Kenny McCormick stood before us a grin of pure evil across his face. The four of us stared at him angry, shocked, and confused. How could he be the mastermind if he had his little sister on the outside waiting for him? How could someone who had so much love for another throw him into a killing game? Most importantly how and when did Kenny fall into despair?
"Well then why don't I begin telling you all the story of how this killing" Kenny said, "It's a fun one I promise."
"Fine let's hear it don't worry will still vote you down either way" Craig said
"Will see about that" Kenny said, "I take you all back to the night before we all woke up in our cabins, what is the last thing you guys remember doing?"
"I was asleep in my room" I answered, "I remember because I had gotten into it with my shitty parents again." Wait that can't be right how can that be I was in the UA site when the remnants kidnapped us.
"Your face says it all Mike, your memories are conflicting" Kenny said. "Well that's what happens when you use an untested amnesia program and implant one false memory. That was the higher ups decision, if it was up to me we'd let you keep all your good memories and then see who would still kill for a chance to escape. Wipe their memories they said, make it easier to start the killing game they said. In the end it didn't even matter, my ass still had to start the damn thing. If it wasn't for the Monokuma remote battery not being able to last I'd have stayed in the game longer."
"Monokuma remote" Token asked.
"Oh of course that little remote we found in the control room" I said.
"Bingo, that remote was meant to control Monokuma while my spies and I played the killing game" Kenny said, "but the remote was on the verge of dying so I took out Bebe and got myself executed so I could work from the control room and manually control the bear. Sucks that I couldn't play the game though my spies are both dead and now I have to finish this game alone."
"About your spies Kenny" I began, "who is the other one? We know Eric was one of them and he's dead, but there were two based on my memories and some of the evidence we found in the control room."
"What evidence might that be" he asked.
"The Monokuma plushie and hairpins, they aren't on you right now so I'd venture a guess that they belonged to your second spy, tell us who that person is" I demanded.
"You're the know it all you figure it out" Kenny said, "it wouldn't be any fun if I gave you all of the answers."
Think back Mike, think back to all the past cases, all of the evidence and all of our fallen classmates, the details, there has to be something that gave us hints to the second spy. Was there anything in the second case? No Nichole tried to kill for more information but there wasn't anything there. What about the double murder, did that one leave anything behind? I doubt it, Wendy killed out of jealousy not because of any information. Clyde was manipulated by Eric to kill Bebe after we brought her back, but he's already dead. Wait, Eric's case, that's it.
"I have an idea of how we can figure out who the other spy is, but to do that we need to look at the murder of Eric Cartman case again" I said.
"Why that one" Craig asked.
"Trust me Craig" I said, "I have a theory." I know that looking at that case again would bother him given the outcome but there is something there we need to find I know it.
"The murder case of Eric Cartman" Token began, he was killed in the machine room down in the basement."
"The cause of death was explosive force trauma due to the explosion" Henrietta said, "Tweek and Butters turned the fuse box into a bomb and blew him away."
"What's the point of this" Kenny asked, "it doesn't change the facts of the case. Tweek and Butters killed Eric and were executed for it." While that may be true, he's leaving out a very important detail.
"No that's wrong" I said. "Your leaving out a very important detail Kenny, and I'm pretty sure you're doing it intentionally."
"What might that be" Kenny asked.
"You didn't know who the killer was remember, you joined the class trial to help us figure out who the culprit was because you didn't even know."
"Big deal, so I didn't know who the killer was at first" Kenny said, "Tweek and Butters confessed to the deed so all is well that ends well."
"How did you confirm we were right" I asked, "you went off our theories and my deductions but you had no way of knowing who the killer actually was, the only way you could've confirmed that our vote was correct is if you were able to confirm that the confession that Tweek and Butters gave was correct truthful."
"Mike do you realize what your insinuating here" Craig asked.
"Yes, yes I do Craig" I said with a solemn voice, "but there were two hatches into the labyrinths from their respective labs."
"Wait did I miss something here" Token asked, "what is he insinuating Craig?"
"Mike believes that the second spy was either Tweek or Butters, and that one of their executions was staged" Craig answered.
"Not staged exactly" I said, "we saw them both perish, but considering what we found in Kenny's lab death is a rather small matter to overcome here."
"The resurrection stones" Henrietta said, "Kenny resurrected the second spy in order to confirm that he indeed was the one who took out Eric."
"Kenny there's something I need to know" I said to him, "all this aside I need to ask you a personal question. You didn't want to execute Butters did you, the way Monokuma spoke when we announced that it was Punishment time he seemed depressed about this."
Kenny's face turned red with anger, "Mike this isn't relevant to the trial so back off."
"It's completely relevant, you had feelings for him, real feelings, and you still executed him" I shouted. "How can you stand there and act like all this madness is just a game when you killed the one you loved!"
"Shut up damn it" Kenny shouted, "shut the fuck up or I swear to god I'll kill you now!"
"No, I won't" I shouted back, "tell me why you killed him goddamn it, tell me why you killed the most innocent person on this god forsaken boat, Butters only killed because your killing game and your spy drove him to the edge, how can you live with yourself knowing you caused his death in every sense of the word!"
"I didn't want to alright" Kenny shouted. The room fell silent, Kenny just made a fatal error, one that I was hoping to catch him in.
"You didn't want to" Token asked. "You're the mastermind, if you change the rules what does it matter?"
"You are not working alone….are you" I asked. "Now it makes sense."
"What makes sense" Henrietta said.
"It's because he's not the mastermind" I said. Everyone was shocked when I said this. "Kenny the night that Butters had that dream when he saw you, that was real wasn't it you left the control room to go and see him and when he woke up unexpectedly, you told him he was dreaming, all that about how he should move on and find someone else, that was all made up on the spot, seeing us together must have destroyed you didn't it."
Kenny grabbed his podium tightly and gritted his teeth, he and I both were thinking the same thing, he was caught, or rather his boss had inadvertently been caught.
"Your right Mike" he finally said, "I was really there that night, I had to see him in person, not just through a computer screen."
"You're not the mastermind are you Kenny, you're the second spy" I said. "The mastermind has been watching this entire exchange go down. He's been watching us through Monokuma this whole time."
Kenny didn't respond at first then he chuckled, "you deduced that right from the start didn't you, tell me when?"
"When you intentionally left out the part about you not knowing who the killer was, you didn't do it intentionally, you made a mistake and realized it too late" I answered.
"So, all the way back then huh, I should've figured" he said with a smirk on his face. "Well then, I'm guessing you figured out who the mastermind is already, why don't you enlighten us, enlighten us on his whole scheme."
I nodded in agreement, all the pieces had finally made sense, the true mastermind, the one who had a fooled from the beginning, he can't hide from me any longer.
"The truth of the case is revealed" I said.
"From the very beginning, the true mastermind has been playing us. After Monokuma announced how the killing game was going to work he and his two spies had begun taking the steps to ignite the killing game. I can only deduce the mastermind managed to meet up with his two spies in secret to plan how it would all work.
Thanks to Kenny's immortality, the mastermind knew that his death could be faked and that he would be able to control Monokuma once the remote control being used ran out of power. The mastermind gave the order and Kenny began to plot out the murder he would soon commit. His target, the Ultimate Fashionista, was just a crime of opportunity he had every intention on getting caught. At the class trial we easily confirmed he was the killer because he grabbed the knife from the kitchen without being stealthy about it, he was easily caught by Butters. I'd venture a guess that the mastermind was on the cameras and waiting for someone to come to the kitchen, once he caught Butters on the camera he had Kenny move in and grab the knife clearly being caught. Once he was found guilty Monokuma executed him, of course now we know he survived and was the one controlling Monokuma from that point on.
Meanwhile, Eric and the mastermind continued on in the killing game. Eric went out of his way to make every suspect him and hate him, while the real mastermind went out of his way to make everyone like him. After we discovered the first piece of project UA the mastermind noticed that the info we found was of pure interest to Nichole. The mastermind noticed this and waited for the opportunity to head to the control room, he used the hatch in his lab to do this. He had Kenny make a second motive video after we locked away the first one. Once that was done Kenny waited until we were all out of our rooms for the day, slipped the video into Nichole's room, then sat back to watch the fireworks alongside Eric and the Mastermind.
He had Kenny do something similar for the third case as well, only this time the Mastermind had Kenny use photographs to jumpstart Wendy's memory and drive her to jealousy and as a result she fell into despair and committed two murders. That's when things changed, if I had to guess Kenny was in charge of setting up the motives and watching for a murder, and Eric's job was to shake suspicion off the mastermind. Assuming that theory is true, when Eric convinced Clyde to kill Bebe, it wasn't under the mastermind's orders.
Eric was hated at this point, if the killing game continued he'd be the next to die. The mastermind took this opportunity to get rid of a liability, Eric was probably going to be killed even if the mastermind won in the end, his going rouge and planning to expose the mastermind just expedited that process. The mastermind selected a patsy, someone to use to get rid of Eric and thereby be executed along with him. That pasty was Butters, the mastermind came up with the murder plot and the two of them carried it out.
The mastermind had every intention of being caught and executed and manipulated Butters to that mindset as well, that their actions would be justified. Once the job was done and we went to the fifth trial, the culprits were discovered and of course were executed. That as it turns out was the masterminds plan to exit the killing game before he was discovered, he didn't count on Kenny's emotions getting the best of him. Kenny used the resurrection stone to revive the mastermind and the two of them went into hiding. Once we discovered the truth about Kenny, the mastermind had him join us here in the trial chamber and hopefully get us to vote him the mastermind. Just like with Butters's execution, he didn't count on Kenny's emotions getting the better of him."
"The person behind this whole game, the one responsible for everything, the true mastermind who has been hiding in the shadows since the moment Butters, Kenny, Wendy, Bebe, and I ran into him and his now husband. He went so far as to get married in front of all of us, everything he could to shake suspicion off of him."
"You're watching us right now aren't you, The Ultimate Barista Tweek Tucker!"
I looked at the others they all had different expressions. Kenny had the same face he had when we discovered his crime, Token and Henrietta were unsure about all of this, and Craig had a look of pure anger towards my accusation.
"You bastard, how dare you" Craig shouted, "how dare you accuse my husband, disgracing the dead is unforgivable. I thought we were on the same side now, we trusted you after what you said with project UA and you go and say that! Henrietta, Token, can you believe this bastard?!" Henrietta and Token looked at each other they weren't sure what to believe I could see the look of despair on their faces. The room fell silent for a moment.
"How did we get out of the labyrinth" I asked breaking the silence. Token and Henrietta looked at me shocked. "Think about it, when we climbed out of the labyrinth where did we end up in?"
"We ended up in Tweek's lab" Token said. "The hatch in his lab, oh my god, he, he is the mastermind!"
"No, he's not" Craig shouted, "we all saw him drown in that coffee pot, we all saw him die! I saw my husband die goddamn it! Henrietta you believe me, right?"
Henrietta didn't respond, she had put the pieces together but she couldn't believe it nor could she look at Craig. Craig looked back to me, the look on his face said it all, he couldn't believe it, he couldn't believe the man that he loved enough to marry was the one who set this all up. Craig looked down at the floor his eyes refusing to meet any of ours, his fists shaking. The room fell silent once again but only for a moment, then a voice we didn't expect to hear echoed out. It was Monokuma, he hadn't spoken at all since Kenny's arrival but now he had finally spoken again, or rather he laughed his usual laugh. He stopped and we never heard his voice again but the next words that came out of the bears mouth were ones I never thought I'd hear again.
"Well then, I guess it's my turn to join the party" the voice said. The voice of the true mastermind had finally broken his silence.
Monokuma disappeared into a plume of smoke and in his place stood one of our classmates we assumed had perished. Standing tall in black dress shoes and dress pants, a green button up and a white vest and tie, sporting those Monokuma hair pins we found in the control room and holding the Monokuma plushie was the Ultimate Barista Tweek Tucker appearing before us once again. Craig's eyes widened as he saw his husband standing before him, he wasn't the only one, I may have determined who was the mastermind but even I was shocked. This wasn't the same Tweek we've come to know, he was completely different.
"So, based on your expressions I'm guessing you didn't expect this huh" Tweek said.
"Tweek your, your alive, and you're really the mastermind" Craig said.
Tweek started laughing maniacally it was a laugh so evil it reminded me of Wendy's when she fell into despair, but this was different, Tweek hadn't fallen into despair, it's as if he had retained complete control over despair. Tweek crossed his arms made, the hard rock symbol in both of his hands, stuck out his tongue and spoke once more.
"That's right bitches, the true mastermind is revealed, the Ultimate Despair, Tweek Motherfucking Tucker!"
"Congrats Craig, you figured it out" Tweek started, "now then let's see if you can keep your promise!"