Jacob's eyes flickered open slowly, his head hurt, and the rest of his body but mostly his head. He looked around him and saw that he was in a large, rectangular room with plain grey walls. The room was empty except for some beds against the walls except for where a large door was. He moved his feet off the bed he laid on and stood to his feet slowly, his right hand rubbing his head gently.

What had happened yesterday, everything had gone perfectly at first but then everything was off the rails and him with it.

He looked at the other beds and saw the others were still sleeping, Marco had been to Jacobs left with Simon after him and Carlos next. On the opposite side of the room was Abby and Lexi.

Jacob didn't make a noise, he stayed to the door, not even bothering to try opening it, and simply stayed away from the others so he could keep to himself.

"I failed" he said to himself, trying his best to keep his body from trembling.

He lowered his head to look down at the floor, his right hand holding onto his left as they were stuck behind his back.

Ten minutes passed, then fifteen, and then finally twenty before someone finally awoke. It was Carlos who awoke and Jacob knew this wasn't going to end well.

Carlos noticed Jacob immediately but he didn't respond, either he didn't remember what had happened earlier or he was just ignoring the boy but either way Carlos looked around the room and sat the end of his bed while shaking Simon awake who, once he awoke, shook Marco awake.

"Where are we?" Simon said as Marco finally got off the bed and sat at the end like the other two boys.

"Possibly outside the dome, is that even possible?" Carlos said.

"We can hope, I don't think we saw a room like this in the school" Simon said.

Marco turned to see Jacob who in response kept looking at the floor, Marco immediately standing up and walking up to the boy and grasping his neck with his right hand. Jacob was lifted into the air and without a word Marco squeezed his hand tightly. Jacob floated there for a while, not resisting but instinctively trying to breath, the two boys behind Marco trying to ignore the actions going on but it wasn't them who stopped Marco.

"M-Marco, stop it!" Abby said as her eyes awoke and the first thing she saw was Marco strangling Jacob.

Marco didn't stop, he kept squeezing until he felt something hit his back causing him to stumble and let Jacob go who fell down the wall with his hands rubbing over his neck.

Abby was behind Marco, her fists having hit Marco's back as hard as possible. Marco turned in response, but he didn't try to retaliate: he moved to his bed and sat down with his face staring forward in anger.

Abby looked down at the hurt Jacob, her eyes close to tearing up but she turned and instead walked back to her bed where Lexi was awaking as well.

"W-what?" Lexi said as she rolled to get off her bed.

She stood to her feet and looked around to see everyone awake already, but when her eyes met with Jacob her eyes widened slightly and she walked up to the boy, her hand slapping his cheek before she stared down into his eyes.

Jacob kept looking down at the floor, avoiding everyone's gaze as they began staring, but his eyes caught a hold of tears dripping down to the floor and he looked up to see Lexi crying.

"I'll never forgive you..." she said and began walking to Abby.

Jacob brought his legs up to his chest, his arms hugging them closely as he stared at the other students.

"You really did something bad, hm?" a voice said.

Jacob looked around for the source of the sound. He could recognize the sound, it was someone he knew but not someone who was in this room right now.

"W-what?" Jacob said.

The five students in the room with him heard Jacob's voice and stared at him but they didn't respond.

From the corner of the room, Jacob saw a figure. He was wearing a dark blue shirt with no sleeves, along with tight blue jeans and lenses placed on his eyes which were most likely for reading.

"I have to admit, Jacob. You really did something horrible, they trusted you alot more than I thought would be possible but yet you went and did this for something you don't even have proof is true."

Jacob stared at the figure in confusion, "Wait.. Joseph?" he said.

The five students' eyebrows rose in confusion, "Joseph? What are you talking about."

Jacob didn't seem to notice their talk, his eyes were fixed on the figure in the corner that looked and sounded like Joseph.

"He's right" another voice said, and to the right of Abby walked Benedict in his fluffy jacket, blue shorts and white gloves, "You fucked up man."

"Benedict too?" Jacob said as he began standing up slowly, "H-how?"

"Poor thing" a third voice said, and from the opposite side of the room where Carlos, Simon and Marco was, stood Rachel in her red skirt and high heel boots along with her bright red shirts.

Beside Rachel was Lisa, wearing her pink shirt and her long skirt of the matching color. Lisa walked up to Jacob slowly, raising her hand to the boy and for a second Jacob thought he could feel her touch his cheek.

"Guilt is a hard thing to overcome, Jacob" she said before stepping back to Rachel.

Jacob rubbed his cheek lightly, she had felt real just for a second but he didn't believe that. He rubbed his eyes fast, hoping they would go away but as he removed his eyes his eyes widened.

The four people meant to be dead weren't gone, they were still there, and with them had appeared Frankie who was smiling cheerfully towards Jacob, along with Joy who was crouched against the back wall.

"N-No. You should be dead! All six of you shouldn't be here!"

Jacob clenched his fists as Marco, Simon, Carlos, Abby and Lexi shared confused stares as they watched the boy stand there staring at what they saw as empty space in the room.

"We are dead, Jacob. But that doesn't mean all of us is gone, does it? You were never really the type to think death is the end weren't you?"

Stacey had appeared beside Benedict, the two of them hugging closely as Stacey stared towards Jacob.

"Y-you can't just come back after death, it's impossible..." Jacob said.

"Then explain how you are seeing us" Samuel said as he appeared from between Marco and Simon.

"I-I'm seeing things, that's all. I know what's going on and so I can control it! Just get out of my head!"

Jacob closed his eyes tightly as he trurned to the wall, placing his head on the wall. He then turned back around and opened his eyes slowly to find the room empty except for the other five surviving students.

"Boo!"

From below his vision jumped Marcus, he stood right in front of Jacob and his scared caused Jacob to fall back on his ass as his head hit the wall causing him to feel a little pain.

"Geez, Jacob" Marcus said as he began walking around, "I thought I was the one out of the sixteen of us that didn't care what happened to anyone else, I even tried escaping on my own accord. Yet here you are having killed someone you cared for, well done."

"Shut up..." Jacob said as he stared away from Marcus, "he deserved it, he was one of them!"

They didn't have to hear his name to know he was talking about Adam, so Lexi stood to her feet as if to hit Jacob again but Marco raised his hand, "Don't. Let him be."

Lexi sat back down with her head lowering, her hands wiping her eyes gently.

"Look around you" Marcus said as he began looking at the other five students, "All these people betrayed by you because of a single letter. Tell me, did he really deserve it? Didn't he try his best to take care of you all even though he was possibly the weakest one out of all of us?"

Jacob couldn't find it within him to get angry at Marcus, somewhere inside of him he knew the words were true. Did Adam really deserve what had happened? In the end he was just like them, trapped and put into this game.

"Just, shut up... I don't know" Jacob said.

He looked back up at Marcus but the boy was gone, the room empty again except for the other five. Jacob stood to his feet, rubbing his eyes lightly.

"Where are you, I've seen everyone but you so far! Get out here!"

Silence, the room responded with nothing, not even air. Jacob hit the wall with his fist, anger filling his body for the wrong reason completely, but then it all disappeared.

"I really don't know what to say, but I guess I'll start with this."

Jacob turned immediately, his eyes meeting with Adam who stood in the centre of the room.

"Why would you even want to meet me again after what you did?"

Jacob had never cried much, but upon seeing Adam he felt a small tear grow in his eye, the tear dropping down his cheek and to the ground but it was the only one to fall as he walked up to the ghostly figure of the boy.

"Because, I might've been wrong about what I did" Jacob said as he stared into the eyes of Adam.

Adam, at Jacob's surprise, smiled up the boy and stepped back, his eyes turning to Marco, Simon, and Carlos before looking at Abby and Lexi.

"I'm asking you now, take care of them no matter what happens."

Jacob let down a simple nod as he watched the boy before him slowly disappear until he could no longer be seen, and with that Jacob lowered his head and put his hands into his pockets.

Silence filled the room for a while, no one spoke, not even Jacob, but soon enough he raised his head to show a large smile in his face. This got everyone's attention.

"What the hell are you smiling about, psycho?" Marco said, "First you start mumbling to yourself and now you're happy?"

Jacob ignored him and instead stepped towards the door, "Listen. Hate me all you want, but the truth is that there is a chance the Adam we knew was a fake. If that letter was true, he was once a completely different people who got his memories taken. With that in mind, I don't see a point in arguing. So either come with me and let's find a way out, or keep in this room until you rot to death, which will it be?"

Jacob kept facing the door but overtime he heard the sound of people standing behind him, all five of them getting to his feet if Jacob had heard each sound correctly.

"Thank you" Adams voice said from behind Jacob, and with a smile growing on Jacob's face again he began pushing the doors open.

The doors swung open and the image they saw outside made everyone's eyes widen but instead of surprise they were happy.

"W-we're outside the dome" Lexi said.

The dome stood 6 meters in front of them, the thick glass touring hundreds of meters above them and inside was the large academy they had just been in.

"We don't have time to celebrate, look" Jacob said and he pointed down the path to their left and right. The dome stood before them, but the building they had come out of was a part of a long building that encircled the dome itself, meaning that the students were still stuck in this circular hallway until they found a door leading out.

"So we're still stuck then? That's just brilliant."

They began walking down the left path first even though they assumed both paths were just the same path either way. The inside of the dome was exactly the same as they had seen from inside, nothing seemed different either.

Soon enough they found a door to their left, it was a tall grey one but from inside they could hear talking.

"It's almost time, you lot. All your fighting about how to deal with the problem that is me and here I am knowing exactly how to take you out. The world should be disappointed in their leaders if they can't protect their citizens."

It was a girls voice, and the students were pretty sure they knew who it was.

"Is that the girl, what was her name again?" Simon said.

"It's Taylor" the girl inside the room yelled, "Now get in here before I have to force you."

The door opened immediately and the students felt their legs become grasped by metal. They looked down, seeing their feet were encased in metal boots that had come from the ground. The boots began moving along the flooring, bringing the students with them and no matter how much they tried holding onto the wall to stop the movement they were forced inside.

Taylor stood in the centre of the long room, the students stopping a meter in front of her side by side. The room had several different screens over the walls, the screens were showing the inside of the dome and the academy and dormitories so everyone guessed they were camera footage, but what shocked everyone was the corpses of 6 different people on the wall to the left of Taylor who she had been talking to before.

Taylor smiled towards the six students as she straightened up, her hands crossing across her chest, "So then, any questions? I assume you have lots right? I'll answer them the best I can."

Everyone grew hesitant but they decided to take the chance.

"W-why did you put is into this mess?" Marco said to start off.

"Because it's a part of my plan" Taylor said quickly.

Marco growled slightly at the lazy answer but decided to ignore it.

"Why us in particular?" Jacob said.

Taylor smiled, "Because you were my brothers future classmates, that's really all."

"So Adam is your brother then...?" Lexi said.

Taylor giggled as she walked up to Lexi, rubbing the girls cheek gently as tears were slightly seen growing on Lexi's ears.

"Why yes, he was. And I see you wanted to be family too, hm? Now isn't that just lovely."

Taylor then slapped Lexi's cheeks before walking away, everyone letting out a shocked gasp as Lexis eyes widened, her cheek slightly red from the damage.

"Like I'd let a slut be with my brother, not that he was anything to me either honestly but gosh."

"Nothing to you?" Simon said, "That's rude! What are you, psycho?"

"Yes, I like to believe so. I've been called it for years so why not, hm?" Taylor said, "Now, any more questions?"

Abby looked towards Taylor as her hands slowly clenched but she didn't get a chance to word her question our properly before Taylor let out a choke of laughter.

"Oh I'm stupid, you're probably going to wonder about that letter from Adam, right? Oh boy, that's kind of awkward."

"A-awkward?" Abby said.

"Yeah, I mean the signature looked nothing like his proper signature, I'm very bad at copying other types of handwriting you see."

Everyone's eyes froze in place as Taylor had force herself to stop laughing, her body bending forward as she hit her chest lightly. As she straightened back up she saw everyone's face and her smile rose.

"Yes, the letter was fake, Adam was a simple twat of a brother with an addiction to caring for others, any problems?"

Jacobs hands clenched tightly to his sides, "Your fucking piece of shit letter was the reason for everything!"

Taylor sighed and turned her back to students as she snapped her fingers and the wall that had the six corpses hanging on it flipped inwards, the bodies brought with it so they were hidden on the other side with the new side of the wall in place.

"Who were those people...?" Carlos said.

"Those idiots?" Taylor said, "Just people from the military. You read those letters so you know about the bases they had being destroyed, they were in charge of a base each, disappointing leaders that were brought down with only a little bit of brain work. They're not important though, not compared to you six."

She snapped her fingers again, a finger in her pocket pressing a button and soon the boots holding the students to the ground started moving again. It brought them out the door with Taylor following close behind, her voice humming away to a random tune.

"Where are you taking us?" Jacob said as they realized they were heading further down the hallway.

"To the finale of my plan, the part where everything fits into the puzzle piece Junko Enoshima began."

Jacob's eyes widened slightly, "Why the hell are you bringing her name up."

Taylor let out a laugh as they entered a new door that was already opened. Inside of it stood three soldiers in military outfits, the six students staring at them but the soldiers didn't move, they just stared at the doorway as if they were frozen. To the left of the soldiers was a podium just like in the trial ground below the academy. It had sixteen areas as well, but in front of each podium were seats. The metal boots moving the students placed them in front of a seat each and then from behind each seat rose a metal claw which grasped each person's chest to so it could force them down on the chair. To end it off, metal wires shot from the ground and wound themselves around the chair to tie the students down causing them to be only able to lightly struggle and move their head.

"T-this is uncomfortable. What is this for?!" Abby said as she tried rocking back and forth.

Taylor sat down on a red, leather chair over near a set of controls in the wall as she began pressing a few buttons. From the flooring in the middle of the podium rose six screens just like when they had to vote in the trials, the screens facing the students as they began flickering on to show footage of the infirmary in the academy. The students looked closely and soon noticed the doors of the infirmary open, a wheelchair rolling in with Lisa seated on top and Rachel pushing it.

"W-what is this...?" Jacob said.

They kept watching, Lisa was taken from the wheelchair and laid out on the bed, then from under the wheelchair Rachel pulled out the knife which had been the murder weapon in the first case. She rose it above the unconscious Lisa and hesitated for a few seconds but soon enough the knife was lowered and the metal entered Lisa's stomach.

Everyone watching the video tried shaking from their restraints but they were unable to be freed. Marco, the strongest of them all, found it hard to move as well, his groans growing as he tried harder but soon enough he surrendered.

"This is fucking torture!" Simon said as he tried closing his eyes but his chair started letting out a small electric shock causing Simon to scream in pain.

"Don't even think about looking away, you will either die here or watch the video I prepared. Which do you prefer?" Taylor said.

The video continued, it now showed the camera angle from inside the art room and Jacob could tell what was going to happen already. Frankie entered the art room, picking Josephs body into his arms as the camera angle began changing to the Control Room on the second floor. Frankie was tying Josephs body up in the exact position everyone had found his body in. Joseph was harnessed in the air and to finish it off Josephs neck was punctured by a scalpel which caused blood to drip down his clothes.

"I-I don't want to watch these... Please" Abby said.

She couldn't stop watching, tears were growing in her eyes from watching what was going on. She wanted to look away, she wanted to close her eyes, but she couldn't.

The video changed, it now showed the inside of the Animal Shelter which Jacob, Benedict and Joy were entering. Jacob cringed at the sight but he kept looking. The cages opened and they all watched as Jacob and Joy jumped to safety but Benedict was pulled to the ground and eaten alive while his screams filled the room. Taylor smiled at the sound.

"Now then," Taylor said as she walked up to Jacob, holding onto his shoulders, "How about for the