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
"You… were planning on killing Onslaught, you demented fuck!" Smokescreen accused him, causing a silence to fill the room, which was broken by Swindle.
"What the… that's just… are you kidding? Why would he actively plan Onslaught's death?"
"Because I ordered him to do it," Onslaught answered, much to the surprise of everyone.
"What?" he balked. "Why would you-"
"Woah! Woah! I'm losing track of things here," Blurr told everyone.
"You're not the only one," Hound agreed, confused.
"What is there to be confused about?" Blast Off asked. "I was planning to murder Onslaught."
"Will you shut up!? That can't be true!" Swindle argued with him.
Nonstop Debate!
Ammo Available: Time of Impalement, Locked Safe, Onslaught and Blast Off's Rendezvous, Broken Recorder, Communication Device, Red Group's Lack of Alibi, Tarp and Kinfe
SWINDLE: Blast Off couldn't have planned to murder Onslaught!
SWINDLE: It makes no sense!
BLAST OFF: Think on it, Swindle.
BLAST OFF: Something made it obvious I was planning a murder.
BLURR: You are being really upfront about this.
BLAST OFF: The truth can't be stopped.
SWINDLE: You're not speaking the truth!
REWIND: We need to be sure of this.
BEACHCOMBER: It's suspicious he would just go ahead and admit it like that.
SWINDLE: Exactly, he's lying!
SWINDLE: Don't trust a word he says.
SMOKESCREEN: I agree!
Ammo used: Swindle and Onslaught's Rendezvous
"Blast Off, are you talking about you and Onslaught's meet-up?" he asked.
"Someone's catching on," Blast Off complimented.
"The meet up… you meant that was when the two would meet up and Blast Off would kill Onslaught," Perceptor realized
"Exactly. When we met up, I was going to kill Onslaught and-"
ENOUGH!
Al optics turned to Swindle, who glared at Smokescreen with an evil glare. "Look, I can accept Blast Off wanting to murder someone, but Onslaught? With no proof that was going to happen? Are you kidding me?!"
"Swindle I know this is tough since you went through this earlier when you attacked Vortex," Swindle flinched, "but it's the truth."
"It isn't… I'll proof you wrong."
Cross Swords Battle!
Swords Available: Communications Device, Communications Device (2), Locked Safe, Knife and Tarp, Broken Recorder
SWINDLE: Are you out of your mine.
SWINDLE: I know he's a killer…
SWINDLE: …but he wouldn't kill Onslaught.
SWINDLE: It's far more likely…
SWINDLE: …for him to kill Mirage or Nightbeat.
…
Development
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SMOKESCREEN: Don't change the subject!
SMOKESCREEN: He was planning on killing Onslaught.
SWINDLE: Look, Blast Off was out to meet Onslaught…
SWINDLE: …so that they can meet up on something.
SWINDLE: Besides, nothing proves he was out to kill!
SWINDLE: Yes, their activities are suspicious, but they are not guilty.
SWINDLE: They were just out for things, maybe to get stuff from the stores…
SWINDLE: …but they're innocent of killing anyone!
SMOKESCREEN: Got you!
Sword Used: Knife and Tarp
"Swindle, remember what we found in the Storage Room?" Smokescreen questioned.
"Huh?" Swindle asked.
"Blast Off, you were going to use this knife and tarp, correct?" Smokescreen asked.
"Correct," Blast Off confirmed.
"What?" Swindle blurted out.
"Swindle, what purpose would this serve together? As far as I know, you would use it to kill and move someone, and that's it," Smokescreen told him.
"What- but-but-but-but," the salesmen mumbled.
"Swindle, I was going to use that to stab Onslaught and then moved him to someplace else. It's really not that hard to understand," Blast Off chided him.
"Don't talk down to him, Blast Off," Onslaught ordered.
"Right, sorry," he apologized.
"You're apologizing for that, but not conspiracy to murder? You guys are screwed up!" Nautilator said, baffled by their behavior.
"Well, we planned it together, so of course I don't mind," Onslaught told him.
"Why would you do that?" Drift asked, confused.
"So-"
"Shut up! There's no reason for this!" Swindle yelled at him.
"Swindle, please calm down," he tried to comfort him.
"No! No! No! Will you shut up!" he ranted.
"Swindle, please be-" Blast Off tried to quiet him.
"You shut up, you condescending fragger!" he silenced him.
"Swindle, calm down," Smokescreen tried to get him to calm down.
"No! There's no reason for this! Nothing!"
"…Let me see if I can give you one."
Panic Talk Battle!
SHIELD X8
SWINDLE: This all makes no sense!
SHIELD X7
SWINDLE: Lies!
SHIELD X6
SWINDLE: He wouldn't kill Onslaught!
SHIELD X5
SWINDLE: You are a moron!
SHIELD X4
SWINDLE: Gambling addict!
SHIELD X3
SWINDLE: He would only hurt others!
SHIELD X2
SWINDLE: Will you shut up!
SHIELD X1
SWINDLE: Drop Dead!
SHIELD DESTROYED!
SWINDLE: Blast Off and Onslaught have no reason to planned this murder!
DECIPHER BULLET!
GET TO OUT YOU
TO GET YOU OUT
SMOKESCREEN: This is the reason!
"Swindle, do you remember what the motive was?!" Smokescreen yelled at him.
"What about it? Monobear would grant a wish. That's irrelevant!" Swindle shot back.
"What if… that wish was to get you out with Blast Off?" Smokescreen asked him.
"Huh?"
"Onslaught, confirmed this for me. Did you do this so that you can get Swindle out with Blast Off?" Smokescreen asked him.
"...Yes, I can confirm that we planned this so that both Blast Off and Swindle could get out alive," Onslaught told him.
"Huh?" Swindle gasped in disbelief.
"I had an extended dialogue with Monobear about the motive in the bathroom during one of my shifts and he confirmed that we could leave with someone with us as our wish, but only one," he explained to them.
"When I murdered Onslaught and if I succeeded, I would be able to take Swindle with me. It was a high-risk, high-reward endeavor, but Mirage and Nightbeat's death stymied that," Blast Off told him.
"You were going to kill Onslaught… so you can get me out?" Swindle balked.
"Yes, but it failed, so you don't have to live with that on your conscious," Blast Off shrugged him off, much to Swindle's disapproval, who just looked on in shocked silence.
"That's… a screwed up way of showing your love for someone," Jazz mentioned.
"Meh. Do you see now why I thought this was a major waste of time, now?" Blast Off said. "I knew this would lead nowhere and we are no closer to the killer or killers than we were before."
"What, but…. we spent so much time on this. This can't just lead nowhere!" Knock Out yelled, disgusted.
"Them's the breaks, so we need to pick up the slack," Jazz told everyone. "We will talk to Onslaught and Blast Off about this later." He glared at the two, the former looking guilty while the latter was looking bored.
"Fine, now let's start on something long overdue and talk about Mirage's death," Blast Off told everyone, who all agreed with him, except Hoist, who was concentrating on the recorder.
"Well, he went out to meet me and Hoist at the Repair Bay where he was killed by being pushed against a piece of metal from the behemoth," Smokescreen informed them.
"Can we talk about that? Something about that seems a bit… off to me," Bludgeon mentioned.
Nonstop Debate!
Ammo Available: Mirage's Note, Mirage's Gift, Intersecting Hallways, Nightbeat's Note, Mirage's Preferred Hand, State of Repair Bay, Broken Recorder
BLUDGEON: Forgive me, I'm not good on these types of things…
BLUDGEON: …but why was he there?
BLUDGEON: It couldn't be for a simple chat.
WILDRIDER: Murder!
SCAVENGER: Ah, I forgot about you!
WILDRIDER: Still here, pussy.
DRIFT: Murder is probably a bit too far.
DEAD END: But not out of the question.
HOUND: Maybe, he was stealing something from there?
BLUDGEON: I didn't notice anything missing there…
DEAD END: Did you check everything?
BLUDGEON: Not quite.
DEAD END: Of course not, you impetuous brute.
BLUDGEON: Impetuous!?
REWIND: Maybe, he had a gift for Hoist?
REWIND: Those two were pretty close.
DEAD END: Not quite as close as you and Chromedome were.
REWIND: You like to oscillate between friend and complete asshole, don't you?
DEAD END: It's quite the talent.
SMOKESCREEN: You're right!
Ammo Used: Mirage's Gift
"Let me go ahead and confirmed what Rewind said," Smokescreen interrupted. "Mirage was planning on giving Hoist a Newton's cradle that he built for him. Hoist!"
"Huh?" he recoiled, starring at everyone.
"Show everyone the Newton's cradle."
"Oh, sure," he agreed, crouching down and getting the Newton's table off the ground. He showed it off to everyone.
"That's what Mirage was planning on giving Hoist," Smokescreen told everyone. "It's why he was there."
"Well, good to see I'm right," Rewind bragged as Hoist put the cradle back down and went back to work on the recorder.
"So, Mirage planned on giving the present to Hoist, but he encountered the killer there and lost his life," Jazz recounted.
"So, did the killer hunted Mirage their or did two accidently stumbled onto each other and was just an unintended casualty?" Dead End questioned the group.
"How is that relevant?" Blurr asked.
"Oh, oh, I know! If Mirage was hunted there, than that meant that this is probably the killer's only kill, while if it's the opposite, then he's probably the one who laid the trap, since Mirage might've found something incriminating," Wildrider explained to everyone.
"Exactly. Intention could mean the difference between one killer and two," Dead End confirmed.
"Well, great, but how exactly are we supposed to figure out intention?" Bumblebee questioned him. "That's kind of hard."
"Well, let's figure that out," Dead End told everyone. "As our past performance has shown, I think we can reach a conclusion, even without Nightbeat's help."
"Optimistic, aren't we?" Mixmaster noticed.
"Not optimistic. Certain."
"If you said so."
Nonstop Debate!
Ammo Available: Energon-Stained Cloth, Energon-Stained Knife, Energon-Stained Scalpel, Time of Impalement, Interconnecting Rooms, Monobear File #4, Broken Recorder
MIXMASTER: What is the killer's intention?
MIXMASTER: How can we decipher it?
BUMBLEBEE: Well, we got to look at the place he was killed…
BUMBLEBEE: …as well as what Mirage was doing.
PERCEPTOR: Mirage must've made extensive use of the repair bay in order to make the gift.
RATCHET: Either that or the tool room.
PERCEPTOR: Let's assume it's the repair bay since he was killed there.
REWIND: Well, I said it was incidental.
REWIND: The only weapon the killer used was the spike!
HOUND: That doesn't sound bad.
BLUDGEON: But the killer could've planned to impale him beforehand with the spikes.
BLUDGEON: One look at them is enough to determine they are deadly.
REWIND: But that doesn't make sense!
REWIND: A knife would be far more reliable.
JAZZ: If you can't get anywhere from this angle…
JAZZ: …let's try another.
SMOKESCREEN: Got you!
Ammo used: Energon-Stained Knife
"Rewind, there was another weapon there," Smokescreen told him.
"Huh?" Rewind recoiled.
"We found a knife there, and it was stained with energon," he told everyone. "The killer must've brought it with him and-"
NOT SO FAST!
Smokescreen turned his attention to Hound, who was coming to Rewind's defense. "I read the evidence you know and I fear we may have gotten something with what you said."
"What did I get wrong?"
"That knife was found in Mirage's hand. If we're assuming that the person who brought the knife was intending to kill, wouldn't that mean, since it was found in his hand, that Mirage was the one with the intent?"
"Guah!" Smokescreen gasped and Hoist looked back up, shocked.
"I mean, isn't that the only thing that makes sense?" Hound asked again.
"N-no," Smokescreen stuttered.
"You don't sound confidence," he noticed.
"No!" he shouted forcefully. "You say that Mirage brought it to kill someone. Run that for everyone."
"I see no reason not to. It's the only one that makes sense."
Cross Swords Battle!
Swords Available: Energon-Stained Knife, Energon-Stained Cloth, Mirage's Preferred Hand, Interconnecting Rooms, State of Repair Bay
HOUND: The knife was found in Mirage's hand.
HOUND: That implies that he brought it with him.
HOUND: He wasn't stabbed either.
HOUND: The Monobear file didn't mention an additional stab wound.
HOUND: So he had a knife.
HOUND: It had energon on it.
HOUND: He has no stab wounds.
HOUND: That means he was the one who brought it and attacked.
…
Development!
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SMOKESCREEN: You're being too vague.
SMOKESCREEN: Give us some actual facts!
HOUND: You're joking right?
HOUND: The knife is his, as we found it in his right hand.
HOUND: To go along with that, he had no other stab wounds.
HOUND: If he did the Monobear file would've made note of it.
HOUND: Those two things make it absolutely clear…
HOUND: …that Mirage was the aggressor
SMOKESCREEN: That's getting cut down.
Ammo used: Mirage's Preferred Hand
"Hound, there was a small flaw in that argument of yours," Smokescreen told him with a grin.
"What? How can that be wrong?" Hound asked, annoyed.
"You see, Mirage was left-handed," he pointed out to him, immediately causing Hound's eye to brighten.
"Oh, frag," Hound muttered, putting his head to his hand. "That's right. I completely ignored that."
"Huh? The knife was found in his right hand, but he's left-handed? What the frag does that mean?" Skywarp asked.
"Doesn't that mean the killer placed it in his hand while Mirage was alive?" Nautilator asked. "Why didn't he just drop the knife?"
"It's possible that by the time he placed it in his hand, Mirage had lost too much energon to do much hand movement," Ratchet answered. "His hands probably locked up in that position."
"But that brings a whole other problem in why he didn't just finish Mirage off while doing it. It could've just taken a second and Mirage's could've done nothing else to hurt the killer's chances," Knock Out told him.
"Well, what if he was playing dead?" Rewind asked. "He could've been convincing while doing that, with the whole spike sticking out of his chest."
"Well, that could work," Bumblebee agreed.
"This is great, but that leaves this one question," Scavenger said.
"What's that," Drift asked.
"Who did Mirage stabbed? I don't see any stab wounds on any of us," he pointed out.
"Uh, well, isn't it still possible that the energon is Mirage?"
"Monobear File mentioned no additional stabbed wounds," Hounds told him.
"I analyze the knife closely and saw specks of metal that didn't belong to the knife, so it was used to stab someone," Knock Out told everyone.
"Well, obviously they must've patched themselves up before coming to the trial," Mixmaster said.
"That would be very noticeable and me and Knock Out has seen no one with recent scars around here," Ratchet answered.
"How can someone be stabbed, but leave no markings visible for us to see," Jazz asked the group.
"It sounds impossible," Onslaught told him.
Smokescreen thought this through as they all kept arguing. How can they be stabbed without leaving a wound behind? He had to think this through.
Logic Dive!
Question #1: Can a stab wound leave no evidence behind?
A. Yes
B. No
…
B. No
…
Question #2: What could the killer do to cover it up?
A. Completely remove it.
B. Temporarily cover it up.
C. Ignore it and hope no one notices it.
D. Temporarily fix the wound.
…
D. Temporarily fix the wound
…
Question #3: How did he fix it?
A. Weld the wound shut.
B. Bandaged it up.
C. Leave the wound open
…
A. Weld the wound shut.
…
Question #4: Where did they go to fix it?
A. Repair Bay
B. Casino
C. Med-Bay
D. Atrium
…
C Med-Bay
…
Question #5: How did they hide it?
A. Paint
B. Medical Energon
C. Energon from the cafeteria
…
B. Medical Energon
SMOKESCREEN: It's all making sense.
"That's it!" Smokescreen shouted.
"You got the answer?" Beachcomber asked, hopeful.
"Yeah. The killer must've went to the Med-Bay to weld the wound shut and used the medical energon there to cover the wound," Smokescreen told everyone.
"Energon to cover the wound? Then… the killer is blue," Drift said, and all optics turned to Beachcomber, Onslaught, Blurr, Nautilator, and Smokescreen.
"Hey, don't look at me! Hoist and Smokescreen can confirm I was recharging when Mirage was impaled," Blurr immediately defended himself.
"He's right. Can't be him," Smokescreen told everyone. "And Hoist can confirm that I had nothing to do with this."
"So, Onslaught, Nautilator, or Beachcomber, one of you killed Mirage," Perceptor stated, glaring at them.
"Woah, woah, I had nothing to do with this!" Nautilator shouted.
"All I've done is cut myself. Here's the scars if you want to see it," he said, showing off scars on his wrist.
"Look, all I've done is planned my own death. I didn't get involve in Mirage's murder," Onslaught defended himself.
"Well… who do we believe?" Rewind asked.
"I don't know. None of them appear particularly innocent," Ratchet asked.
Smokescreen though this through. Could either of the three have actually murder Mirage? Onslaught was actively planning his own death, Beachcomber was flirting with death, and Nautilator was just a complete loser. Considering what the three were doing, none of them seem like they would kill in this case. Was there anyone else that could be the one to kill Mirage? Well…
…
…
…
There is one. And him being the one to kill Mirage makes way too much sense that he's surprise he didn't figure this out sooner. No one here suspects him because of one crucial thing.
"I think we can trust all three of them," Smokescreen announced to everyone.
"What, but that doesn't make any sense!" Skywarp shouted, annoyed.
"Actually, I got one person in mind that could be the one to kill Mirage," Smokescreen announced to everyone, causing them to go silent. "We all ignore his possible involvement because of one critical point that will become noticeable once I point it out."
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