This was a lot of fun to write. There's a lot of Duke, Tristan, and Serenity in this one. Hope you guys enjoy!
Players: Yugi - Blue. Joey - Yellow. Tristan - Black. Tea - Pink. Duke - Red. Bakura - White. Mokuba - Dark Green. Mai - Purple. Serenity - Orange. Noah - Light Green.
Map: Mira HQ
"Alright guys, we're shaking things up a little!" Tea said. "This time, we're going to be playing with Proximity Chat!"
"What's that?" Serenity asked.
"It's still the same game, but this time instead of being muted, we can talk to each other outside of meetings, but only if you're next to someone else," Tea explained.
"Oh, I get it."
"Why do I have a feeling this is only going to generate more chaos?" Mai asked.
"That's the entire point," Mokuba said. "We need to spice things up a little."
"I'm ready to try it out," Bakura said.
"Hey, I thought Florence was playing with us this time," Duke asked. He clearly remembered Bakura saying something like that last time.
"He's… uh… not in the mood today. He'll play next time, I promise," Bakura said.
"Maybe I can get Seto to join us again. He can never say no to me," Mokuba said with a chuckle. "Anyways, are we all here?"
"I am!" Yugi said. "And to add on to you guys, I'll have Yami join us again next time."
"…What can possibly go wrong?" Noah asked. "Anyways, can you start the game Tea?"
"Sure, is everyone's settings correct?" After getting everyone's response, the countdown began. "Alright, and we're playing on Mira again, so good luck."
Duke watched as the game began and the screen showed him as a crewmate with everyone else. Unlike the previous games, he could hear people talking as the map appeared.
"Okay, we're beginning!" Joey said. "I'm totally an imposter guys, so stay away from me!" There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Oh, I'm so scared," Mai said as she ran down with a few others, who were talking amongst themselves. Duke ran over and started his gas task. Once he filled up the tank, he ran down and into the hallway. "Okay… where's Serenity? I feel safe when I'm with her."
"Duke?" Duke's character stopped at hearing the new voice. A second later, Tristan's character ran up to him. "What did you just say?"
"I said that I'm looking for Serenity," Duke said.
"Well, what if I'm looking for Serenity too?" Tristan asked.
"Well too bad, I'm finding her first!" Duke said as he ran into Medbay, with Tristan following him. Yugi was on the scanner when they got inside.
"Uh oh, are either of you here to kill me?" Yugi asked. "Can you at least let me finish my scan first?"
"I'm not gonna, I'm only looked for Serenity," Duke said. "And she's not here, so I'm out. See ya!" Duke then ran out of Medbay and into the hallway again.
"Hey, you're not gonna find her first! Not if I kill you first!" Tristan yelled.
"I knew it! You're gonna kill me!" Duke said as he ran down into the cafeteria. As he did so, the Reactor alarm started going off. "Oh come on! He's going to kill me!"
Before he knew it, Duke found himself being chased around the table by Tristan. The entire time, he had been yelling for someone to turn off the Reactor so he could call a meeting. Tea then ran up from the Weapons task.
"Uh… what are you two doing? Why aren't you fixing the Reactor?" she asked.
"He's gonna kill me and then go after Serenity!" Duke exclaimed.
"Actually…" Tristan stopped by the button. "I'm not, I just wanted to scare you into leaving me and Serenity alone. I don't have the ability to kill."
Duke was silent for a second as the alarm finally stopped. As soon as it did, Duke hit the button and called an emergency meeting.
"Oh, someone killed Noah," Bakura said as he saw his character x'ed out.
"Alright, we're all going to vote Tristan out right now," Duke said.
"What!?" Tristan exclaimed.
"Why? Did you see him vent or kill or something?" Mai asked.
"No, but he threatened to, and that's good enough for me." As soon as the voting began, Duke placed his vote for Tristan.
"Wait, wait, let me explain," Tristan started. "Duke and I were both trying to find Serenity, and I said I would kill him as a joke, but I can't kill, and now he wants to vote me out over it!"
"Wait a sec, why are you two looking for my sis?" Joey asked.
"Isn't it obvious? I need to protect her from the imposters," Duke said. "I let her die before, and I'm not going to have it happen again!"
"Well, the fact that you let her die in the first place means I should be the one protecting her," Tristan said.
"No way!"
"Alright you two! Enough!" Tea said. "You two can figure that out on your own, but if there's nothing else to say, then I'm skipping!" Tea said as she placed her vote.
"Was there even a point to this meeting?" Mokuba asked.
"We can try to make a point. Did anyone see Noah last?" Bakura asked.
"No, Joey and I went up to Reactor when it started going off. We didn't see him at all," Yugi said. A few others placed their votes.
"Serenity, who do you want to be your bodyguard?" Tristan asked.
"What are you trying to do?" Duke asked.
"How about we let Serenity decide who she wants to protect her?" Tristan asked.
"…Um," Serenity started saying.
"Here's an idea, how about neither of you!" Joey said.
"And how are you gonna stop us?" Duke asked. "…Unless you're the imposter."
"I'm not," Joey said as he placed his vote. "But hey, if I vote one of you out, then that means you two can't fight over Serenity."
"Now wait a sec!" Duke started.
"Anyways, I've had enough of this meeting," Mai said as she placed her vote. The final tally was Duke and Joey voting for Tristan and everyone else voting to skip.
"Oh come on!" Tristan exclaimed. "Even you Joey?"
"I'm watching you two!" He exclaimed as the next round began.
As a few of them ran off while chatting with each other, Duke and Tristan ran over to Serenity. "Hey, Serenity, over here!" Duke said as he ran towards the Weapons task. Serenity and Tristan both followed him.
"What's up?" she asked.
"Who do you want to be your bodyguard, me or Tristan?" Duke asked. "Think about this carefully."
"Pick me," Tristan said.
Serenity walked in between them and Duke could hear her giggling a little. "How about both of you be my bodyguards," she suggested.
"…Fine, I guess we can work with that," Duke said. He then saw that he had the Weapons task, and decided to knock it out since he was here. "Can I do this task first?"
"Sure," Serenity said.
"Get it done quick! Someone could come in here and kill us!" As soon as he finished speaking, the lights went off. "Aahh! Serenity! Are you still here!?"
"I am!" she replied.
Duke shot the last asteroid and exited the task. "Serenity, Tristan, are you guys still here?"
"Still here!" Serenity said.
"Same!" Tristan said a second later. After another second, the lights came back on. "Okay, we're all still here."
"I'm going to lights!" Serenity said as she started running back up to Cafeteria. "Follow me you two!"
"Coming Serenity!" Both Duke and Tristan said. As they reached the top of Cafeteria, Bakura ran past them.
"Hello!" He said.
"Hey, keep away from the girl!" Duke said. "We're protecting her, and we're not going to let you kill her!"
"Oh, well I can't anyway," Bakura said as he ran away from the trio.
"Alright Serenity, we were heading up to lights?" Duke asked.
"Yep!" Serenity said as the trio ran into the hallway, up and into Electrical. Once they arrived at the lights panel, the three ran around Electrical.
"Alright, we're up here, so what do we do now?" Tristan asked. As soon as Tristan asked his question, Bakura came running back into Electrical.
"Hey! You can't come any further!" Duke said. He and Tristan stood between Serenity and Bakura. "You're not allowed anywhere near Serenity!"
"I'm not going to do any-" Bakura was in the middle of talking when a body was reported.
"You weren't going to do what?" Duke asked.
"I was going to say anything," he finished.
"…Do I want to know what's going on with you guys?" Tea asked. "Anyways, I found Yugi's body in the hallway under Decontamination."
"I can clear myself, Tristan, and Serenity for this kill. We were together the entire round," Duke said. "And none of you better think of trying to kill Serenity because me and Tristan are her bodyguards!"
"Bodyguards, both of you!?" Joey exclaimed.
"…Really, is there anything you two won't do for her?" Mai asked.
Both Duke and Tristan were silent. "…Not for me!" Duke finally said.
"Hey, I was just about to say that!" Tristan exclaimed.
"Guys! Yugi's body was dead by Decontamination! I think we have more important things to talk about rather than Serenity's bodyguards!" Tea said.
"In that case, I say Bakura is the guilty one! He tried to attack Serenity this round!" Tristan said. "Duke and Serenity are both hard cleared, and Bakura…"
"I told you I wasn't going to do anything," Bakura said.
"Right," Duke said.
"I don't believe you," Tristan added.
"…Okay, so from what I'm gathering from the 'informative' meeting is that the killer is either Joey, Mokuba, or Mai," Tea said.
"It ain't me! I'd never kill Yug like that!" Joey said. "I think it was Mokuba!"
"No way, I was in the Office and Oxygen this whole round doing tasks," he replied. I saw Duke, Serenity, and Tristan passing me and going into lights, and then Bakura joined them a moment later."
"Then where were you, Mai?" Tea asked.
"I was in Reactor, however, Yugi was leaving Reactor when I last saw him. Someone was waiting for him at the bottom of Decontamination. How do we know this isn't a self-report, Tea?"
"It's not a self-report, and I'm suspicious of you Mai since you were near Yugi last."
"You're wasting your time, hon," Mai replied as she placed her vote.
"Well, I'm confused. Between this and the whole bodyguard thing going on, I have no idea what's going on," Mokuba said as he also placed his vote.
"Serenity, who are you voting for?" Duke asked.
"We'll vote with you," Tristan said. Duke could hear Joey sighing.
"I'm actually going to skip," Serenity said as she placed her vote. Duke quickly placed his vote to skip, and he saw Tristan placing his vote as well.
"…At this rate we're never going to find out who the imposters are," Bakura said.
"If anyone attacks Serenity, then we'll know," Duke said.
"Right!" Tristan added.
"…So we're not going to talk about Yugi's death anymore? Is that it?" Tea asked. "Bakura's right. We're all gonne die."
"Everyone except us and most importantly Serenity!" Duke said.
"…I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to be finishing my tasks," Mokuba said as he placed his vote.
"I'd like to have a talk with you two 'bodyguards'," Joey said as he placed his vote. The final tally was one vote for Mai, one vote for Tea, and the rest voting to skip.
"Great meeting guys," Tea said, sarcasm in her voice. "We'll let someone else die before we figure out who the imposter is."
As the next round started, Duke and Tristan ran back over to Serenity. "Alright, where are we going next? Lead the way, Serenity!" Duke exclaimed.
"You three are staying right here!" Joey said as he ran over to the group. "I'm going to be the bodyguard protecting my little sis from her 'bodyguards'," Joey said. "You three aren't going anywhere under my watch!"
"Oh come on man," Tristan said. "We're not going to hurt her. I'm not an imposter." Tristan then turned to Duke. "You're not an imposter, are you?"
"No, I'm not."
"Good." As soon as Tristan spoke, Duke saw Serenity run towards the supply closet, and he chased down after her. "Hey, where are you going? Where's Serenity?"
"She ran in here!" Duke said as he ran into the supply closet. Within a second later, he found Serenity at the end. "Hey, what are you doing back here?"
"This is where the watering can is, right?" she said. Tristan and Joey ran inside and met up with them.
"Oh… yeah," Duke said. "Well anyways, we'll all be safe in here… unless there's an imposter among us." As soon as he finished his sentence, the lights started going off.
"Uh oh! Is everyone still here?" Tristan asked.
"I'm still here!" Duke said.
"If any of us die, then we know at least four prime suspects," Tristan said.
"You mean three suspects!" Joey said. "I still don't trust any of you, and I know I'm not an imposter!"
"Well then, we're just going to have to… wait, Serenity? Are you in here?" Duke asked. There was no answer. "Serenity?"
The lights came back on, and Duke, Tristan, and Joey were the only ones in the Storage room. "Hey, where did she go?" Tristan asked.
"You two must have drove her away!" Joey said. "If she ends up being dead, I'm going to personally ask the imposters to kill you two next!"
"We'll find her!" Duke said as he ran out of the room. Tristan and Joey were close behind. Duke ran down to the Weapons area and looked around. "I can't find her in here," he shouted. He ran back up in the cafeteria, where he saw Tristan running around.
"She's not in here!" Tristan said. As soon as Duke and Tristan were about to head north, a body was reported. As the meeting started, Duke breathed a sigh of relief.
"Serenity! You're alive! Thank God!" Duke said.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry I left you guys-" As Serenity spoke, Mai and Tea both interrupted her.
"It's Mai! Vote her out! She just killed Mokuba!" Tea yelled.
"No, it was Tea all along! She was just trying to get everybody off her trail, but she self-reported all of the bodies she found," Mai said.
"I saw her kill! She killed up at the Greenhouse! I was already suspicious of her for the previous kills, but now I know for sure it's her!" Tea said again.
"No it isn't! You thought you could be clever by self-reporting and trying to shift the blame to others, but it isn't going to work!" Mai said.
"I was literally talking to Mokuba asking him if Kaiba will ever play another game with us, and he died before he could answer," Tea said. "And I saw you running away within the corner of my eye as you did!"
"Well too bad we can't ask Mokuba if that's true or not," Bakura said.
"We weren't near any of this, Tristan, Serenity, Joey and I were all in the Storage closet and the Cafeteria this whole round, even when the lights went out," Duke said. "But we did lose Serenity at one point…"
"Not important right now! We need to vote Tea out!" Mai said as she placed her vote, most likely for Tea.
"No, we need to vote Mai out!" Tea said as she placed her vote, most likely for Mai.
"Well great, now were at a stalemate here, and you two are distracting me from not only doing my tasks, but figuring out who the imposters are," Joey said. "How about you two stay away from my sis and we can beat this game?"
"Why, so you can kill her?" Tristan asked.
"Man, betrayed by her own brother," Duke said. "Just another reason why she needs our bodyguard services!"
"Will you two stop it already!?" Tea asked. "Mai literally killed in the middle of my conversation with Mokuba!"
"No, Tea's the one who killed!" Mai said.
Bakura could be heard groaning. "Alright, I'm voting for Mai just because Tea's story sounds more believable," he said as he placed his vote.
"What!?" Mai shouted. "No way you're voting for me when it isn't!"
"Well, I just did," Bakura said back. "Now we're just waiting for all of you guys."
"Well, I was making sure these two behaved, so I have no idea who it could be, but I also don't want to vote for Mai so…" Joey said, and he placed his vote.
"Thank you, Joey," Mai said sweetly.
"Oh now wait a second, when you do something for someone you love, it's fine, but when we do something for someone we love, it's a bad thing?" Tristan asked. He then placed his vote after a second pause. "In that case, I'll vote your sweetheart out!"
"Hey!" Joey exclaimed.
"God, this is a disaster. Serenity, Duke, what are you two going to do?" Tea asked.
Duke placed a hand on his head, trying to think of what to do. He knew he already did this once before, but he couldn't think of another option. "I'm going with whatever Serenity wants."
"Really!?" Joey exclaimed.
"Serenity hasn't even had a real chance to speak!" Tristan said. "Serenity, who do you think it is?"
"Um… I have no idea to be honest," she said with a small laugh. "I'm going to skip," she said as she placed her vote.
"Alright, I'm skipping too," Duke said as he placed his vote to skip. The final tally was Serenity and Duke skipping, Joey and Mai voting for Tea, and Tea, Tristan, and Bakura voting for Mai.
"This game is so stupid, but at least we got an imposter out," Tea said.
Mai could be heard sighing. "We're all going to lose," she said as she fell through the air. As the next level began, Joey spoke up.
"Can the imposters kill either Duke or Tristan next?" he asked as Tea and Bakura ran out of Cafeteria and into the hallway.
"Hey! You said you wouldn't do that unless Serenity ended up dead," Tristan said.
"I'm done with this bodyguard nonsense. The only person who will protect my little sis will be me, and that's final!" Joey said.
"Guys," Serenity said. "How about we go up to the office, and we can talk about things up there, I have a few tasks in there."
"…I don't think I've done any of my tasks," Tristan said.
"I've only done a few," Duke said, looking at his task list.
"At this rate, we'll never get a task win," Joey said as the group ran up the hallway and into the office, when they got in there, Serenity ran up to Admin table, and the others gathered around her. Suddenly, the lights started to go out.
"Uh oh, Serenity, are you still here?" Duke asked.
"Yeah, I am," Serenity replied.
"I'm going to fix the lights this time," Tristan said. Duke couldn't see Tristan running across the hall into lights, but he trusted him this one time.
And now he had some alone time with Serenity, except for…
"Aw man," Joey said. That was all Duke heard from him before the lights slowly came back on, revealing that Duke and Serenity were still in the Admin room…
…And Joey's dead body was next to Serenity.
Duke's eyes widened a little. "…Oh," was all he could say.
"Alright, I'm back, what did I… oh," Tristan said when he came back from fixing the lights. Serenity started giggling a little.
"Um… okay, uh… This changes things," Duke said.
"Duke, I think our client isn't who she says she is," Tristan said.
"Yeah, you think?" Duke said. "Though that does explain why the kills were slow this game."
"Wait, was Mai the other imposter or something?" Tristan asked.
"Yeah, she was," Serenity answered.
"Sooooo," Duke drew out. "How are we gonna do this now?"
"Well, we're already committed this round, so we might as well-"
Suddenly, Bakura ran up to them. "Guys?" And a second later, Duke watched Serenity lunge and kill Bakura.
"I… don't know what we should do now," Tristan said. A second later, Tea came running up towards the group, and paused when she saw what was going on.
"Uh, you guys mind telling me why there are two dead bodies on the floor and neither of them are being reported?"
"Uh, funny story actually," Duke said. One of the bodies was reported, and the meeting began.
"Well if none of you will report the bodies, then I will. The imposter is one of you guys, and now I need to figure out which one of you it is," Tea said.
Duke, Tristan and Serenity were all silent for a few seconds. Finally, Tristan spoke up. "I think Duke and I need to have a discussion with our client here."
"What?" Tea asked.
"Yeah, nothing against you Tea, but the three of us need to be the last ones standing. It's… official bodyguard business," Duke said.
"Bodyguard business? Really?" Tea said. "From the way you two are acting, I feel like you guys know more than what you're saying."
"I mean… we kind of do?" Tristan said. Serenity could be heard laughing a little.
"And you kept it from us this entire time, didn't you?" Tea asked.
"Well, we actually didn't know until this round," Duke said truthfully. "Though I did have this feeling in the back of my mind for a while…"
"Yeah, and like I said before, the three of us need to talk about where to go from here so…" Tristan then placed his vote.
"Wait, who did you vote for?" Duke asked.
"I voted for Tea," Tristan replied.
"What!?"
"…Alright, I will too," Duke said as he placed his vote for Tea.
"Wait a second, what's going on!?" Tea asked. "Why am I getting votes all of a sudden. All I asked was why you guys we're reporting the bodies. And I helped get Mai out, and she was the other imposter! Otherwise, the game would have been over!"
"Oh, we all know you're not the other imposter Tea," Tristan said. "I'm really sorry it came down to this but…"
"But what?" Tea asked as Serenity placed her vote. "Wait, did all three of you vote for me?"
"I voted for you," Serenity said. "I think you should place your vote, since you're not going to be winning this round. I'm really sorry."
"I'm so confused here, but it doesn't even matter, does it?" Tea said. I've still got about thirty seconds; you guys have that amount of time to explain what is going on!"
"Ummmmmm…" Duke said, trying to let the time run out.
"Well?" Tea asked. "I'm waiting."
"Sooooo…" Tristan started saying, also trying to run the timer out.
"…I'm not going to get any kind of explanation, am I?" Tea said. She placed her vote with the final tally was Tea voting for Serenity, and everyone else voting for Tea.
"Alright, so Serenity is the other imposter and we've been protecting her this whole time. We didn't find out until this last round, and now the three of us need to have a serious discussion about what to do now. I'm sure you understand why we need to vote you out, right?" Duke asked.
"…You guys suck," Was all Tea said as she fell through the sky. As the next round began, Duke, Tristan, and Serenity stood next to the meeting table.
"Alright, so where do we go from here?" Duke asked. "I mean, we could try to finish our tasks and get a crew win, or we can let Serenity kill one of us so she can get the imposter win."
"I think it's only fair that since we protected her from nothing, and we neglected our tasks, we don't deserve to have a victory," Tristan said. "We'll let Serenity win this round."
"Really, but I only killed two people," Serenity said.
"Yeah, but because we were always around you, Mai had to do most of the killing all by herself, so we kind of messed up your imposter game as well," Duke said.
"You two really are something," Joey could be heard saying.
"Hey, last I checked you're dead!" Duke said as Joey muted again.
"I could kill one of you two, my cooldown is done, but I don't know which one of you I should kill," Serenity said.
"You can kill Duke, then we'll be the only survivors," Tristan said.
"What? No, kill Tristan! Then we can go away together and start a new life, a crewmate and his killer lover," Duke said.
"That sounds stupid," Tristan said.
"And you two would be any better?" Duke said.
"Guys," Serenity said. "I know what we can do!" One second later, the Reactor alarm started going off. "Follow me!"
Serenity ran up the hallway, with Duke and Tristan following behind. They ran up and down the left hallway, past Communications, into the hallway to Decontamination, and walked inside.
"So what are we doing?" Duke asked as they ran through Decontamination. "Are we stopping the Reactor?"
As the three entered the Reactor room, Tristan ran up to the first panel. Duke was about to run to the other when Serenity spoke up again.
"No, don't fix it!" She exclaimed.
"Huh? Why not?" Tristan asked as he stepped away from the panel.
"If the Reactor timer runs out, it'll be a win for me and Mai, and I won't have to kill either of you two," Serenity explained. "Will that work for my bodyguards?" she added with a laugh.
"…I guess that works, since neither of us will die in that case," Tristan said.
"Actually, we both will die since the Reactor will be destroyed," Duke pointed out
"Oh."
Duke looked at the sidebar and saw that there was a little bit of time before the Reactor would end the game. "So, how are you guys doing?" He asked, trying to make a conversation.
"Doing fine, other than the fact that we're about to die in ten seconds," Tristan said. "And that means we lose the game."
"I'm doing fine, but I'm sorry that Mai had to do a lot of the work," Serenity said. "But we're still going to get a win!"
"Alright Duke," Tristan said as the timer counted down from five. "We officially dismiss our bodyguard services, right about… now!" Duke watched as the screen faded, and Serenity and Mai's ghost appeared on the screen.
"Thank you, guys!" Serenity said. Her voice was overtaken by the voices of the others.
"What kind of game was that!?" Joey asked. "I demand a redo! This game doesn't count!"
"I agree," Tea added.
"And next time I'm imposter, I don't want to be doing all the work," Mai said.
"Kind of glad I was the first one killed," Noah said. "I don't know if I could survive all of that madness, though it was really funny to watch."
"Same," Mokuba added.
"Well, I'd rather not get hounded by bodyguards next game," Bakura said. "And I think he's ready to play too," he added, referring to Yami Bakura.
"I also want to play with proximity chat again, that was pretty fun," Yugi said. "So how about it? Want to play another game?"
"Only if the bodyguard officially retire," Joey said. "You two promise?"
Duke and Tristan both sighed. "Fine, we promise."
"Aw, I'm gonna miss having bodyguards," Serenity said. "But it's fine, let's play another game!"
I think I said last time that Yami Bakura would join, but now he really is going to play, and it will be from his POV as well. See you guys next time!