"Melvin and Frank" Mr. Gus told Tanezumi. Frank and Melvin both cried out. "I didn't kill Beary!" Melvin insisted. Frank dropped to the ground and got into the fetal position. "No!" he began to cry again. Tanezumi rolled her eyes. "Hurry up and get your butts over here! You need to choose your weapon!"
Melvin and Frank refused to move. "If you don't come, I'll execute both of you!" she threatened. They both immediately went over to where she was asking them to go. Tanezumi motioned for us to sit in what looked like a set of bleachers. We reluctantly shuffled over and sat down on the seats. We watched Melvin pick up a futuristic looking sword and Frank pick up a spiked medieval mace. "Nice choices!" Tanezumi complimented. "Now get your stupid asses into the ring!" she motioned for them to get into an elevator that would bring them up to the arena. Once they got in, Tanezumi hopped onto the bleachers with us. She clapped and before we knew it the bleachers shot up into the air. Everyone let out a startled scream. The bleacher finally stopped going up, and when we looked to see what had happened, we were very high above the ground. I heard Slog gulp. "T-That's really high..." he held onto Billy. "That's to ensure you don't try to leave during the fight" she told us. "I don't wanna watch this, though!" Guillermo complained. "I'm scared!" Susie sobbed. "Too bad!" Tanezumi laughed.
Melvin and Frank stepped out of the elevator and went onto the arena. Once they stepped on the arena, a large screen TV hovering over the arena turned on. It gave us sitting in the bleachers a closer look at the fight that was about to take place. Tanezumi pulled out a microphone from what seemed like no where and proceeded to speak into it. "The rules of the Death Match are very simple. Kill your opponent!" she giggled. "Your fight starts now!"
A bell rung, signifying the beginning of the fight. Melvin and Frank stood there looking at each other, fumbling with their weapons. They continued to stand there and look at each other, clearly not wanting to fight at all. Tanezumi rolled her eyes. "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" she began to chant. Everyone at the bleachers silently watched the big screen. Frank tightly squeezed his weapon before giving Melvin a glare. "You killed Beary! I will destroy you!" he hissed. "I didn't kill Beary!" Melvin pleaded. Frank ran at him with the mace, striking down at him once he got over to him. Melvin held up his sword to block the blow from the mace. They stood there, Frank struggling to strike his mace down on Melvin and Melvin struggling to keep the mace away from him. Finally Melvin let out a cry and pushed Frank back with his foot. "I didn't kill Beary!" he shouted as he charged at Frank with the sword. Frank and Melvin proceeded to have a classical sword fight with their strange weapons. The weapon fight went on for a while. I felt Susie clutch onto my arm and bury her face into my shoulder. I tried comforting her by patting her head. After a rigorous fight, Melvin and Frank stood back in an effort to catch their breath. Their chests heaved as they had their hands on their knees.
Frank then got up and went to strike at Melvin again. Melvin brought up his sword in defense and knocked the mace right out of Frank's hand. "O-Oh dear..." Frank gulped. Melvin to this opportunity to swing his sword at the now defenseless Frank. Frank dodged the attack and tried his best to get his weapon. Melvin went at him, holding the sword up ready to strike down any minute. Frank continued to crawl himself toward his weapon, keeping a good eye on Melvin. Melvin ran to attack. Frank was by the edge of the arena now, almost retrieving his weapon. Melvin let out a warrior cry as he began to strike down at Frank. In the blink of an eye, Frank grabbed his weapon and spun himself around. He gave Melvin a swift sweep-kick, causing Melvin to lose balance, drop his sword, and hurtle off the edge of the arena. Melvin screamed as he plummeted down. We all watched in horror as Melvin fell face up on one of the spears at the bottom, which impaled him right through his chest. He let out a pained gasp before instantly dying. Some of the people on the bleachers screamed in sheer terror, including myself. Tanezumi laughed and clapped. "Good fight! Good fight!" she cackled. "W-Was he the murderer?" Festro asked, his eyes wide from terror from the sight he had just witnessed. Tanezumi laughed. "Nope!"
We all gasped. "W-Who was it then? Was it Frank or did we pick the wrong people?" Pizza Steve seemed a bit panicked as he tugged on his hair. "You picked the right person, it was Frank!" she cackled. Frank let out a whimper as confetti fell from the top of the arena. More gasps ensued. I couldn't believe it, my suspicions were right!
"F-Frank? How could you?!" Billy was absolutely disgusted. "C'mon, Frank, tell em why you did it!" Tanezumi giggled. Frank whimpered as a small hole appeared in the middle of the arena. From the hole came up a microphone that he could speak into. He gulped as he went up to it. "W-Well I-" he shut his eyes for a moment. "Was he REALLY the killer, or are you lying to us?" Slog asked Tanezumi. Before Tanezumi could answer, Frank's eyes snapped open with rage. "I did it because not only do I want to be one step closer to getting out of here, but when I do get out of here I don't want to be forced into anymore humiliating and painful situations because of that tiny little bastard!" he clenched his teeth and fists as he looked down. "That asshole always encouraged me to try new things," he sounded a bit thoughtful when he said this. He then snapped back up with an angry look on his face. "AND FOR WHAT? Pain, suffering, humiliation, and embarrassment!" he began to cry. "It's not like he even cared about how I felt, either. Every single time he'd drag me into trying a new experience, every single time I got hurt, every single time I was humiliated, he just didn't seem to care!" Frank shoved his hands into his pocket. "I remember one day, when he wanted us to try climbing trees," he closed his eyes as he reminisced. "I never climbed a tree before, and I really didn't want to try because I knew in my heart something bad was going to happen. He kept encouraging me, pointing to the metal tower I was standing next to, encouraging me to practice on that while he climbed the tree. I decided to just go on with it and I practiced climbing the metal tower. As I got up to the top, however, a large bird swooped down on me and carried me away. I ended up in the large bird's nest, practically getting pecked to death by its babies. I looked up and saw Beary giggling and shaking his head." Frank shut his eyes with an irritated expression on his face. "He told me 'That's what I call a new experience!' as I was getting pecked to death and screaming in agony. I tilted my head back, ready to welcome my death and saw that the tower I had been climbing was an electrical tower that was extremely high-voltage at the top." Frank opened his tear-filled eyes. "I realized at that moment that he was trying to kill me then. He had genuinely been trying to kill me on every new experience we ever had together. Our friendship was a lie. Everything was a lie." he sobbed angrily. "That's why I murdered him here."
Everyone was silent as we listened to his story. I felt absolutely terrible for Frank. The experience he just shared with us sounded awful. I knew there was something off about Beary Nice, but I had no idea Beary Nice was a psychopath like that. "I could have gotten away with it too if part of my jacket lining hadn't been left on the nail." he sighed. "You see, after Melvin left the gift shop at around 8:25 I snuck away from the Roll-A-Ball game and went in there myself because I knew Beary was in there. I was planning on killing him ever since Tanezumi announced that we had to kill each other in order to get out of here. I knew that right then and there was my chance, so I took a pocket knife from one of the shelves and went over the plan I had for killing him in the gift shop earlier that day. He was surprised to see me in the gift shop, so I let him come over to the aisle I needed him to stand in before making my move. Once he went to the aisle, I stabbed him three times in the abdomen in hopes he would suffer and die just like I suffered and almost died when I was getting pecked to death in that nest before I was taken to a hospital by nearby park visitors. He was still alive, holding onto his stab wounds. At this point he was trying to gurgle out something, but I didn't care. I walked over to the shelf that had the Uncle Grandpa statue on it and bashed him over the head. I knew I had to make an alibi for myself so I wouldn't get questioned later, so I put down the weapon next to him, hid my hands, and ran out to the Roll-A-Ball game I previously attended." he giggled and smiled. "I asked Billy, Slog, and The Fart where Beary was like as if I was standing there the whole time. They all shrugged, so I ran off to finish cleaning up Beary's dead corpse. I put Beary's body into a garbage bag and stuffed it in the freezer, knowing that if I hadn't, people would notice the smell of decay if they went in there later on. Once I stuffed his body in the freezer, I went to the janitor's closet and took out a mop. I wet it and began to mop off the trail of blood and the bloody pool he left in the aisle I killed him in. Just as I was cleaning, I heard Festro's voice outside of the gift shop. I panicked, took the statue, and hid behind the check-out counter. Festro came in and stood around looking at his watch. Melvin came in shortly after Festro and they sat and discussed how they had gotten a note from Dennis. I was really angry that they were lounging around in here, because I couldn't finish executing my plan. They finally decided to leave after a while, luckily not bothering to look around the gift shop. I put the statue in one of the cubby-holes and went right to work with cleaning again. I tried to hurry because I wasn't sure if there would be another distraction. I needed to wet the mop a bit more, so I went into the janitor's closet to do so. Just then, I heard Izzie call for me. I quickly washed any blood I had on my hands and hid the bloody pocket knife from her sight before going to greet her. She asked me to hang out with her, and before I could tell her I would catch up with her later she began to drag me off. I threw the pocket knife in the trash while she dragged me out. I was hoping to return later to finish executing my plan, but the park closed and I wasn't able to get back into the gift shop." he sighed. "That's how I killed Beary, but apparently the killers who win in the death match get a special surprise." he smiled.
Tanezumi laughed. "You're right, Frank, you DO get a special surprise." Frank smiled, his eyes twinkling. "I bet it's granting me permission right out of here!" Frank was hopeful. Tanezumi laughed obnoxiously at him. "Really? You of all people should know to always expect the worst!" she told him. His smile faded. "W-What do you mean?" he asked. "You're special surprise is a brutal execution designed just for you!" she cackled. Frank sighed. "I should have seen that coming..." he shut his eyes tightly and sobbed. "Now I wish I let Melvin kill me" tears rolled down his cheek.
"Any last words before we get on with the execution?" she asked. He sobbed and turned to the bleachers. "I-Izzie, even if you screwed up my murder plans, you have been the only person I've ever met to show me kindness in the brief time we did meet."
Izzie began to tear up. "F-Franky..." she sobbed. Tanezumi rolled her eyes. "Ugh let's get on with the execution before this turns into a puke fest!" she made a gagging noise. "Wait! Before I go..." Frank took off his jacket and a necklace he was wearing. "Izzie, these are for you. I want you to have them. Never forget me, okay?"
Tanezumi appeared on the stage and picked up the things Frank wanted to give to Izzie. She then reappeared on the bleachers and handed them to Izzie. Tears rolled down Izzie's cheek as she held on tightly to the necklace and hugged onto the jacket.
"It's execution time!" Tanezumi laughed as she pulled out a remote and pressed a button.