Do you have the facts straight?
1. Monobear File #2
Victim: Vortex
Location of Discovery: Archives.
Additional Notes: Victim's body has sustained massive amounts of blunt force injury, multiple parts being dismember. Multiple stab wounds littered the body. Head decapitated.
2. Knife
Found embedded in the victim's chest where the T-cog resides. Unable to be removed.
Is a regular kitchen knife.
3. Vortex's T-cog
Tried to use it when the knife hit him.
4. Knife Wounds
Victim was covered in Knife wounds, but they looked different from the knife embedded in his chest.
5. Wire
Used to restrain the victim to the table.
6. Broken Table
Table used to torture Vortex was from the library and split in half.
7. Numbers under the table
Numbers are etched under the tables. The one Vortex was tied to was number eight.
8. Archive Door Opening.
Door was opened at 11:30 PM last night.
Scavenger was the one who opened it.
9. Swindle's Testimony
Saw Hound passed his door at 1:00 PM.
Met Vortex at the library at 11:20, engaged in a struggle with him, and eneded up stabbing him. Returned to his room at 11:30 where he stayed up the rest of the night.
10. First Floor Infirmary
Still barred shut to keep Knock Out in.
11. Knock Out's Testimony
Heard footsteps walking past the first floor infirmary to the stairs at a little after 12:30.
12. Chart of Desks
Shows placement of desks. The number nine desks appeared to be out of ordered and the number eight desk missing.
13. Giant Crack in Floor
A crack on the floor that came from a massive impact. Found under table nine.
14. Third Floor Railing
Railing on third floor catwalk was bent inward.
15. Beachcomber's Testimony
Up at A/V room from 8:30 PM until 1:00 AM.
16. Mixmaster and Blurr's Testimony
Up at fourth-floor lounge together. Saw no one. Both were there at 10:30 PM. Mixmaster left at 12:45 AM while Blurr left at 1:15 AM.
17. Constructicons' Strange Behavior
Both of the Constructicons were trying to sneak into archive.
18. Energon at Body
Definitely bodily energon.
19. Strange Neck Wound Pattern
Neck was mostly ripped apart except for a small part that was cut off.
20. Obsidian Shard
A piece of Obsidian found in the body.
21. Green Paint Scrape
A jagged piece of metal had green paint scrape on it. Doesn't match any of the paint jobs in the school.
22. Energon-Stained Figure
Vortex's right index-finger is stained with energon.
23. Fifth Floor Railing
Railing at fifth floor outlier was bent outward.
24. Messily Cleaned Energon
Energon stains found on the fifth floor next to bent railing.
25. Energon Pool
A pool of unclean energon found behind a datapad shelf.
26. Swindle's Name
Found behind a datapad shelf behind written on the floor.
27. Bookshelf Corner
Jutting corner from bookshelf with energon dripping from it.
28. Energon Trail
Trail starting at bookshelf and leading away from it.
29. Location of Fifth Floor Struggle
The location of the struggle is right above the number nine desk's position.
30. Hound's Testimony.
In art room next to library's third floor entrance from 7PM to 1AM.
31. Broken Obsidian Scalpel.
An obsidian scalpel that had the tip broken off.
32. Bit of Tubing.
Found in the trash with some energon in it.
33. Clean Medical Equipment
The fourth floor infirmary equipment was cleaned recently.
34. Missing Wire
Wire in the fourth floor infirmary was missing.
35. Gash in Victim's head.
Severely damaging attack done to Vortex's head. Could've killed him or majorly injured him.
36. Broken Spinal Strut
Spinal strut at base of neck is broken.
37. Broken Face
Face appear to be broken by a cylindrical object.
38. Swindle's Knife Block
Two knives were missing.
39. Swindle's Note
Note asking Swindle to come to library at 11:30 PM
40. Vortex's Journal entry
Send notes to the Combaticons beside Onslaught to meet him in the fifth floor of the library.
40. Strange Device
Knock Out found it in his room
41. Map of dorm rooms
A map that identifies which dorm room someone lives in.
42. Scavenger's Testimony
Was stuck in the archives until 11:30 P.M. when he opened it and found Vortex's body on top of a broken desk, mutilated.
Court is now in session
Make an accusation!
Jazz
Brawl
Mirage
Dead End
Bumblebee
Mixmaster
Blurr
Skywarp
Counterpunch
Bludgeon
Drift
Nautilator
Hoist
Blast Off
Rewind
Wildrider
Chromedome
Onslaught
Beachcomber
Swindle
Smokescreen
Knock Out
Ratchet
Scavenger
Perceptor
Shockwave
Hound
Vortex
Nightbeat
Soundwave
"Brawl, you were the fifth person up that night," Onslaught said softly, looking away from him.
"What?!" Brawl shouted, glaring at his leader. "That's crazy."
"You went through all the trouble of proving one of your men innocent, only to turn around and blame another one?" Blurr asked, glaring at Onslaught. "Some kind of leader you are."
"Why, Onslaught?" Swindle asked him in disbelief. "I mean, yeah, those two fight a little bit but they wouldn't kill each other."
"This is the most ridiculous thing you ever said, Onslaught," Blast Off chastised.
"I never said he killed him," Onslaught backpedalled. "I'm just saying that he has to be the fifth person up that night."
"I just don't see it," Drift murmured. "One gestalt-mate killing another? Don't they usually have closed bonds?"
"Uh- just look. Blast Off, you've been with him the whole time, right?" Onslaught asked.
"Correct, I have," Blast Off confirmed.
"When has he used his electroID?"
"When he added the testimony of Mixmaster and Blurr. That's the only time," Blast Off told him. "He hasn't used it since."
"Then tell me how he knew that the fourth-floor infirmary was the place the tools come from," Onslaught beckoned.
"Huh?" Blast Off asked.
"We haven't mentioned the fourth floor infirmary as the place where the tools come from since the trial started and only me, Jazz, and Swindle know which floor is it on. And yet, when we were talking about evidence the culprit left behind, Brawl mentioned that the fourth-floor infirmary is the place where the killer got the tools to help staged it. Now tell me, how did he know that?" Onslaught asked.
"Guah," Brawl gasped. "It was a lucky guess."
"I want to believe that, I honestly do, but you also fit the profile perfectly. You're one of the tallest here and you have dark-green paint job," Onslaught pointed out.
"That's stupid! I wasn't up last night," Brawl grimaced. "We should be concentrating on who the actual fifth person is."
"He's right. It couldn't be him. Let's just concentrate on the fifth person," Blast Off agreed.
"Yeah, let's come up with ways to identify him," Swindle agreed.
Onslaught gave a slight groan before he prepared himself. If Brawl was the murderer, he had to expose him in order to save Swindle and Blast Off.
Nonstop Debate!
Ammo available:
Swindle's Testimony
Knock Out's testimony
Vortex's Journal Entry
Swindle's Note
Map of Dorm Rooms
SWINDLE: Right, so the fifth guy was close by.
SWINDLE: Maybe it was Ratchet?
BLAST OFF: It could be.
BLAST OFF: He has the necessary characteristics.
BLURR: Or it could just be another innocent bystander.
BLURR: Could they have went out to get something from the other floors?
MIXMASTER: Like what?
MIXMASTER: We sure didn't see anyone on our floors.
BEACHCOMBER: I didn't see anyone on my floor.
HOUND: Same here.
SKYWARP: Ugh, this is useless.
SKYWARP: No one else was up that night that could help.
ONSLAUGHT: That's wrong.
Ammo used: Knock Out's testimony.
"Knock Out heard footsteps last night at just after 12:30," Onslaught told the group.
"That's true. I most certainly did. They were heading the ways of the stairs right next to my room."
"Which fits the time frame of the person who first entered his door last night," Onslaught said.
"And how does that help us?" Bumblebee asked.
"Because, only one person could've used that staircase and that was Brawl," Onslaught answered.
"Uh?"
"Look at where his room his. It's right next to the staircase. The only other person who could've benefited from this aside from Brawl was Beachcomber and we already establish when Beachcomber went to his room," Onslaught pointed out.
"T-that's true," Beachcomber said nervously.
"Brawl, its best just to admit you were up last night," Onslaught told him. Brawl glared at him before answering.
"Fine, I was. So what?" Brawl asked.
"That makes you a suspect in the murder," Perceptor said coldly.
"Hey, so what? Unlike Hound, I don't have a motive for killing him and I had no reason to see him that night," Brawl told the group.
"Didn't Vortex send notes to you to go meet him?" Nautilator asked. Brawl flinched before answering.
"Yeah, but I didn't go meet him," Brawl said, remaining steadfast.
"Wait, I'm still confused about something," Blurr said, thinking things through. "Did Brawl returned to his room last night?"
"He did. I remember seeing him going into his room as I entered it," Hoist said. "It was about 10:00. I remember Monobear making his announcement of nighttime."
"Knock Out, how many footsteps did you hear after nighttime was announced?"
"Just the one footstep at a little past 12:30," Knock Out replied.
"Then Brawl must've gone to the library first, correct?" Blurr asked. Everyone nodded in agreement. "Then how did he reached it in the first place? With me and Mixmaster on the fourth, Beachcomber on the fifth, Hound on the third, and Swindle on the second, how did he get there?" Blurr asked.
"Exactly," Brawl agreed. "It had to be somebody past Swindle's room who went up there."
"No, it doesn't" Onslaught argued. "Last I check, he had a perfect oppourtunity to-
NO I DIDN'T!
"Are you serious?" Brawl questioned. "How could I have actually reached the library.
"Brawl, playing dumb won't work on me, especially when you killed one of our own!"
"Like hell I did! There's no way I would've killed Vortex!"
"Then when does everything point towards you!?"
"I don't know, but you have to believe me, especially after you hear my argument!"
Cross Swords Battle!
Swords Available:
Hound's Testimony
Swindle's Testimony
Knock Out's Testimony
Beachcomber's Testimony
Blurr and Mixmaster's Testimony
BRAWL: As Hoist can testify, I entered my room at 10:00.
BRAWL: At that time, Swindle was watching everybody.
BRAWL: There's no way I could get past him.
BRAWL: Therefore, I'm not the killer.
BRAWL: Which was riduclous in the first place!
BRAWL: I mean, one gestaltmate killing the other...
BRAWL: ...that's unforgiveable.
ONSLAUGHT: This ends!
Sword used: Swindle's testimony.
"Have you forgotten what the whole first part of the trial was about!? Swindle admitted to attacking and nearly killing Vortex. That means he had to leave the room to do that," Onslaught ranted. "He admitted it himself!"
"That's true," Blurr agreed, all of it coming together. "Brawl could've left for the note Vortex send out to the Combaticons and left earlier than the time suggested, but slightly later than Swindle."
"But... that can't be. Brawl... would never...," Swindle murmured, on the verge of breaking down.
"You still haven't provided a motive," Brawl said, glaring at his leader. "Tell me, why I would kill Vortex!"
"I don't know! But all the evidence is pointing to you," Onslaught cried out in anguished.
"That's because he didn't kill him," Blast Off replied, anger seeping in to his voice. "We never found the scrape mark on him earlier," Blast Off told him.
"It's on him. It's just not where you think is," Onslaught told him.
"Would you shut up!?" Blast Off yelled at his commander.
Panic Talk Battle!
SHIELD X7
BLAST OFF: Brawl is innocent.
SHIELD X6
BLAST OFF: You lack correct judgment.
SHIELD X5
BLAST OFF: I don't see a scrape on him!
SHIELD X4
BLAST OFF: You're wrong.
SHIELD X3
BLAST OFF: It's impossible.
SHIELD X2
BLAST OFF: This is a pathetic charade.
SHIELD X1
BLAST OFF: Are you daft!
SHIELD DESTROYED!
BLAST OFF: There isn't a scrape on him!
DECIPHER BULLET
Scrape side on is
Scrape is on side
ONSLAUGHT: That's where it is.
"The scrape should be on his side," Onslaught told him. "He taller than most of us, so it's foolish to think it would be on his shoulders.
"That's stupid," Brawl scoffed, not noticing Jazz taking a look at it.
"He's right! It's right there," Jazz told the courtroom.
"Hey!" he shouted, glaring at the spy.
"It's over Brawl," Onslaught murmured, staring at him. "You're the killer."
Brawl had stopped glaring at his leader and decided to bury his head in his chest in a mixture of anger and regret, silently murmuring to himself: "There's no motive. There's no motive. There's no motive..."
"I just don't understand why you killed him," Onslaught murmured, barely able to keep himself together, "but that doesn't matter. All I know is that did kill Vortex and put the rest of us in danger. I don't need a motive to prove that. Here's how you did it."
Climax Logic!
Chapter 1
This all started with Vortex. He wanted to have a meeting in the library on the fifth floor. He sent the message to three people: Swindle, Blast Off, and the killer. The note wanted them to meet him at 11:30.
Chapter 2
At 11:20, Swindle left early, leaving his room and heading to the library with a knife. Not long after him, the killer left and head over to the library as well. Swindle arrived at the rendezvous place, engaging in a conversation with Vortex. Things quickly turned south and Swindle ended up stabbing Vortex and cracking his head on the bookshelf corner.
Chapter 3
Thinking that he had killed Vortex, Swindle tried to retrieve his knife only to find it stuck. He quickly decided to leave, leaving it behind, in case one of the other receivers of Vortex's note came up. He left, not noticing the culprit hiding. The culprit headed up the steps after Swindle had left, thinking he would find a dead body.
Chapter 4
However, Vortex proved to be a lot more difficult to kill than Swindle realized. Vortex, thinking he was dying, wrote Swindle's name in energon before gaining the strength to get up and walk out of the bookshelf, ready to fight Swindle if he had too.
Chapter 5
The killer had arrived on the fifth floor to see Vortex shambling away from the bookshelf. The killer went over to the bleeding Vortex. The culprit took one look at Vortex and decided that he had the perfect opportunity to kill him and go free-
BRAWL: SHUT UP!
CLIMAX INTERRUPTED!
"I have no reason! When are you going to learn that! No fragging reason!"
"Then why did you killed him!?" Onslaught asked him.
"NoreasonnoreasonnoreasonnoreasonNOREASON!" Brawl ranted and raved.
"Brawl, what's wrong with you!" Swindle asked him, scared.
"He's... having a breakdown!" Blast Off realized.
"Brawl, please snapped out of it!" Onslaught begged him.
"I HAD NO REASON!" Brawl shouted.
Panic Talk Battle!
SHIELD X8
BRAWL: I don't have a reason!
SHIELD X7
BRAWL: Why would I kill him!
SHIELD X6
BRAWL: No motive!
SHIELD X5
BRAWL: You're a failure!
SHIELD X4
BRAWL: The evidence is wrong!
SHIELD X3
BRAWL: No motive means I'm innocent!
SHIELD X2
BRAWL: Stop it!
SHIELD X1
BRAWL: Why are you the leader?!
SHIELD DESTROYED!
BRAWL: There's no reason for me to kill him!
DECIPHER BULLET!
ACCIDENT WAS IT AN
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT
ONSLAUGHT: This it it!
"It... was an accident, was it?" Onslaught asked him.
"Guh," Brawl gasped, staying silent.
"Brawl, please explain to us what happen. You're the killer, it's a fact. Just... explain what Vortex did that cause you to kill him." At that, the court stayed silent as the looked at Brawl for an explanation.
"I... well, I can do that," Brawl said in a sorrowful tone. "I did not went up there with the intention to kill Vortex. I was- I was just trying to help him, but he went crazy. He attacked me. I thought I could just punch him and subdue him, but he latch onto me. I-I-I heaved him off me and the next thing I knew, he was s-screaming as loud as he could right before I heard an awful noise. I looked to see Vortex broken on the floor, dead. I…I…I… no idea what came over me," he told the group. "It was all just- just some terrible accident," he finished, unable to keep himself stable.
"I-I-I'm sorry for this, Brawl," Onslaught murmured solemnly.
"Just finished the rest of your explanation. I think you got the rest of it right," Brawl told him. "Just continue after Vortex died."
Onslaught gave a slow nod. "Alright."
CLIMAX CONTINUE
Chapter 6
At the same time, someone else was about to enter the library: Scavenger. Having been accidentally left behind earlier, he desperately wanted to escape. When the time came, he opened the door and got out. He headed up the stairs and up the catwalk when he saw the body of Vortex. Shocked, Scavenger hurried out of the room, the killer watching his movements as he left. With Scavenger's departure, he decided to make use of the archives.
Chapter 7
He went to the fourth floor infirmary and grabbed some medical tools and some wire. The killer than used some tubing to extract some of the energon for his scheme. After all of that, the killer head back to the archive and survey the area, accidently scraping himself when searching the side room. Once that was done, the culprit began his cover-up.
Chapter 8
The killer moved the body and the table he crashed on to the archive and began setting it up to look like a tortured scene, starting with using a scalpel to stab the body several times, accidently breaking it in the progress. The culprit use the other scalpel to cut the rest of the wires connecting the head to the body and then cut the body in half. He then used the wires to bound Vortex's legs to the table and position the upper half like he was trying to escape. To finish it off, he used his own energon to cover the scene.
Chapter 9
With the archives done, the killer went to work in the library. He cleaned up the energon stains from where Vortex crashed and swap the table with the one at the archive to throw us off. He then went to the fifth floor to try and clean up the stains there, but the low light levels left some stains behind. With that done, the killer dispose of it and headed to his room, not noticing the energon he missed on the third floor railing where Vortex hit on the way down.
Chapter 10
However, he had a problem. Swindle's door was wide opened and watching for anyone to cross his field-of-vision. Unfortunately for the killer, his room laid right past Swindle's room. At the same time, Hound was painting on the third floor, Mixmaster and Blurr were hanging out on the fourth floor, and Beachcomber was hanging out on the fifth floor. With none of this options available, the killer used the first floor to reach the stairs, unknowingly letting a sleep deprived Knock Out hear him walk past the barred infirmary. Having finally reached his room, the killer entered the room, his door closing alerting Swindle to his presence.
There was only one person who could've done all this, and unfortunately, it's you Brawl.
Brawl stood where he was, thinking it all out. Most of the people in there were expecting an even more violent outburst from him, but were surprised when all he did was give a small, relieving sigh and a short response.
"Thanks boss."