"IVE BEEN HACKED!!" Monokuma shrieked," HACKED BY THAT STUPID, INSUFFERABLE VACKTOR FAMILY... THOSE LITTLE..."

   Before he could call them anything, Olivia asked, "I see this put a dent in your plans." She said.

   "Humph! Barely even nicked them!" Monokuma huffed," Sure, I was gonna send Twitter to the moon the hard way, but space debris or not, he's not coming back! He fell into the underground waste dump!"

   And with that the bear disappeared. We headed upstairs.

   "How are we alive right now? Nick wasn't the killer! Why else would the Vacktors save him?" Jess cried, tears filling her eyes.

   "You guys wait here..." Olivia said.

   Everyone turned to her, but she was walking away.

   We didn't see her for another hour, and when she came back, Nick was with her!

   "Nick!" I cried.

   "Omigosh you're alive!" Jess cried.

   "Man, about what we did to you..." Max started.

   "Don't worry about it, ok? We have a bigger-" Nick started, when Monokuma came over the speakers.

   "CLASSROOM ANNOUNCEMENT! THE YOUTUBE SCHOOL LIFE OF MUTUAL KILLING WIL NOW ENTER THE 'TRUE ANSWER ARC'" Monokuma announced, "ONLY SIXTEEN YOUTUBERS SET FOOT IN HERE ALIVE! BUT HOW MANY WILL LEAVE THAT WAY IS THE QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED!
   "To give y'all a decent shot, I've unlocked all doors in the school. Search wherever you like!"

  Then he was gone.

   "What did he mean?" Tommy asked.

   "We have to unlock every secret in this school," Nick explained.
   "Or we all get punished" Olivia finished.

   "We can do this guys!" I cried, positivity filling me,"we are going to win this thing!" 

   "Let's get to work!" Max cried.

   All the upper floors were unlocked. There were more rooms, all had blood and destruction like the classrooms. After exploring them for a little, I found Olivia in the Headmasters office.

   "This was the Headmasters room," Olivia told me, "so even teachers lived on the campus. I was underwhelmed by the information here."

   She showed me an ordinary looking computer.

   "I've tried everything I can think of, but I can't crack it." Olivia said.

   I tried to think, examining the computer, then noticed a button on the back. It was so small, I would have missed it if I hadn't brushed my hand across the back of the computer. I pressed it, and a secret door opened. Inside was a dark room, with a box wrapped like a present.

   "You can open it," Olivia said,"But if it's what I think it is, then it isn't going to be pleasant. Just don't scream, ok?"

   I popped the lid of the present off, and let out a scream.

"KYAAAAAAAAAH!!"

Inside the box, was a skeleton.

   "What did I just say?" Olivia asked.

   Then she answered my unspoken question.

   "It's the Headmaster." She said, that's the only thing that makes sense, since only sixteen of us entered alive."

   "Huh, yeah. What's this?" I asked, a little memory card was by the box. We took it to the computer in the room, and put it in. On the screen, Shelby appeared.

   "Shelby...?" I murmured.

   "You may have to spend the rest of your life inside this school" the Headmaster said offscreen," Can you accept that?"

   "Yes sir"

   Shelby had been killed by Corey in this place. Why would she have agreed to staying?

   Then I appeared on the screen, also agreeing. One by one, everyone did. As the video flicked to Ross, the screen went dark.

   "Wha-?" I started, turning around.

   Monokuma had unplugged the computer. The files were corrupted now! That only showed the files had been important.

   There was a cold room on the sixth floor. It had coolers where the bodies were.

   Shelby, Corey, Red, Ashlie, Sasha, Dan, Barney, and the mystery person. Em and Adam didn't have bodies to be in the coolers. I looked at the coolers. Something was up. Only seven lights were on, meaning that only seven coolers were in use. Before I could explore further, Monokuma made an announcement.

   "Still looking for answers? Come to the gym to get a special hint!" He said.

   He was definitely up to something, but what was the harm. I went to the gym, and found a picture with my name on the back.

   When I looked at it, all my friends were posing for what looked like a class picture. One thing stood out at me. I was the only one missing from the picture.

   "Alright folks! Without further ado, let's begin the school trial!" Monokuma cried over the speakers.

   In the trial room, it was like the other trials, except Monokuma stood on a stool at a podium.

   "I'm participating in this final trial!" He cried," THE FINAL CLASS TRIAL IS IN SESSION!"

   "You're all working with the Mastermind! I have cold hard evidence!" Max cried, holding a picture.

   It showed fifteen of us eating lunch. Max was missing from his picture, but I was there, throwing a muffin at Dan.

   "Everyone's in here but me!" Max cried.

   "I was gonna say the same thing!" Jess said.

   Her picture showed everyone at a sports festival. I was also in that one, slightly ahead of Dan and behind Adam in a race. There was no Jess.

   Tommy's showed everyone at the pool, where me, Shelby, Ashlie, and Sasha had challenged Dan Adam, Red, and Max to a water fight. Corey wisely was staying out of the water. No Tommy.

   Nicks picture looked like a winter card. There was no Nick, but Ashlie was throwing a snowball at Sasha, And Dan was helping me put the head of a giant snowman on by letting me on his shoulders.

   "I'm in your picture..." Jess said, as we looked at each other's pictures.

   "So you all weren't ganging up against me." Tommy muttered.

   "So much for hints" Olivia said.

   "You didn't get one?" I asked.

   "Why bother, it was an obvious trap?" She asked.

   "Photoshop?" Nick asked.

   "I didn't edit a thing!" Monokuma cried.

   "I actually don't think he's lying..." I said.

   "I don't follow you." Max said.

   "Me and Lizzie found videos of all of us individually being interviewed by the Headmaster. We agreed to stay here for the rest of our life's." Olivia summed up.

   "The reason we don't remember..." I said, "Is because we're all suffering from amnesia."

   "WHAT?!?" Everyone gasped.

   "Shucks! You noticed?" Monokuma asked," that's right, I nailed everyone with amnesia!"

   "With precision, I'm guessing. It's to convenient for us all to suffer from the same memory loss." Olivia said.

   "Oh shucks! You're right again!" Monokuma said with a shrug, "but you still haven't figured out who the Mastermind is."

   "I think I've figured that out." Nick said, "The Mastermind is the person we didn't realize was gone since the beginning of this trial."

   I looked around, and I knew who he was talking about.

   "Ross" I said,"Ross is the Mastermind"

   "Seriously? You think I'm Ross?" Monokuma asked,"really?"

   "You're the only possible answer!" Nick said,"In everyones picture, your face is either covered by snow, water, or someone else's hand, or you're not even facing the camera"

   "You also pulled the plug on the Headmasters Computer before we saw your real face." I said, realizing it.

   "You reused Barney's body for a unnecessary trial, and planted false evidence in my room. Were you trying to get rid of me because I was close to unlocking the truth?" Olivia asked.

   "Barney's body?" Jess asked, "Wasn't the mystery person hit over the head with a pipe?"

   "That was camouflage," Olivia said, "The body that burst into flames was lacking Oxygen, and was flatter than a normal corpse. Barney was crushed by dirt, remember."

   "Nick ended up taking the fall, then Olivia got him from the dump." Jess said.

   "You are the Mastermind Ross!" I cried.

   Monokuma stood, silent. Then, a dramatic puff of smoke rose behind Monokuma. A figure stepped out. It was Ross, but not the quiet Ross who wore a onesie. This Ross wore a dapper gray tuxedo, matching slacks, and black business shoes. He still had a red bow tie, and a gray squirrel tail. On his head, he wore...squirrel ears?

   "Ross..." Max muttered, "What the heck man!?"

   "Why would you do this to us?" Jess asked.

   "Hmm, maybe I should start at the beginning..." Ross mused, his blue eyes colder than the Ross we met.

   "This school was for all sorts of Youtubers, mostly beginners like Lizzie and Olivia. The Headmaster brought in several professional Youtubers like me and yourselves. However, after the most Hopeless, most Despairing event in human history happened a year ago..."

   "Wait, a year ago?" Tommy asked,"What happened a year ago that was so terrible."

   "How could we have been here a year ago? We just got here a few weeks ago..." Jess asked.

   "Yeah, not really long..." Max said.

   "Well, I wouldn't call two years 'not really long'" Ross said with a shrug.

   T-two years?! I thought in horror. That made me seventeen...I had missed two whole years of my life. When I had blacked out when I stepped on to campus, two years had passed before I woke up in that classroom.

   "Bull!" Max yelled.

   "That can't be true..." Jess said.

   "It's true alright, those pictures actually happened. You all were good friends" Ross said with a cruel grin.

   "Then you made us murder each other?!" Tommy asked, "That's sick man."

   "Why are you telling us this? You're helping us solve the mysteries..." Olivia cautioned.

   "Well, I didn't think you'd want to leave when the outside looks like this..." Ross said.

   The screens around the Trial Room turned on, each showing different things from news clips. The Statue of Liberty, with a Monokuma head. The Eiffel Tower, Monokumas head on the top like a bad cherry. The sphinx in Egypt, also with Monokumas face. People running around causing destruction, wearing makeup Monokuma masks. Despair. I could feel it creeping down my spine, towards my heart.

   "The Headmaster wanted to keep the surviving people, you, alive, so he turned this school into a bunker." Ross said,"I took the liberty of infiltrating the school with a friend."

   "Who?" Tommy asked.

   "Barney." Ross said,"we had a plan where he believed we'd both be getting out alive. But he figured out the real plan, and almost told you all who I really was."

   "The real plan was to kill him after we were all dead." Olivia said, "Am I wrong?"

   "Nope, right on the dollar." Ross said nonchalantly.

   "Sick..." Tommy said.

   "Hey, it didn't matter if I killed him when I originally planned, when I did, or if I did it sooner. No matter who dies, there will always be Despair. For anyone." Ross said,"And it's time for your ultimate hope test!"

   Ross pointed to Nick.

   "If the rest of you throw Nick to the hounds, you can all go free. It has to be unanimous or you all get killed!"

   "Why me?" Nick asked.

   "Um, because I hate you? You keep speaking against me and stuff?" Ross answered.

   The despair filled the room like a gas. It chilled me to bone. I didn't want to vote to punish Nick, but I also wanted freedom.

   "Max! You expressed the strongest desire to live!" I heard Nick cry, "are you going to bend to the Masterminds will now?"

   Max looked dazed for a moment, then grinned.

   "Heck yes man. I wanna leave this place far behind! I'm in!"

   "Nick..." I said.

   "Lizzie, we have to do more than survive! We have to get out of here and live, for Dan, and everyone else who's died here!" He said.

   I smiled.

   "Y-yeah! Dan wouldn't want us to rot here for the rest of our lives! So I'm in too!" I said.

   "Tommy, you're tough, are you going to let Ross boss you around?" Nick asked.

   "No way man!" Tommy replied.

  "Jess, I know you more than anyone want to get out. We have families, and so did the ones we lost her. I can't think of anyone who could find and comfort those families better than you can. We can find all our families, I promise!" Nick cried.

   Jess had tears in her eyes, but she was smiling.

   "Yeah, I'm in too!" She said.

   Nick turned to Olivia, so did we.

   "Olivia..."

   "Your words won't reach her, she doesn't remember her family, yet she knows it's the reason she came to this school." Ross said, "this is the end of the line."

  I looked at Olivia. I felt the feeling that  had been nagging me since I first met her. That I knew her.

   "Liv?" I said to her," You can't give up...sis."

   She looked at me, and it looked like something had clicked.

  "We came here together, and I sure as heck ain't going to leave without you!" I cried.

   "Neither are we!" Nick said.

   "I-I'm in." Olivia said, smiling at us," I am so in!"

   "We choose Hope!" Jess yelled.

   The slot machine appeared on the screens one last time, one by one stopping on Ross's face.

  "Seriously? I lost?" Ross cried.

"Got a problem with the verdict?" Max asked.

   "You can't talk your way out of this!" I cried.

   "Sweet!" Ross said, "This is Despair... I infiltrated this school two years ago, devised an intricate plan, I killed my friend, only to fail in the bitter end!"

   "So you admit defeat?" Tommy asked.

   "Defeat? You don't get it. Win or lose, it's all the same to me. There's Despair either way. Despair is the only thing waiting for you as well." Ross said," Now let's get this over with. IT'S PUNISHMENT TIME!!!"

   For the final time, we were behind the chain link. Ross wad there, shifting punishments. First, he was being electrocuted in the dunk tank, then he was swarmed with squids, he was burning at a stake, and finally, he was tied to a rocket. When the countdown went off and the rocket launched, Ross didn't make a sound. He didn't even scream.

   Ross was gone.

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   We stood at the entrance, the button to open the security doors in Nicks hand.

   "I can't believe we're actually leaving..." Max said.

   "Yeah, I can't say I'll miss this place, but it feels weird leaving, you know?" Tommy said.

   "This is goodbye then," I said," and goodbye to Dan..."

   "Feel free to visit anytime." Jess said with a smile.

   "Same" Nick said.

   "Double same" me and Olivia said.

   My sister... I thought when I looked at her.

   "Here goes" Nick said, pressing the button.

   The doors opened, and we stepped out into a new world.

A/N:
   Guys, thank you so so so much for reading, and being amazing readers. You ghost readers, and known readers are fantastic and I love all you beautiful Pumpkin Pies so much. This is the end of Danganronpa: YouTuber Edition, HOWEVER!!! I am happy to announce a SEQUEL. Keep an Eye out, because the dirt chapter of that should be coming out SOON!! Thank you Pumpkin Pies, I LUV YOU GUYS!!! -Lizzie<3