day. Now go out and live life before it ends.” It turned off once he finished the message. I quickly ate my breakfast and headed out. Just before I left, I grabbed the pen that Dinky had given me the day before.
“If I only knew it’d turn out like this, I never would have come here...” I gripped the pen tightly. I really wanted to see my daughter one last time. I knew there must have been a way out of there, I just had to find it!
When I left, the first thing I saw outside was something that made me really happy: The Doctor himself waving to me. “Hello there Derpy. Sleep well?”
I couldn’t help but blush. I got a little lost in thought, which the Doctor noticed.
“Um, I guess you didn’t sleep well?” He asked.
“OH!” I quickly snapped out of my trance. “Sorry if I weirded you out. Yeah, I didn’t get enough sleep, ha ha ha.” I fake a laugh.
“Me neither. I just can’t sleep at night thinking of innocents being forced to kill each other.” He clenched a fist. “It just makes me sick!”
I can really feel every bit of his anger. He had all the fury of someone who’d already seen this kind of thing happen. Well he is a doctor but I never heard of any work he did in the medical field. Maybe when he is young or something.
“Oh, I forgot something!” he said. “Derpy, the others are at the school. We’re gonna meet up there from now on.” He offers a hand, smiling.
“Sure!” I took his hand. You know, if there was any positive to being stuck here, then this would be it. We soon reached Canterlot Academy, where I noticed two people already standing outside: Vinyl Scratch and Octavia. The former didn’t look to good?
“Come on, Vinyl! Wake up and stop making that face!” Octavia shook her back and forth but it was no use. Vinyl just stood there in a daze, wearing a distraught grimace. “Ugh! This is useless!”
“Need any help?” I offered.
“Oh no, don’t worry about it. I think I almost got through to her. Ever since we saw what that bear could do, she’s been like this. I had to sleep over at her house!” She didn’t seem to be happy. Still, I couldn’t blame her for being like that. All of us were pretty much terrified of him after that.
“Are you sure?” Asked the Doctor.
“Yes, I’ll handle this. Go meet up with the others. Tell them that we are both busy with something. COME ON VINYL!” She shakes her again.
The Doctor and I went inside and made our way to the lunch room, where the other students were already waiting.
“Hey there you two are!” Silver Spoon shouted. “Where are Vinyl and Octavia?”
“They say they’re busy,” Doctor answered.
“Well then where have you been?” Snowflake asked with curiosity.
“Probably spending time alone with each other.” Flash suggested, raising his eyebrows.
I blush a little. “No, its nothing like that.”
“Oh great!” Diamond Tiara shouted. “Not only am I here being forced against my will to live here, I’m also in a romantic comedy! BLEGH!”
“Hey, isn’t there someone else missing here?” Berry asked. It took me a moment to realize that Sunset wasn’t there. However, no sooner did I notice it than the girl herself slammed the door open and stormed in.
“UGH, I HATE THIS PLACE!” she shouted.
“You don’t expect the bear to go easy on you just because you’re a princess, are you?” Apple Bloom said dismissively.
“SHUT UP!” she shouted at her. “If our kidnapper really wants us to live here for a long time then he or she should of put me in a nice home fit for a princess. Not those small houses!”
“I like the way you think there,” Taira smiled along with Silver Spoon.
“Regardless, let’s focus on what’s really at stake here,” Lyra suggested. We all gather around one of the wide tables. Soon enough, Octavia and Vinyl came in and sat with us.
“Ok, I managed to snap her out of it. You wouldn’t believe how scared she was.” Octavia rolled her eyes.
“Hey,” Vinyl shouted. “I wasn’t scared! I was um... um… asleep! Yeah, I was asleep.” We all rolled our eyes.
“All right.” The Doctor said, leaning forward on the table. “Like Lyra said, we need to discuss the situation at hand.”
“Well we know that we’re being forced to live here by that fucking psycho.” Gilda said, her anger almost tangible. “Oh, and the only way to get off here is by murdering someone. Any more that we didn’t know, captain dumbass?”
“Now, now,” Snips interrupted her. “I think he means that there might be more to what’s going on than Monokuma let on.”
“And what would that be?” Gilda stared at Snips with a such a threatening look that he soon found himself hiding under the table.
During all that, Snails noticed that Sweetie Belle was a little out of it. “Everything all right, Sweetie Belle?” he asked.
“I was wondering about something. What does the second part of rule number 6 mean? I don’t get it to be honest.”
I took a look at the rule she was talking about and frankly it confused me too.
6) The criminal who kills a fellow Citizen will be able to leave this area if they conceal their guilt from other.
As we looked over the rule, someone started snickering. All eyes turned to Sunset.
“Why are you laughing?” Photo Finish asked, noticeably disturbed.
“I got your answer,” she grinned. “That rule right there? It implies that the innocent students have to figure out who the killer was.”
I shuddered. It sounded almost like Monokuma wanted this to work like some kind of murder mystery game.
“I bet I know who will try to kill first,” Flash muttered, looking toward Sunset.
“Oh Flash my dear,” she stood up and leaned toward him, giving him a big, fake smile. “Do you really think I would kill somebody with so little time to think it through?” she laughed.
He stood up and looked back at her angrily. “I know how you work. If anyone here values escaping more than innocent life, it’s you.”
She just smiled back. “Well then, why don’t you kill me first?” Her tone and posture showed nothing but confidence and condescension.
“Hey you two! knock it off!” the Doctor interrupted. “I suggest you two start to get along or else.” The two got off each other’s backs and sat back down. “Ok, now since that’s settled, I have a suggestion to make.” His presence was such that no one could look away. “We need to explore this area. We couldn’t do that yesterday since it was close to night time and everybody needed to digest what is going on. Since we’re all a bit less distracted today, I think we are ready to see what kind of place this is.”
The rest of us nodded in agreement. If we wanted to get ourselves out of here then we needed know where ‘here’ was.
“Ok now that we are in agreement, I suggest that we split into teams of 5.”
“Count me out.” Naturally, this came from none other than Sunset. “What makes you think I would work with you lowly knaves?”
Bon Bon spoke. “But if we don’t work together, we might-”
“Might nothing!” Sunset interrupted. “You all thinking the same thing. All you are planning your way out of here as we speak. It’s only a matter of time.” She got up and left the cafeteria. As much as I was afraid to admit it but she had a point. There was no way to know if everyone was really willing to help each other. Even if they didn’t want to now, eventually someone here might break down kill somebody. No! I couldn’t let that happen! We would just have to find a way out of here!
We soon split into groups, like the Doctor said. Me, the Doctor, Berry Punch, Flash, and Gilda made group 1. Group 2 consisted of Photo Finish, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon. Group 3 was made up of the TMC, Snowflake, and Trixie. Group 4 had Bon Bon, Lyra, Vinyl, and Octavia. The final group consist of snips and snails which they didn’t mind as they didn’t want to be in any other group. We headed to the middle of the town. At City Hall, we all begin to spread out on the certain paths we seen.
My group took the middle path, one that led to a district filled with stores. The street’s name was called Sugar Cube Corner. We all decided to spread out and check the stores there. I went into some kind of candy store. Inside there were tables, a bar and a whole row of candy samples. Behind the bar there were a lot of cakes and sweet goods.
“They do look tasty.” I licked my lips eagerly. I had to shake my head to regain focus. I went upstairs and found two rooms. The first room appeared to be a baby’s room with a bunch of plushies and a crib. I examined the crip and found two names on it: Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake. The next room I checked was a normal looking room but with lots of party stuff. Streamers everywhere, balloons, and even a cake on the bed. I looked up and saw a banner that said “Happy Birthday Pinkie Pie!”
“Did someone use to live here?” I asked out loud. What I didn’t expect was to get a response.
“Well, sort of.” I looked behind me and I jumped when I saw MonoKuma right next to me. “Oh, did I scare ya?”
I ignored his question and asked some of my own, furiously. “What is this place? Have you done this before? Have there been other people that you forced to play this sick game?”
He laughed. “Now now, don’t get you undies in a twist!” He shrugged casually. “Your group is the first one I did when I came to this world.”
“Wait, what do you mean by ‘this world?’”
“Oh, don’t you worry about that. Anyway, that’s all I have to say. Enjoy yourself!” he said before disappearing.
“This world…” I still didn’t like the implications of what he’d just said, but I decided that I couldn’t do much about it. For all I knew he was just playing some weird joke anyway. I headed outside to check the rest of the place out. There were other stores like a garden shop, a spa, and a lot more. It was more medieval looking to say the least. Before long, I found what seemed to be a bridge and over there I see a little cottage. It looked rather interesting, so went inside and took a look around. It was a cozy little place, but there wasn’t too much in it. The only thing out of the ordinary at first glance was the copious amounts of little mouse holes in the walls.
I was about to leave when I saw one other thing that piqued my interest: a little framed picture of a pony and a bunny. The weird thing was that the pony seemed to be posing for the photo, sort of like a human would. I thought it was rather strange at first, but it paled in comparison to the second thing I noticed: the pony had wings. I figured immediately that it must have been a photoshop trick, but there was just something so… natural, so organic about it. Whoever made it must have been REALLY good. I had to wonder why anyone would have something like this displayed like a normal family photo? I put the picture the down and left, because the weirdness of it was just creeping me out.
I continued on the path past the cottage until I found a sign that said ‘City Limits.’ I looked past and saw a forest up ahead.
I wondered… could I just run? Monokuma said not to go too far, but I couldn’t see anything to stop me… maybe I could run far away and get help for the others? It was astounding that Monokuma’s defenses would be that flimsy, but what did I have to lose from trying?
As it turned out, quite a lot.
As soon as I’d taken a few steps past the sign, I heard a monstrous shriek and the Eagle Monoguard landed in front of me. I froze in terror as it flashed its sword like wings. It pulled one back and prepared to swing at me, but I was too frightened to move.
I felt something tug at the back of my shirt, and found myself pulled away from the Monoguard as it swung. I could see the wing cut through even the air itself right where my neck was just a second before.
Whoever had grabbed me pulled me back behind the City Limit sign. Seeing that I wasn’t trying to leave anymore, the eagle didn’t try to attack again, and simply flew away, though not so far that it wouldn’t be able to come right back...
“Are you ok?” I hear the Doctor ask. I turn to see that he was the one who saved me. He looked me over and saw that I wasn’t hurt. “Thank goodness I got here when I did.” I was really happy to see how worried he was for me, but I noticed that his concern was quickly turning to anger. “Just what were you thinking, you could have gotten killed!”
I looked down, ashamed. I was being clumsy and careless again, like always...
I felt the Doctor’s hand on my shoulder, and looked back at him to see that he was calming down. “Sorry I yelled. It’s just that I don’t like seeing people getting hurt. If that Monoguard had gotten you, I don’t know what I would do.”
I couldn’t help but be happy at that he cared so much. “Its OK. It was my fault anyway.”
He taken a deep breath. “Well we should head back. The others are probably done exploring and we should report on what we saw.”
I nodded. After that experience, I wished I could be as strong as him. It took us a while to get to the school but I didn’t mind it much, as that meant I got to spend some more time with him. Once we got to the school, we noticed that everybody else was done with their exploration.
“Well look at that, those two were off having a party on their own. How sweet,” Vinyl said as she noticed that I was holding hands with the Doctor. I quickly pull it away and we both pretended it was nothing.
“Please,” Diamond Tiara scoffed. “We don’t want any of that here.”
“Besides. We need to deliver our reports on the places we explored.” Lyra said.
Our group was the first to go. I told them about the stores and the cottage. Doctor told them about the Monoguard blocking the exit, and the other groups all claimed to have seen the same thing. Flash, Gilda, and Berry told us that there are other stores like donut shop, clothes shop, and more houses there. The second group begin to give us their progress report.
“I! Photo Finish found a boutique and clothing story just a little far from here.”
“Yeah, that’s where we got these really cute dresses.” Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon begin to show off a pair of new outfits, being especially boastful to the TMC. The trio rolled their eyes in annoyance, and I couldn’t have agreed with them more.
Snips and Snail went on next
“I happen to found a farm called Sweet Apple Acres,” Snails mentioned.
“That’s nothing!” Snips shouted. “Next to that farm, we found a house actually floating up in the sky!” Everybody thought he was crazy, but Photo Finish had actually taken a picture.
“What he is saying is the truth. I couldn’t believe it myself.” She put the picture in the middle of the table. It was shocking to see that its true. Is this a new discovery of some sort of tech we never heard about?
“We are lucky to bump into her when we have the chance or else you would of thought I was crazy.” I don’t know Snips as I think this place was already crazy enough.
Next is groups three’s report.
“Well we found another school here,” Sweetie Belle mentioned. “It has a weird looking design to it, like a barn”
“Boring!” Scootaloo shouted. “Nobody wants to know that. The important thing is there is a wide field around it.”
“It looked really scary do to how the guard is keeping watch.” Applebloom shook at the memory. “It’s probably not wise to go out in the borders.”
“I made sure they were safe.” Snowflake mentioned to keep most of us feel comfortable. “Me and Trixie also found a building that was carved into a big tree.”
“It appeared to be a library of some kind but Trixie found something strange,” Trixie announced. “There were no words in any of the books! Trixie finds that very weird.”
A library with blank books? Darn! I was hoping they could give us some answers. The final group begin to give their report.
“Me and Lyra saw some more buildings. Nothing special to report about.” Bon Bon said. “there is a train station there, but it doesn’t seem to work.”
“And even if we get it to work, I doubt that the Monoguard would let us leave with it.” Lyra crossed her arms and shook her head.
“Well I made an amazing discovery!” Vinyl shouted with excitement. “During one of my searches in one of the houses, I found this!” She pulled out a little box with a red button. “Now watch this.” She pressed the button and threw the box toward an empty space and there it forms into a two high def stereo's, a front stage table with a mic attach along with records and many other equipment. “I never been so happy in my life” She let out a tear.
Octavia facepalmed. “I know that’s going to get annoying. Anyway, there is a windmill here. I guess that might be our power source for all the stuff we use in our homes.”
Once everybody was done with their reports, I saw that there were no signs or clues to help us get out of this place. Just then, the doors slammed open and Sunset Shimmer came in carrying something in her hands. She puts it on the table, revealing a map of the entire town along with areas we haven’t visited.
“Where did you get this?” Photo Finish asked.
“Mono bear left this while he was looking for something.”
“You took something from him!” Sweetie bell shouted.
“Ooh, you're so in trouble when he finds out!” Scootaloo pointed at Sunset.
Sunset shrugged. “It doesn’t matter anyway. Besides, he knows by now anyway since the cameras have been watching everything we did.” I’d almost forgotten about them; I sort of wish she didn’t remind me. “It seems that this bear owns a large kingdom. If I take him out, I could claim his throne.” Typical. I knew she would be thinking about that.
“Well, all that searching was pointless,” Gilda said. “Now we still don’t know jack shit about how to get out.”
“Hey! Trixie said watch your language!” Trixie yelled.
“She does have a point though.” Tiara backed up her statement. “We have no idea what to do now.”
We all stay in silent for a while until the Doctor broke the silence. “Well, we do have one option.” Everybody started to listen. “We are going to have to do what he said and live here for a while.”
“That is bullshit!” Gilda shouted with anger.
“Trixie said watch your language!” she repeated.
“I know,” said the Doctor. “We all want to get out of here, but we’re just gonna have to wait it out. It’s clear that this bear is a lot more prepared than we thought.” He had a point. Mono bear has 4 robotic guards on his sided. What was worst was that he was always watching us. Nobody could fight that.
“For once I actually agree with the doctor,” Sunset said. I’m surprised that she would agree with him. Why did that make me feel so jealous? “This will be a fun waiting game. Once the bear slip up, that is my chance to take him out and become the princess of this place.” Her devilish smile really shows that she was serious.
We all agreed that if we waited it out a bit, the bear would slip up and that is when we would strike. Once the meeting is over, Everybody heads out. They all have concern looks whether this is a good idea or not. But I know with a little determination, it just might be our ticket out of here. Me and the Doctor were the last ones to get out. Before I could go to my house, he laid a hand on my shoulder.
“Hey, Derpy. Um...” It was a bit awkward. “Since we are gonna be stuck for a while, do you want to hang out?”
When I heard those words, I mentally squealed like a little girl.
“You know I did promise we could hang out and…”
“YES!” I shouted. Embarrassed, I tried toning it down a bit. “Oh sorry. I mean yes.”
He laugh loudly. “Oh Derpy. You always seem to find a way to make me laugh.” He wipes a tear out of his eye. “Well, shall we get going?”
As long as I was stuck there, I figured it might as well be with the Doctor. We headed to city hall and there he stands on the steps in from of the entrance. “You know. Its been so long since we hung out together.”
“Yeah… I remember in the fifth grade you said that my eyes were interesting. It was a lot better than what most people said about them.”
“Well I still stand by that fact. You haven’t been bullied a lot since I left, right?” He asked in worried tone.
“No not really. In fact people are a little nice to me. Maybe thats because I have a daughter and people heard about me raising her.”
“Daughter?” He stayed silent for a moment. “Oh I see. So you are pretty much...”
“NO! NO! NO!” I wave both of my hands back and fourth. “She was adopted. Nobody was willing to take her so I took her in under my wing.” I looked away. “She was all alone in that orphanage and I just couldn’t let that happen.”
“Oh, thank goodness.” He notice me staring at him in frustration. “I mean Ahh, so you adopted a little girl?”
“Yeah. She doesn’t have anybody else to go to, so I gave her a home. But it looks like she won’t have someone to share it with.” I couldn’t stop thinking that Dinky was getting lonely. I started cry but the Doctor came up to me and wiped my tears away.
“Hey, don’t worry about it. You’ll see your daughter again, I promise you that.” He smiled.
He was right. I knew I would will see my daughter again, no matter what. Still, there was one thing I had to ask him. “So Doc, can I ask you something?”
He looks at me. “Yes?”
“What does Time Management mean?” As I ask the question, he turn away from me, all nevous looking
“Well, let’s say that it represents more than me telling time.” His voice sounded reckish which I quickly caught on.
“You lying to me. Please just tell me what it means.”
He pushed me away a bit. “Sorry, but that is a secret that I can’t tell.” From the look of his face, he really wanted to keep it hidden. I guessed I should give it a pass then.
“It’s alright. You don’t need to tell me now. I’ll just wait till your ready.” I was still really curious, but if he really didn’t want to...
“Thanks. You were always a nice girl, especially compared to some of the other girls here.” He sighed. I could see what he meant: two or three people came to mind.
I talk with the Doctor like their was no tomorrow. We pretty much catch up a lot and getting to know more of each other as we did. After a few hours I headed back to my house.
Once there, I laid on my bed. I’d done a lot so far today, but as I looked at my clock, it saw it was about 3:00 PM. I didn’t want to stay there all day, so I decided to head to the boutique that Photo Finish mentioned. Once I got there, I noticed it looked really… ‘upper class’ would be fitting I think. I entered and saw that there were a lot of dresses on display as well as a runway for models.
“Wow, these dresses are amazing!” I looked where that voice came from and saw Photo Finish praising the dresses. What was weird though was that all the dresses were on pony shaped mannequins. She turned around and seemed very happy to see me.
“Oh, you came just in the nick of time!” She grabbed me by the arm. “I need you to put on that dress over there.” She pointed at one of the pony looking mannequins with a simple looking dress with a flower hat.
“Um, I don’t know...” I wanted to refuse, but the look on her face was just irresistible. I figured if we were gonna live here, I might as well help her out with this. “Alright, I guess.”
After putting on the dress, I looked at myself at the mirror. I really did look beautiful. I wonder what the Doctor would say if he saw me in this...
“Wow, Darling! Everybody will adore you when they see you in that dress!” She began to take pictures. “So tell me, have you thought about my offer?” She rubbed her hands hopefully.
“I’m still thinking about it.” I didn’t know if I really wanted to be a model, to be honest.
“No problem. Good things come to those who wait.” She took a deep breath. “Tell me. Are you ever picked on because you can never reach the kind of beauty people normally look for?”
“Sort of...” I think I got what she is saying. I was mostly picked on because of my eyes. “Have you been bullied?” I ask out of curiosity
“No, I wasn’t, but I have seen people like you being bullied to no end.” She looked down at the ground. “It kinda makes me sick.”
I was a little surprised by that. “You know, I never would have taken you for that kind of person.”
“What? What makes you think that? Is it because I’m an upper class fashionista?” He puts her fingers on her chest. “Perish the thought. I! Photo Finish! put my entire being into seeing what makes mankind beautiful.” I guess it’s better not to judge a book by its cover. She certainly didn’t.
“So you see beauty no matter where it comes from?”
“Let me tell you something, beauty can come from anyone if they are willing to show it.” She holds up a photo of 3 girls. “Takes this girls for example. People had convinced them that they were just losers, but now, with my help, they recognize that they’re not losers at all, but important, beautiful people!”
To think that I’m being lectured by a women with strongs words and yet she doen’t look like the type of person would give that. “I can see your point.”
“Well of course. After all, I like it when people smile. It makes the picture even more beautiful than before.” She was wearing a pretty big smile herself. With that passion of hers, it was clear how important that beauty was for her.
*Track use: Welcome to despair school*
After a while of trying out dresses for her, I headed back to my house. Once I got there, the T.V turned on and we could see a clear picture of Monokuma with his banner and top hat. “Attention Citizens, it’s 10:00 PM so every store of any kind was now closed. Stay at your homes and have a good night.” It turns off after that.
“Well, time for me to spend my second night here.” I got into bed and began to get lost in thought. “I wonder how Dinkey is doing...” I couldn’t stop worrying about her. I just hoped Mr. and Ms. Cake were taking good care of her. As the thought clouded my mind I drifted to sleep, leaving me in complete darkness until the next day.