CHAPTER FOUR: ACCUSATIONS

Sorry it took so long to get you this chapter. By the way, in case you're wondering why the hamsters don't just go to their homes (like back to Laura), it's a story and that would ruin it!

All the hamsters left the place where Dexter had been killed and Oxnard shot. Penelope was walking with the rest of them, when she realized something. She ran back to where Oxnard had been shot. She looked around on the ground for something small and black. After a bit of searching, she found it. A bullet. The bullet. The bullet that had shot Oxnard. The bullet that had been loaded and touched by the killer. Penelope grabbed it and secretly ran over to Maxwell's science lab. She put it in a special liquid to show prints and left for strawberries.

"Penelope where did you go?" Pashmina asked her best friend when she got into the kitchen.

"Ookwee! Ook!" Penelope replied.

"Oh, okay," Pashmina nodded, telling the others that she had been going to the restroom. Penelope got a small strawberry and started eating.

"Hey, guys, I gotta go where Penelope just was," Oxnard said after drink a lot of water. He ran off towards the bathroom (wondering how the heck to 'go' with a cast on his arm).

BOOM! KA-BAM! POW! BOOM!

Cappy, Pashmina, Howdy, Penelope, Panda, and Boss went towards the noise. They all gasped in shock and horror at what they saw. In front of them was Oxnard- dead (of course, what else?). Around him was burning stuff and three used bombs. The roof of the clubhouse was destroyed. Actually, everything around the bomb spot was completely destroyed and maybe on fire.

Pashmina started crying.

"Pashmina," Howdy told her, "Before we all die, I wanted to let you know that I… I love you!" he ran forwards and locked lips with her. She kneed his stomach and elbowed him.

"Ow!" he cried out on the ground. He got up and sighed It was worth a try he thought to himself.

After a bit of cleaning up as best they could, all the hamsters separated. No one could trust anyone now.

Penelope ran to Maxwell's lab and grabbed the bullet and put it under a microscope (A/N Sorry if you know how to do all this stuff and I'm having Penelope do it all wrong. I hate science and I'm in Jr. High, so I don't know how to do all this stuff.) and looked at it carefully. She got a sample of the print and went to the kitchen and started building stuff.

All the hamsters heard something. They went into the kitchen to see Penelope finishing up on an obstacle course. Penelope went through the course and Pashmina translated.

Part of the course was at least trying a handstand in clay (everyone had their own square to do it at). Penelope said she made the course to get their minds off of the terror of the recent events.

All the hamsters did the course and had a lot of fun. After the fun was over, Penelope took the handstand paw prints front the clay and compared them with the prints of the paw print from the bullet. She knew who the killer was.

"Hey, I know who the killer is," Howdy told Cappy the next day, "I saw a figure after Dexter got shot."

"Who is it?" Cappy asked him.

"It's- gurgle gurgle slop gross gargling noises."

Cappy stared in horror. A small, thrown knife had been thrown at Howdy from his back. Cappy quickly ran towards where it had been thrown. He chased and chased and chased. He saw a figure running away. The figure turned around and Cappy knew who it was by the shape. The figure picked up a metal pole and threw it at Cappy and killing him.

"Cappy, no!" Boss wailed when he saw him lying down on the ground.

"Howdy, no!" Pashmina wailed at almost the same time when she saw Howdy.

Penelope and Panda ran towards them- Penelope towards Pashmina and Panda towards Boss. They each dragged the killed victim towards each other's yells. Panda and Boss went to did two holes. Penelope went to get her bullet.

Pashmina looked down at the dead hams despondently.

"Ugh…" Cappy mumbled.

"You're alive!" Pashmina exclaimed.

"I know the killer…" he said, "You… I can't believe you…" and he died.

"What, the!" came a voice from behind her. Pashmina turned around to see Panda, "You're the killer!"

"No!" Pashmina quarreled.

"Yes you are! Cappy obviously can't believe you for killing everyone! Booosss!"

Pashmina ran after him, but Panda was faster.

"Pashmina is the killer!" Panda cried out, "I heard Panda saying that he had seen the killer and that it was her!"

"It's not true!" Pashmina protested.

"It must be!" Boss roared.

"OOKWEE! OOKWEE! OOOOKWEEEE!" everyone stopped fighting and turned towards Penelope, who had just entered the room.

Penelope pulled out the bullet in a bag and the clay sample, "Ookee! Ook! Wee! Ookwee! Weekoo! Ookwee!'

Pashmina translated what Penelope had said she had done.

"I think you're just lying and saying what didn't really happen because none of us can understand that little fur-ball!" Panda exclaimed, pointing at Pashmina, "Isn't that right, Penelope!"

Penelope shook her head no (angrily because of the fur-ball statement) and got paper and wrote (she is young and not the best speller):

it wuz boss

"It was Boss…" Panda trailed off, "It is possible," he took the bullet and clay sample and looked at them. All the evidence is here. Boss, you're the killer."

Pashmina took the samples and nodded in agreement.

"Now, wait a minute!" Boss exclaimed, "I sold the bullets to Jingle last month! It must have been him!"

Penelope shook her head not and wrote:

only yur paw prints wur on the bulet

"All right, all right," Boss said angrily, running to a drawer and pulling out an M4, "It had to come to this," he shot Penelope and Pashmina. Panda barely dodged the gun's many bullets. He was lucky it needed to be loaded. Boss couldn't take that time. Panda leapt for him and Boss hit him with the back of his gun. Panda was knocked to the side with a bloody nose and mouth. Boss took out a few needles and threw them at Panda. Panda dodged all but two of them. Two of them got stuck in his arm. Panda winced in pain but had to continue. He grabbed his hammer from building a chair earlier off a table and ran and tried to hit Boss on the head with it. Boss grabbed it and started twisting it.

Panda's arm couldn't twist like Boss' double-jointed arm and had to let go. Boss raised the hammer above him and hit Panda as hard as he could on the head with it. Panda died that day along with many others.

You like it so far? The story may seem over, but it's not! Surprise, right? Dead hamsters can become ghosts. They still remember how they died and hold grudges.