Chapter 16 - Twist After Twist (Part 4/Final)
Sorry for taking another whole month to update. I hope this chapter makes up for it somehow.
I loved reading your theories and honestly all of them had something true on them but there was something that was missing...
Well, this is my biggest chapter yet with exactly 7411 words... Enjoy!
"Come on, did nobody really like my special entrance?" Monokuma whined.
"Shut up, Monobear. Let's just get this over with." Dexter coldly said, already placed on his stand.
"Ugh, you guys are party poopers." he folded his arms "Whatever, this one is going to be an interesting one for sure." he rubbed his paws together, while smiling evilly.
"You say that about all of the trials." Mandy rolled her eyes.
"Now, let the fourth trial commence! Y'all already know the rules." he announced, completely ignoring Mandy's comment.
Class Trial Start!
"How do we even start?" a trembling Bubbles asked.
"Well, there's a lot to talk about this case." Blossom said "Should we talk about Dee Dee first?"
"No." Mandy simply replied, her arms folded.
"...And why not?" Blossom frowned, confused as to why Mandy had refused her suggestion.
"Because we have to start this from the very beginning! Ugh, amateurs." she grumbled.
"You know, I think Mandy is right." Robin spoke up "We should recap everything that led to the discovery of the bodies."
"Okay then." Blossom said, trying to remember the sequence of events that had led to the murder. She cleared her throat "As far as I remember, at exactly 8AM we all found the riddle Monokuma had left for us. Then we split and tried to search for a supposed key. Then, at around 09:13 AM, the sound of a loud gunshot coming from the third floor was heard."
"And that's when we all appeared." Finn said. "So, who found the bodies?"
"Well," Robin started "the body discovery announcement rang when Blossom and I appeared on the crime scene. But-"
"- According to the tenth Monokuma Rule, the alarm only sets off when three people other than the murderer find the body." Mandy said, interrupting the teen titan "Meaning someone else found the body before everyone did."
"Yeah, thanks Mandy." Robin replied calmly.
"Didn't that happen on the other case?" Steven asked "I'm pretty sure it happened the same when Ben's body was found."
"Yes. Bubbles had seen it before Robin and Blossom did." Dexter confirmed "It seems like the situation is repeating itself..."
"Well, who did it?" Finn asked, as if actually waiting for someone to admit.
"I hope you're not expecting a response." Buttercup said, poker faced "It's obvious that whoever saw the bodies first won't admit it."
"But it's not like they're the killer." Steven said "That would just make them innocent immediately... Right?"
"Right." Robin nodded "This would make them innocent since they would be the first person to find the body."
After that, silence was formed. Everyone just stared at each other waiting for someone to admit.
"...Really?! No one?" Mandy grumbled. "Ugh! Way to help us figure this out."
"Well, I guess it kinda makes sense." Blossom said.
"What do you mean?" Mandy raised a brow.
"Although it would erase them as suspect, it would still be obvious they were somehow connected to all of this."
"Uh, I don't get it." Bubbles admitted, looking pretty confused.
"Don't bother understanding it. Isn't it obvious?" Mandy looked at her peers.
"What?" Buttercup asked, looking as confused as everyone else with Mandy's words.
"Oh I don't know," she rolled eyes "Maybe the fact that one of the powerpuff girls did this!" she accused, making everyone in the room gasp in shock.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Buttercup folded her arms, glaring at her.
"Let's see." the blonde girl cleared her throat "If you all remember the motive, it specifically said that the murderer could choose someone to leave the school with. That would mean that one of the three groups of people that already knew each other before this would team up to finally get out. But wait, two people from two of these groups are dead! And who's in the group where everyone is still alive? Exactly. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup."
This explanation left some of the pupils think about the possibility. Mandy did have a point. However, Blossom wasn't satisfied.
"Really, Mandy?" Blossom folded her arms, an eyebrow raised "Are you forgetting the fact that we are three?! Only two of us would escape the school if that was the case."
"Yeah and?"
"... And none of us would do something that horrible!" Blossom stated the obvious.
"Plus, simply accusing them as killers when your only piece of evidence is the motive isn't really a smart move in this situation, considering our lives depend on this." Robin said.
Mandy folded her arms and looked away "Whatever. It was just an observation. And it's not like it was impossible for them to do it, anyways." she uttered, rolling her eyes.
Dexter sighed "Well, with this little... conversation out of the way, I think we should actually talk about the murder and the victims." he said, before looking down thinking about his sister.
"Dexter is right. We lost time with Mandy's theory." Blossom said, glaring at the blonde girl, who was still looking away, unbothered. "Let's talk about Gumball and Dee Dee."
"Since these stupid Monokuma files didn't have enough information-" Mandy was interrupted by Monokuma.
"Hey, appreciate my work, you angry elf! I could've just left you all lost and given you zero clues!" he protested.
"Elf?" Bubbles asked, she stared at her sisters who simply shrugged in response.
"Well, it wouldn't make much difference since nothing there was useful!" Mandy snapped at him.
"Kids these days don't respect their elders." Monokuma grumbled before becoming quiet again.
"Continuing," she glared at Monokuma for a brief moment "since there wasn't enough information on the monokuma files, I asked Robin to do an autopsy of the bodies."
"Yeah, we saw it. We were all there." Buttercup dryly replied.
Mandy ignored Buttercup and continued "So, Robin, could you share your findings with us?"
"Sure." he nodded.
Non-Stop Debate!
"Tell us about Dee Dee first." Mandy ordered "What happened to her?"
"Apart from the her body being awfully mutilated, there were five stab wounds that seemed to not have been enough to actually kill her and I also found some marks on her neck. I cant tell its causes though." he revealed.
"Hmm" Finn thought "How do you know the five stab wounds really didn't kill her. I mean, it were five of them!"
"Because they weren't deep enough to actually kill her. The murderer must've noticed it and then found another way to kill her." Robin said.
"Okay but what would that way be?" Buttercup asked.
Robin thought for a bit "I actually have no idea..."
"Well if her body was mutilated I think she could have been killed by some random dog in the dog room." said Steven.
"A dog? Really?" Dexter inquired "Yeah as if any of the dogs would do this out of nowhere."
"Actually that could be a possibility. The Monokuma Files said that flesh had been ripped out of her body." Robin reminded.
"Yeah but I bet there's nothing that pro-"
"That's wrong!" Blossom immediately contradicted.
Contradiction! Verbal Bullet Used: Blood
"There's an obvious proof that indicates she was murdered by a dog in the dog room." Blossom said.
"The Blood." Finn revealed "There was blood inside of the big Rottweiler's glass cage and some came out of it too."
"Well, how do you know it's Dee Dee's?" Dexter said while crossing his arms.
"Dexter, she had bite marks on her body and there was no blood around her body. Only around Gumball's." Blossom said "She probably died from blood loss."
"Are you guys really forgetting the fact that we found her in the arcade? How could've the murderer dragged her to the arcade when there was no blood trail?!" the boy genius questioned.
"There was actually a trail that stopped right at the entrance of the arcade. But it seemed (badly) cleaned up." Mandy responded, while showing a picture of what she had described that she had taken from her handbook.
"And I actually found a bloody mop in the room." Bubbles revealed "It could have been used to clean the trail."
"... But it doesn't make sense!" Dexter said while covering his face with his hands, not giving up "Why would the dog murder her? You would expect that such a privileged school to at least have trained their security dogs!"
"Hey! Don't insult our dogs like this!" Monokuma spat at him "I can guarantee to you that those animals have been trained by the best dog trainers in the world."
"Yeah, of course they were." Mandy replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"If they supposedly were so well-trained, why would one of them suddenly snap like that?" the boy genius asked.
"For real though, Dexter's right." Robin thought aloud. "There had to be a motive why the dog just viewed Dee Dee as food."
"Ugh, here we go again." Buttercup grumbled.
Non-Stop Debate!
"Robin and I are right. The dog wouldn't just bite Dee Dee like that. Something else must've happened." Dexter said.
"Are you serious right now?" Mandy grumbled "It's literally just a dog! It's not a rational being. Of course he would he would bite her if someone pushed her in its cage!"
"But you're forgetting about the fact that these dogs are really well trained. Just as Monokuma just said." Finn said.
"Are you guys just going to believe what that talking toy is saying?" she rolled her eyes "The murderer just pushed Dee Dee in there and the dog killed her. And nothing more happened!"
"I disagree!" Blossom stated.
Contradiction! Verbal Bullet Used: Dog Room's Feeder Timer
"Although it would be really easy to believe the dog just killed Dee Dee and possibly even tried to... eat her," Blossom hesitated "I don't think that's what happened."
"Of course you don't." Mandy muttered.
"Finn and I found the dog room's feeder timer broken." the powerpuff girl revealed.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that." the adventurous boy said.
"So it's true?" Dexter asked "It was broken?"
Blossom nodded "Yeah. And it stopped its countdown at exactly 26 minutes. Probably the time left to finally feed them."
"Excuse me, what does this have to do with all of this?" Mandy folded her arms.
"If the feeder timer was broken that means that the dogs were never fed." Blossom explained "That explains why she was all bitten. The murderer knew that the dog was going to be fed at that time, so they basically-"
"Replaced Dee Dee with its food..." Dexter muttered under his breath. Some tears started appearing on his eyes, but he quickly brushed them away and tried to look firm again.
"Man, that's just too cruel..." Buttercup commented.
"Who would do something like this?!" Finn exclaimed.
"I still think it was one of the colored girls." Mandy simply commented, receiving glares from the powerpuff girls.
"You know, Mandy," Steven started "You talk a lot for someone who could be easily involved on this whole situation."
That made her turn to him "What are you talking about?"
"Robin, the note." he said. Robin then took a note out of his pocket and showed to everyone.
"What is that?" Darwin opened his mouth for the first time in the trial.
"While I was doing the autopsy of the bodies I found this note on Dee Dee's pocket." he revealed.
"What are you waiting for? Read it." Dexter demanded.
Robin cleared his throat and read it "Hello, Dee Dee, could you please meet me in the dog room? From, Mandy."
The pupils that didn't know about the note, with the exception of Mandy, gasped at that.
"W- what?" Darwin covered his mouth.
"No way..." Finn muttered.
"For real...?" Dexter uttered.
"Do you have anything to tell us, Mandy?" Buttercup glared at her, waiting for her to speak.
Mandy remained silent for a couple seconds until finally speaking up "Oh come on!" she crossed her arms "Are you guys really that dense? Are we just going to forget about Connie's murder? Mordecai wrote a note incriminating Steven!"
"She has a point..." Finn commented.
"That doesn't make you innocent, though." Buttercup said.
"Okay then," the blonde girl replied "If I was the murderer how could I have received this!" she said before pulling a note out of nowhere and showing it to everyone.
"What's that?" Bubbles asked.
"This here is a note that I received about thirty minutes before hearing the body discovery announcement. It says this," she cleared her throat "Hello, Mandy, could you please meet me in the dog room? From, Dee Dee."
Everyone else gasped at this.
Blossom raised a brow "Wait a minute. How can we be sure you're not the one who wrote it to take the suspicions away from you?" she asked, suspicious of the blond girl.
"I actually don't think that's the case." Robin was the one to speak up "Mandy, could you pass me the note, please?"
"Whatever." Mandy shrugged, passing the the note to person beside her until it finally got to Robin. He looked at Mandy's note and them at Dee Dee's note.
"No way..." Robin muttered out loud in disbelief.
"What is it Robin?" Blossom asked, noticing Robin's expression.
"These notes..." he started "They have the exact same writing..."
"Really?" Blossom inquired, curiously.
"Yeah look." the two notes passed through the nine peers left until they finally got to Robin again.
"You're right. The same handwriting, the same style, nothing different." Blossom confirmed.
"Wait so, what does this mean exactly?" Finn asked.
"I think the murderer sent a note to both Dee Dee and Mandy so one of them would show up so he could kill them." Robin stated.
"And since I'm not dumb, of course I didn't go to the dog room." Mandy finished, crossing her arms.
"We cannot say the same for Dee Dee though..." Buttercup sadly said.
"Sadly, Dee Dee fell for the murderer's trap and got... killed." Robin concluded.
Dexter sighed sadly at that.
Robin said "Now we know that not only Blossom and I are ruled out as suspects, but also Mandy I guess."
"And Dexter and Darwin are obviously innocent." Blossom said as if it was completely obvious.
"So, it has to be... one of those four." Mandy concluded, referring to Finn, Steven, Bubbles and Buttercup.
The four main suspects stared at each other suspiciously.
Bubbles and Buttercup are two of the main suspects, Blossom thought, I've got to prove they're innocent somehow, there's just no way one of them did this whole mess...
"I think we should do a quick recap about what we just discovered." Blossom suggested.
"Alright." Mandy cleared her throat "We know that the murderer sent a note to both Dee Dee and I to meet them in the dog room so they could kill one of us. In the end Dee Dee went there and was killed by the Rottweiler in the dog room."
Steven continued "The reason why the dog mutilated Dee Dee so violently is because the murderer broke the dog room's feeder timer. And she most likely died of blood loss."
"And this all happened while searching for something that didn't even exist." Robin finished, looking away.
"Huh? W-what do you mean, Robin?" Bubbles asked, as confused with Robin's statement as almost everyone else.
"Wait, do you mean the riddle was fake?!" Buttercup's eyes widened.
He nodded "Yup. I've been thinking about it since the moment I first saw it. Why would Monokuma offer us a way out of this school at this point?"
"It actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it." Blossom agreed "The riddle actually asked us to stay in the first and second floors and don't go to the third one because there would only be 'boredom'. It seems to me that it was just so the murderer could've killed Dee Dee and Gumball in secret."
"Hey, MonoClod!" Mandy called him, who appeared to be sleeping.
The bear jolted awake and rubbed his eyes "Hmm... what is it?"
"Were you really sleeping at a moment like this?" Dexter frowned.
"A bear needs its beauty sleep." he yawned loudly.
"You sure do." Buttercup snickered.
"Shut it! Now, why did you wake me up?"
"Did you ever give a riddle that said you'll help us out of here?" Mandy asked, glaring at him.
"What?!" he shook his head "Nope! I would never do that! That would ruin the whole fun of this game."
"I'll give you the fun." muttered Mandy.
"As I suspected, this riddle wasn't written by Monokuma." Robin said. "It was obviously written by the murderer."
"Now we just gotta find out who that is..." Finn said.
The peers looked at each other in suspicion before actually going back to discussing the murder.
"Well, we talked about Dee Dee. It's time to talk about the blue one." Mandy said.
"His name was Gumball." Darwin glared at her.
"Yeah that does it too." she continued.
"Well," Dexter thought aloud "The gun used to kill him wasn't in the crime scene as far as I know... Did anyone find it?"
"Yeah, I actually did." Steven said "It was back in the armory."
"And the weird part is that, according to the armory's sign in sheet, Gumball was the one who took the gun and also put it back..." Bubbles said.
"What's weird about that?" Mandy asked.
"The gun was first taken at 08:56 and was brought back 09:15... which means, it was brought back after the body discovery announcement, which was around 09:15 too. " Buttercup explained.
"Wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense!" Finn exclaimed.
"Yeah, that would mean he put it back in the armory after he was dead, which is impossible. Something's fishy..." Mandy commented.
"But we also discovered that the writing that supposedly Gumball used to sign the paper when he took the gun wasn't the same he used to put it back. Meaning that the person who took it isn't the same one who put it back." Steven concluded "...Right?"
"Exactly, Steven." Blossom smiled at him.
Robin thought for a bit until he eventually realized something "Guys, I think I figured it out. I know exactly who killed Dee Dee." he said.
"Really?! Who?!" Dexter curiously asked. The other pupils looked at him with the same curiosity.
"Gumball. Gumball was the one who killed Dee Dee." he said, confidently.
Non-Stop Debate!
"Gumball?" Finn incredulously repeated "That's crazy! In case you haven't noticed, Gumball's dead!"
"There is some substancial evidence that I found concerning the status of Gumball's body." he replied "I'm talking about =his hands=."
"His hands? What is it with his hands?" Darwin asked angrily.
"While I was doing the autopsy, I discovered rope burns on his hands. I believe they coincide with the marks Dee Dee has on her neck." Robin explained.
"Well, the Rottweiler in the dog room could've easily done that. We know that it killed her. What could've stopped it from scratching her neck?" Mandy said.
"Mandy's right!" Dexter exclaimed "Plus, that can't be possible because there are no ropes in this school! There's no way Gumball could've killed Dee Dee!"
"No! That's wrong!" Blossom contradicted.
Contradiction! Verbal Bullet Used: =his hands=
"Actually, it is very possible that Gumball was the one who killed Dee Dee." Blossom said "Robin claims he saw rope burns on his hands, which coincide with Dee Dee's scratches on her neck. And the rope could've come from the storage room in the dog room."
"Your mere theories don't make Gumball the culprit of this case. As I already said, the scratches could've come from the dog itself. Although there could be a rope. We cannot confirm it." Mandy said.
"Mandy's right! You can't confirm it because it's a lie! Gumball wouldn't kill anyone!" Darwin shouted angrily.
"And you know what else we can't confirm?" Mandy continued "If Robin's autopsy is really right." she said.
"What do you mean by that?" Blossom raised a brow "You told him to do the autopsy, didn't you?"
"Yes, I did ask him to the the autopsy. But now that I think about it, it could have been a mistake." she admitted "You see, by doing the autopsy he could've lied about every single pormenor. He could be lying about everything that we discovered until now so that he could waste our time." she explained.
"But I didn't!" he exclaimed "I would never do that."
"Okay then, I suppose you took some pictures on your handbook so we could see that what you're saying is true, right?" she asked.
"I... I admit I did not do that." he admitted, gulping "But it's not like I would remember at a time like that."
"Oh, you wouldn't?" Mandy questioned, obviously not expecting a response "Blossom and I actually showed you guys pictures about our findings. Are you telling me that one of the smartest people here, you, would forget such an important pormenor?"
"Mandy's right! You could've been tricking us from the beginning!" Dexter exclaimed, glaring at him.
"I can't believe it!" Finn exclaimed in shock.
"Wait no!" Blossom interjected "What's wrong with you guys?! I thought we had already stablished that Robin was innocent! After all, me and him found the bodies!"
"We know that, Blossom." Mandy rolled her eyes "But just because he isn't the murderer, it doesn't mean he doesn't have to do with the murder."
"Huh?" Blossom inquired.
"Also, notice how quick you were to defend him?" Mandy noticed "That's why I believe someone here is working together!"
The rest of the pupils gasped in shock.
"In fact, I have a theory," Mandy said "Robin and Blossom obviously didn't kill Dee Dee and Gumball. But who, out of the rest of us, would be willing to kill them and choose Robin and Blossom to leave the school with them?"
"Wait, you don't mean-" Dexter started.
"Yes. I think that the true culprit, or should I say culprits are Bubbles and Buttercup!" she accused.
Everyone, apart from Robin and Mandy gasped.
"No way..." Steven muttered.
"What?! How could you say that?!" Buttercup angrily spat at her.
"Oh, this is getting interesting." Monokuma rubbed his paws.
"Exactly what I'm saying. I would say one of them killed Gumball and the other one killed Dee Dee." Mandy finished.
"What the hell is your problem?!" Buttercup shouted. "How could we kill two people? That would never work!"
"Technically," Monokuma started "It could work if the murders had happened at the same time."
"What?!" Buttercup shouted.
"We didn't do anything!" Bubbles desperately exclaimed.
"Lies! These are all lies!" Blossom shouted but with no avail, everyone was already stuck with Mandy's idea.
"That actually makes sense..." Dexter thought.
"I can't believe you tried to put the blame on my brother!" Darwin angrily shouted and then got back to crying silently.
"No, this is wrong! We didn't plan this!" Blossom kept on trying to tell them. She looked at Robin, who looked back at her with his eyes widened. He also didn't know how to prove everyone else wrong.
I can't believe this, everyone thinks this was all a plan all along, Blososm thought, I have to show them! I have to show them the truth!
Non-Stop Debate!
"So, Mandy believes that this was all a plan so that Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup and Robin would all leave the school..." Dexter said "It's definitely a good theory and it makes sense."
"No! You guys are wrong! Stop with believing Mandy! She knows nothing!" Buttercup shouted.
"Judging by their reactions, they're obviously mad I found out about their plan." Mandy said, crossing her arms proudly, although she didn't really show any type of emotion.
"Oh shut up! How can you make this type of accusation without actual proof? AND WHY IS EVERYONE BUYING IT?!" Buttercup continued.
"Just admit it already so we can vote. This is getting tiring already." Mandy said in a yawn.
"Yeah just admit that you guys are the culprits and that you have no proof Gumball was actually the killer!" Darwin exclaimed angrily.
"That's wrong!" Blossom shouted.
Contradiction! Verbal Bullets Used: Monokuma's Riddle, Dee Dee's and Mandy's Notes, Armory's Sign-In-Sheet
"I don't know why Mandy is so willing to put the blame on me and my sisters, and although I can't exactly prove you guys they're innocent, I can tell that Gumball was definitely Dee Dee's killer." Blossom said.
"We're listening." Mandy frowned.
Blossom sighed "I believe that if we compare the handwriting of everything, it could coincide with Gumball's writing." she said "Just see."
She pulled her handbook from her pocket and showed everyone the paper Gumball supposedly had written his name from the armory. She then asked for Dee Dee's and Mandy's noted and before showing them to everyone she looked carefully at the writing. It was definitely identical. "See!"
Everyone stared in attention at the writing. They could confirm that the writing was definitely similar.
Before anyone else could say anything, Blossom pulled the fake riddle out of her pocket and showed it to everyone, alongside the other writings. She passed the proves through everyone in the trial. When they finally handed them to her, Finn decided to speak up.
"Not gonna lie, the writing is really identical." he admitted.
"In fact it really is." Dexter said "But technically that doesn't make Gumball the killer. Someone could've make it seem like it was him by writing his name on the armory's sign in sheet."
"Not really. Monokuma himself said that we had to put our names there if we were going to borrow a weapon." Blossom said "Isn't it right, Monokuma?"
"Yup, that's right!" the bear confirmed "If they don't then they're punished!"
"But what about the person who brought the gun back to the armory? Wouldn't they get punished then?" Finn asked.
"Not really. At that time a murder had just occurred. And it's obvious that Monokuma loves these trials, so punishing the person who brought the gun back would just take all the fun out of this for him." she glared at the bear.
"Guilty!" Monokuma exclaimed, while laughing quietly.
"Asshole." Buttercup muttered.
"NO!" Darwin shouted "Gumball would never do that!" he exclaimed angrily, as tears started running down his face.
Blossom looked sadly at him "Darwin, I know it's hard to believe but-"
"No! Shut up!" Darwin continued "That's not right! Shut up!"
"Darwin," Robin started "everything is pointing towards Gumball, as much as it might hurt to think about it. Let's not forget he did have a motive. He would most likely choose you to leave the school with him."
"But..." he didn't say anything else and went back to crying.
"Oh damn" Finn looked sadly at Darwin "This is truly horrible."
"Ohhh," Bubbles whimpered as tears started forming on her own eyes.
Robin sighed "So, Gumball wrote the Monokuma Riddle, the notes to Dee Dee and Mandy, and then he killed Dee Dee... Right?"
"I guess so... I guess it makes sense." Mandy shrugged, unbothered.
"Okay then." Dexter huffed "Apparently Gumball killed Dee Dee." he continued with obvious disgust and anger on his voice "But now, who killed Gumball?"
"Y'all better figure that out fast because I'm getting bored already!" Monokuma exclaimed.
"Okay okay we get it." Mandy glared at him "There's something I find particularly weird about this though."
"What?" Steven asked.
"Gumball and Darwin would always be together as far as I remember. Always together."
"So?" Blossom inquired.
"So, where was Darwin at the time Gumball was killing Dee Dee? Gumball had an hour to do the whole murder. Wouldn't you, Darwin, eventually get worried? Or... is it because you helped him do so?" the blond girl with the bitter attitude indirectly accused him.
"I- uh-" Darwin muttered, after wiping his last tears off his face.
"Oh come on!" Buttercup exclaimed angrily at the girl "First, you wanna put the blame on me, my sisters and Robin and now you wanna put the blame on Darwin. The brother of one the victims?" she folded her arms, frowning "That's way too low."
"Right. And there's also the fact that Monokuma specifically said that the murderer couldn't have received the help of the person he wanted to leave the school with." Robin added.
"I was just saying, geez." Mandy said, before rolling her eyes in annoyance.
Blossom looked at the blond girl, What is it with her after all?
"Time is up, kiddos!" Monokuma exclaimed impatiently "This has been going for way too long for my liking."
"But we still haven't figured it out yet!" Blossom replied, feeling anxious. They had just figured the fact that Gumball was Dee Dee's murderer, and they weren't even close to find Gumball's murderer.
"Just give us more five minutes." Robin asked calmly.
"I don't think five minutes are enough, Robin..." Dexter said.
"Well, it has to be enough! Or else you will all die!" Monokuma said.
"Let's make this quick." said Mandy "Did anyone else find more clues about this case?"
"I don't think anyone else has more clues." Buttercup said "i think if someone had, they would've told us earlier."
"But there has to be something else we didn't talk about. There has to be!" Steven exclaimed.
"Maybe we should recap this one last time. Just to make sure we got everything right." Robin suggested.
"Ugh." Mandy grumbled, already tired of all of that "Okay so Gumball made the Monokuma Riddles for everyone so no one would go to the third floor while he was killing his victim, which would be either me or Dee Dee, ending up being the latter."
Dexter continued "Then, at around 09:13 I guess, we all heard a loud gunshot coming through the third floor."
"And then we all rushed to the arcade. Right? At least that's what I think it happened." Buttercup said.
"No..." Blossom uttered "That's... wrong..."
Contradiction! Verbal Bulled Used: Game Machine's Timer
"Huh? What?" Buttercup asked in confusion.
Blossom's eyes widened in horror as she thought she had just found everything out. "I just remembered something that I find weird now."
~Flashback~
Suddenly, Steven, Finn, Bubbles and Dexter dashed through the open door, but froze at the horrible sight in front of them.
"Oh Glob! What the- what happened in here?!" Finn exclaimed, staring with horror at the scene.
Bubbles gasped "Oh no... Not again!" she started crying silently. Blossom walked next to her to comfort her sister.
"A- another two people?! But why? And how?!" Steven wondered.
"Why would someone do this?!" Buttercup exclaimed.
~End Of Flashback~
"Buttercup... You just appeared out of nowhere when everyone gathered in the arcade..." Blossom breathed out.
Buttercup raised a brow at her sister "What are you talking about?"
"You just seemed to have teleported into the room. You were the only one who didn't arrive at the arcade... It seems like you were already there..." the pink powerpuff girl muttered.
"Ooh this just got interesting." Mandy commented, invested on where that was going as much as the others.
"Blossom, what the heck are you implying...?" Buttercup suddenly got defensive.
Blossom didn't answer and simply continued "The game machine's timer... it said that the last game had been played at exactly 09:11 AM if I remember. That was way too close to the time we heard the gunshot..."
"So? What do you mean by that?" the green powerpuff girl frowned.
"The only people who would go to the arcade to play video games were Gumball, Darwin... and you, Buttercup." Blossom stated, now slightly trembling at what was happening at the moment.
"Buttercup..." Robin muttered "You..."
Buttercup looked around the trial and discovered everyone was looking at her with either disappointed or shocked expressions. She took a step back.
"Well, let's get on with the votes!" Monokuma rubbed his paws maliciously.
"WAIT!"
Everyone turned back at the person who had just suddenly shouted.
"Darwin, what are you doing..." Buttercup gritted her teeth.
"I can't do this anymore! I can't lie anymore!" Darwin shouted, tears running all over his face once again "I killed Gumball! I am the murderer! It's all my fault!" he broke down.
"NO WAY!" Finn shouted, definitely not expecting that.
"WHAT?!" Robin exclaimed.
"Called it." Mandy said, yawning.
"B-but you're his-" Dexter stuttered.
"I know! I know!" he shouted through his tears.
"B-but that's impossible!" Blossom exclaimed "There's nothing that points to you! Are you kidding?!"
"I didn't want to do it! I never wanted to do it! But we had no choice..." Darwin whimpered.
"We?" Robin asked.
Darwin took a deep breath "Gumball and I... we planed this all. We've been planning it as soon as Monokuma announced the motive."
"Oh no..." Bubbles covered her mouth with her hands in disbelief.
"Darwin... explain it, please." Steven said.
Darwin sighed. "All the stuff that you guys guessed until now is right. But in the end I- I-" he couldn't finish the sentence. He began to tell what happened.
~Flashback~
Gumball and Darwin stared at Dee Dee's dead body laying on the ground of the dog room. Beside it was a pink knife and the rope Gumball had used to put her inside the Rottweiler's cage.
"Oh my-" Darwin couldn't handle what he was seeing and rain straight to the nearest bathroom to puke.
Gumball looked at his hands, which now had rope burns. On one hand he had the gun he had taken from the armory in case something went wrong and on the other he had the blue knife he had taken from the claw machine a few days ago. He couldn't believe what he had just done. He had killed someone. Despair had taken over him like it had taken over his other pupils that weren't there with them anymore.
But it was too late. He had done it now and there was just no turning back. After all, he wasn't doing just for him, but also for his brother. They couldn't handle be there anymore and they had been planning that for some time now. They couldn't give up now.
After a while, Darwin came back, tears running across his face. Gumball looked at his brother's expression and immediately felt tears forming on his eyes. He quickly whipped them out of his face "Darwin, hold these for me please."
The blue cat passed the gun and the tiny knife to his brother and mentally prepared himself to drag Dee Dee's body to the arcade.
~End Of Flashback~
Darwin stopped for a bit. He had to pause a little before continuing.
"I have a question." Bubbles said "We found a pink knife on the floor of the dog room. But you talked about a blue one."
"I think I know why." Blossom said "Dee Dee wasn't dumb. Of course she wasn't. She would obviously think that the note that was sent to her was suspicious. I think she took a knife out of the arcade in case someone would attack her... but she didn't succeed... Right?"
Darwin simply nodded. He decided to tell the rest of the story. The part that really mattered.
~Flashback~
Gumball had just finished cleaning the blood trail with a mop he had found in the dog room and was now in the arcade with Darwin.
Little did they know, that there weren't alone. Buttercup had heard them enter and had stopped the game she was playing when she noticed Dee Dee's body. She couldn't believe it. Out of everyone there, they were one of the people she would never imagine doing it. "Oh my god..." she stared at Dee Dee's corpse in horror.
Gumball sighed. He couldn't even bear looking at his brother who was definitely horrified. "I'm sorry..." he whispered. "Darwin, give me the stuff." he asked without looking at him.
Darwin was about to do so when he stopped. That was wrong. That was really wrong. He couldn't just move on with that.
"No." he said, with a serious expression as tears still ran down his face.
"What?" Gumball turned to look at his brother.
"I said no! I can't do this anymore! We shouldn't have done this to begin with!" he shouted.
"Oh and now you decide to tell me that?! We've been planning this for three days and now that we're doing it you decide to tell this?!" Gumball practically shouted "Ugh, just pass me the stuff, dude!" Gumball said as he reached to take the gun and the knife from his brother.
"No! We can't do this!" Darwin said as he backed away from his brother. Gumball managed to hold the gun and was fighting with his brother for it.
"I'm doing this for us!" Gumball shouted.
"It still doesn't make it right!" Darwin shouted back. He had so much tears on his eyes that he didn't even see himself pulling the trigger, making a loud bang.
A body fell on the ground. At that, Darwin immediately dropped what he was carrying, the gun included and started trembling like crazy. "Oh god... Oh my god no..."
"Holy cow!" Buttercup shouted, revealing to Darwin that she had been there watching the whole scene.
They quickly lock eyes and without thinking twice, Darwin picked up the gun and the knife and dashed out of the room, while Buttercup quickly hid behind a game machine.
~End Of Flashback~
"Gumball killed Dee Dee alone. I was just there in case something happened. We were desperate and we just wanted to leave the school..." the golden fish went back to crying.
"Oh my god..." Blossom muttered. She couldn't believe what she had just heard. "I'm sorry, Buttercup. I-"
"It's okay, Bloss." Buttercup quickly replied.
"Glob, this was horrible..." Finn said, feeling nauseated.
"Dee Dee..." Dexter couldn't handle it and started crying again.
"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! Just vote me already!" Darwin shouted.
"Wait, there's something I don't understand." Mandy said "If Buttercup was actually the first person to find the bodies and knew who the killer was... why didn't she just tell us? That way this would be over so much sooner!"
Buttercup and Darwin looked at each other. Buttercup embraced herself for what was about to happen "That's because... I went to talk to Darwin in the weight room to ask him... if he could take me out of the school if no one discovered he was the murderer."
Blossom stared at her sister in disbelief "... You what?!" she became angry.
"I didn't actually think he wasn't going to be caught!" she said in her defense.
"I- I can't believe you!" Blossom shouted, feeling betrayed.
"As much as I love this drama, it's already time to vote!" Monokuma exclaimed.
"I refuse to vote." Robin said firmly.
"Me too. Darwin obviously regrets what he did." Steven said.
"Really?" Mandy looked at everyone else "Ugh, fine."
"Whatever." Monokuma shrugged. After a while, he pulled a lever, revealing a slot machine behind him. The reels spun until they stopped on the culprit's face.
It was Darwin's.
"B-but nobody voted right?" Blossom looked at her peers "No one voted, how did this happen?!"
"Actually one person voted for Darwin and I'm not gonna tell who. Upupupupu..." Monokuma said. "Now, it's execution time!"
"Oh no..." Darwin muttered.
"No, Darwin!" Bubbles shouted.
"I can't see this." Finn closed his eyes.
Execution: Who Wants Some Sushi?
Darwin seemed to tied on a sushi food board along with other pieces of sushi, ready to be cooked. He was going to be the star of world wide famous Chef Monokuma's dish!
The Chef, who was wearing a typical cooker's hat with a typical cooker's uniform, started cutting the other pieces of sushi with a big knife. Getting closer and closer to Darwin's turn. Such an amazing and clean technique.
Darwin panicked as he tried to get free. He didn't want to be cooked!
However, Chef Monokuma always knows best. And he knew that the talking fish was going to be a delicious meal.
It was Darwin's turn to get sliced. He saw Monokuma raise his enormous knife and screamed from the top of his lungs. Chef Monokuma doesn't care he knows what makes a good meal. He aimed for the fish and started cutting it speedily. He ignored the blood that was spraying everywhere, becaue that's what a good Chef does!
He finally stopped cutting and grouped all the pieces. He added rice around them carefully and of course added some soy sauce. Voilá!
He smirked as he took a bite of it and started chewing it really slowly, as if he found it extremely delicious.
Executed: Darwin
Bubbles and Steven had broke down in tears. Blossom had some tears forming on her eyes. Finn and Buttercup refused to look. And Robin, Dexter and Mandy looked uncomfortable.
"I'm never eating sushi again." Mandy commented.
"Well, that was fun." Monokuma said "Now get outta here!"
The pupils started walking towards the elevator. Buttercup saw Blossom and Bubbles walking ahead of her and decided to join them.
"Hey, girls. Look, I-" she was immediately interrupted.
"Leave, Buttercup." Blossom bluntly said without even looking back.
Buttercup grabbed Blossom by the shoulder "But Blossom I-"
Blossom quickly shover her sister's arm away "Don't." she said before leaving with Bubbles.
Buttercup saw her sisters walking away and simply stared at the ground sadly.
There could be seen Monokuma talking to a shadow in an unknown place. The shadow's identity wasn't quite clear because of the darkness of the room.
"That was quite a show wasn't it?" Monokuma said.
"..." the shadow didn't reply.
"Ah come on! The execution was perfect! You have to agree with that!"
The shadow replied something which left Monokuma angry.
"What do you mean you wanna quit? This is just getting better!"
It replied once again to Monokuma.
"But that wasn't even my fault!"
The shadow simply stormed off the room, not wanting to deal with Monokuma.
"Eh, they'll come back." Monokuma shrugged "They always come back."
In case you're wondering the shadow Monokuma was talking to is in fact one of the students... I won't say more than that.
So, what did you guys think about it? When I said there would be messed up cases back in the fifth chapter, I was mainly referring to this one.
Now, all the three powerpuff girls have been a suspect on a trial. Will one of the be more than just a suspect in the future...?
Please review with your opinions on this case and with your predictions too! I love reading them.