Chapter 3- Kill and Live- The Investigation

Disclaimer: I do not own Total Drama or Danganronpa.

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Just for anyone who has played Danganronpa, the first murder will be slightly similar to the first murder in the game. However, there will be a few key differences.

There is also one glaring clue that should tell you who the murderer is. I did this so it would be easier the first case. The other cases will probably be much harder.

"Wakey, wakey Noah." Noah stirred, before slowly opening his eyes. When he did, he found himself starting right into the belly of Monokuma.

"Ah!" Noah quickly pushed the bear away. He sat up and looked around wildly. He was on one of the bleachers in the gymnasium. Nearly every one of the contestants were there, talking between themselves.

Noah rubbed his head. "What happened?" he asked.

One of the people next to him spoke up. "Monokuma brought you here," explained Bridgette, helpfully. "He said he had something to tell us about Katie's death."

Noah looked down. "So Katie really did die…" he muttered softly to himself.

Monokuma got up from the floor and wiped himself off. "Well, now that everyone, who is alive, is awake and here," Monokuma said. "Let's begin the morning assembly!" Monokuma walked over front stage and jumped on to it.

The bear cleared his throat. "Now let us begin the morning assembly! Any questions?"

"You killed her!" Sadie screamed at the bear. "You're the one who killed her, aren't you!"

Monokuma shook his head. "Nope!" he contradicted cheerfully. "I'd never do somethin' like that." He raised his hand. "Please believe me when I say that!"

"Monokuma…?" Noah stared at the bear.

"You see," he explained, folding his arms. "I would never do something that defeats the point of this school!" He covered his smile with his hands. "Even in safari parks, I was famous for being the biggest nitpicking bear you ever saw when it came to rules!"

"Then who else could've…?" Anne Maria started to say.

"As if you don't know!" interrupted Monokuma. "Whoever murdered Katie is probably standing right next to you!"

Everyone gasped and looked at each other with suspicions in their eyes.

Monokuma looked confused. "What's wrong? It looks like yer hearts have been hit by a Gatling gun!" He shrugged. "One of you murdered Katie just so he or she could graduate." He then nodded. "That's the rule! It's not like he or she did anything wrong!

Lindsay took a step back. "That's so mean…" She bit her lip.

"That can't be true," muttered Cody.

Sierra wrapped her arms around Cody. "My Cody-kins wouldn't do that!"

"No!" Noah curled his fist. "Of course he's lying!"

Monokuma's red slash glowed. "No, one of you definitely killed her. The killer in question knows that too."

"Is he telling the truth?" wondered Courtney.

Brick turned to his fellow cast members. "Come clean!" he commanded. "Who killed Katie?"

Alejandro sighed. "Of course that's not going to work. Who'd ever confess to that?"

"Well, it wasn't me!" Sam protested.

Everyone started to argue amongst themselves.

"Hey, I have a question!" Everyone went quiet and looked up, to see Izzy dangling from the rafters again. "Wouldn't the murderer be able to leave since he killed someone?"

Monokuma started to laugh. "You guys are too optimistic! Devilishly optimistic! Hellishly optimistic!" He shook his head. "Honestly, we're just enterin' the main act!"

"The main act…?" wondered Noah.

"Now then," Monokuma continued. "allow me to explain the supplemental rules regarding 'graduation.' Please look at your IDphones!"

Everyone took them out and stared at the screens. Immediately text began to appear on it.

Noah frowned. "Rules?"

"On your IDphones, a list of rules should be appearing. Please turn to Rule #4," instructed Monokuma.

Noah tapped his screen and narrowed his eyes. "Whoever kill a classmate," he read. "may 'graduate,' but he or she must not get caught by the other students."

"Is this what you're talking about?" Jo asked. "All we have to do is find the killer and they won't graduate?"

Monokuma nodded. "Yep! Simple committing murder doesn't cut it! You can't let the other students find out about yer dirty deed!"

Zoey thought for a moment. "So, we have to pull of the perfect crime?"

"In order to assess the murder," the bear said, as his gaze fell upon each of them. "we will always hold a 'class trial.' within a set period of time after each and every homicide!"

Gwen frowned. "What's a class trial?"

Monokuma smirked. "I'm glad you asked. During the class trial, you will debate over who is guilty. If the answer you reach is correct, I will only punish the culprit who has disturbed the peace. But if you're wrong, everyone who was innocent will be punished instead! Those are the rules for our class trials!"

Courtney's eyes sparkled. "Just like a real court." She then blinked. "but what's the punishment?"

"Simply put, I guess you could call them 'executions.'"

Trent looked horrified. "Please don't tell me what I think you're saying…"

Monokuma nodded. "It's exactly what you're thinking! Executions are executions! Getting shocked by an electric chair, choking on clouds of poison gas, or even getting your body torn apart by a hurricane!" He gave a short laugh. "Isn't that fun?!"

Courtney gulped. "I take back what I said."

"Wait a minute." Scott rubbed his head in confusion. "So if we guess wrong, everyone who is innocent gets executed?"

Monokuma sweat-dropped. "Of course." He looked at Scott. "You're not exactly the smartest person, aren't you?"

"Hey!" Scott looked hurt.

The black and white bear shrugged. "In short, you guys are the judge and jury!" He spread his arms out wide. "It's yer job to decide who the killer is!"

"Wait! Lightning doesn't want to do this!" Everyone turned to look at Lightning, as he continued, "Lightning has to start practicing for football!"

Monokuma tilted his head in confusion. "Huh?"

"The stuffed animal can stuff his 'class trial' down his mouth!" Lightning crossed his arms. "There's no way Lightning's gonna help!"

"Why not?" Monokuma asked.

"Why the hell does Lightning have to die when he's innocent!" Lightning argued, steadily walking closer to Monokuma.

"You're being unreasonable," argued the bear.

"You're the one who's being um… unraisanable, you stupid bear!"Lightning pointed at Monokuma, in anger. "Keep Lightning out of this game! Lightning does not want to play!"

Monokuma started shake and sweat. "I'm honestly trembling before the power of the overwhelming stupidity I see before me. But, If you wanna get through me, you've gotta defeat me first!" He jumped down and faced Lightning.

Lightning slammed his foot down on the bear's face. "There!" he smirked. "Now can Lightning go?"

Monokuma waved his arms around in a panic. "Harming the school principal is against school rules! Activating summoning magic! Save me, Gungnir Spears!"

"Huh?" Lightning looked confused, before black needles jutted out of the floor beneath him. They went through his entire body and came out on the other side, easily.

Lightning just blinked. "What… happened…? He attempted to look down. but the needles retracted back to the floor causing him to fall to the ground, splashing blood everywhere.

Everyone screamed and ran away, trying to avoid the grisly sight of Lightning's dead body.

Monokuma calmly grabbed Lightning's IDphone and climbed back onto the stage. "I tried to avoid as much unnecessary deaths as possible, but I guess I needed an example." He looked back at the horrified contestants. "But now it's starting to sink in, isn't it?" His red slash glowed. "I'm playing for keeps."

Monokuma waved. "Well, good luck with yer investigation! I'll call you when it's time for the class trial!" He disappeared into the floor.

"He was an example?" whispered Noah, horrified. "That's why he…!"

Duncan prodded the body with his foot. "At least we know he's not the guy who killed Katie."

"Duncan, stop it!" Gwen had a sickened look on her face.

"What?" Duncan looked at her. "He's already dead."

"Well, there's no point in mourning the dead forever," scoffed Heather. "We should start the investigation."

Alejandro nodded. "I agree."

"Shouldn't we," DJ said, with fear in his voice. "bury the body?"

"And where do we do that?" sneered Courtney. "In case, you haven't noticed we're in the building."

Sam was staring at his IDphone. "There's new pages!" he exclaimed suddenly.

Noah blinked and opened "The Monokuma Files" on his IDphone. When it opened, a detailed report of the death of Katie was given on the screen. It had the cause of death, any other injuries she had, where she died, and even the time of her death.

"We should read it," Zoey told everyone. "Maybe it'll give us some hints before we start the investigation."

"Why should we?" Sadie who had been strangely silent, finally spoke up. "It says right here that Katie was killed in Noah's room."

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"Great," drawled Noah, as he walked along the hallway, where the dorms were. "Now everyone's against me." After Katie's accusation, everyone split into groups and left the gym. Of course everyone refused to go with Noah, since he was the main suspect.

"Well," he muttered to himself. "Might as well do my own investigation." He opened up Katie's death profile on his phone again.

"The victim is Katie, participant of TDI," he read to himself. "Time of death: Exactly 3:15 PM. She was found dead in Noah's room in the dormitory area. The victim died in the shower room. She died of a knife wound to the stomach. Other injuries include various cuts on her right arm." He sighed. "This makes it sound like I did it…"

He stopped at his room and walked into it. Only six people were there: Alejandro, Jo, Cody, Heather, Courtney and Scott

"Well, look who it is." Courtney folded her arms. "The murderer."

Noah rolled his eyes. "Wow, what a great accusation! Are you going to accuse me of trapping us in here to?"

Jo shrugged. "Why not? We don't even know you."

"You do know me," argued Noah. He paused for a moment. "Well, at least four of you."

Heather snorted. "Are you saying that you were on Total Drama Island?

Noah grit his teeth. "I was on Island and World Tour!"

Heather shrugged. "Fine. Believe what you want." She gestured to Alejandro. "Let's go, Alejandro." She walked out of the room.

"Coming!" Alejandro followed her out.

Noah watched them go. "Slimy eel," he muttered. He cleared his throat and looked at the others. "How'd you guys even get in here? Don't you need my IDphone?"

"Monokuma let us in to investigate," Cody spelled out for him. "He said something about seeing the crime scene."

Noah sighed. "Fine," he said. "Just don't touch anything."

"No need." Courtney shut off her IDphone and nodded to Scott. "Let's go. I need to organize all my information for the trial." She strolled out of the room.

Noah watched as Scott followed her, before turning to Cody. "Where's Sierra?" he asked.

Cody looked scared. "Why? Did she ask you?"

Noah blinked. "No, I just wanted to know."

Oh." Cody sighed. "I managed to lose her when we were leaving the gymnasium."

"Why?" Zoey and Mike came into the room. "You do realize she completely head over heels for you."

"I know!" Cody said, exasperated. "It's just-!"

"You still have a crush on Gwen," Noah finished for him, deadpanned.

Cody groaned. "Now that she's single, I thought I might have had a chance with her, but Sierra keeps clinging on to me like some leech."

Zoey raised an eyebrow as Noah bent down to look at something on the floor. "You shouldn't treat her like she's some parasite," she exclaimed. "She's a human being, after all. She's just a little…"

"Crazy?" Mike spoke up.

Zoey looked at him with disapproval written all over her face. "I was going to say high-strung." She then tapped her chin, thoughtfully. "But 'crazy' works too."

Meanwhile, Noah was staring at a rather large knife on the ground. "Mike, is the knife that killed Katie still there?"

Mike blinked and nodded. "Yeah."

Noah held up his IDphone and silently took a picture of the large kitchen knife that was on the floor.

Clue: Second Knife

Noah stood up and took another picture of the room itself, as Mike, Zoey and Cody watched with confusion evident in their eyes.

Clue: Signs of a Struggle

"What are you doing?" asked Mike.

"Taking pictures of the clues," responded Noah. He looked around once more, before sighing and walking over to the bathroom door. He gazed at the broken doorknob.

Clue: Unscrewed doorknob

Noah pushed open the door and set his sights on the mutilated body of Katie. He drew in a deep breath and stepped onto the floor of the bathroom, his foot landing in a pool of blood. Swallowing his disgust, Noah studied Katie's body, before he noticed something strange. Being extremely careful, he slowly lifted the left side of Katie's body. "Well this is interesting," Noah said out loud.

Mike peeked his head in. "What's wrong?"

Noah pointed to a scrawl placed right underneath Katie's body. It was written in blood and seemed to be a mix of letters and numbers.

Mike looked more closely. "7ddd8," he read. He frowned. "What does that mean?"

"Do I look like I know?" Noah pointed to Katie's left hand. On her pointer finger was a small spot of blood. "But there's no doubt that she was the one who wrote it." He quickly took pictures.

Clue: Dying Message

Clue: Blood on left pointer finger

Noah looked around and got up. "Well that's all I can find," he said with a shrug of his shoulders. He walked out of the bathroom and nodded at Cody and Zoey. He left the room and closed the door behind him.

Noah heard soft sobbing coming from somewhere near him. He turned his head slightly to the right, to see Sadie crouching on the floor, sobbing her heart out.

Noah stood there, awkwardly, for a full minute. "I'm sorry about Katie," he finally said.

Sadie glanced up at him, with anger evident in her eyes. "You're the one who killed her! You're the one who should be dead..."

"Noah," he finished for her.

Sadie stood up and jabbed a finger at him. "I don't care," she yelled. "I far as I'm concerned you were the one to kill Katie! This is your room!"

"Um, just because she was found in my room doesn't mean I killed her," Noah pointed out.

"Then how did the killer get in?" Sadie argued. "Monokuma told us that the only way to get into someone's room is with their IDphone!"

Noah stopped for moment and thought about what Sadie had just said. "She's right," he mused. "How did the killer get inside the room?"

Tears began to form, as Katie's voice shook. "All you did was destroy me and Katie…me and Katie's…." Sadie burst into tears again ran off into the hallway.

Noah blinked. "What was that all about?" he wondered.

"It was their last year to be together." Noah turned sharply, and found Bridgette and Geoff behind him.

"Katie was supposed to move away to Florida next year," explained Bridgette, sadly. "If you watched Total Drama Island, then you must know how hard it is for them to be apart. "

"I feel kinda bad for them." Geoff thought for a moment. "Oh, wait. Katie died." He rubbed his head. "Does that mean I have to be glad for them?"

Bridgette slugged him in the arm.

Geoff rubbed the place where she had hit him. "What was that for?" he whined.

Something suddenly caught Noah's eye, as he knelt down and stared at something. "What's this?" he wondered.

Bridgette followed his gaze to a small IDphone on the ground. It was completely broken apart and nearly everything seemed to be broken. "An IDphone?"

Noah didn't answer and instead took a picture.

Clue: Broken IDphone

The three heard a quiet laughing coming from in front of them. Monokuma was walking past them to Katie's room. He placed his hand onto the sensor next to the door. A small light above the sensor beeped and turned green, as the door unlocked itself. "Since, I'm nice," Monokuma said, without even turning his head. "I've opened the door to let you search Katie's room for any clues."

Noah, Bridgette and Geoff scrambled into the room, before Monokuma could play another trick on them.

With careful eyes, Noah surveyed the room. It looked exactly like his room, but instead of a pale blue bed, apparently Katie had a pink one. He walked over to the closet and, after a moment of hesitation, he throws open the closet.

Bridgette stared at him as if he were crazy. "You shouldn't look at a girl's closet without her permission," she scolded.

"Yeah, well she's dead," Noah said bluntly, as he looked through rows of identical clothing. He stopped at one particular one, that had red bloodstains all over it. It looked exactly like Katie's other pieces of clothing. Frowning, Noah took a picture.

Clue: Bloodied Clothes

Letting his gaze fall, Noah noticed something inside of the trashcan. Reaching his hand inside, he pulled out something that seemed very similar to what he had seen before. He blinked. "A CD?"
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Noah was sitting in the same place he had sat, when all of them were in the computer room. After placing headphones over his ears, Noah slid the CD into the disk slot.

The screen came to life to reveal a situation somewhat similar to his own. Katie's parents were sitting on the couch. However, instead of hearing the parents talk, all Noah could hear was Monokuma's narration of the scene.

"And here we see Katie's parents, kindly giving their daughter hope." The narration turned about more sinister. "But Katie is about experience true despair."

That scene changed to Katie walking into the house. "Mom?" She looked around confused. "Dad?" She walked, but she suddenly covered her mouth and widened her eyes in horror.

The camera panned down, for Noah to notice that Katie's parents were lying on the ground with blood pouring from their bodies.

The screen went black just as Katie opened her mouth to scream. Monokuma's narration came back. "And this was when Katie realized that the only way to save her family was to kill someone."

The screen bluntly shut off with no warning as Noah sat there shaking. He couldn't believe that this is what Katie saw.

Clue: Katie's CD

"But wait," he suddenly realized. "Why did Katie get a different one? And this one didn't seem fake like mine." His eyes narrowed. "What's really going on-?"

"Students!" Monokuma's voice sounded from the intercom, jarring Noah from his thoughts. "Investigation time is up! Please meet me in the elevator room. We shall begin the classroom trial soon!"

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Noah walked into a small room, that was completely devoid of anything save for a giant elevator in the back. The rest of the contestants were already there. They had been talking amongst themselves, but went quiet when Noah walked in.

He raised an eyebrow. "Well thanks for the friendly response," he muttered.

Before anyone could say anything in retaliation, the elevator doors opened up. Everyone face it as Monokuma began to speak again.

"This elevator will take you to the conference room," he said merrily, as if he wasn't ordering them to choose someone to die, and was instead acting much like a teacher or a parent. "Single file, please."

Everyone quickly filed into the elevator.

Noah stood there waiting his turn, when someone tapped his shoulder. He quickly spun around to find Dawn smiling up at him.

"Don't worry, Noah." A smilie stretched across her face. "After all, you have an alibi." She walked into the elevator without another word.

Noah frowned as he followed her into the already cramped space. "An alibi…" he wondered, as the doors closed behind him.

In less than a minute after he had formed that thought, the doors opened again. Monokuma sat, lazing around, on a giant throne chair in the back. The room was draped with several curtains ranging from red to yellow, giving the room a royalty-like feel to it. It was also painted blue. In the middle of the room were twenty-five stands that were all connected together to form a circle. Two of the stand were already taken by pictures of Lightning and Katie. A bloody X ran through the portraits.

Monokuma spread out his arms as if greeting the contestants, but he seemed to be looking at Noah especially. "Now," he said cheerfully. "Let us begin the first classroom trial!"

The classroom trial begins next chapter! Aren't you excited?!

Yeah, kudos to those who noticed the obvious clue that linked itself to the killer. However, can anyone tell me what happened? And also the motive?

I understand I only gave away around eight clues. The rest of the clues that the other contestants found will be revealed next chapter.

Reviews and constructive criticism are welcome.