Useless Efforts-Survivor Reader x Rantaro Amami

C.1

You woke up, cramped in a tight small space.
You could hardly move.. not to mention your head was pounding, your back was aching, and your arms were puffy and sore.

You stood up the best you could after realizing you were in a locker. As you peeked through the little lines in the door, you pushed it open, which caused you to fall face first onto the cold floor.
You looked around, and it was just some ran down classroom.
It was cold, and filled with greenery. Wherever you were, it hadn't been visited by anyone recently.
As soon as you made your way to an exit door in the class, you saw a robotic bear thing towering over you.
"HA-HA! FOUND YOU!" It yelled.
"What the..?!" You muttered to yourself.
That creature let out a devious laugh.

You didn't want anything to do with it.
You made your way past it a step or two before it spoke again.
"WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!!"

"Oh dear, don't just stand around! You'll get yourself killed!" You heard from down the hall, looking in the direction of a short white-haired girl speak out before she grabbed your arm and began running down what felt like endless halls.

"I'm sorry but who ar-"
"Shush shush! Atua does not enjoy saving lives and speaking at the same time!" She cut you off.

What the hell is an Atua?
..
You both ran.

And ran.

And kept running.

Your legs ached, the adrenaline rush was making you sick.

The girl slowed down and quickly entered some kind of gymnasium, slamming the doors shut behind her.

When you stepped inside, you saw a group of maybe 15 other people, all in formal school uniforms.

"Oh, more people have arrived!" You heard another girl say.
"Did you get chased by that thing too?"
"What are they?"
"What do they want with us?"
Everyone was talking at the same time.
This was already overwhelming you.

"And that makes,,17." You heard an oddly familiar voice that stood out from the others.

"W-what?" You heard a blonde girl say, confused.

"I'm talking about us. There are 17 of us. All high schoolers. What do you think that means?"
The guy speaking had green hair, and was decently tall.

"Anyways, why does it matter if there are 17 of us?
Do you think there's more coming?" A tall purple-haired guy with a goatee spoke.

"No, I think this is all of us." The green-haired male replied.
"If this is what I think it is, anyways." He muttered...

"What you think it is? ..What do you mean?" You asked curiously, quoting what he just said.

He turned and looked over at you.

"Well yeah. I think I may or may not know what's going on here." He said.

"Oh well, okay..?" You replied to him.
You could've sworn you've seen this boy before.
His voice echoed in your head, but you couldnt place exactly who he was...

Then, you heard another oddly familiar group of voices echo from all over the gym.
"Okay, quiet everyone! Shimmy down shimmy down," he spoke.

"Nono, it's simmer down!"

"Oh shut up already."

Suddenly, you saw more robots like before appear all over the gym. At least 5 of them.

"KWAYAHAHA! THANKS FOR BEARING WITH US!" they all spoke at the same time together.

"oh GODDAMIT. There are more monsters?"
"They aren't monsters, they're exisals."
"Exisals?"
More students spoke at once.

Suddenly, you saw 5 little bear things crawl out of these exisals.
"Rise and shine ursine!!" They spoke together.

You heard the green-haired guy speak softly to himself.
"here we go again I suppose..." The green haired man muttered quietly to himself.

"Oh shut up already. Start screaming! You're all reacting way too calmly for a situation like this!" One said.
"Ah wait, did they get their first memories back yet?" Another asked.
"Wait what? That shoulda happened before they woke up?" One replied.

The bears spoke to each other.

"Do you all have ultimate talents that you know of yet?" A yellow and white bear spoke out to everyone.

"Uhm, I don't have one?" A blonde girl spoke.

"Me neither." A shy blue-haired boy spoke.

"Oh. So they haven't had their first memory! Monophanie, weren't you supposed to handle that?"
One bear asked the small shy one.

"O-oh, right," the shy cub replied.

You stopped focusing on what was going on and turned to the green-haired boy.
He looked so familiar...
You knew you didn't know him but you still wondered.

He looked back at you and let out a little laugh, as he saw you staring at him.
He let out a soft smile and looked back at the cubs.
You admired the way he looked.

You hadn't paid attention to the bears, but when you focused back on them,

Everything flickered out.
There was a flash of blinding lights, then nothing.. nothing at all.

You felt sick.

You were dizzy, but less shaken up now.

Everyone else's clothes changed, but yours stayed the same. It left you wondering.

"Aha! Now you all look like ultimates!" The pink and white bear spoke out.

"Now then, after the flashback light helps you remember your amazing talents.." The red and white bear spoke out.

"This amazing story can begin for real this time!"

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After a moment, your vision became blurred once again..
Your head ached horribly, you rubbed your eyes, then everything in your vision field faded away.

You woke up in a small area, cramped up all tight.
Your legs were sore.
Your arms felt puffy and sore.
The air was stuffy and hot, you struggled to breathe.
You tried standing up, and it just felt like you were in a box.

Oh. It was a locker.
You were in a locker.
Why were you in a locker?
Who knows.

You stood up, and peeked through the little lines on the locker, trying to see where you were. But you had pushed up on it too hard and accidentally opened it, making you fall face-first on the cold floor.
You looked around the room, and it was just some run down the classroom.
It was cold, and dimly lit with ran down lights reflecting everywhere.

You felt like you had already done this once before...

You looked around and saw an exit door nearby in the classroom.
You heard more voices coming from outside the door.
"KIIBO! LET ME TOUCH YOUR BODY MORE!"
"GET AWAY FROM ME, KOKICHI-"
"OH COME ON, DO YOU HAVE A DICK OR NOT?"
You saw a shorter pale boy chase after some kind of robot?
The pale boy stopped and looked at you.

You gave a confused look towards him.
He stared you down for a moment, then continued chasing after the robot.