Some Disco boi.

R.I.P Stan Lee. You were an absolute legend and inspiration, thank you.

“… No luck, huh? Figured.”

A brown-hair lad was walking towards the entrance, and stopped, standing besides the other. He did see him trying to open the door, but unfortunately, it was locked.

“Maybe we could’ve bang the door and try to force it open? Haha, just kidding! I don’t think we have enough power, anyway.”

“Ah, my apologies, I didn’t introduce myself earlier. My name is Sandwich Yanagisawa. Please to make your acquaintance.” 

The first thing Mikael knew, when he woke up, was panic. (Well, aside from the fact that the floor was grey, and judging from the feel, it was concrete.) He didn’t remember coming to such an odd place. And no, he wasn’t speaking of the hexagon shapes, and while he wasn’t in the least bit superstitious, they were much better than pentagons. 

This had been an extremely awkward day; his neck hurt from lying on the ground for what he surmised was an undetermined amount of time, and it honestly (pardon his language) sucked. Mikael counted quite a number of other unconscious people in various outfits, and was quite tempted to check over them to see if he could determine what caused said unconsciousness, but he decided not to - there was no need to open up that can of worms. Besides, the after effects of blunt force trauma would be obvious, right…?

Checking over himself, the Virologist determined that there was no aftertaste in his mouth that may have indicated a foreign substance, but that meant nothing - there were many new chemical compounds that were tasteless. And while his mouth did feel dry, that wasn’t necessarily an accurate sign of having consumed drugs - not that he would ever take them. (That was just an idiotic move in general.)

Mikael mused on the situation, checking to see if he was sore and stiff - which he was, kind of. Enough to show that he’s been on lying the cold ground, even though it wasn’t actually his idea. Verifying that he was still appropriately dressed and everything, gave him time to come to the conclusion that he wasn’t the issue.

Therefore, someone else had to have brought him here.

His last memory was of entering Hope’s Peak Academy. As unlikely and unhumourous as it was, if this was some twisted version of an Orientation camp, or fraternity bash… well, he would be extremely unhappy. Scientists weren’t meant to go outside frolicking and prancing around like idiots with other people.

The trial was at an end, another one of their classmates had left to atone for his mistakes. Shizuhiko didn’t mind one bit. He heard Kanpei’s story, he understood, he could forgive that. Zean’s remarks regarding how Shizuhiko may as well die didn’t affect him either. Did he not see what had happened already? They were all going to die if this went on. Shizuhiko was determined to get his revenge on Jenova or die trying.

Or, at least… Get shot from trying, for now. He hadn’t ever been in this much pain before in his entire life. It sure did attract some attention from the others there. Whether it was scolding him for his actions or trying to help him, it didn’t matter, because he was just fucking shot in the leg. He remained on the ground, unable to even move from the amount of pain he was in.

“That damned bastard…”

His staff fell against the floor while he tried to move to his knees. A sharp, agonizing pain surged through his injured leg as soon as he put pressure on it. He did everything he could, taking deep breaths and keeping still, to refrain from shouting again.

With so much happening Kuroneko felt safest huddled away in her seat. So far, she hadn’t made any real attempt to speak to the people around her. This was a moment of high stress, and she didn’t want to accidentally make anything worse.

This wasn’t something she could do forever though and she knew that. She skimmed over the list of names. Almost everyone seemed alright. One did end up sticking out to her. Billy? Wood Carver? That…Sounded the least threatening actually. Maybe talking to him first would be good?

The black and purple haired girl hesitated. What if she just made herself look stupid? Now wasn’t the time to worry about that. True, she was on the verge of tears and trembling really bad, but maybe he wouldn’t notice? Hopefully he wouldn’t notice how much she was panicking.

Slowly, she pulled herself to her feet and looked around. Luckily for her it wasn’t too hard to find him. After taking a deep breath to soothe herself somewhat, she made her way towards him.

“U-Um, sorry to bother you, but can I ask you something?”

Damn. Her voice wasn’t hiding her fear at all. She was already doing worse than expected.

“I-I mean-um-”

Another thing that would make everybody raise an eyebrow is his 2 feathers on the back of his head, head by a brown head band.

When you asked your question, Billy turned to face you. You see that he has a little bit of a worried expression on his face, probably due to…that announcement.

“Oh hi there!!! Ya need somethin?”

At least he looked worried, so she wasn’t the only one freaked out right now. That announcement didn’t seem like a joking matter. Even if this was some sick joke, it was very concerning.

“Hi, um, I was just wondering i-if you’ve noticed anything weird so far?”

That…Ended up a lot more vague than she planned.

“I mean, do you have any ideas on where we are? A-Anything? I-I don’t really trust anything that conductor gives us so I thought…”

“I honestly don’t know where we are, at all! But imma just take the wild guess that were in some sorta train station of sorts. And now we got the conductor tellin us that we have to kill each other?! No ma’am, that ain’t for me at all! So I guess I understand why you wouldn’t trust em, PERIOD! And also…..”

He’d pull out his pager, trying to activate it or do something with it

“This dumb ol’ thing don’t even work! So he even short changed us too!”

….It didn’t take real long for you to realize that the pager was upside down…

“Well, anyways, he may say that “we won’t get outta here unless we kill”, but I say somethin different! I say we will get out of here and  I’m assuming everyone here a good person! So I say that we’ll all be getting out of here, TOGETHER!”

That didn’t mean she had the heart to tell him the pager was upside down. She didn’t want to hurt his feelings right now. He seemed too nice.

“Y-Yeah! If we all work together we can figure out a way out of here. This place can’t be that secure of a location since it’s a train!”

She actually found herself being encouraged by him. There were still tears in her eyes, but that didn’t matter right now. She had to make sure everyone got out of here.

“No one here would kill anyone anyway!…Right?”

She was having a hard time looking up at him right now. Dear god this guy was huge. She wasn’t very confident in her ‘no one would kill’ statement. Right now she didn’t particularly know everyone here. As much as she didn’t want to be right, she still felt like it was possible.

For some reason, he’d stop his rant about getting out of here with everyone, and look at you…a little more closely this time….and concern would creep onto his face.

“Hey uhh….you alright there?”

The second she realizes he noticed the tears she’s fast to wipe them away. She takes another moment to just rub her eyes. She couldn’t tell if they felt dry or just really wet from tears, but it didn’t matter. She didn’t care that much.

“I-I’m fine! Really! We just have to start looking around to find a way out, right?”

“Yeah, we should start lookin around! Oh and by the way, my names Billy, Billy McCoy, I like whittling and apple pie! nice to meet ya! If ya ever need somethin from me, just come a lookin and i’m sure i’ll be able to help out!”

“I’m Kuroneko, you can call me whatever you want honestly…I’m a monster designer, I just design monsters for movies and stuff. I-It isn’t that important.”

There wasn’t much she could say about herself right now. She didn’t want any long introductions or explanations. It wasn’t really the time for things like that. If anything it was time for them to get moving.

“Um, do you have any ideas where we start looking now?”

“How bout we split up!? We can cover more ground that way! You cover that side over there while I cover this side! Yeah, that's a good idea! So i’ll cya on the other side!”

With so much happening Kuroneko felt safest huddled away in her seat. So far, she hadn’t made any real attempt to speak to the people around her. This was a moment of high stress, and she didn’t want to accidentally make anything worse.

This wasn’t something she could do forever though and she knew that. She skimmed over the list of names. Almost everyone seemed alright. One did end up sticking out to her. Billy? Wood Carver? That…Sounded the least threatening actually. Maybe talking to him first would be good?

The black and purple haired girl hesitated. What if she just made herself look stupid? Now wasn’t the time to worry about that. True, she was on the verge of tears and trembling really bad, but maybe he wouldn’t notice? Hopefully he wouldn’t notice how much she was panicking.

Slowly, she pulled herself to her feet and looked around. Luckily for her it wasn’t too hard to find him. After taking a deep breath to soothe herself somewhat, she made her way towards him.

“U-Um, sorry to bother you, but can I ask you something?”

Damn. Her voice wasn’t hiding her fear at all. She was already doing worse than expected.

“I-I mean-um-”

Another thing that would make everybody raise an eyebrow is his 2 feathers on the back of his head, head by a brown head band.

When you asked your question, Billy turned to face you. You see that he has a little bit of a worried expression on his face, probably due to…that announcement.

“Oh hi there!!! Ya need somethin?”

At least he looked worried, so she wasn’t the only one freaked out right now. That announcement didn’t seem like a joking matter. Even if this was some sick joke, it was very concerning.

“Hi, um, I was just wondering i-if you’ve noticed anything weird so far?”

That…Ended up a lot more vague than she planned.

“I mean, do you have any ideas on where we are? A-Anything? I-I don’t really trust anything that conductor gives us so I thought…”

“I honestly don’t know where we are, at all! But imma just take the wild guess that were in some sorta train station of sorts. And now we got the conductor tellin us that we have to kill each other?! No ma’am, that ain’t for me at all! So I guess I understand why you wouldn’t trust em, PERIOD! And also…..”

He’d pull out his pager, trying to activate it or do something with it

“This dumb ol’ thing don’t even work! So he even short changed us too!”

….It didn’t take real long for you to realize that the pager was upside down…

“Well, anyways, he may say that “we won’t get outta here unless we kill”, but I say somethin different! I say we will get out of here and  I’m assuming everyone here a good person! So I say that we’ll all be getting out of here, TOGETHER!”

That didn’t mean she had the heart to tell him the pager was upside down. She didn’t want to hurt his feelings right now. He seemed too nice.

“Y-Yeah! If we all work together we can figure out a way out of here. This place can’t be that secure of a location since it’s a train!”

She actually found herself being encouraged by him. There were still tears in her eyes, but that didn’t matter right now. She had to make sure everyone got out of here.

“No one here would kill anyone anyway!…Right?”

She was having a hard time looking up at him right now. Dear god this guy was huge. She wasn’t very confident in her ‘no one would kill’ statement. Right now she didn’t particularly know everyone here. As much as she didn’t want to be right, she still felt like it was possible.

For some reason, he’d stop his rant about getting out of here with everyone, and look at you…a little more closely this time….and concern would creep onto his face.

“Hey uhh….you alright there?”

The second she realizes he noticed the tears she’s fast to wipe them away. She takes another moment to just rub her eyes. She couldn’t tell if they felt dry or just really wet from tears, but it didn’t matter. She didn’t care that much.

“I-I’m fine! Really! We just have to start looking around to find a way out, right?”

“Yeah, we should start lookin around! Oh and by the way, my names Billy, Billy McCoy, I like whittling and apple pie! nice to meet ya! If ya ever need somethin from me, just come a lookin and i’m sure i’ll be able to help out!”

With so much happening Kuroneko felt safest huddled away in her seat. So far, she hadn’t made any real attempt to speak to the people around her. This was a moment of high stress, and she didn’t want to accidentally make anything worse.

This wasn’t something she could do forever though and she knew that. She skimmed over the list of names. Almost everyone seemed alright. One did end up sticking out to her. Billy? Wood Carver? That…Sounded the least threatening actually. Maybe talking to him first would be good?

The black and purple haired girl hesitated. What if she just made herself look stupid? Now wasn’t the time to worry about that. True, she was on the verge of tears and trembling really bad, but maybe he wouldn’t notice? Hopefully he wouldn’t notice how much she was panicking.

Slowly, she pulled herself to her feet and looked around. Luckily for her it wasn’t too hard to find him. After taking a deep breath to soothe herself somewhat, she made her way towards him.

“U-Um, sorry to bother you, but can I ask you something?”

Damn. Her voice wasn’t hiding her fear at all. She was already doing worse than expected.

“I-I mean-um-”

Another thing that would make everybody raise an eyebrow is his 2 feathers on the back of his head, head by a brown head band.

When you asked your question, Billy turned to face you. You see that he has a little bit of a worried expression on his face, probably due to…that announcement.

“Oh hi there!!! Ya need somethin?”

At least he looked worried, so she wasn’t the only one freaked out right now. That announcement didn’t seem like a joking matter. Even if this was some sick joke, it was very concerning.

“Hi, um, I was just wondering i-if you’ve noticed anything weird so far?”

That…Ended up a lot more vague than she planned.

“I mean, do you have any ideas on where we are? A-Anything? I-I don’t really trust anything that conductor gives us so I thought…”

“I honestly don’t know where we are, at all! But imma just take the wild guess that were in some sorta train station of sorts. And now we got the conductor tellin us that we have to kill each other?! No ma’am, that ain’t for me at all! So I guess I understand why you wouldn’t trust em, PERIOD! And also…..”

He’d pull out his pager, trying to activate it or do something with it

“This dumb ol’ thing don’t even work! So he even short changed us too!”

….It didn’t take real long for you to realize that the pager was upside down…

“Well, anyways, he may say that “we won’t get outta here unless we kill”, but I say somethin different! I say we will get out of here and  I’m assuming everyone here a good person! So I say that we’ll all be getting out of here, TOGETHER!”

That didn’t mean she had the heart to tell him the pager was upside down. She didn’t want to hurt his feelings right now. He seemed too nice.

“Y-Yeah! If we all work together we can figure out a way out of here. This place can’t be that secure of a location since it’s a train!”

She actually found herself being encouraged by him. There were still tears in her eyes, but that didn’t matter right now. She had to make sure everyone got out of here.

“No one here would kill anyone anyway!…Right?”

She was having a hard time looking up at him right now. Dear god this guy was huge. She wasn’t very confident in her ‘no one would kill’ statement. Right now she didn’t particularly know everyone here. As much as she didn’t want to be right, she still felt like it was possible.

For some reason, he’d stop his rant about getting out of here with everyone, and look at you...a little more closely this time....and concern would creep onto his face.

“Hey uhh....you alright there?”

With so much happening Kuroneko felt safest huddled away in her seat. So far, she hadn’t made any real attempt to speak to the people around her. This was a moment of high stress, and she didn’t want to accidentally make anything worse.

This wasn’t something she could do forever though and she knew that. She skimmed over the list of names. Almost everyone seemed alright. One did end up sticking out to her. Billy? Wood Carver? That…Sounded the least threatening actually. Maybe talking to him first would be good?

The black and purple haired girl hesitated. What if she just made herself look stupid? Now wasn’t the time to worry about that. True, she was on the verge of tears and trembling really bad, but maybe he wouldn’t notice? Hopefully he wouldn’t notice how much she was panicking.

Slowly, she pulled herself to her feet and looked around. Luckily for her it wasn’t too hard to find him. After taking a deep breath to soothe herself somewhat, she made her way towards him.

“U-Um, sorry to bother you, but can I ask you something?”

Damn. Her voice wasn’t hiding her fear at all. She was already doing worse than expected.

“I-I mean-um-”

Another thing that would make everybody raise an eyebrow is his 2 feathers on the back of his head, head by a brown head band.

When you asked your question, Billy turned to face you. You see that he has a little bit of a worried expression on his face, probably due to…that announcement.

“Oh hi there!!! Ya need somethin?”

At least he looked worried, so she wasn’t the only one freaked out right now. That announcement didn’t seem like a joking matter. Even if this was some sick joke, it was very concerning.

“Hi, um, I was just wondering i-if you’ve noticed anything weird so far?”

That…Ended up a lot more vague than she planned.

“I mean, do you have any ideas on where we are? A-Anything? I-I don’t really trust anything that conductor gives us so I thought…”

“I honestly don’t know where we are, at all! But imma just take the wild guess that were in some sorta train station of sorts. And now we got the conductor tellin us that we have to kill each other?! No ma’am, that ain’t for me at all! So I guess I understand why you wouldn’t trust em, PERIOD! And also.....”

He’d pull out his pager, trying to activate it or do something with it

“This dumb ol’ thing don’t even work! So he even short changed us too!”

....It didn’t take real long for you to realize that the pager was upside down...

“Well, anyways, he may say that “we won’t get outta here unless we kill”, but I say somethin different! I say we will get out of here and  I’m assuming everyone here a good person! So I say that we’ll all be getting out of here, TOGETHER!”

“I apologize. It was not my intention to misqueme anybody,” he replied in a gaudiloquent tone.

He seemed a lot more calm than he was before. That fast, though?

With so much happening Kuroneko felt safest huddled away in her seat. So far, she hadn’t made any real attempt to speak to the people around her. This was a moment of high stress, and she didn’t want to accidentally make anything worse.

This wasn’t something she could do forever though and she knew that. She skimmed over the list of names. Almost everyone seemed alright. One did end up sticking out to her. Billy? Wood Carver? That…Sounded the least threatening actually. Maybe talking to him first would be good?

The black and purple haired girl hesitated. What if she just made herself look stupid? Now wasn’t the time to worry about that. True, she was on the verge of tears and trembling really bad, but maybe he wouldn’t notice? Hopefully he wouldn’t notice how much she was panicking.

Slowly, she pulled herself to her feet and looked around. Luckily for her it wasn’t too hard to find him. After taking a deep breath to soothe herself somewhat, she made her way towards him.

“U-Um, sorry to bother you, but can I ask you something?”

Damn. Her voice wasn’t hiding her fear at all. She was already doing worse than expected.

“I-I mean-um-”

Another thing that would make everybody raise an eyebrow is his 2 feathers on the back of his head, head by a brown head band.

When you asked your question, Billy turned to face you. You see that he has a little bit of a worried expression on his face, probably due to...that announcement.

“Oh hi there!!! Ya need somethin?”

“I apologize. It was not my intention to misqueme anybody,” he replied in a gaudiloquent tone.

He seemed a lot more calm than he was before. That fast, though?

He stepped away from Jenova and grinned as if nothing happened.

“I am fine,” he replied, in a way that was so very different from his acrasial outburst.

His cane, which was even larger than himself, was planted onto the ground and he leaned onto it carefully.

They were taken. Shizuhiko got his answer. The bags, he could live without… It just meant another trip to the store. It wouldn’t be a desirable situation, but he could easily do it. But his beloved agarics. Shizuhiko planted his cane onto the ground in front of him and used it to help approach Jenova.

“I would like them back.”

No, that wouldn’t be enough. Shizuhiko towered over Jenova and pulled back his cane. It was large and metal, enough to… Do some damage.

“Tell me where they are.”

“There is one place that they should be. I must watch them at all times. So, again… Give them back to me and you will not get hurt.”

“Yeah! I agree! You shouldn’t do what your probably gonna do....”

Than, he’d have a confused look on his face

They were taken. Shizuhiko got his answer. The bags, he could live without… It just meant another trip to the store. It wouldn’t be a desirable situation, but he could easily do it. But his beloved agarics. Shizuhiko planted his cane onto the ground in front of him and used it to help approach Jenova.

“I would like them back.”

No, that wouldn’t be enough. Shizuhiko towered over Jenova and pulled back his cane. It was large and metal, enough to… Do some damage.

“Tell me where they are.”

“There is one place that they should be. I must watch them at all times. So, again… Give them back to me and you will not get hurt.”

“Hey uh, are you alright there big guy?”

Airi had never once fallen asleep in a public place, it’s too dangerous and could lead to government spies finally catching her. The only time she ever feels safe enough to let her consciousness slip is when she’s in a room, with one entrance/exit, that is barricaded with random junk she finds in said room. This way she can wake up in time if someone tries to enter her room while she’s sleeping.

That’s why she’s on full alert the moment her eyes open, and the area around her does not fit the criteria she’d made for herself. She bursts out of her seat and across the train car towards the back away from… where is everyone? 

She stops moving for a moment to take in her surroundings carefully. The Japanese Metro is always filled with passengers, and yet she hadn’t bumped into any of them on her trip across the train car.

This only fuels her suspicion to new heights, her active imagination filling in the blanks of what had happened while she was asleep. ’The American government must be getting desperate, if they went as far as to empty out this train car just to get me alone!‘ 

“W-well ya see ma’am, I just woke up in this train car here myself and was wonderin why I was here, than I thought it was some sorta slumber party, than I asked out loud, and someone also asked if it was a slumber party. And when I was respondin, I look behind me than BOOM! There was this big ol’ mutant frog thing! And let me tell ya, I FEAR frogs, cause of this one time as a lil’ boy, and when I saw that frog, I wanted to get away from it! So I was crawlin on the floor, to this corner right here, than I realized that that’s no mutant frog but just some lil’ girl. And now here I am being questioned by ya!” He’d take a deep breath after that explanation.