Special thanks to zerowing21 for his constant beta reads. Couldn't do this without him.


The Super High-School Level Counselor Suzy Whitman was a kind and caring individual. Keyword; was.

The scene that unfolded in front of Brick, Finn, Numbuh Five, Yumi, Betty, and Juniper was quite horrid. Suzy was propped up against the wall of the beach house, her skull smashed in, exposing her brains and allowing a strong flow of blood to escape and contaminate the crime scene. Next to her laid a metal baseball bat, the fatter end covered in the same blood exiting Suzy's fatal wound. Juniper would gag aloud before turning away. The others stared in horror.

"Today started out so well..." Brick muttered to himself.

"The beach party was supposed to help us get closer." Juniper followed before gagging again, this time puking on the tile below.

"Um, this is no time to go into shock!" Yumi cried out, "We should let the others know what happened."

Numbuh Five would nod in response to Yumi, and the two of them quickly left to gather the others. It would actually be quite some time before everyone actually showed up, except for Goo of course, who was still locked in the lodge. As the other students filed in, sounds of shock and horror echoed throughout the beach house.

"S-Suzy!" Edd cried out after seeing the corpse.

"Careful." Sonya said immediately after, "Don't step over there."

"By the body?" Rex asked. Sonya's head would shake negatively.

"By the door." The Super High-School Level Cosplayer would point to the sand outside of one open door, "Footprints. It's a clue."

"If there's clues then that means..." Dexter would say to himself before cutting himself off.

"You heard the announcement." Mandy spat, "The school trial will be held soon, which means we need to figure out who murdered Suzy."

"Upupupu!" Monobear giggled as he appeared near Suzy's body, "That's right! One of you filthy bastards killed her!"

"It was probably just an accident, right?" Finn questioned.

"To be fair, an accident is still caused by someone's actions." Monobear giggled, "Accident or not, it's still good ol' fashioned murder in my book! Every death on this island is to be considered a murder. Save maybe death by disease but you have your wonderful teacher to help you there."

"HOWA!" Monomi cried, as if on cue. She had appeared behind the group.

"Speak of the rabbit!" The bear cackled, "That is the saying, right?" Monomi would give no reply and looked as shocked as the students, "The silent treatment! How did you know that's my one weakness? You should know I will not give into bullying, Monomi!"

"Twis is a nightmare!" Monomi sobbed, "Another victim, and it's all Monobear's fault!"

"Upupu? My fault?" Monobear grinned at the rabbit, "This isn't my fault! But I know whose fault it is! You'll have to go to the school trial to find out!" The bear would remove a file from behind his back, tossing it towards the students, "Anyways, you all have no time to waste. I mean, your lives are at stake here, aren't they?" The bear would disappear suddenly, as he did.

"Another twial..." Monomi groaned in defeat. "Twis is howwible."

"Then why aren't you doing anything to stop the murders!?" Brick yelled at the rabbit, who peered up in shock, "You should have the power to do that, right?"

"Nawt after he showed up..." Monomi cried.

"Even if she tried, Monobear would try to prevent her given their relationship." Sonya added.

"Monobear took everything from me!" the rabbit sobbed, "He only lweft me thwese ears."

"She probably doesn't really have a sense of what's going on around the island." Rex shrugged.

"I'm useless..." Monomi continued to sob before disappearing.

"What are we supposed to do?" Juniper asked, breaking the silence.

"He's going to make us hold another one of those trials..." Betty complained in fear, "Our lives are all in danger..."

"Why would anyone here wanna kill Suzy?" Rex said, staring at her body in disbelief.

"I don't want to do this anymore." Finn cried, tears on his face.

"None of us want to do this." Edd muttered, "But we have to find out who killed her... She didn't deserve this."

"Correct." Sonya added, "We have no choice, and we can never forgive something like this."

"Sonya?" Brick would question.

"The culprit had their reasons just as Zak had his," Sonya continued, "But it's Monobear who is at fault here. We can't forgive this mutual killing."

"Regardless, if we don't do this then we're all getting killed." Rex spoke softly, "We have to do this."

"Yeah, Suzy would want us to figure out who actually killed her." Yumi added. At this point, the NanoCom of each student chimed, signifying the addition of a new Monobear File. Just as before, the students immediately checked it, with Dexter reading it out-loud.

"The victim's body was found in the beach house. Time of death is approximately 3:00 PM. Cause of death was multiple strikes with a blunt object to the head, crushing the skull and scrambling the brain. There are no other fatal wounds or signs of poison or drugs in the body."

"Three o'clock!?" Finn exclaimed, "That's when we got to the diner, Brick..."

"Now's not the time for regrets." Sonya piped up, "It's investigation time."

And so the period of investigation began. Mandy began to examine the body as the others spread out to search for clues. Dexter had remained close to Mandy, examining the body as well. They would point out that the floor would be stained with red blood. The two would conspire with each other for some time before Sonya and Finn re-entered the beach house.

"Mandy?" Finn peeped, obviously scared of the girl, "We have a question."

"The footprints leading into the beach house are from Brick and the others who found Suzy's body," Sonya continued, not allowing Mandy to speak, "But the footprints leaving the house don't match any of those, and they appear to be feminine shoes. The only other girl who said they wouldn't be attending our beach party was Suzy, and we know how she is. Would you like to explain anything?"

"Impressive." Mandy said with a grin.

"I can provide an alibi for Mandy." Dexter added as he looked at Sonya, "The two of us were busy exploring around that strange building that looks like Hope's Peak."

"... You were?" Finn muttered. Mandy would affirmatively nod.

"Guess you got the wrong prints, kids." She sneered, "Sorry."

"Sorry for bothering you then." Sonya nodded, "Come on, Finn. Let's go elsewhere."

"Elsewhere!?" the boy said in shock, "But the investigation!"

"Let's investigate elsewhere." Sonya said before dragging Finn off.


Finn and Sonya would meet up with Edd, who was in the process of his own investigation. Sonya had told the two boys that she had discovered something interesting about this case and wanted to take them to Jabberwock Park, so they all moved there. They wouldn't be prepared for the surprise waiting for them there. As the three walked into the park, the familiar face of Goo Goo Ga Ga would be standing next to the game machine Monobear had left there. The three looked visible uncomfortable at the sight of her.

"Oh my gosh, Finn the Human, Double-D, AND Sonya Stratum!?" The Super High-School Level Good Luck would squeal at the sight of her classmates, "I'm so super happy you're all ok because we haven't been able to talk in awhile after I got myself into that little predicament but I'm so glad we're able to talk now!"

"Goo?" Sonya questioned, "Why are you here?"

"Oh, silly Sonya, you don't need to worry about a disgusting sorry excuse for a slob like me, especially since I heard the terrible news about Suzy and that she was murdered!" Goo rambled. "Gosh, that's just so terrible, she was such a nice and kind and active person who was always able to put a smile on all our faces and I honestly have no idea how we're going to continue on without her here with us to guide us and love us, but on the other hand, a despair-inducing event like this will give our hope another chance to shine because you know the darkest dark darks of despair can only allow our hope-iest hopeful hope to glow, but no disrespect for the dead but I just cannot wait to see how you all overcome despair this time."

"... Nice to know her self-reflection period hasn't worked." Finn sighed.

"But why are you here?" Edd asked the girl, "And who told you about Suzy?"

"Ohmigosh, Double-D, you have to promise to not get mad at me for this but I cannot lie to my friend about this," Goo continued to ramble in response, "If you must know who told me then I'll answer, it was Monomi who told me about the murder!"

"Cworrect!" Monomi's voice cried. The rabbit was now amongst the four students.

"Why would you do something stupid like that!?" Finn cried out, hardly scared at the rabbit's sudden appearance.

"... Did I do something wrong...?" the toy began to cry, "I jwust want us to be friwends and to work together."

"You want us to be friends with someone like her!?" Finn yelled.

"Yelling at ywor friwends is exactly what Monobear wants!" Monomi yelled back in retaliation.

"Just shut up!" Finn barked back. Monomi would instantly start bawling before running away. Finn turned his glare to Goo as the rabbit fled. "Why don't you follow her?"

"Ugh, fine I mean, I guess if you insist and the last thing I would want to do is make my friends mad." Goo said with a long, drawn-out sigh as she began to walk away, "Besides, I already got the true ending so I'm all prepared for the trial! Hope will win!"

"True ending?" Edd muttered as Goo got out of earshot.

"The true ending to the game." Sonya answered.

"YOU PLAYED THE GAME!?" Finn cried out, "B-But why!?"

"Because video games are fun." Sonya said with a shrug, "Besides, it could have had a clue to our situation."

"I played the game too..." Edd admitted, "But it only had the second and fourth day. And then I got a game over screen."

"Well then you should know the secret already!" Sonya smiled. Both Finn and Edd looked at her in confusion.

"I'm pretty sure Game Over isn't a secret..." Edd muttered.

"Not that." Sonya laughed, "Dull start! It said that on the game over screen. It's a code! Down-up-left-left-START! Input that on the gamepad to get the full game."

"Wh-What!?" Finn was surprised at the situation.

"How'd you manage to figure that out?" Edd asked the girl. She'd shrug in response.

"Try it," she'd say, "Seems Goo figured it out on her own."

Reluctantly, the three walked over the the arcade machine, Edd taking the reigns to the controls. The screen looked the same as always before Edd inputed the DULL START code. As he did so, the title screen of the game altered slightly, giving the screen a red tint and changing the title to read; Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc TRUTH! Edd hit start and the game begin with a small summary.

"It all started with a murder. A murder! Right inside the walls of the girls' school. After investigating the crime scene, the police had concluded the culprit was a pervert who had broken in. But there was more to this story than what is on the surface. The culprit was believed to be who the first to discover the body. But a group of five girls had discovered the body before that. Not wanting to get involved, the girls kept their information to themselves and agreed to forget about the situation. A few days later, one of the five girls was also discovered dead. Killed by an unknown assailant. What happened in this school? You can uncover the truth by playing the first and third days. Let's begin with the first day, shall we?"

The game opened to a scene of four school girls, a redheaded girl in a pink dress (A), a blond girl in a pink dress (B), a girl with black skin and a red cap (C), and a redhead girl in a green skirt (D). In the upper right corner, the screen read; "Day 1."

"I'm sorry for being late, guys!" A's text appeared on the screen.

"We're gonna be late getting home because of you." B sneered.

"Now, now, let's not fight." D said. The screen would suddenly flash.

"Hey, don't take our picture!" B yelled, "I don't want people to think I'm friends with her!"

"W... We're not?" A's text would slowly type out.

"Why would I ever want to be friends with some pig-faced loser like you?" B replied.

"Man, B's words are straight cold." C would sneer.

"Um... Where's E at?" A asked the group, seemingly disregarding the fact that B just insulted her.

"She forgot something, told us she'd be back any minute." C replied.

"I think she left her swimsuit behind. Typical." D added. A sudden crash sound could be heard as the screen flashed white again.

"What was that!?" A cried.

"Sounded like glass breaking upstairs." B followed before her sprite began to run off, "Let's check it out!"

The four sprites of the girls all ran down a hall and to a stairwell, which they all climbed and continued to run down another hallway before reaching a door with a new sprite standing outside. It was a redhead girl in a blue sweater (E), which Edd and Sonya recognized from their first play-throughs of the game.

"E, what happened!?" A asked upon seeing her friend.

"I don't know..." E replied, her text typing out slowly, "I was walking by when I heard class break from inside this room."

"Is someone inside?" C questioned. The sprite of E would nod.

"I think so, but the door's locked." E said. B's sprite would attempt to pull the door open with no use.

"She's right, it's locked from the inside." B said.

"There should be a key in the staff room!" E cried out, "All the teachers are gone for the day, so we can sneak in and get it!"

The screen would grow dark briefly before the scene in front of the door reappeared, this time with D's sprite absent. Her sprite would, soon enough, run on screen.

"I got it!" she said. Her character walked over the door and a click was heard. "Done!"

"After you, A." B would said.

"M-Me!?" A cried. Her sprite opened the door and the five walked inside. The scene switched to a music room with a busted window. There was a girl sitting on the floor next to the broken window. "Guys, there's someone on the floor!" A called out. B would walk over to her.

"She's not just on the floor." B spoke. "She's dead."

"DEAD!?" D yelled?

"Keep your voice down!" B barked, "Whoever did it is probably still around."

"Still around?" E muttered.

"She looks like she was murdered." B explained.

"MU-MURDE-" C yelled before she was cut off.

"I said shut up!" B snapped.

"What should we do?" D asked.

"Well, we have the culprit's escape route." B said with a point to the window, "That must have been the sound we heard. And she was clubbed to death, but there's no murder weapon."

"That means the murderer just escaped." C said.

"If he wanted to escape, why didn't he just open the window?" A asked the girls.

"The aquarium under the window is broken too," E pointed out, with the screen panning down to reveal a shattered aquarium under the window in question, "He must have panicked and broke it in the process. We're not high enough to where jumping wouldn't hurt you, so he probably thought this was a better escape than the halls."

"And the only ways to lock this room is from the inside and with the key." B added on, "If he had used the key, he wouldn't have had enough time to return it to the teacher's lounge before D went there to get it."

"It's got to be that pervert who stole my swimsuit." E growled.

"Stole?" A asked, "Pervert?"

"I can't find it anywhere, so it must have been stolen by a perv." E continued.

"If the guy who stole your swimsuit killed this girl, he probably dragged this girl in here to..." B cut herself off. "You know. But she resisted. And in the aftermath, he broke the window to escape."

"We probably shouldn't be here..." E said, "I don't want to get caught up in this."

"C agrees." C said before leaving the room.

"But wait," A started, "Shouldn't we report this to the police!?"

"And then we'll be thought to be the killers." B replied, "The person who finds the body is always under suspicion. We're going to leave this room and lock the door behind us."

The girls all agreed and they all walked off screen as it faded to black. Once the screen reached completely darkness, a shuffle of music can be heard before lighting the screen up again, this time revealing an outdoors scene. E's sprite stood in the center of the screen, and a large school building was in the background. The sky was a pure blue color. The text in the upper right hand corner now read; "Day 3." A few moments later, D would run on screen.

"D!" E would say as D entered the screen, "Why did you want to meet me here for? Confessing your love?"

"Well..." D's sprite would pull out a tiny cell phone and show it to E, "Can you look at this picture? On the day of that incident, I saw this in the classroom next to the... You know. I took a picture of this broken vase. The roses are covered in glass... I think this is that sound we heard."

"I don't know what you're talking about." E said, her sprite turning away. Edd would remember that the characters agreed to forget about the incident on the second day.

"But if I'm right, then the killer didn't escape through the window!" D continued.

"I said I don't know anything!" E replied again.

"It's ok..." D's text would type slowly, "I cleaned it up." E would have no response, and her sprite's head turned away from the girl, "You know if someone found that vase, you'd be in big trouble, wouldn't you?" E's sprite immediately looked to D.

"Are you... Blackmailing me?" E asked.

"Of course not." D replied to her. "It's just, if you're hiding something, I'd wish you'd tell me. We are friends, right?"

"You haven't exactly been forthcoming either." E snarled, "That girl who was killed was giving you trouble. No, she was giving you hell. She was such a bully. If you had only told me what had been happening, this wouldn't have..."

"E! Did you...?" D's text typed.

"She was just so mean to you, D!" E exclaimed, "I couldn't stand it. I tried talking to her, but then she threatened to kill you. And then me... I was so angry and before I knew it I was strangling her until she was unconscious. Things would have been worse if she had woken up! So I panicked!"

"N-No way!?" D sobbed.

"It's not your fault, D!" E yelled as D ran away, "It was all her fault!"

The scene switched to a picture of E running to a trash can, the broken vase and flowers D had pictured in a plastic bag. She looked around before dropping the bag in and running away. Almost immediately, a boy with a green jacket would walk up and look inside the trash can. His text was labeled; "F."

"E..." F muttered, "It has to be just a rumor that you were with her on the day of that incident." Upon peering inside the trash can, his sprite moved away from it, "The sound of breaking glass... No... There's no way my cousin could have done this... I could never forgive her."

The screen abruptly changed to a picture of Monobear laughing, with text at the top of the screen that read; "GAME CLEARED!" Edd and Finn stepped back from the machine and both looked to Sonya.

"Is that the real ending...?" Edd asked after a few moments of silence.

"Before you say anything else, you're missing the end credits of the game." Sonya said, pointing to the screen. The boys would watch the black screen scroll with the following text;

"Producer - Monobear
Game Director - Monobear
Script - Monobear
Programming - Monobear
Graphics - Monobear
Sound - Monobear
A - Betty Barrett
B - Mandy DeCula
C - Abigail Lincoln
D - Suzy Whitman
E - Gwen Tennyson
F - Ben Tennyson
Dead - Alice Spacebyte
Special Thanks to - The Monobear Club
A Monobear Production."

"Congratulations!" Monobear's voice giggled. The bear was sitting atop the arcade, looking down at the trio playing the game. "What a flawless victory! You've completed Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc! How exciting! Let me be the first to tell you bastards that this game was all based on true events! WHAT A KICKER!"

"Are you telling the truth?" Finn asked.

"Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely deliberate!" Monobear laughed, "The game may be non-fiction, but you poor bastards forgot all about it. The game is based on something that happened while you bastards were in school, but that rat Monomi stole those memories from you. Anyways, congratulations! I'd like to give you a prize for completing the game..." The bear turned away from the three and giggled, "But I won't!"

"You're not?" Edd muttered. The bear turned back to the students.

"I run on a first come first serve basis, Double-Douche." Monobear yawned. "There was only one prize to win, and I gave it to the first person to win the game. Upupu, sucks to be you!"

"Wait-!" Edd yelled out as the bear disappeared before their eyes, "There was a prize for winning?"

"He said the same thing to me after I beat the game." Sonya shrugged.

"Should we be worrying about a prize when Monobear said this was based on something that happened while we were in school?" Finn pointed out.

"I'm sure Monobear told everyone the same thing after they beat the game." Sonya said, "He said it was a missing link when he introduced it to us. That missing link must be related to our memories."

"Ding, bing, bong!" Monobear's voice would interrupt, The bear's image was present on all the monitors on the island. "I am so bored, so it's time to fight, fight, fight! Who lives? Who dies? Who's the killer? It's time for the second schooooooooool trial! The hidden elevator will be waiting to take you underground at Monobear Rock. Do not be tardy! Upupupupupu!"


The students all gathered outside the Monobear-carved mountain once more, terrified of what was to come. The same escalator extended from the mouth of one Monobear head, which the students boarded to the elevator. Goo would be the last one to board, seemingly unnoticed by everyone who believed she was still tied up. This time, the elevator brought the thirteen students to a blue painted courtroom, the sixteen stands sitting in the middle as they did before. Monobear's throne was still there as well, with a large screen above it and Monomi hanging from a rope next to it as last time. As the students took their place at their stands, they would notice that pictures of Zak and Suzy were added to their stands, a red X covering their faces just as Coop's picture.

"Do you guys like the redecorating I did?" Monobear asked, "Keeps things fresh and exciting! Speaking of exciting, it's nice of you to join us Goo."

"Omigosh thank you, Monobear." Goo said from her stand, "It really is such a relief to not be tied up anymore but I totally understand why I had to be after the situation last time!"

"Remember the rules, kids." the bear gigged, "Your goal is to pinpoint who the blackened student is. Should you accuse the correct student, they alone will be punished, but if you pick the wrong person, the killer will be allowed to leave this island while the rest of you bastards will be punished!"

"So crwuel..." Monomi muttered.

"That being said, let's get things rolling!" Monobear laughed, "I suggest you begin with the motive! My masterpiece video game, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc!"

"Who cares about some stupid video game?" Numbuh Five sneered in response.

"Well, the people who played it already know the game was based on a true story." Finn spoke up.

"Didn't we all agree to not play that game?" Juniper asked the group, "Mandy was very stern with what she said."

"Yes, I was." Mandy replied, "But I'm not stupid. I knew people would play the game. Hell, even I did."

"Well some of us, including myself, didn't play it." Rex said, "Can you explain it to us?"

"Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc was such a fun game!" Goo blurted out, "It's a non-fiction story about an event that happened while we were all in school, but we don't remember any of it since either Monomi or Monobear messed with our heads and took all those memories, and, and, and all the characters in the story are in this room right now, well except for Suzy since she's sleeping with the fishes."

"We're in a video game?" Brick muttered.

"No, only some of us." Edd interjected, "A was Betty, B was Mandy, C was Numbuh 5, and D was Suzy."

"And F was Ben." Sonya added.

"Wh-What!?" Ben cried.

"You guys are forgetting that there's two more characters in the game!" Goo continued, "There was another girl on the list who's last name was Tennyson but her name was Gwen and her character was called F and there was another girl named Alice Spacebyte who was totally dead the whole time!"

"... What about Gwen?" Ben asked, his tone turned from shock to fury.

"So you know her?" Dexter questioned.

"Yeah, I know her." Ben crossed his arms and looked away from the group, "She's my cousin. Why would the two of us be in a shitty video game?"

"Well, the Alice girl was dead from the beginning of the game," Mandy started, showcasing her own knowledge of the game. "The third day reveals that Gwen's character murdered her for bullying Suzy. And then Gwen was murdered on the fourth day."

"SHE WAS WHAT!?" Ben yelled, "THAT'S BULLSHIT, IT'S JUST A GAME."

"The game is based on true events." Dexter continued, "We can only gather that these events happened during the time period of which our memories were erased."

"And if this is based on true events, then it would make a good motive..." Yumi butt in, despite not playing the game herself.

"She was there to see me off before I came to Hope's Peak a few days ago!" Ben yelled, "She can't be dead!"

"You're forgetting those were years worth of memor-" Monobear giggled before Ben cut him off.

"Shut the fuck up, you stupid bear."

"Oh, boo-hoo!" Monobear cried with a slight giggle, "How beary unfortunate!"

"He won't accept this game as reality." Mandy sneered, "Interesting strategy."

"So does that mean Ben killed Suzy for her involvement with Gwen's dead in the game?" Finn asked the group.

"No, that's wrong." Edd cried out, "Ben's reaction to this is too shocking. He probably didn't even play the game."

"Perhaps the key to this mystery if figuring out the mysterious to the murders in Danganronpa." Monobear suggested.

"I figured we'd have to do this." Sonya said as she rummaged in her pockets, pulling out a sheet of paper. "I drew this out. It's a map of the first day. A, B, C, and D were all downstairs, with E standing outside the locked door. The victim, Alice, was inside the locked classroom next to a broken aquarium and a broken window. There was a broken vase in the classroom next to that."

"A, B, C, and D heard the sound of broken glass from the entrance hall on the first floor and ran to the second floor," Finn continued, "E told them she heard the sound from the locked room. D got the key from the teacher's lounge, and they found the dead girl inside. The girls decided the killer broke the window to escape, and decided the window breaking was the sound they heard."

"E's swimsuit was also stolen," Edd tacked on, "So they concluded that the killer was a pervert."

"But the killer wasn't a pervert, was it?" Betty asked, "It was E?"

"So after E killed the girl, she waited in the hall for the other girls." Brick deducted, "And if the room was locked from the outside, she would have needed the key to get in. So she must have had the key on her the whole time."

"But didn't Finn say D got the key from the teacher's lounge?" Yumi asked.

"We can rule out the option of a spare key existing." Mandy said, "The game would have pointed it out."

"That means E locked the room from the inside, broke the window and ran like hell to get to the classroom again before the other girls got there!" Brick yelled confidently.

"No, she would have had to pass by the other girls in the entrance hall on the way." Sonya shrugged.

"And that's where those four girls heard the window breaking, right?" Rex added.

"No, that can't be it." Edd said, "The sound they heard was the vase breaking in thenext room."

"Oh, oh, oh!" Goo yelled wildly, holding her hand up in the air, "I get it now, you see, the killing had happened BEFORE the girls met up on the first floor so obviously E had killed that girl and broke the window to escape before running to the teacher's lounge to grab the key, running back to lock the door from the outside, then going back to put the key back where it came from, and then again the girls met downstairs, she broke the vase in the next classroom so that they would come running up! What a sneaky, sneaky girl!"

"She had made it look like the murder had just happened, and also faked arriving outside the classroom at that time." Rex said, "We solved the mystery?"

"Not yet!" Monobear laughed. "You dumb bastards didn't even account for a murder weapon."

"My character in the game said she was clubbed to dead." Mandy said.

"The weapon must have been that broken aquarium." Finn said.

"More likely the gravel inside the aquarium." Mandy continued on, "On it's own, yes, gravel would be too small to kill her. But if there was a bag full of them..."

"The game didn't mention a bag though." Edd muttered.

"E mentioned that the pervert stole her swimsuit." Mandy laughed, "But we know now that the pervert doesn't exist. We can assume a school issued swimsuit is a one piece, and if tied up properly, would be a perfect replacement for a bag."

"She painted the killer as a perv who stole her swimsuit, and destroyed it after using it as the murder weapon." Sonya nodded.

"The joy of someone solving your mystery!" Monobear said with hints of relief, "A joy only known to writers."

"But the real kicker is the fact that E had an accomplice!" Goo cried out before she continued to ramble on, "... and that accomplice was D, otherwise known as the one, the only, Suzy Whitman!"

"The only reason E killed that girl was due to her bullying D, but D seemed confused on her explanation." Sonya said, "D had told E on the third day that she cleaned up the broken vase. Following on the next day, E was killed."

"And E was killed by F." Mandy said with a grin, pointing at Ben, "You killed your own cousin."

"THAT'S BULLSHIT!" Ben yelled in rage, "I WOULD NEVER HURT HER! IT'S JUST A STUPID VIDEO GAME!"

"If only you bastards could remember all of this!" the bear giggled from his throne, "This whole thing would have been over ages ago."

"Does it matter if we remember anything?" Numbuh Five asked the group, "It's clear that Ben is the killer."

"But Ben never played the game," Rex interrupted, "And there's the possibility that the game isn't even connected to Suzy's murder."

"At the very least, the culprit played the game." Edd said, "Both E's and Suzy's deaths were identical. Beaten in the head by a baseball bat."

"He must be one of those serial killers who kills all his victims the same way." Juniper glared.

"Ben is suspicious, but isn't that a bit too obvious?" Rex questioned, "We've already established that Ben didn't play the game. It's probably a trap set up by the real killer. The real killer most likely played the game in full and then set out to frame Ben. Isn't that right, Mandy?"

"I'm sorry?" Mandy replied coldly.

"You heard me." Rex growled, "I think you're the real culprit!"

"And what makes you say that?" Mandy asked, still cold sounding.

"Well, we did see you run away from the beach house." Brick muttered.

"I've already provided an alibi for Mandy." Dexter said, "The two of us were exploring outside the Hope's Peak lookalike building at the time of the murder."

"But, the footprints outside the building didn't match anybody else's shoes." Finn piped in, "When we asked her about it earlier, she sent us away."

"Those footprints are leading out of the beach house," Rex continued, "Meaning the person used a different entrance on the way into the crime scene. The only other door was next to Suzy's body. You would have left your footprint in her blood if you left that way, but you didn't account for the sand to leave prints too."

"Interesting..." Mandy said while rubbing her chin, "I did go to the beach house this afternoon, but only passing through during my daily survey of the island. Plus, my alibi has been detailed already. Besides, if I had really killed her, I would have had blood all over me. The culprit had dragged her body to the wall, which explains why there was blood all over the floor."

"... And we would have noticed the blood on her as she ran by if she did do it." Brick sighed.

"I had received a letter from Suzy," Mandy continued, pulling a sheet of paper from her pocket, "Asking me to meet her at the beach house. When I got there, she was already dead. I'd also like to point out the horrible handwriting. While examining her body, I found a note to her addressed from myself. In the same handwriting."

"Forged by the culprit..." Yumi muttered.

"Exactly." Mandy concluded, "It should have occurred to me that this didn't add up. There's also the issue of nobody in the area had bloodstained clothes."

"They probably used the shower to clean themselves." Juniper nodded.

"Sowwy..." Monomi muttered from her rope, "The shower was broken."

"What about the fridge in 'da beach house?" Numbuh Five asked. "'Da culprit could've washed themselves with water in the fridge."

"Nice try, but I checked." Rex laughed, "There were no water bottles in that fridge. All those drinks were soda, and you can't really clean yourself with those."

"Yet, the trash can in the beach house was filled with empty water bottles." Dexter said while pushing his glasses closer to his eyes.

"Huh-what?" Rex muttered.

"Now that you mention it..." Betty muttered, "When I was leaving my room in my wetsuit for the party, I saw you, Rex. You were soaking wet."

"M-Me and Rex were swimming!" Ben cried out, "He has an alibi!"

"Swimming fully dressed?" Betty asked, "I find that highly unlikely."

"If I really was the killer, my footprints would have been outside the door." Rex said, "Since Suzy's body had bleed out next to the other door, the beach exit was my only way out!"

"That's interesting too." Mandy grinned once more, "There was another exit. And we assume you are the killer, this all makes sense."

"How so?" Rex asked.

"There was a barred window in the shower room," Dexter began, "However, after Mandy and I examined it, we determined the bars were simply painted on the glass, and that a simple push could open it. The square exit was large enough for a person to slip through."

"The window was tall up," Mandy continued from Dexter's stopping point, "And the tallest person in this room is eeny, meany, miney, Rex."

"Plus, if he were to climb onto the sink or the toilet, it would have been even easier for him to reach the window." Dexter said.

"That's BULLSHIT!" Ben yelled at the two, "HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO PROVE IT!?"

"Just shut up, Ben..." Rex muttered, "They've painted the picture."

"Was that...?" Yumi muttered.

"A confession!?" Betty exclaimed, finishing Yumi's sentence.

"Get on with the voting, Monobear." Rex sighed. Sonya would slam her hand down on her stand.

"But wait!" she called out, "Rex, you weren't involved with the Danganronpa game... What was your motive?" The boy blinked at her.

"Because that's what friends do." the boy said before grinning wickedly.

"That's... WHAT!?" Numbuh Five yelled.

"This all started when Suzy played Danganronpa last night." Edd exclaimed, "I saw her walk away from the game as I went to play it. Rex had also played the game, furious that Suzy had in hand in Gwen's death. He forged a letter to Mandy and one to Suzy, luring Suzy to the beach house to kill her and framing Mandy as the murderer. Rex couldn't clean himself in the shower after dragging Suzy's body, so he cleaned himself with the water in the bottles and escaped through the window. Mandy discovered her body and ran off to tell Dexter, presumably."

"So what of it?" Rex laughed.

"He doesn't even feel guilty about it!?" Finn yelled.

"Why would I?" Rex continue to laugh, "I punished an evildoer in the name of justice!"

"HEY MONOBEAR!" Brick yelled, "Get on with the voting."

"Upupu!" the bear giggled, "Please use the switches on your stands to vote for the killer." As the votes were placed, a slot machine appeared on the screen above the bear. All the slots scrolled to land on tiny pictures of Rex's face with the word 'GUILTY' flashing above it. "Correct again! Rex Salazar murdered Suzy Whitman!"

"But Monobear..." Sonya asked, "There's something that's still a mystery."

"Hwoh?" the bear peeped.

"We still don't know the prize for winning the game first." she finished. The bear giggled.

"Why don't you tell them, Ben?" Monobear said with a point. The boy in question gritted his teeth.

"But didn't we already say Ben didn't play the game?" Betty asked.

"He's an exceptionally good actor." Monobear laughed, "Go on, Ben! Give the people what they want!"

"Tch... I don't have the pictures." Ben muttered, "I gave them to Rex."

"The prize was pictures?" Finn asked himself. Rex would flash four photos to the group.

"Here's your shitty prize." the EVO growled. The first picture was of Mandy, Betty, and Numbuh Five in school uniforms in the entrance hall of Hope's Peak. The second photo was of the dead body of a girl with deep blue hair, Alice Spacebyte. The third photo was of the broken vase mentioned before. The final picture was of the dead body of Gwen Tennyson, killed in the same way as Suzy. "He used me as a tool."

"A tool?" Edd asked.

"The real culprit is Ben Tennyson!" Rex screamed with a point to the boy, "Ben Tennyson used me as the murder weapon to kill Suzy!"

"But we already voted and got the right answer..." Juniper pointed out, "So you were the one to actually kill her."

"Allow your favorite mascot character to explain!" Monobear giggled, moving to stand upright on his throne, "You see, Ben and Rex knew each other before their acceptance to Hope's Peak! So even though their school memories were wiped, they retained all their memories of each other. When Ben received the winning prize, he gave it to Rex, but also gave him explicit instruction to murder Suzy!"

"Ben devised a plan to kill her, and I followed through." Rex continued.

"But why!?" Edd blurted out, "You'd end up dead too! Now you're for sure going to die!"

"I told him not to do it." Ben spoke up with a huff, "I told him this idea would either get one of us killed regardless, and I don't want to live a life without one of my best friends. Even if that game is true... I couldn't live with myself if I lost both Gwen and Rex."

"So why did you continue?" Sonya asked Rex. The boy shrugged with a grin.

"We're were too deep." he laughed, "Justice was to be SERVED!"

"But Rex!" Ben yelled, "I can't lose you!"

"Oh would you look at the time!" Monobear giggled, waving a mallet in the air. In front of him would be a large button, "I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's punishment time!" The bear would slam the mallet down on the button, opening a door in the wall where claws shot out and grabbed Rex.

"BEN!"

"REX!"

GAME OVER. Rex Salazar has been found guilty. Commencing execution...

Rex would be tugged back into the place where the last execution took place, however the room was now plated with metal walls and floors, with disabled robots lining the walls. Ben would run after Rex, getting trapped in the room as well, only allowing the others to watch from on the other side the fourth glass wall. A screen in room flashed with words; "ANDROID HELL." Rex was dropped into the center of the room as every single robot in the room began to come to life. Upon closer examination, these robots were revealed to have heads that resembled Monobear. The room sat in silence for a moment, then every single Mono-Bot revealed their own type of weapon.

"EXTERMINATE." the bots would buzz in unison.

Ben would suddenly run to Rex in the center of the room, shoving him out of the way. The real Monobear on the same side of the glass as the rest of the student slammed his paw on the glass in rage.

"This execution is for one person only!" he raged before calming, "But how Despair-inducing would it be for multiple students to get killed!"

One of the Mono-Bots with a gun shot, hitting Ben square in the hand. The boy screamed in pain as Rex watched in horror. The EVO quickly pounced on top of his friend shielding him from the incoming onslaught of attacking robots. The two would both disappear under the mess of robots before the robots all shut off after backing away. As they backed away, they revealed the bloody, beaten, stabbed, and shot body of Rex Salazar lying on top of an alive Ben Tennyson. The glass wall would raise, allowing a worried Monomi to rush into the execution area.

"Ben, oh Ben!" she cried, "We need to get you medical attention immediately!" The remaining students would all run up to Ben's bleeding body. "We can still save him!"

"Upupu!" Monobear giggled. "Good luck with that, you disgusting rat!"

"OUT OF MY WAY!" Brick yelled, picking Ben up in his arms, "THIS ROWDYRUFF IS ON A RESCUE MISSION!"

"Twis is out wof line!" Monomi yelled, marching over to Monobear, "You need to save him right now!"

"And why would I do that?" the bear laughed.

"Ywou're violating ywour own wules!" the rabbit barked, "If the culpwit is successfully identified, they alone shall be punished! THEY ALONE! Ywou have no wight to kill Ben!"

"Tck..." the bear growled, "I guess it would be hypocritical of me to not follow my own rules. Fine!" The bear would disappear suddenly before the wall opposite of the execution area in the trial room opened up, letting Monobear drive back into the scene in ambulance. "Dr. Murder here for service! Load him in!"

Brick would load Ben into the ambulance as per Monobear's instructions and as he finished, the thing drove off back into the hole it came from, sirens wailing. The remaining students sat in disbelief in the courtroom, completely silent.


Later that night, Monomi would be in the center of Jabberwock Park. She stood looking up to the bomb on the statue as it began to open up, changing its appearance to look even more menacing as before. The countdown on the bomb now read 15 days left, with the seconds still ticking away. Frustrated, the rabbit spoke sweet nothings to herself as she turned away. She walked off to a figure standing not too far off, and once reaching her, the person would pick up the rabbit and continue to walk away.


Twelve Students Remain