It's all hands on deck for Eric's lab, the four of us needed to investigate this lab and we needed to do it soon. The four of us arrived at the door to his lab and walked right in, what I saw when I entered was a rather pathetic site. Eric's lab can only be described as a run down New York Hotel room without the bed. It just had a couch, a nearly empty bookshelf, and a kitchenette area that's completely run down.
"Jesus Christ it smells awful in here" Craig said, "How did Butters and Tweek last hiding out in here?"
"His lab is connected to Monokuma's office" Token said, "they were probably in there from the moment they found it."
"Let's just get this done before we die from the fumes in here" Henrietta said.
The four of us began searching the lab, nothing of value really to note. The information that Butters and Tweek got is what they gave us at the last trial.
"So, we know Eric was the spy and that this lab has access to the bear's office" I began, "now the question is where is the access point?"
Craig checked the bookshelf he pulled out every book and threw them on the ground. There was one book on the top shelf that he pulled but it didn't fall down, it just made a click sound and when it did the access point Tweek and Butters used was discovered. The fridge in the kitchenette moved outward and then slid to the right revealing a hole in in the wall. I engaged the flashlight app on our monopad and the four of us walked through the hole, we walked for all of a minute before we ran into a dead end. Craig and I pushed the wall in front of us and with just enough force the wall opened up and we laid eyes on Monokuma's office for the first time.
"Not gonna lie I'm kinda underwhelmed" Craig said.
"Really I'm just whelmed" Token said.
"Let's get to searching" I said. It was a small office desk, chair, computer, and a wall sized portrait of Monokuma, figures it's as big as his ego.
"Hey I found something on the computer" Craig said. We all gathered around him and saw student files.
"Henrietta Biggle, Status: Alive, Token Black, Status: Alive, Kyle Broflovski, Status: Dead, killed by Wendy Testaburger, Eric Cartman, Status: Dead, killed by Butters Stotch and Tweek Tucker, Clyde Donovan, Status: Punished, Execution: Strikeout, Execution Successful" I read. The list went on and on but then it got towards the middle and we noticed something interesting.
"Look at this" I said, "Bebe Stevens, status: Dead, killed by Clyde Donovan."
"Wait why isn't Kenny's name also on that list, she was killed by both of them" Craig asked.
"Maybe a typo" I suggested.
"Maybe" Henrietta said.
"Hey what's that icon?" I looked at the icon it read "gateway".
"Gateway" Token asked. "Gateway to what?" Craig clicked on the icon and a password box opened up.
"Passwords huh" I said, "damnit if only Wendy were still alive. Here Craig let me give it a shot."
I took Craig's place in the chair and began typing out obvious guesses. Monokuma, Mastermind, Killing Game, Punishment Time, none of them worked. The others looked through the drawers for anything that might be a clue, luckily, we scored gold.
"Hey Mike check this out" Craig said. Craig took out a piece of paper that had the word "him" on it.
"Him" I asked, "who could it be taking about?"
"One way to find out" Token said.
He started typing in all the names of all the male participants of the killing game. One named clicked and opened a hidden chamber behind the Monokuma painting.
"Open sesame" Henrietta said, "What passcode worked Token?"
"It was Craig" Token answered. I noticed Craig's eyes widened a little when saw his name being the password.
"Craig's name was the password" Henrietta asked, "that's weird, guess the mastermind has some kind of interest in you."
The four of us walked down the hallway and what we entered was something out of a superhero movie. It was a room with a supercomputer as well as a small table with three chairs. Its kind of like the bat cave.
"Damn nice place" Craig said, "what do you think the mastermind does here?"
"Probably watches everything we do" I answered pointing to the computers, turns out there were more hidden cameras when we thought.
"There's a camera in every bedroom too" Henrietta said.
"Wait what" Craig asked, his face turning red "oh fuck the mastermind saw Tweek and I going at!"
"Is that really your primary concern at the moment" Henrietta asked, "we are about to face a life or death situation against a homicidal teddy bear and his puppet master and your concerned with the fact that someone may have saw you banging your husband?"
Craig didn't respond, his face was as red as Tweek's was when Clyde told us all he was a screamer during the third trial.
"Awkward moments aside, let's see what else this place has to offer" I said.
We searched the room and we found some odd items. Along with the computer there was a Monokuma plushie as well as some hair pins. Henrietta walked along the side of the wall and triggered a mechanism that opened another passageway.
"Where do you think this one leads" Craig asked.
"One way to find out" I answered.
The four of us gathered the rest of the evidence we needed and followed the trail. It led to a labyrinth of passages too many for the four of us to search each one.
"Which way should we go" Token asked.
"Dealer's choice" Henrietta said looking at me. I looked around there were about ten different passage ways.
"That one" I said pointing to the one on the far left. The four of us began walking along the passage way it took us to a ladder with a trapdoor at the top.
"Ladies first" Token said. Henrietta gave him an indifferent look and began climbing the ladder followed by Craig, then Token, and I climbed up last. The ladder took us to a place that I knew Craig didn't want to enter. The ladder took us to the lab of the fallen Ultimate Barista Tweek Tucker.
"Shit" I said, "why did it have to be here." Craig just stared at the floor, "Craig are you alright?"
"I'll be fine" he answered, "let's just go."
As the four of us left Tweek's lab I turned back and looked at the trap door. What could it mean? There weren't enough labyrinth paths for every lab to have one. Later that day I went back to check my lab and I had the others check theirs. None of our labs had any trap doors, we used the rest of the time to check the rest of the labs, there were only two other labs with trap doors, Kenny's lab and Butters's lab. What does it all mean, the trapdoors, the underground command center, Monokuma's office, Craig's name as the password, the white resurrection stones and vials of blood in Kenny's lab, Bebe's note, it's all connected somehow, we just needed to find out how, and we were about to begin.
The elevator door opened we all looked at each other, hesitated and then entered. One way or another this would be our last elevator ride. We were either going to leave the trial chamber and the ship alive, or we were going to join our friends in the morgue downstairs.
So many of our friends gone, Bebe, Kenny, Nichole, Heidi, Stan, Kyle, Wendy, Jimmy, Clyde, Eric, Tweek, and Butters. All of them victims to the despair of this killing game, but now we are going to end this once and for all. The mastermind will be defeated, our friends will be avenged, and then will leave this hellhole for good.
The elevator door opened and we walked into the trial chamber, all of our friends' portraits, including Butters's and Tweek's were there. They may not have made it to the end but they were with us in spirit and somehow, I knew they would help us out. The four of us took our places and Monokuma appeared in his chair. This is it no turning back now we've got a job to do and we're gonna do it even if it kills us. Here we go, good luck my friends, we're gonna need it.