Author's Note

(Hello everyone, this is Vaatidj bringing you a new story. As of recently I have gotten into Danganronpa and thought that it would be cool to see what would happen if characters from My Little Pony ended up in that situation. So this isn’t a complete copy of the first or second game with pony characters, it’s an entirely separate scenario based on it. With that now out of the way, onward with the story)

Prolouge

Hope’s Peak Academy. I’ve never heard of it before or even so much as seen it, so it was strange that I found an invitation to this exact school in my mailbox. The fact that only eighteen others got into the school also surprised me, they must be really picky when it comes to choosing students. As for those who got in, I didn’t know anyone that did, or at least any of my friends that had.

Anyways, I haven’t introduce myself yet. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and according to the invitation I got I’m suppose to be the Ultimate Friendship student. It’s a very strange thing to be excepted to school for, that’s for sure, but I was complaining if this school was what I was expecting it to be. The school looked really big, towering over me with its presence. Seeing that I was the only one outside of school, I had figured that everyone was already inside the school waiting for class’ to start.

Knowing that I didn’t want to be late, I took a step through the gates of the school ready for whatever happened. What did end up happening however, was not what I expected. Everything around me started blur, my hooves unable to move from their place. “Whats happening?” I yelled out, not knowing what was going on at all. I looked around frantically, trying to see if this was some kind of insane trick as my vision got blurrier and blurrier, and before I knew it, I was out like a light.

When I woke up, I found myself asleep in a classroom by myself. At first, it looked like an ordinary classroom with a chalkboard and desks and all that stuff, until I took a glance to the left of me and saw something strange. Instead of seeing windows, there were giant metal plates with bolts and screws the size of my head covering them up. Wondering what was going on, I tried to use my magic to loosen the bolts on the plates, but found that it wouldn’t work at all.

I was shocked at the fact that I couldn’t use my magic. After trying again and again, I finally gave up and decided it would be better to take a look around. The first thing I noticed was card on the desk in front of me. I opened it up to find writing in it that said “All students report to the gym at 8:00 am. I looked up at the clock at the front of the classroom to check the time to find that it was 7:58. Knowing I should be late, I rushed out of the classroom and quickly down the hall until I got to a door that had the sign “gym” on it. Knowing this is where I need to be, I opened the door wondering who was in their already.

Once I opened the door, everyone in it looked at me seeing that another student had arrived just like them. I looked around to see that 17 others were standing in the room, meaning that I was the last one to arrive. “You must be the last student,” A voice from the crowd in front of me said.

“Looks like I am,” I said as I joined the rest of them in the room. “My names Twilight Sparkle. Would you all mind introducing yourselves,”

The first one to come forward and introduce themselves was a pegasus with a strange yellow like colored fur coat and a mane and tail that had multiple shades of black, white, and grey in it. She wore a green shirt and hat. “The names Daring Do,” She introduced herself as “I guess I’m suppose to be the Ultimate Adventurer according to invitation I got,” Daring Do! It was hard to believe that the real Daring Do was standing right in front of me. I guess it would make sense that someone cool like her would come here, but it was still a big surprise to me.

The next one to come up was a grey pegasus with a yellowish mane and tail. She flew over to me hand took me hoof to shake it. “Hello there, name’s Derpy Hooves. I’m the Ultimate Mail mare” She stopped shaking it after her introduction and stood to the side in order to let the others come and introduce themselves.

Next up was yet ANOTHER pegasus, this time with a light blue coat and rainbow colored mane. She rushed over to me with incredible speed, knocking down another pony in her path as she came to greet me. “Yo, the name’s Rainbow Dash” She said enthusiastically “The ultimate stunt flier.” For being something such as that, it’s strange that I’ve never heard of her before.

Rainbow Dash looked like she was going to continue before a pink pony jumped in front of her “Hi there, I’m Pinkie Pie. Its very nice to meet you. Do you like cupcakes, I’ll make you some latter if you want. You see, I’m the ultimate baker and-” She was pushed aside by Rainbow Dash, cutting her off and allowing for everyone to introduce themselves.

Next up was a white unicorn with a purple mane. “Why hello there Twilight ,” She said talking in a manner you would imagine a rich pony to talk in “The names Rarity, I’m the ultimate fashionista and make clothes for a living in ponyville. When the day’s over I’ll take you to my boutique and will get something that suits your style,” I nodded to her as she got to the side of the room making way for the next pony.

Next up was a yellow pegasus with a pink mane, or at least she was trying to come over and talk. She was slowly inching her way over to me and didn’t come very close before stopping to introduce herself. “Um… I’m Fluttershy, an-and I’m the ultimate pet enthusiast… I guess” She quickly bolted out of sight after her introduction, clearly shy and scared of everyone here.

After that came an Orange pony with a blondish mane. She seemed to be wearing a cowboy hat which told me exactly what kind of pony she had to be. “The name’s Applejack,” She said with a southern accent “Ultimate apple farmer according to the invitation the principal sent me,”

After her was white unicorn with headphones, glasses, and a dark and light blue colored mane. “The names Vinyl Scratch, I was sent here because they said I was the ultimate musician, so come to me if you want to hear some sick beats,” Vinyl scratch went of to the left to talk with Pinkie Pie about something while the next pony came up.

Well… the next TWO I should have said as a dark blue Alicorn with a flowing mane of similar color and a orange pony with armour on stood next to her. Wait, it couldn’t be! “I AM PRINCESS LUNA,” It was “I AM HERE TO TAKE THE PLACE OF ULTIMATE HEIR TO THE THRONE”

“It’s just Heir your majesty,” Said the pony to the left of her “I’m Flash Sentry, I was also invited here as Ultimate Soldier. Its nice to meet you,” This was definitely an unexpected surprise. Out of all the ponies I expected to come here LUNA was not one that I thought would be. As for her bodyguard, while he definitely seemed like a nice pony to be friends with something told me I will end up hating him in the end and won’t want to see him again. Just a hunch, but still.

Next up was Violet pony with a hot pink and very light pink mane. “I’m Cheerilee, the Ultimate Teacher. I look forward to getting to meet you all here at this school,” Teacher? does that mean that she will be teaching us or is she a student as well? That was a confusing one to figure out but it was better to just let it slide for now.

When Cheerilee stepped to the side I easily recognized the pink alicorn coming towards me. “CADENCE!” I yelled out to her. She seemed just as surprised to see me as I was to see her. “What are you doing at a school like this?” I asked honestly wanted to know why.

“I got an invitation like you did saying that I was welcomed to this school because I was the ultimate princess or something like that,” I heard a loud grunt from the crowd and I looked over to see Luna roll her eyes. Guess she was upset that another princess was here. “I can’t wait to spend some time with you later,” Cadence finished as she made way for the next pony in the crowd to come foward. I nodded to her before turning to see who was next.

Next up wasn’t a pony, but a zebra instead. She was holding a satchel with some interesting bottles fill with some kind of liquid. “Hello there young mare, please don’t feel scared,” She said in rhymes “Zecora is my name and a great alchemist is my fame,” Zecora's rhyming definitely confused me, as I didn’t understand what she meant that well.

She backed off to the side like every other pony this far and a stallion with a light brown coat and dark brown mane came trotting up to me. “Hello there Twilight,” He greeted me with his british accent “The names Doctor Whooves and I was told to come here because I was the ultimate scientist, so I hope we get to know each other well,” He then quickly trotted off to talk to Zecora while the next pony came up to greet me.

The next pony to come up was a normal pony with a beige coat and a blue mane with a pink stripe down the. “The names Bon Bon,” She said “As for my ultimate talent, I would rather keep it a secret to keep myself safe if that's okay with you,” I nodded my head in understandment.

Bon Bon moved to the side as the second to last pony came to greet me. As for who that was… she was a blue unicorn with a very light blue colored mane. She walked up to me with a lots of confidence before introducing herself. “I, my friend, am the GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE, the ultimate MAGICIAN,” She introduce with a lot more enthusiasm than I could handle.

“You mean the ultimate trickster, you worthless pony,” said a very angry voice from the back of the room. Trixie and I looked to see a griffin sitting by herself away from every pony else. “The names Gilda, okay, now can we just stop the introductions and find out what the heck is going on here,” She said with even MORE anger than I thought possible.

“Yeah, I’m with Gilda on this one,” Rainbow Dash said “Isn’t the principle of this place suppose to tell us what’s going on?”

“Trixie would like to know why her magic is not working,” Trixie said. Looks like I’m not the only one here who wasn’t able to use magic. Why couldn’t we use it? It didn’t seem necessary to take it away. I really hope the we get some answers, if we ever do get some of course. Luckily, it wasn’t long before a voice was heard over the loudspeaker.

“Hello, would all students please look to the front of the gymnasium,” A strange high pitch voice said. As instructed everyone looked to the front to see what the voice meant. After everyone was looking at the front something came up from behind the pedestal. When it landed the shape of a strange bear with half of its body white and half of it black as well as a freakishly large bellybutton.

“Um, whats a teddy bear doing on the pedestal?” Applejack asked. Honestly, I really wished that was all it was, but it was not.

“I’m not a teddy bear you foolish ponies, I’m Monokuma” The bear thing answered back. Everyone was in shock to hear the voice from the speaker suddenly come out of the creature in front of us called Monokuma. “and I’m the principle of this here school,”

“Strange,” Cheerilee said, speak for all of us at this point. “I thought that the principle of this school was going to be a pony,”

“Welp, you’re wrong,” Monokuma replied, his voice making my entire body shiver. “Now, all of you have been invited to this school because you are our rays of hope here in Equestria. So, as to protect all of you wonderful rays of hope, you are now forced to not live the school ground for the rest of your lives,” Live here, for the rest of our life! I know I was going to have dorms and everything, but actually living here in the school was crazy. “Furthermore, none of you are allowed to leave the school ground under any circumstances,”

Rainbow Dash was the first one to respond to this. “Your kidding right?. You aren’t actually make us stay in this school for our entire lives,” Her thoughts echoed throughout the rest of the students as Monokuma responded.

“Oh I’m not kidding,” Monokuma responded in a somewhat menacing voice. “You all have the evidence. Why do you think the windows are sealed? Why do think that I cut off all magic from you unicorns? It’s all to make sure you stay in this school, and before you ask, there is NO exit as well,” If those words didn’t make you believe him, the voice he used to say it sure did. That also answered my earlier question on why I couldn’t use my magic in here either. Somehow he managed to cut off all ability with it, but how?

“There is no way we could live here all our lives,” Rarity said terrified “I have a shop to run, and Luna can’t bring night when it needs to happen. You are putting our families in fear as well. I REFUSE to live here,” I completely agree with Rarity on this one. I may not have any family or a business to run, but Monokuma was putting everything these ponies had in danger. How does he know no one will try to escape?

“For those of you who DO want to leave,” Monokuma said in reply to Rarity’s disbelief “I have created one rule for you. To put it simply, you must disrupt the peace of the lives here in this school,”

“What exactly do you mean?” I replied, but I think I already knew for myself wait this creepy bear meant.

“Since you don’t seem to know, I’m talking about murder,” Monokumas answer was the one thing I was hoping it was. “Drowning, burning, stabbing, anyway you can think of killing another student here in the school. If you want to graduate, then you only have to commit a murder and get away with it,” Everyone around me gave out a big what (or fainted in Fluttershy’s case) to this discovery. Clearly no one was ready to have this happen, and honestly no one could have expect it to begin with.

“Why?” Trixie said full of rage “Why would you make Trixie do such a horrible thing to her fans,”

Monokuma clearly did not hear Trixie’s question, instead continuing with his explanations of the school. “Before I continue explaining the school, I need to give you all these,” He then ducked behind his place on the podium before reappearing with a bunch of bags that seemed to contain some stuff inside them. After gaining his balance he threw them all into the gymnasium and landing on the floor. After finding one with my name on it, I put it on over my neck as Monokuma continued to speak. “In those bags you will find the keys to your dorms, a map of the school, and a book containing the rules, information on your fellow students, and free space to write anything you want. Whether you use it just as diary or journal, or plotting to kill and graduate, it’s the one thing I promise not to peek into as long as you stay here,”

While it seemed absolutely insane to kill someone here, and the fact that we couldn’t leave the school grounds was just as bad, it was nice that Monokuma seemed to care at least a little about our privacy. That still didn’t change the fact that we would have to kill in order to leave this place. Even though it was the only way out, there was NO WAY I was going to kill anyone here. Saddly, I may be the only here that actually is thinking that way.

“Well then,” Monokuma said, looking like he was about to finish his speech “I hope you all have a GREAT time here at this school. Just know, if there is no killing in the next three days, I will find someway to make you all turn against each other. So try your best to graduate, you here me! Until then, see yeah,” And with that, Monokuma disappeared without a trace.

Everyone looked at each other, suddenly feeling uncomfortable about the current situation. Clearly no one knew who they could trust, not even Luna knew this. It was clear to me know that this was not the school of hope I thought it was. If anything at all, this was a school of despair.