Chapter 4 - Let The Game Begin (Part 4/Final)
I had to correct a little error on the previous chapter... I hope nobody noticed...
Okay so it's time for my favorite part: The Class Trial! I really liked writing it, so I hope you guys like it.
"Okay, dunces," Monokuma rudely said "Just take a place at one of the stands and let the game begin."
"Why do you gotta be so rude?" Bubblegum asked, as she placed at her stand.
Monokuma ignored and continued talking "The rules are simple. You'll debate on who's the culprit and once you think you already know them, you vote! If you get them right, the murderer will be punished. However, if you don't, then everyone with the exception of the murderer will bite the dust." he explained "Oh and If you decide not to participate, you'll be executed as well!"
As Blossom walked to her stand, she started examining this whole thing. Forming a large circle in the middle of the room were eighteen stands, one of which had a black and white picture of Jake with a giant red X over it. Blossom was seated between Finn and Gumball.
"Got it? Nice. Let's start with the trial!" Monokuma announced.
"Wait!" Bubbles shouted "What is that thing over there?" she pointed to Jake's picture.
"Oh that. It's not nice to exclude the dog just because he's dead." Monokuma responded "Now, onto Cartoon Network's Special Academy's first class trial!"
Class Trial Start!
"Ugh, do we really have to do this? It's pretty obvious that Blossom is the killer!" Mindy said, receiving glares from the powerpuff girls.
"We'll see that after the debate." Robin said calmly.
Mindy rolled her eyes "Come on, are you guys really that dense?" she spoke up "It's so obvious that it is Blossom the killer! How else could've the murderer enter the room when it was locked?"
"That is if it was ever locked. I don't remember locking the door when I left the room at night." Blossom said.
"Yeah, of course. That doesn't seem convenient at all." Mindy sarcastically said, rolling her eyes.
"Hey," Buttercup spoke up "Just because Jake's body was in Blossom's room, it doesn't mean Blossom was the one who killed him!"
"Actually, it kinda does." Mandy pointed out.
"Oh yeah? Can you explain it then?" Buttercup narrowed her eyes as she folded her arms.
"As you wish, kiddo." Mandy cleared her throat.
Non-Stop Debate!
"Jake was found inside of Blossom's room, right?" Mandy didn't wait for an answer and simply continued "Blossom's the only one who can access to her room... with her E-book." she said "Our E-books act as keys to our dorms and they're the only way a student can walk into his own dorm, isn't it right, Monokuma?"
"Yup, the blond girl with anger issues is right!" the bear nodded.
After glaring at the bear for a second, Mandy continued "So, unless Blossom has lost her handbook recently, she was the one who killed Jake. Have you lost your E-book recently, Blossom?"
"Uh... no, but-"
"And that proves my theory. I don't have anything else to say." Mandy finished.
"So Blossom's the culprit? Well, that was easy." Gumball seemed satisfied.
"I already told you I forgot to lock my door! Both Jake and the murderer could've entered easily!" Blossom shouted.
Mordecai ignored her "So, Blossom is clearly guilty because she has no proof she wasn't the murderer-"
"No!" Blossom contradicted "That's wrong!"
Contradiction! Verbal Bullet Used: Blossom's Alibi
"I'm wrong? Why then?" Mordecai frowned.
"Because I have some proof that I'm not the culprit." she revealed "I have an alibi! Tell 'em, Bubs!"
"Uh... oh yeah!" Bubbles cleared her throat "At around 3:10 AM, I went to Blossom's room to ask her if she could go sleep in my room because I was scared with this whole murder situation. She spent all the night in my room, so she couldn't be the killer."
"Yup. And guess what? The murderer happened around 3:20 AM, which was near the time I went to Bubbles' room, so, I'm innocent." Blossom said proudly.
"And how are we supposed to believe that?" Ben asked "You two could be working together, so both of you could escape the school!"
"That's impossible." Buttercup said "They wouldn't work without me!"
Blossom face-palmed "Buttercup, this is not the time." she muttered.
"Actually," this time Monokuma spoke up "Only the killer can leave the school, so there's no point on working with someone. Of course you can have an accomplice but they wouldn't be albe to graduate."
"See, that proves I'm not the killer!" Blossom said, with a sense of relief.
"Eh, not really." Mindy said "Jake was still murdered in your room. So, you're not completely innocent." she managed to smirk, despite the circumstances.
Blossom thought for a moment and then spoke up "Ah-ha!" she exclaimed "I do have something that can prove my innocence." she pulled her E-book from her pocket and showed everyone a photo of her doorknob "The broken doorknob."
"And how does this prove your innocence, exactly?" Mindy raised a brow.
"My doorknob was jammed and Bubbles, Buttercup and I were the only ones who knew how to open the door properly. You can ask Monokuma." Blossom said.
Everyone turned to Monokuma to know what he had to say "It's true." he shrugged.
"And that proves not only my innocence but also Bubbles and Buttercup's." Blossom finished.
"I guess you're not the murderer then." Ben said. "Sorry."
"Okay but now we're back to square one." Connie said "At least we had a suspect, now we have nothing."
"Not exactly." Robin said "We definitely know that someone forced the lock open."
"Yeah, the killer!" Dee Dee exclaimed.
"I... don't think so." Robin said "Maybe Jake was running from the killer and went to Blossom's room to hide. Then he tried to barricade the door, since he didn't have a key to lock it. That would explain the room's mess." he continued "Probably he tried to hide in the bathroom, meaning that Jake could be the one who tried to force the lock open, breaking the doorknob."
"But why would he go to Blossom's room and not to his own?" Darwin asked.
"Maybe because he saw Blossom's room door wasn't locked and decided to enter, since he was in a hurry." Robin explained.
"That's a good theory." Dexter said "It's just sad that we cannot find the culprit with that."
"True..." Robin uttered.
They all stood silent for a couple of seconds until Mandy finally spoke up "Since no one's going to say it, I will." she cleared her throat "Since, apparently, Blossom and her two assistants are ruled out," she said, receiving glares from Bubbles and Buttercup "I recall Princess Bubblegum for being absent this morning!" she pointed at the pink skinned girl, making everyone gasp.
"W- what?" Bonnie whimpered, taking a step back.
"What are you trying to insinuate?!" Finn furiously shouted.
"Don't act like you don't know." Mandy said "There were three people missing this morning, and those people were Bubbles, Jake and Bubblegum." she continued "And since one of them is dead and the other one is, apparently, not a suspect anymore, that raises the question: Where was Bubblegum during the time Jake's corpse was found?"
"Shut it! Bonnie wouldn't murder Jake! She was his friend!" Finn shouted.
"Calm down, man." Rigby told him.
"Don't you think that's a strong accusation, Mandy?" Connie inquired "After all, they really were friends."
"I don't remember ever accusing her." Mandy said "It's just that I find it weird that she wasn't present that time. So," she continued and now stared directly at the candy princess "Bubblegum, can you answer all of us this simple question: Where were you when Jake's body was found?"
"I was in my room, obviously!" she immediately shouted.
That's a lie!, Blossom thought, But why would she lie about it...
"Uh, what?" Finn turned to his fellow friend "Bonnie, that's a lie..."
"W- what...?" she uttered.
"We searched for you in your bedroom... You weren't there." he said.
"I- I..."
"Bonnie... did you kill Jake?" he asked, softly.
"What... of course not! Come on, Finn! You know I wouldn't do that!"
"Then tell us where you really were." Mandy said "If you tell us the truth then we'll brush it off and continue the case. If you don't... then we can proceed with the votes."
Bonnie lowered her head "I... I can't." she muttered.
"Well, let's start the votes then!" Mindy said with a giant smile on her face.
"Wait!" Robin shouted "I think there might be something that can tell Bubblegum isn't the killer."
"Really? What?" Gumball curiously asked.
"Blossom, you know what I'm talking about, right?" Robin asked her.
Blossom replied confused "I do?" but then it clicked "Oh! Are you talking about the trash bag?"
"A trash bag? A trash bag is going to prove her innocence?" Mindy raised a brow "Explain it!" she demanded.
"Robin found a trash bag inside the boy's bathroom. The trash bag had lots of glass shards, glass shards that could belong to my glass lamp." Blossom explained.
"Are those the same glass shards we found in your shower room, Blossom?" Steven asked.
"Exactly."
"Okay but how does that make the candy girl innocent?" Mindy asked.
"Because, the only way to enter the boy's bathroom is with a boy's handbook. And if it that trash bag was inside the boy's bathroom that means that-" Robin was interrupted by Dee Dee "The murderer is a boy!"
Almost everyone gasped in shock.
"Exactly." Robin said. "That is unless someone has lost their E-handbook recently. Has someone lost their handbook recently?"
Everyone said no.
"Then it's official. The murderer couldn't be Bubblegum, because it was a guy." he said, making Bonnie sigh in relief.
"Okay, which of you guys did it?" Mindy asked, looking at all the boys with a suspicious look.
"As if someone would admit something like that." Mandy rolled her eyes.
"Instead of asking every guy if they're the culprit, why don't we just go back to the basics?" Connie suggested "What killed Jake."
"Um... a knife?" Rigby responded as if it was the most obvious thing ever.
"Not just any knife, but a kitchen knife!" Bubblegum corrected him.
"Wait," Ben said "So if we discover who took the knife from the kitchen... we discover the murderer!"
"Wait really?" Mindy asked "Because I think I know who took the knife."
"Oh and you just decided it wasn't important to tell us?" Mandy folded her arms, clearly irritated.
"I didn't tell you because..."
"Because..." Dexter waited for her answer.
"Because..."
"Just spit it out already! We're running out of time!" Buttercup shouted.
"Because that person was Jake!" she shouted.
All pupils froze.
"J- Jake?" Finn whimpered.
"And how do you even know that?" Blossom asked.
"I know that because I was at the kitchen eating a sandwich when you were all doing your losers sleepover or whatever." she rolled her eyes. "And then Jake entered, but left, like, after a couple of seconds. I didn't pay him attention so he could've been the one taking the knife."
"But why would Jake need a knife?" Bubbles asked.
"Maybe for self-defense?" Gumball suggested "In this case it would make sense."
"I don't think that's the case." Bubblegum spoke up "He could've just locked himself in his room like everyone. Why would he go grab a knife?"
"Maybe..." Robin started "He was already planning on killing someone..."
Everyone stood silent for a couple of seconds.
"Jake was going to kill someone?" Finn furiously asked "What is wrong with you!"
"Hear me out, Finn. There's no other reason Jake would just steal a knife from the kitchen, if not to kill someone." Robin explained. "That would completely destroy my previous theory though."
"I don't think it would." Blossom said "Instead of Jake being the one trying to escape the killer, Jake was the killer and was the one running after someone here."
Non-Stop Debate!
"You are wrong! Jake wouldn't kill someone!" Finn shouted.
"Finn's right." Bonnie said "Jake is not a killer, he was not a bad person- I mean dog!"
"Yeah, he actually seemed like a really cool dude..." Mordecai commented.
"Exactly, he was!" Finn shouted, tears started forming in his eyes "Plus, he had absolutely no reason to do such thing!"
"That's wrong!" Blossom contradicted.
Contradiction! Verbal Bullet Used: Jake's CD
"He did have a reason." Blossom pulled Jake's CD from her pocket "We all had."
"That stupid CD from the computer room? It only showed a stupid couch or whatever." Mordecai folded his arms, with an unbothered look.
"I thought those CD's were fake!" Darwin said.
"Possibly not Jake's though. His CD was a lot more disturbing and realistic. And when I say a lot I mean a lot." Blossom said.
"Wait, you know what is in that CD?" Connie asked.
"Yeah, I found it on Jake's trash bin." Blossom said.
"How did you even enter his room?" Gumball asked, suspecting her.
"Monokuma unlocked the door for us." Buttercup responded.
"Yup!" Monokuma confirmed.
"Okay that's all fine and dandy," Rigby said "But who's the killer?"
"Oh yeah..." Robin uttered. "I don't know."
"Does anyone have any more clues?" Steven asked.
Blossom then remembered "I also found a broken E-book inside Jake's trash bin. Probably Jake's."
"What?" Mandy looked at her with a confused expression "Why would Jake break his own handbook?"
"Yeah, that doesn't make sense at all!" Dee Dee said.
"Do I look like I know?!" Blossom replied, annoyingly.
"Maybe he... forget it, I got nothing." Ben said.
It just doesn't make sense..., Blossom thought, Wait! What if-
"What if that's not Jake's handbook?" Robin suddenly spoke up, making everyone turn their attention towards him.
"What are you talking about now?" Mandy asked in annoyance.
"No one would just break their E-books before committing a murder... I believe that that was not Jake's E-handbook. But the murderer's instead!" he said, surprising everyone.
"And why would the murderer do that exactly?" Mindy inquired.
"To confuse us, of course!" Blossom exclaimed. "Maybe the murderer accidentally broke his E-book while the murder was happening." she suggested.
"But that would mean someone here doesn't have an E-book then." Bubblegum said "We all confirmed it earlier that we all had our E-books with us."
"Really, Princess?" Dexter spoke up "I thought you were smart enough to unsolve it."
"Oh and you know what happened, genius?" she raised a brow.
"I think I do." he cleared his throat "Since we all know we have our E-books here and the E-book that was inside Jake's room probably wasn't Jake's... that would mean that someone has Jake's handbook pretending it is his'!"
"And how do we discover if that's actually true?" Bubbles asked.
"Just watch." Mandy said. She pulled her E-handbook from her pocket and went to the app: Messages. She opened on Jake's chat and wrote 'Gotcha' and immediately sent it. There was a E-book that vibrated...
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... it was Rigby's... no, even better, Jake's...
Everyone was shocked. Rigby was the murderer.
"Care to explain, Rigby?" Mandy raised a brow, waiting for his answer.
"You typed the wrong person! I didn't kill Jake!" he shouted hysterically.
"Rigby... it's over..." Steven softly said.
"What do you mean 'it's over'?! I didn't kill Jake! I didn't!" he shouted even louder.
"Bro... really?" Mordecai felt like he was about to cry. His friend? A murderer?
"I didn't kill Jake! I'm telling ya!" he cried "And you have no proof I did it!"
"That's wrong!" Blossom contradicted once again.
Contradiction! Verbal Bullet Used: Dying Message
"What do you mean, I'm wrong?" he inquired, sweating of nervousness.
"There's a clue that could tell us that Rigby was in fact the murderer." Blossom said as she showed everyone a photo she had taken of the weird code she had found behind Jake's dead body.
"5OOF? Is that some kind of code?" Mindy asked.
"It's Jake's dying message. He probably wrote it to tell us who was the one that murderer him." Blossom explained.
"And how do we know if he was the one writing it?" Ben asked.
"I found blood on his left pointer finger." she revealed "That means that when he was being killed, leaning against the wall, he was writing that message."
"But how does that proves I'm the killer?" Rigby asked.
"Wait, if he wrote the message against the wall, doesn't that mean the message is upside down?" Darwin asked.
"Not exactly." Blossom explained "It would actually have to be flipped 180 degrees clockwise. And when that happens you get-"
Buttercup frowned "FOO5? That still doesn't make any sense!"
"That F looks more like and E to me." Mandy commented, her hand rasting on her chin.
Bubbles brightened "And that 5 could be an S!" her smile faded quickly, though "But that still doesn't help with anything."
Gumball grabbed Blossom's handbook "There's something wrong with these O's. They look kinda weird..."
"Hey, give me that!" Blossom took her E-book back "You're actually right. They look more like... like..."
"EGGS!" Finn shouted. "I think it says 'EGGS'!"
"Eggs? What do eggs have to do with me being the murderer?" Rigby furiously asked.
"Eggscellent?" Mordecai muttered.
Rigby gulped.
"No... No..." Rigby muttered to himself.
"Eggscellent, huh?" Mandy said "I don't think you should've shared that with us..."
"No! I didn't kill him! I swear!" Rigby shouted desperately.
"It's over, Rigby..." Blossom uttered "Just admit it..."
"No! No! No!" he shouted "I swear I didn't kill him!"
"I guess that's enough!" Monokuma exclaimed "Onto the votes!" He pulled a lever as a giant slot machine suddenly appeared behind Monokuma. The reeled spun quickly before each of them stopped on one person's face.
The person's face was Rigby's.
"W- what the hell, man!" Mordecai shouted furiously at his friend, tears forming in his eyes "Why did you kill him?!"
Rigby was trembling, his hand on his mouth "He... He was crazy! He was going to kill me!" he shouted.
"Oh, so now my brother was crazy! Don't try to lie to me, you son of a-" Finn was shouting like crazy but was cut off by Mandy.
"Care to explain, Rigby?"
Rigby sighed "Okay." he started explaining the whole event "It was 3:15 AM. I had woken up, hungry as hell. So I decided to go to the kitchen to get some food. Five minutes after and I was heading to my dorm, when I found someone standing down the hall. It was Jake. I called him and asked what he was doing there in the dark. He didn't respond, but he raised his hand. He was holding a big fat knife on his hand and started running after me. I didn't think twice and started running towards my bedroom to lock myself in it, but it was so dark I couldn't see it. I happened to see a dorm with its door slightly open so I just entered it. It happened to be Blossom's room which was empty."
He paused a little and then continued "I entered the room and immediately started moving everything to the door so he couldn't enter. I know that wasn't going to obstruct him forever so I decided to hide in the bathroom. However, it wasn't opening. I was hearing his footsteps getting closer and closer to the room so I just broke the doorknob in an attempt to open the door. It surprisingly worked and I walked in. But then I saw the glass lamp on Blossom's bedside table and I decided to just grab it for protection. A couple minutes later and he had succeeded on entering the room. I was trembling, I knew he was going to inspect the bathroom. Then the bathroom's door slowly opened. There he was. Jake was staring at me with an insane look! He was completely nuts! He raised his knife, ready to kill me, but then I just hit him on his head with the lamp, which broke in pieces in the process. He fell with that, and the knife too. I quickly grabbed the knife as he slowly stood up. I didn't even think twice and stabbed him. I stabbed him multiple times until I was sure he was dead." he stopped for a moment, letting some tears fall "I really didn't want to. But it was either he or me."
"Jake..." Finn whispered, before breaking down in tears.
"That makes sense." Dexter said "This whole murder didn't look like it was planned at all."
"What do you mean?" Blossom asked.
"There was blood on the faucet, which could be easily taken off. The glass shards were in a place literally every other guy could walk in. Overall, this really looks like something that wasn't planned."
"Okay, I'm tired of hearing you all." Monokuma said "Let's just start with the execution!" he rubbed his paws together.
"Hey, it was just self-defense!" Mordecai shouted "It wasn't on purpose!"
"Mordecai's right!" Connie shouted "He shouldn't be punished by defending himself!"
"Let the punishment begin!" Monokuma announced as he pressed a big red bottom.
Execution: Allergic Reaction
Rigby was tied with ropes in a chair, with a giant table right in front of him. He had a bib with a draw of a egg with a smile on his face and was wearing his famous hat, which was written 'I'm eggscellent'. In the table in front of him was a plate he knew by heart, the thing that almost killed him: the eggscellent from the eggscellent challenge. There was Monokuma seated in front of him, gesturing for him to eat the plate. Rigby shook his head, sweating. Monokuma then pulled a hand cannon out of nowhere and started shooting millions of eggs non-stop at Rigby's mouth. He shoot for a couple of seconds until Rigby finally fell to the ground, unconscious, not breathing at all. Dead... with an allergic reaction caused by the eggs.
Executed: Rigby
Almost all of the students were shaking by what they had just seen on the big screen.
"W- what was that...?" Dee Dee asked, trembling like crazy.
"That was an execution! Don't worry, you'll get used to them!" Monokuma exclaimed.
"How can you just act like nothing happened?!" Robin glared at him.
"Oh, poor innocent Robin," Monokuma started "This is just how the game is! Someone is killed and the despair increases." he turned to the other students "I think you should go get some sleep now. You look terrible! Bye bye!" he then walked away.
"I can't handle this!" Bubbles broke down "I can't be here anymore!"
"Bubbles, we'll get out of here, don't worry." Buttercup tried to comfort her sister.
"Bubbles' right... this is useless." Mordecai said with sadness in his voice "We might as well just wait for our deaths."
"Don't talk like that..." Blossom uttered "We can't give up on hope... that's exactly what the headmaster wants!"
"Sorry, guys," he said "I'm going to my room." he walked away.
"I'm going to bed too..." Finn said "This was a long day..."
A lot of people started walking to their dorms too.
"I think you should also get some sleep, Blossom." Robin said "We all should. This was a tiring day." he then walked out of the room.
"I guess he's right." she whispered to herself. She and her sisters made their way out of the room and headed to their rooms. Where they slept, waiting to see what future was holding for them.
Yes I know this case was easy but the first cases are always easy so...
The next ones will be more difficult, I promise...
What did you think of the trial and the execution? Was it good? Was it bad? Please tell me!
If you have execution ideas please PM me.