Chapter 20: First Person Beat 'em up- Traitorous Game
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Noah looked around the trial room and frowned as he realized that the number of portraits of the people who were killed or executed now outnumbered the people who were alive. He gritted his teeth. "How did it end up like this…?" he wondered.
"Um…" Lindsay looked confused. "H-how do we start?"
"You start however you want!" laughed Monokuma. "Just try and figure out who will killed the four people."
"I think we should start from the beginning," Mal said, with a smirk. "After all, Mike and I don't share memories, right?"
"Unless you actually did it," Gwen muttered underneath her breath.
Mal shot an irritated look at Gwen. "If you don't mind," he continued, looking at Noah.
Noah nodded. "It actually would be a good idea to figure out exactly what happened." He cleared his throat. "First it started when we all went to look for the riddle that Monokuma had left us in the dining hall. And then at 7:03, a body discovery announcement was heard, followed by a gunshot and the sound of something falling. At 7:11, Dawn, Lindsay and I found the bodies and another Monokuma discovery announcement went off for the three other bodies we had found."
"And that's when we appeared," Mal finished, with a nod. "So the big mystery in this is who discovered the bodies first, correct?"
"Actually…" Dawn spoke up. "There's another mystery. What body was the one discovered first? In my opinion, maybe we should try and figure that out first."
"Wait a minute," protested Jo. "Isn't actually finding out who found the bodies first more important than deciding which body was found first?"
"Yeah, but…" Dawn frowned. "It's just something that's been bothering me this entire time."
Mal sneered. "Fine," he said. "Let's humor her request."
Non-Stop Debate
"The body that was found first…" wondered Geoff, out loud. "What could it be?"
"It couldn't have been DJ's body," insisted Dawn. "I remember finding him inside the arcade machine and it was still shut. If someone had seen that then the door would've been open!"
"So that leaves three bodies," Bridgette said with a frown. "Izzy, Heather, and Alejandro."
"How do we know that all three of them weren't found first," Sam pointed out. "Maybe Monokuma just made a mistake."
"Me… A mistake?" Monokuma sounded horrified. "Take that back at once!"
"So which was was it?" asked Mal. "Was it Heather? Or was it Alejandro? Or maybe it was Izzy-?!"
"I agree!" Noah interrupted.
Consent! Verbal Bullet Used: Sequence of Events
"It was Izzy!" Noah realized. "Izzy's body was the first body found!"
"What makes you say that?" asked Brick.
"Of course…" Dawn eyes widened. "Think about what happened and what killed Heather and Alejandro."
"Heather was killed by a gun," Gwen said, reading the Monokuma File off of her IDphone. "And Alejandro was killed by a falling arcade machine."
"S-so what?" Lindsay asked.
"Think about the sounds we heard Lindsay," Noah said. "One was a gunshot and the other was of something falling to the ground!"
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Flashback:
Time seemed to stand still, as all three of them were frozen in shock. After a minute, "Lindsay opened her mouth. "Someone's-?"
BAM!
BANG!
Lindsay couldn't even finish her sentence as a sound that sounded like something falling echoed from the third floor and a subsequent gunshot was heard mere moments after. After that all was silent.
Flashback End
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"One of those sounds we heard was of the gun that killed Heather…" Noah gritted his teeth. "And the other was the arcade machine that fell on Alejandro!"
"Wait a minute." Geoff frowned. "Wouldn't that mean that both of them were still alive when the body discovery announcement went off? The sounds did happen after it."
"That would mean that they were the ones who found Izzy's body first!" realized Gwen.
"No," Noah said. "That's not it."
"What?!" Mal stared at Noah, his curiosity undeniable.
"I don't know." Noah faltered. "But I don't think that they were the ones who found the body."
"Sounds like a load of bullshit to me," muttered Jo.
"Maybe we should focus on who killed Izzy?" offered Brick. "And where?"
"Where?" repeated Lindsay.
Sam nodded. "Yeah, we found a lot of blood on the floor of the rec room," Sam said. "I'm not sure where it could've happened, since the crime scene was in the arcade."
"What if they moved the body!" Bridgette realized. "Maybe Izzy was killed in the rec room and the murderer moved the body over to the arcade?!"
"That would explain the weapon," Noah said with a frown.
"The weapon?" Geoff asked. "What weapon?"
"The weapon that was used to kill Izzy," Noah said. "It was one of the Monokuma Bottles found in the rec room. There are some glass shards on the floor and I even found one of the Monokuma figures that are stored inside the bottles, on the floor."
"But how do we know that Izzy was killed before Heather?" asked Jo, rubbing her chin in thought.
"The dartboard timer," explained Noah. "It said that the last game was played at 6:28 pm. Gwen," he said, looking over at the goth. "You remember when Izzy played darts when we were looking at the rooms a couple of days ago."
Gwen nodded. "Yeah," she agreed. "She managed to hit the bulls-eye with all three darts in seconds. So what?"
"When I went into the rec room, I remember checking the dartboard. It had all three of the darts lodged into the center." Noah tapped his chin. "My guess is that Izzy played the game just before the murderer killed her!"
"How do we know that Izzy was even killed at that time?" Jo pointed out. "It could be from when she was playing, yesterday."
"Um…" Sam twiddled with his fingers. "Um, I did see Izzy go upstairs around 6:20."
"And that matches up perfectly with the time on the dartboard," Noah said, triumphantly. "There's no doubt that Izzy was killed somewhere around the time."
"So who was the murderer?" asked Lindsay.
"Bridgette," Dawn said, looked at her. "May I see your analysis of the bodies."
"Huh? Oh, sure." Bridgette fished it out of her pockets and handed it to Dawn.
Dawn looked it over and smiled. "I think I figured it out," she said. "It was Heather. Heather was the one who killed Izzy!"
Non-Stop Debate
"Heather?" Jo repeated incredulously. "That's crazy! Heather is dead."
"There is some substantial evidence that I found concerning the status of Heather's body," Dawn said. "More specifically =her hands=."
"Her hands?" Bridgette muttered. "I remember seeing something strange but, I don't think it was that important."
"Was she holding something?" asked Geoff. "Or maybe her hands are injured?"
"Injured?" repeated Brick, looking shocked.
"I saw the bodies!" said Sam. "I know for the fact that there isn't any sort of injury aside from the gunshot wound-!"
"No, that's wrong!" Noah interrupted.
Contradiction! Break! Verbal Bullet Used: =her hands=
"Oh," muttered Noah. "I see what you were talking about, Dawn!"
"Mind telling the rest of us, lovebirds?" Gwen spat.
Noah ignored that and instead pointed at Bridgette. "Bridgette you were the one who investigated the body, correct? Do you remember that you told me about those small cuts on her hands?"
Bridgette nodded. "Yeah, I even wrote them down on my analysis of the bodies."
"Are you saying that those cuts were caused by the Monokuma Bottle?" asked Gwen. "Wouldn't that mean that Heather was the one who killed Izzy?"
"That's exactly what were saying," Dawn nodded. "My guess is that Izzy was in the rec room when Heather snuck up on her and killed her." She looked away. "And this all happened while we were searching for something that didn't even exist."
"What?" Lindsay said. "Y-you mean the riddle was fake?"
"It actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it," Gwen said. "The riddle actually asked us to stay in the the first and seconds floors and never go into the third floors."
"Hey Monokuma!" Jo shouted at the bear, who was sleeping soundly.
Monokuma jolted awake and rubbed his eyes. "Hm…what?"
"Did you ever give a riddle that said you'll help us get out of here?" Jo asked, glaring at him.
Monokuma quickly shook his head. "Nope, nope! Why would I do that?! That would ruin the fun of this game!"
"Fun, my ass," muttered Jo.
"So then what was the riddle?" asked Sam. "Who wrote it?"
"Hm…" mused Noah. "I'm going to have to think about this…"
Logic Dive
"Who killed Izzy?"
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"It was Heather!"
"Now, where was she killed?"
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"On the third floor!"
"Now, who made the riddle?"
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"It was Heather!"
Dive End!
"I got it! announced Noah. "Heather was the one who wrote the riddle. My guess it that she wanted us to stay off the third floor so she could commit the killing in secret."
"So what we were looking for," Bridgette said, unhappily. "Was just some stupid trick?"
"Damn it! Jo said, slammed her fist down onto her stand. "Damn it!"
"That's great and all," Mal said, finally speaking up after a while. "But we should get on track at hand. Like, who actually killed the other three people?"
"He's right," Sam said, looked away. "As much as I hate to admit it, he's right. Heather was one of the victims and we still don't know who killed DJ and Alejandro! This case is hopeless!"
"No, we're doing good," insisted Dawn. "We know who killed Izzy. Now we only have to figure out who killed DJ, since we can also assume that he also died before Heather and Alejandro."
Non-Stop Debate
"Well if Heather killed Izzy," Mal said. "Wouldn't it make sense that she would've also killed DJ?"
"Yeah, that's right," Geoff realized. "That actually makes a lot of sense!"
"She killed... two people?!" Lindsay gasped.
"To be honest, I wouldn't put it past her," Gwen muttered. "It's not like she hasn't done some terrible things for money in the past either."
"She did it for money?!" Lindsay bit her lip. "Why would Hannah do something like that?"
"She did use you as a pawn at one point," Bridgette explain to her. "She is certainly mean enough to try and kill two people."
"But what's the point?" asked Dawn, thoughtfully. "After all, killing two people would lead to more clues to convict yourself."
"Maybe she just felt like it!" Sam clenched his teeth in anger. "Heather was obviously the one who killed both Izzy and DJ-!"
"No, that's incorrect!" Noah contradicted.
Contradiction! Break! Verbal Bullet Used: Broken Piranha Fish Timer
"That doesn't explain the broken timer in the aquarium!" Noah said. "Judging by when the timer stopped DJ's death would've been around the same time that Heather killed Izzy."
Mal raised a hand. "What makes you think that timer had anything to do with DJ's death?"
"Well…" Noah paused for a moment, before speaking again. "What if DJ was killed in aquarium instead of the arcade?"
Bridgette frowned. "That actually makes a lot of sense," he said. "How else did he manage to get all those bites from the piranhas?"
"Piranhas?" repeated Lindsay looking confused. "What are those?"
"Flesh eating fish," explained Bridgette. "It's the only thing that could of caused those bites on DJ's body."
"But what does that have to do with the broken timer?" asked Geoff, matter-of-factly. "And how does it prove that Heather wasn't the one who killed DJ?"
"The timing," explained Noah. "Judging by the aquarium timer, it would've been destroyed at exactly 1:26. That time is too close to the time that Izzy was killed-!"
"Wait a minute!" Gwen interrupted.
"How do we know that DJ was killed in the aquarium?" asked Gwen.
"W-well," stammered Noah, unable to come up with and answer."I-I don't exactly know."
"You don't have any substantial proof," Gwen pointed out. "So basically, DJ couldn't have been killed in the aquarium!"
Rebuttal Showdown!
"You just have to look a/t this in the right way," explained Gwen. "DJ was kill/ed somewhere else!
"My guess is that he w/as killed in the arcade!" she continued. "After all that wa/s where we found him!"
Advancement!
"But what about the aquarium timer?" asked Noah. "How did it break?"
"H-how d/id it…" Gwen faltered. "That… that doe/sn't matter!"
"What matters is the fa/ct of where DJ was killed!" she insisted. "And it's obvious that there isn't any proof t/hat DJ was killed in the aquarium!"
"Along w/ith that," she said, continuing her rant. "If DJ was killed in the aquarium the/re would be a trail going to the arcade! There is/n't any trail!"
"I'll cut through that claim!" Noah cut in.
Contradiction! Break! Verbal Bullet Used: Wet Floor
"No," Noah said. "There definitely is a trail. More specifically…" He thought back to the floor of the hallway. "The trail of water that leads from the arcade and to the aquarium!"
"The wet floor?" Geoff awkwardly laughed. "Yeah, I won't lie, I fell down because of that stupid thing."
"And?" asked Bridgette. "Are you saying that's the trail that proves DJ was moved. "Wouldn't there have to be blood."
Mal smirked. "I understand. The blood was wiped away."
Jo clenched her fist. "The fuck? So the murderer just wiped away the blood so they could hide the fact that they dragged him from the aquarium? Why?"
"Maybe it was too hide the fact that the body came from there?" suggested Brick. "It was something that worked in the other murders."
Lindsay seemed to be having trouble understanding what was going on. "Wait, so who was the killer?"
That effectively snapped everyone into their situation they were in. Even though, they had managed to figure out the fact that DJ's body had moved they still had no clue of who actually killed him.
"Well we do have one clue," Bridgette said thoughtfully, before freezing. "Uh, forget I said anything! It's probably not right anyway."
"You mean you analysis?" asked Gwen.
"I forgot about that!" Dawn ran her hands through her hair. "DJ had a footprint on his back right?!"
"Yeah..." Bridgette mumbled. "It was from a boot."
"And the only people wearing boots are..." Jo turned to Brick and Gwen. "So which one of you two did it, huh?" she snapped.
"Um," Lindsay said. "Can I ask a question?"
Dawn smiled soothingly. "Sure go ahead."
"What killed DJ?" the blonde asked.
"Huh?" Jo glared at her. "What the hell?! It's pretty obvious that it was the piranha's that killed DJ."
"Actually..." Noah spoke up. "The Monokuma File doesn't exactly state that DJ's death was caused by the piranha's."
"But none of the Monokuma files say exactly what killed them," Sam pointed out.
"Yeah, but that other victims didn't have any other fatal wounds on them," argued Noah, before turning to Bridgette. "You know what I'm talking about right, Bridgette?"
She nodded. "You're talking about the the bruise on DJ's neck."
Geoff frowned. "Maybe it was caused by the missing rope?" he suggested.
"There was some missing rope?" Mal started at his IDphone intently. "It does certainly look like a rope would've caused this sort of wound. All you would have to do is curl up the rope around DJ's neck and strangle him with it."
"And that's exactly what happened!" exclaimed Noah. "The murderer went and strangled DJ with the rope, that's why he has a bruise going across his neck."
"But what about the piranha bites?" pointed out Geoff.
"If the killer had wanted to kill DJ using the piranhas then they would've just dumped he body inside the tank!" Noah continued. "By using that rope, the killer just dipped DJ's face into the water for the piranha's."
"The why even have the piranhas eat him like that?" asked Sam.
"Maybe..." Dawn tapped her chin. "Maybe it was to hide the true cause of death."
"W-why would they want to do that?" asked Lindsay.
"Because it's something that would point to them," Gwen growled. "If we had figured out the cause of death, then we would've been able to easily to figure out who killed DJ."
"It's easy even now," Noah said, shutting the rest of them up. "The person who killed DJ... mess Alejandro."
"Wait a minute..." Brick frowned as he tried to figure it out. "Wouldn't that mean that the two people who had died were also murderers themselves?!"
"What makes you think it's Al?" Jo said with obvious venom in her mouth. "I wouldn't put it past the guy to do it of course."
"There were rope burns on Alejandro's hands," Noah said. "That was probably caused by the the rope that he used for the weapon."
"DJ was a pretty big guy," said Geoff. "I don't know, I just can't believe that he got beats like that from someone like Alejandro."
"That actually explains the footprint," Mal said, taking the reins in this accusation. "Imagine, if you were Alejandro. He was probably too weak the actually strangle DJ right away, so instead he pushed him into the piranha feeder timer causing it to break. He placed his foot on the guy's back to gain some extra leverage, before he murdered DJ." He chuckled ominously. "That poor guy."
Bridgette looked away. "So that's how someone managed to kill someone like DJ. They cheated."
"More like they played it smart," Mal said.
Gwen arched her eyebrows suspiciously "And exactly how do you know about all this?" she drawled.
Mal shrugged. "When you go to Juvie you learn how to fend for yourself. I'm pretty sure Duncan knew about this."
"They were working together then," Geoff said. "What happens when two people kill at the same time?" He turned to Monokuma.
Monokuma shrugged. "Well… I don't know. It's not really something that I had a plan for what would happen when that happened." He chuckled awkwardly, before yawning.
"Back to the matter on hand," Dawn said, interrupting their argument. "That would mean that Heather was the one who killed Izzy and Alejandro was the one who killed DJ." She frowned. "Then who killed both of them?"
"I know exactly who did it!" Jo turned on the person in question. "It was you wasn't it Gwen?!"
"What?!" Gwen took a step back in surprise. "I didn't do it!"
"Don't fucking lie!" accused Jo. "We found the note that you sent to Heather telling her to meet you in the arcade."
She looked confused. "But, Heather sent me a letter," she said. "She asked me to meet her in the arcade."
"And then you killed her!" Jo snapped.
Lindsay looked horrified. "Greta... killed Hannah?!"
"No!" protested Gwen. "I swear I didn't kill Heather. I was framed!" She glanced at Bridgette. "Back me up!"
"Sorry," apologized Bridgette, looking a bit scared. "I know that you showed me that letter but, you have to admit that it looks a bit suspicious…"
"What other letter?" asked Noah, catching her words.
"Heather sent me a letter!" said Gwen, pulling it out and showing it to everyone. "It said to meet her in the rec room at 6:24!" She awkwardly glanced away. "I did go upstairs," she admitted. "But I swear I left before we were supposed to meet, since I already didn't trust her! I never killed anyone!"
"Ha!" snorted Jo. "As if! As if anyone would be that stupid to believe that!"
"I believe her," Dawn said simply.
"Wai-wha-?" Jo seemed too surprised to form words.
"Doesn't this seem to easy?" Dawn pointed out. "A note found on Heather that makes it out to be Gwen? When have these class trials ever been this easy?"
"And besides," Brick said. "Why would the killer leave such important evidence behind. Wouldn't they have tried to destroy it, so they wouldn't get accused?"
"E-exactly!" Gwen stammered. "I would at least be smart enough to do that!"
"What if it was a trap set by the killer?" Noah realized. "Something that would make it seem like Gwen had done it-!"
"I'm not done with this yet!" Jo interrupted.
"You're letting this go to early!" Jo snapped. "Gwen is the killer! I know she is!"
"I thought we already established that it was fake?!" Noah argued. "There's no way that Gwen killed Heather and Alejandro!"
Rebuttal Showdown!
"Are we really ignoring the cl/ue that Heather gave us before she died?!" Jo pointed out. "Gwen is pro/bably the killer!"
"We have to chase a/ny opportunity we get!" she ranted. "For all we kno/w she could be lying!"
Advancement!
"But there's no way that Gwen is the culprit," Noah pointed out. "No one would be that stupid to leave that sort of evidence lying around!"
"Who's to s/ay she isn't!" Jo gritted her teeth. "She could've just forgotten while she w/as inn the situation."
"But the note would mean she planned out the murder!" Noah said. "If so, she was completely prepared to kill and hide the evidence!"
"She adm/itted to it!" Jo yelled back. "She admitted to g/oing up to the third floor. That's means she must've killed Hea/ther while she was there-!"
"I'll cut that claim to pieces!" Noah contradicted.
Contradiction! Break! Verbal Bullet Used: Jo's Account
"Sorry, Jo," Noah said. "But your own account makes that claim impossible!"
"Huh?" Jo frowned. "What do you mean my own account?!"
"Exactly what I said," Noah continued. "Judging from your account, you said that Gwen came down from the at 6:15. Gwen couldn't have been around when Heather was killed because she had already left the floor before Heather even killed herself!"
"Y-yeah!" Gwen agreed. "I already told you that I went upstairs just to check it out and make Heather wasn't going to kill me. When I saw her take that gun, I got out of there-!"
"Heather… took the gun?" Dawn cut in, staring at her in surprise.
Gwen nodded. "Yeah," she said. "Noah and I already confirmed it by checking the sign-in sheet in the armory."
"And I checked the pistol," Mal said. "It was missing a bullet, so it was obviously the weapon that was used to kill Heather. And the weapon that killed Alejandro was the arcade machine, judging from the Monokuma File."
"Um… Sorry," apologized Lindsay. "But I'm confused. Why was everyone inside the arcade?"
"Maybe they wanted to do the same thing as Scott?" suggested Geoff. "Hide the bodies until they can create enough evidence to frame someone?"
"That would work," Dawn said. "It definitely worked against us during the last class trial. All they would need is some smarter evidence against one person and we would've fallen into their trap."
"That's means that Heather and Alejandro didn't expect to be killed!" said Brick, gritting his teeth.
"So, who killed them?" asked Sam.
"We'll get to that, Sam," insisted Noah. "However there is something I want to bring up right now." He took out his IDphone and showed them all a picture of one of the clues he and gathered.
Bridgette squinted to see it better. "Is that a handprint?" she asked.
Noah nodded. "I found it it inside one of the empty arcade machines," he explained. "I actually don't know where it could've come from."
"Maybe the person was hiding inside for Heather and Alejandro, and got out to kill them?" Sam suggested.
"Yeah, I guess that makes some sense," Noah muttered, before straightening himself. "But that would mean that someone was hiding in there before we all gathered in the arcade. So someone's lying about their alibi."
"Alibi?" questioned Lindsay.
"I asked Noah to take note of all the places where people were when the body discovery announcement went off," Dawn said. "If he had taken everyone's location, which I'm assuming he has, then someone was lying to him."
"Or someone just didn't tell him," growled Gwen, looking over at Mal's direction.
He chuckled. "Oh, are you talking about me," he responded, innocently. "Well, if you are then you're correct. Mike could've easily killed off both of them, without me knowing it, since we don't share our memories."
"Is this a confession?" Gwen's mouth turned up into a smile.
"Wait a minute," protested Geoff. "Mike and I were together during the body discovery announcement. We were in the dining hall!"
Noah glared at the party boy. "And you just forget to mention this until now?"
Geoff shrugged sheepishly. "Sorry I just forgot," he said with a grin.
"Also, there's the case of the Robotics Clubroom," Noah said, with his brow furrowed.
"Where I was?" Brick said nervously. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"The Robotics Clubroom is the closest room to the staircase that leads to the third room," noah pointed out. "They would've been the first person to come up to the third floor." Noah eyed Brick carefully. "So where were you?"
"I was shocked," he protested. "I didn't know what to do!"
"So that's why you wanted me to go to the medical center!" Sam realized. "You wanted to go and kill Heather and Alejandro!"
"Wait… what?" Noah thought.
Non-Stop Debate
"I swear," Brick said, freaking out. "I never killed anybody. I would never. It's against my morals!"
"Isn't that =strange=?" Mal drawled. "Someone who was supposed to be in the scene of the crime was apparently missing." He smirked. "I guess we have found our culprit."
"No one else was in that room," wondered Bridgette. "I was in the Gym looking around for Monokuma."
"I was in the bathhouse," exclaimed Jo.
"And I," Sam said. "Was in the medical center-!"
"No, that's wrong!" Noah contradicted.
Contradiction! Break! Verbal Bullet Used: Where People Were
"Sam?" Noah started. "Brick told me that you were in the Art Room? Why are you saying that you were in the medical center?"
Everyone turned to Sam, as sweat began to dribble down his forehead. "Um- Sorry, I actually meant that I was in the art room." He tried to laugh, but it instead came out as if he was choking.
"No." Noah looked away. "In all honesty, I remembered something that I find strange now."
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Flashback
Suddenly, Geoff, Bridgette, Brick, Jo, Gwen, and Mike dashed through the open doors, but froze at the sight before them.
"What the hell?" whispered Geoff staring at the bodies with wide eyes. "Who did this...?"
"Holy shit!" Sam said, gaping at the scene. "I thought someone could only kill two people."
End Flashback
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"Sam appeared out of nowhere, when everyone had gathered in the arcade," Noah narrowed his eyes. "I just don't get how he managed to look like he teleported into the room."
"What are you saying?" asked Brick. "S-sam couldn't have done this!"
"Yeah, Noah," Sam responded coolly. "I think you've gone a bit crazy after all this time. Of course you act like you know all of us, so you're already crazy." He barked a laugh.
"What if the arcade machine wasn't used as a way to ambush Heather and Alejandro?" Noah asked them, ignoring Brick and Sam. "What if-?!"
"-it was used to hide from us when we entered the room?!" Dawn covered her mouth. "That would mean that all they would have to do is get out and blend in with the crowd when they came in!"
Jo raised an eyebrow. "Isn't this all a bit far-fetched?" she asked.
"Yeah…" Sam said, taking a deep breath. "You're all obviously fucking crazy!"
Brick looked surprised. "Sam…?"
"There's no proof that I was in the arcade machine aside from Noah's point of view!" Sam reasoned loudly. "He's obviously fucking crazy! He's just trying to frame me! There's no fucking proof that I was inside that arcade machine-!"
"No that's wrong!" Noah said.
Contradiction! Break! Verbal Bullet Used: Handprint
"Sam," Noah said. "If we compared that handprint to yours, are you sure that it wouldn't match?" He smirked. "Would you like to test it out!?"
Sam's expression suddenly darkened as Brick stared at his friend in worry. "Sam..?" he said, tentatively. "He's lying right…?"
"Fine." Sam locked eyes with Noah. "I was the one who killed Alejandro by pushing that arcade machine onto him. But only Alejandro."
"Only…?" Noah's eyes widened.
"The person who killed Heather was…" Sam pointed to he person in question. "It was Bridgette!"
Immediately, chaos ensued.
"Don't you dare accuse my girlfriend, you murderer!" snapped Geoff, fury blazing in his eyes.
"If I'm going down…" Sam swore. "Then I'm not going to die while she gets to live!"
"Your lying!" yelled Geoff, shielding Bridgette from view.
"Or is he?" Dawn said, thoughtfully.
Geoff turned on her. "Don't you dare say that," he hissed.
"Sorry," she apologized. "But we still haven't figured out who triggered the first body discovery announcement."
"Oh, yeah," Lindsay said. "Now speak up! Who did this sort of thing?"
Dawn ignored Lindsay and instead turned to Monokuma. "How… precise is your rule Monokuma?" she asked, eyeing the bear.
Monokuma shrugged. "It's exactly as I say it," he said, his paw in his nose. "I only announce the body discovery announcement when exactly three people find the body in question, not including the guy who actually killed the person who was found."
Dawn nodded and thanked Monokuma.
"Was was that supposed to do?' asked Gwen, arching her eyebrow.
"It was supposed to clear up something," Dawn insisted. "The fact that only the murderer counted when finding bodies. If there was another murderer who found another murderer's body, then he would count along with the other two people!"
"Um… what?" Jo said, bewildered.
Noah sighed. "Basically a murderer would count for i person as long as it's not the person they killed that they found." He frowned suddenly. "Which means that Alejandro was technically the first person to find the body followed, probably by Sam, and then someone else."
"And how does that logic prove that my girlfriends killed someone!?" scowled Geoff.
"Because there are two killers. One for Heather and another Alejandro," realized Noah. "Gwen remember the sign-out sheet we found on the sign-in sheet at the armory?"
Gwen nodded. "Yeah," she said. "I remember finding it weird because technically Heather was the one who signed the gun, but she somehow returned it after her death."
"What if someone else sighed it out for her?" suggested Noah. "Then they would be able to hide the gun, effectively hiding away the weapon they used to kill Heather!"
"I-is that allowed?" Bridgette stammered out.
Monokuma nodded. "Yep. Only the person who took out the gun has to sign their own name and the time the signed the gun out. If someone else returned it, then it's completely fine!"
"About the sign-out time," Noah said. "It's too close to the time that we found the bodies. Meaning that if Sam was inside the arcade machine then someone would have to return that gun to the armory!"
"And how does that point to me?!" Bridgette gritted her teeth.
"As with Sam, I noticed something strange about you too," Noah said.
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Flashback
"Well…" Bridgette pondered, tugging on her wet shorts. "I did find this." She handed Noah a small paper. He took it and widened his eyes.
Flashback End
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"Your shorts were wet," Noah pointed out. "How did they get like that?"
"U-uh," Bridgette's eyes flickered from Geoff and Noah. "I-I slipped on the wet floor when running over to the arcade with everyone else!"
"But the that wet floor only extends near the entrance to the arcade to the aquarium," Noah pointed out. "There's no reason for you to have slipped on the water outside!"
"Bridgette," Gwen's voice sounded hurt. "You were the only one who I told about the letter I got from Heather."
"I did leave you for a couple of seconds," Jo realized. "You could've easily planted that note, while I wasn't looking!"
Bridgette opened her mouth to respond, but Geoff started to yell at Noah. "You shut up! Bridgette had nothing to do with this!" He looked at everyone else. "I swear Bridgette had nothing to do with this-!"
"No, that's wrong!" Noah cut in.
Contradiction! Break! Verbal Bullet Used: Bridgette's Analysis
"Bridgette," Noah said sadly, turning his head away from her. "I'm pretty sure that if we compare the note, the sign-out time for Heather's gun with the paper that you wrote your analysis on, the handwriting would be nearly the same."
"Wait a minute…" Bridgette started to say.
"Well let's start the vote!" Monokuma said, getting ready to pull his giant lever.
"Wait!" Geoff yelled at the bear, causing him to stop. "I want to know what really happened."
"I-it was in self-defense!" Bridgette said, quickly tears streaming down her face.
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"Self-defense?" asked Dawn.
Sam nodded. "Heather and Alejandro…" he hesitated. "They were probably going to kill us if we didn't kill them first…"
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Flashback
"What are you guys doing?" screamed Bridgette, staring at the dead body of Izzy, with Heather and Alejandro nearby.
"Y-you killed?" stammered Sam, unable to tear his eyes off Izzy's body.
Heather held up her gun and pointed it at the two. "Back up!" she screamed, forcefully. "I'll kill you both!"
"Ding Dong!" Monokuma's voice rang through the intercom. "A body has been found! After a set period of time, a class trial will begin.
Alejandro looked confused. "How's that possible? There are only three people here-Urk!" He couldn't finish his sentence as Sam pushed an arcade machine onto the Latino teenager crushing him to death.
"Al-!" Heather was about to race up to him, before a bullet smacked into her head, caused by Bridgette who had stolen her gun when she wasn't looking.
Bridgette and Sam exchanged looks, before Bridgette raced out of the room. Sam quickly looked around and found an empty arcade machine in which he stuffed himself into.
Flashback End
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"We just heard something strange and went up to check," Sam insisted, sadly. "We didn't mean to kill them…"
"That's very sad," Monokuma said, showing fake sympathy. "Now let's begin the vote!"
"Wait," Mal said, looking confused. "There are two culprits. How is this even going to work?"
Monokuma shrugged. "You vote for one of them I guess. If both of them get equal votes then I'll just execute them both!"
"No," Geoff glared at the bear. "I'm not going to send my girlfriend to her death. I refuse to vote!"
"Yeah!" Brick gritted his teeth. "I refuse to vote for my friend!"
"Oh?" Monokuma looked over at the others. "What about you guys?"
Gwen looked away. "Bridgette's my friend," she said. "Even though she tried to frame me, she was just scared. She doesn't deserve to die."
Jo shrugged. "They say they killed in self-defense," she said. "I don't think they deserve to die if they were already going to die."
Noah snorted. "Sorry, but Jo's right here. No one deserves to die. Heather and Alejandro got what came to them!"
"I just don't want anymore people to die anymore," Lindsay said, holding her head in frustration.
Mal shrugged. "I guess I'll just go with the majority," he said, with smile.
"I'm not going to let anyone else die," Dawn said, determinedly.
Monokuma shrugged. "Fine, then," he said, checking his imaginary watch. "Voting polls are done, so let's check out the results!" He pulled the lever as the giant flat screen slid ever so quietly out of its slot on the ceiling. It turned on to the strange video of the slot machine. The reels quickly started to spin before the came to rest on one face.
The face was Sam.
The reels started to spin again, before once again coming to rest on another face.
This face was Bridgette's.
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"But I thought… no one voted," Noah couldn't even speak.
Monokuma tilted his head innocently. "Well it looks like one of you voted for Sam, while another one voted Bridgette. So that's one vote for each murderer."
"Who the fuck was it?" Geoff screamed.
The bear shrugged. "Sorry. I like to keep the votes private if you don't mind."
Sam turned away, and closed his eyes trying not to show his feelings.
Bridgette instead turned to Geoff and held out her arm. "Geoff!" she yelled, tears silently flowing down her eyes.
"Bridge!" Geoff reached out his hand to meet hers.
They never met.
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Monokuma's Double Execution Extravaganza!
Execution: Vegetarian Sushi
Bridgette found herself tied up head to toe by chains, slowly moving down a conveyor belt. She attempted to struggle, but it was impossible.
A pair of robotic arms came down from the ceiling as the conveyor belt stopped moving Bridgette right when she was under them. The hands picked up some sticky rice and slowly started to roll her body in the sticky rice. She opened her mouth the scream, before the hands stuffed some rice down her mouth making her unable to speak.
The hands slowly continued to cover her until nothing of her could be seen, aside from her blonde ponytail. The robotic hands grabbed a giant piece of seaweed and started to wrap Bridgette in it. Muffled screams could be heard coming from inside the rice, as the hands slowly wrapped the dish in seaweed. After they were done, they set the wrapped Bridgette down, before the conveyor belt started up again taking her away.
Inside the rice, Bridgette managed to spit out the rice in her mouth a create a hole in which she could see shadows through the seaweed. Sweat dribbled along her face, as she watched shadows of various knives and forks pass above her, before she felt the conveyor stop. A shadow moved into her point of view, that seemed to be wearing a sort of cowboy hat that looked a lot like Geoff's from her point. Her face stretched into a smile, thinking her boyfriend had come to save her, just before she felt a sharp pain in her legs.
Outside the giant sushi roll, a robot that bore Monokuma's face and wore Geoff's hat, began to cut up the sushi roll, ignoring the cries of pain coming from within. His hands became a blur as he chopped up the sushi roll, before it stopped, the giant roll now presented as individual pieces of sushi on a wooden slab with Bridgette's ponytail on the side as a decoration.
The robot picked up the sushi and sonly backed up and exited through a door. It found itself in a dining room, where Monokuma was the only guest. It walked over there and placed the meal in front of the bear, before bowing and backing away.
Picking up his chopsticks, Monokuma grabbed a piece of the sushi and dipped it into a small cup of soy sauce. In slow motion, he raised the sushi to his mouth and dropped it in. He chewed with a sadistic look on his face, as if he was enjoying the food.
Execution: Super Sam Bros.
Sam slowly opened his eyes to find himself on a grassy plain, with a fake cardboard cutout of a castle in the background. A couple of strange blocks floated in the air, with a couple the had a question mark plastered on it. A strange enemy that looked like a mushroom that had Monokuma's face on it, slowly walked from side to side.
A smirk slowly grew on Sam's face when he realized where he was. However, before he could move, he heard something extremely large stomp up from behind him. He turned around to see a giant Monokuma gnash it's teeth at Sam, before roaring.
Without wasting another second, Sam dashed forward and jumped on the strange walking mushroom, flattening it, before it disappeared with a small pop.
Sam quickly ran through the course with the giant Monokuma following him right on his heels. Sam continued to run, jumping over green pipes and killing off the strange mushroom enemies. Sweat dribbled down his face as he continued to run, with the hope of winning the level.
He reached the end, where he climbed up a staircase made up of brick and stared at his goal, a tall flagpole with a flag that had Monokuma's head stitched into it, waving in the wind. However it was on the other end of a giant gap, with nothing but an empty darkness inside.
Hearing the giant Monokuma behind him, Sam slowly took a few steps back, before bursting into a run before jumping, sailing high over the inky black darkness.
A smile stretched across Sam's face, as he soared across the sky. He was so close to beating the level. All he had to do was touch the flagpole and-
Bang!
A sudden pain sparked through Sam's head as he was suddenly pushed backward and into the darkness of the abyss. His face was the of pure horror as he slowly lost consciousness. The last thing he saw was a giant gaping maw enveloping him and leaving him blind.
As the giant Monokuma fell into the abyss below, after eating Sam, Monokuma watched the entire scene from the safety of his tower. In his hand, was a handgun and he seemed to be laughing silently.
Executed: Bridgette and Sam
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Geoff looked shell-shocked. "Bridgette…" he said. "You… killed her…"
Monokuma eyed him. "Yeah? So what?"
"Geoff…" Dawn attempted to place a hand on him, in an attempt to calm him down.
"Stay away!" he suddenly yelled, slapping away Dawn's hand. He suddenly turned around, tears flowing down his face with his teeth clenched.
"Geoff…?" Lindsay looked suddenly freaked out.
"I swear," Geoff said, clenching his fist in front of his face. "I swear I'll kill whoever voted for Bridgette to die. And I swear I'll be to one to murder them and Monokuma!"
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"Where's Geoff?" asked Noah, sitting on the bench at the bathhouse. He was typing on the laptop that contained Alter Gwen, asking her a few questions. Dawn was standing nearby, waiting for him to finish.
Jo sighed sighed as she walked in with Mal, Lindsay and Gwen following close behind her. "The wimp doesn't seem to want to leave his room," she scowled. "Even Brick is in his room. Thought he was stronger than that…"
"Um… excuse me?" Alter Gwen spoke up. "I have something else that might be of note to you all."
"Can't you see that we're mourning!" snapped Gwen. Noah typed in Gwen's response, editing it so it would seem more polite.
"Sorry," said Alter Gwen, without faltering. "But it's really important. It's something… something that the headmaster wrote himself."
"What is it?" Noah typed.
"It's about the group I told you all about. Ultimate Despair." That got everyone's attention as they stared at the AI in interest. "Apparently, there are some Ultimate Despair members inside this school."
"What?!" Lindsay yelped. "You mean those evil people who destroyed the world?!"
"We don't know if they really did destroy the world," Mal pointed out.
"I've already tried to search through the rest of the laptop to find out who they are, but there isn't anymore information as far as this," Alter Gwen continued. "But that's the lsat of which I could find on this."
"It's fine," Dawn typed, pushing Noah aside. "You've tried your best."
Alter Gwen nodded and smiled.
"Well, if that's all," Jo said, yawning. "I'm going to go to sleep. Today's been a long day… for all of us." She left the bathhouse.
Lindsay seemed to be on the verge of tears, as she left with Gwen following her hands shaking her sides.
Mal smiled. "Well I've got some business to attend to," he said. "I wish you all good night." He walked out, humming a merry tune.
"Good night,' Noah said, before turning to leave. However Dawn grabbed onto his arm.
"Noah," she reminded. "Remember, the thing I had to show you?"
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"The third floor bathrooms, huh?" mused Noah, walking up the stairs to the third floor. "Is that why she was inside those bathrooms during the investigation?" Noah walked towards the bathroom and opened the door, only to find the same design as the rest of the school.
"What did she say?" he muttered. "Inside the last stall and click the hidden button?" He made his way over to the last stall and pushed it open, to find an ordinary school bathroom stall facing him. Quickly, he searched the wall for a hidden button and found a bulge near the corner, before pressing it.
To his surprised the back wall skid open to reveal a small room with a wooden desk and chair. In the back was a bookshelf with a bunch of different books and papers all stacked on the shelves looking extremely unorganized.
Noah took a tentative step into the room and looked around in awe. "Is this…?" He couldn't finish his question as he was hit with a sudden pain in his head.
"I know what I must do…"
"I must stay here…"
"In order to preserve hope, I must stay in here along with my other classmates."
Noah blinked as the sudden pain subsided. "What was that?' he wondered.
Just then, two things happened at once. First, Noah managed to spot a small student profile left out on the open on the table. He could only read the name, "Cameron," before he felt something hit his head, effectively knocking him out.
The last thing he saw before he blacked out, was a person wearing a Monokuma-like mask over his head and holding a small baton.
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When Noah woke up, he found himself on the floor of the room he had walked into. He got up and looked around, only to find that all the books and papers were missing from the bookshelf.
His head still woozy from the blow it had received, he trudged out of the room and down the three flights of stairs. He was in the process of heading to his room, before he heard a couple of voices coming from the gymnasium.
His curiosity piqued, he slowly made his way over to the doors and listened in.
"-so you've decided to betray me huh?" Monokuma spat.
"Yes." Another voice that sounded familiar to Noah, but he couldn't place due to the fact that he had just hit his head. "I know for a fact that this hand was used to kill one of my friends."
"So?' drawled Monokuma. "What are you going to do about it? You are a traitor after all." Noah's eyes widened at this.
"I promise…" the voice said. "I promise that I'll fight against you!"
Alive- Noah, Dawn, Gwen, Geoff, Mike, Brick, Lindsay, Jo
Dead- Katie, Lightning, Sadie, Zoey, Anne Maria, Sierra, Cody, Trent, Duncan, Courtney, Scott, Heather, Izzy, Alejandro, DJ, Bridgette, Sam
Survivors: 8
I'm soooo sorry for killing off two people… :(
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HA! Got you didn't I?!
Interestingly enough, originally Sam was going to be the only murderer and Bridgette was just going to be a victim. I changed it to make it WAY better. :D
Judging from the reviews, I'm guessing a lot of you didn't see this coming, huh? Also which execution was your favorite? Bridgette or Sam's? And who do you think is the traitor?
Reviews and constructive criticism are appreciated!
Now I'm going to go enjoy some sushi! ;D