Yep, I had to cut this case a little shorter than the last, I had ideas for it, but they disappeared sometime during the week...and I can't think of anything I was gonna do with this chapter...
Chapter 4: The Final Play: SOLVED
Charmy found the older two reptiles talking. As the bee approached, he heard bits of conversation about the case and what they had found. And still proving his theory right. The bee interrupted by flying through at high speeds, his discovery feeding more energy into him, and using Vector as a crash pad.
"Vector! Vector! Vector!" The bee squealed, "I figured it out! I know who dunnit!" The reptiles watched the bee, their eyes demanding an answer. But Charmy stayed quiet "Get everyone together and I'll tell ya!" he said giddily, flying off from the duo.
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Charmy could hardly hold back his excitement. So this was what it felt like to solve a case! Positively giddy, the bee flew out in front of his crowd of curious mobians and humans.
"I know who the murderer is!" he announced straight off. A mutter erupted from the crowd. He heard Espio mutter something to their older friend, and earned himself a glare and cuff on the back of his hot purple head. "It was Coach!" the bee blurted out, forgetting the long explanation of proof he had previously planned to subject his audience to before revealing the killer's identity.
Coach jumped to his own defense quickly, "Why would I do that?" he demanded, "Gruff was the best player I had!"
"I don't exactly know why." The bee said in an equally happy voice. Vector suddenly found a blade of grass interesting and stared down at it. Espio's hands covered his face and disappeared all together. Charmy found this discouraging. "But- But I have proof!" he added to his statement. All eyes except his team's stayed on him, it was sort of uncomfortable for the little bee.
"And what would that be?" Coach asked, ushering the bee to explain himself.
"W-well…You're good with daggers and stuff…and you weren't by your team when the game was ending." The bee started, feeling the pressure to impress the crowd. A green snout lifted, a hot purple reptile came back into view, both had eyes set on their friend.
The happy feeling came back. "An-and I heard Vector tell Espio Coach was carrying around a dagger in his coat pocket. And Espio said he had seen a flash of something after Gruff had won the game."
Coach tensed and pressured the bee with more questions, "But what about Sly? Wasn't he near Gruff when this all happened!?"
"No. He was talking with the other coach." The bee said calmly, "He's got witnesses." He pointed at the raccoon, "And you're a liar. You said you were by the team, but you weren't!" At this point, the two reptilian detectives walked nonchalantly over to stand by Coach; should he try and run.
It was Coach's turn to feel pressure; his mouth opened, trying to find a response, but nothing came. "I-" His explanation was cut short by Espio.
"And come to think of it…you didn't come over as fast as everyone else did." He said sneakily.
"Actually, you arrived a few minutes later, when Sly was trying to get us off the field." Vector added, laying a heavy hand on the mammal. The shine of handcuffs dangled from Espio's index finger.
"How-how could I've hit Gruff from off the field? Even if I'm good with throwing daggers, it's-"
"Espio said that peacock told 'im that you could hit really tiny targets with daggers." Charmy countered. No sooner had the bee spoken these words did Coach, furious and set on getting away, lunged at the bee. Charmy reeled back and narrowly escaped the dagger stretched out for him. A blur of green suddenly held the raccoon coach down while Espio slapped on handcuffs. The police took over from there, reading Coach his rights and leading the still struggling raccoon out to a police unit.
Vector clapped Charmy lightly on the back; "Good work, kiddo." He grinned. Espio only smirked at the bee, Charmy took it as approval.
"Though we really didn't get a reason for it…" Espio said, flipping out his cell phone and dialing the chameleon who had called before.
"Hello?" The chameleon girl answered after the third ring.
"Hey, you called earlier, you okay?"
"Yeah, there was a double homicide case I had ta solve. Where were you?"
"We were solving our own case."
"What!? At the game?"
Espio smirked, she obviously didn't expect that. "Yeah, I'll tell you all about it when we get back to the Agency."
"M'kay. Bye."
"Bye." Espio hung up and looked over to Vector and Charmy. "Looks like Kaity had her own case to solve. She'll explain the details when we get back to the Agency."
Okay, now that this case is done, I'm gonna take a break from this one for a while and focus more on getting OC Heroes started again.
