Well, I guess that was a long update and there might be another long update after this. Yep! Disclaimer. Toady: Well, it was a short review but I'll still respond...which I think you can see... here... Well, it seems that you have taken Starlow off your list of suspects. As for the lines, sometimes I take too much time to explain stuff in detail. ^.^' Oh I also wanted to let you know that there is no space in between the exclamation mark or the question mark and the last word. Just thought it might help. :3

Finding the Coin

Gasps went around the room and it seemed like all of the air was sucked out of the room. Peach's eyes opened wide and some of the contestants looked at her. Bombette finally asked, "What was in the collection?"

Peach sighed, "Some of the most expensive, rare, and beautiful thing in the worlds. If anyone were to steal one of them, they wouldn't have to work for the rest of their lives. Nor would any of their children, or THEIR children and so on. The least expensive one could probably last... I don't know... Nine generations? Ten maybe?"

Bombette gasped but then Peach got a faraway look in her eyes, "But you know... DK seems to know about it, so it must have something to do with the Mole..."

Toadbert sighed and Starlow looked at him, "You do realize that still means it was stolen?"

Toadbert nodded and said, "Well some of those things were of great importance. Like this one coin... It was from the late 50th century. It..."

Shilo groaned and covered his ears. Axel laughed and listened to Toadbert closely. He was one of those people that absolutely loved history. Especially since he grew up on Earth, not the Mushroom Kingdom. Finally DK spoke up again, "It has been discovered that only the Guttler Coin has been stolen from the collection. Up here, we have two police officers that were tipped off that something was going to happen here tonight. I would ask everyone to remain calm, continue with dinner, and one by one, you will be called in the questioning room. Thank you."

DK stepped down from the stand and the room came alive. Worried murmurs jumped around the room as if the floor was made of lava. He stepped aside from a door, and the two koopas walked into a small room, lavishly decorated and it had an almost homely feel to it. Iggy remembered what the instructor had said.

"If you make the subject frightened scared or uncomfortable, they will bend to your will. But if they do, many times the will only tell you what you want to hear. That is one of the reasons that torture is one of the worst ways to get information from people. So it is advisable to start off calm. But if the subject refuses to co-operate, then it will be necessary to get them to feel intimated."

Kooper sat down and said, "Well, I guess now we know what this mysterious... mystery... *coughs* is... That was really redundant..."

Iggy laughed, "Yeah! Oh well, so first I think that we should question the Governor. We shouldn't bring in more than one person at a time though."

Kooper nodded, "Yeah, though we should bring in the Governor AND his wife in at the same time, well... well they can't very well STEAL their own thing. That would just be moving them."

Iggy nodded, "Yeah, although I don't want to be too hard on Mrs. Yuuka. She seems to be very broken up about the robbery."

Kooper nodded, "I'll tell DK that we want to bring in Yuuka and Yoshio."

He exited the room and Iggy set up the desk and the note pad on it. He noticed that there was a note pad for each individual person at the party. Or so he thought. He didn't actually bother to count all of the people. Kooper came back into the room and said, "DK's getting them."

Iggy pulled out the chair and Yuuka sat down. Iggy slightly pushed the chair in. Kooper had already sat down and looked at the two Yoshies. He looked back down at the note pad and said, "So how did you first react when you first learned about the robbery?"

Yoshio looked at him skeptically, "Well you already know that. You saw us. But I have to say that both of us were informed before the party that the coin was to be stolen. We just had to put on an act to make it look believable. Also, the staff of the restaurant knew about the planed robbery. But none of the guests know about the plans."

Kooper nodded, "I see. Do either of you know who the robber is?"

Yuuka shook her head, "No. None of the people who were informed, were told of the robber. They were all told not to tell anyone about the robbery or there would be a penalty from the team pot. I don't know what that is but it sounds important."

Iggy nodded, "The team pot is where all of the money is kept that we earn in the show. If there was a penalty, money would be taken away from the pot."

Yuuka nodded, "Well, I don't think that any of us told anything, but I don't really know."

Iggy nodded, "Thank you. That will be all."

Yuuka nodded and left. Yoshio got up and suddenly said, "Oh wait! I have to tell you guys something! But I can't let the cameras hear, so..."

He leaned up close and whispered something into Iggy's ears. He then went over to Kooper and whispered the same thing. Kooper frowned, "What?"

Yoshio sighed and whispered it again. Kooper nodded and laughed. Iggy shook his head and smiled. Yoshio left. Iggy looked at Kooper and asked, "How could you not understand him?"

Kooper smiled, "Well, I have this issue with whispering and a lot of the time, I can't understand what people are saying."

Iggy shrugged. He went out and Kooper took out the pad from desk that they were working at. It had all of the information they got from Yuuka and Yoshio. He set it down and decided not to call any of the staff in. Some of the guests he would call in. Like the ones that sometimes he wasn't aware of where they were. Iggy walked in and said, "I don't think that we need to call in the staff of the restaurant. They would just give the same info as Yuuka and Yoshio. Although I saw this one birdo who just didn't seem to be in the right spot. She kind of stuck out and didn't seem... the same. I don't know."

Kooper nodded and Shilo walked in to the room. He sat down at a chair and Kooper looked at him, "Look me in the eyes. Did, you, steal, the, coin?"

Shilo looked directly back and said, "No."

Kooper nodded and took note that he seemed to look away at the very last second. Kooper looked up and said, "What were you doing at the time of the robbery?"

Shilo shrugged, "I don't really know. Probably looking at the restaurant. I've been doing that almost the entire night."

Kooper nodded and started madly scribbling in the note pad. Iggy took over, "What were you eating over the course of the night?"

Shilo looked off into the distance, "Mostly the fruit salad. It's so good! You really need to try some!"

Iggy nodded, "What were you offered for stealing the coin? An exemption? Maybe money?"

Shilo frowned, "I didn't steal it. But I'm guessing that it would be an exemption."

Iggy nodded and Kooper asked, "Then who stole it? We have evidence that points to you and we won't back down until we find who did it."

Shilo shrugged, "I don't KNOW who stole it! And if you have evidence then show me it."

Iggy shook his head, "We can't show you it. It would just give you a chance to disprove that it pointed to you."

Shilo shrugged, "Oh well. But it wasn't me. I'm assuming that if you accuse correctly then you get money. So if you think it's me... Don't feel bad when you lose the money."

Iggy smiled, "That will be all."

Shilo nodded and left. Kooper turned to Iggy and said, "Nice improvising! I would have never been able to explain where the evidence was!"

Iggy nodded, "Yeah, well I knew you were bluffing and I think it would be good to do that with everyone. If they start to crumble under pressure, then they probably stole it. Also, did you see how Peach had a pocketbook? I think we should search that. And anything that would be considered carry-on luggage on a plane."

Kooper nodded and said, "I think we should question one of the Toads next. Which one though?"

Iggy shrugged, "Probably Toadbert. He seems like he wouldn't be one to crack under pressure, and he might not even let us know anything. You know how the Mole works. Well anyway, we should do it while we're still ready and not when we have already questioned everyone."

Kooper nodded and went to inform DK. Iggy scribbled down some things on the pad. He compared notes with the Governor's, but nothing seemed to stick out. Kooper walked back in and sat down. He took out a note pad and Iggy complained, "Why do you write all of the notes down?"

Kooper smugly looked into the distance, "I have better hand writing."

Iggy laughed and Toadbert walked in. He sat down and said, "So I assume that you think I'm the robber?"

Iggy nodded, "Did you steal the coin? Look me in the eyes and answer."

He looked right back and said, "No."

Kooper frowned, "What were you doing at the time of the robbery?"

Toadbert shrugged, "I don't know."

Kooper nodded, "What have you been eating over the course of the night?"

Toadbert shrugged, "I don't know. Probably the steak and the mashed potatoes. I also had some of the mushrooms and some squash."

Kooper nodded and started writing in the pad. Iggy took over, "Were you offered something for the robbery? Like an exemption? Or some money for yourself?"

Toadbert nodded, "Yes."

Toadbert: I didn't steal the coin, but it's safe to assume that the robber wouldn't just do it for nothing.

Iggy nodded, "So then you did steal the coin?"

Toadbert shook his head, "No."

Kooper frowned, "Your story doesn't hold water. You say that you didn't steal the coin, yet you were offered something for stealing it. It can only be one or the other."

Toadbert shrugged, "I have my ways of knowing."

He then got up and left the room. Iggy's eye twitched. Kooper sighed, "It seems that you were right. Toadbert provided absolutely no information."

Iggy nodded, "That was the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me. And THAT is saying a lot."

Kooper nodded, "I'll call in Axel."

Iggy sighed, "Well at least we got some information from some of the people. For Shilo we got that he knows absolutely nothing about the robbery. Toadbert is a possible suspect and so is Axel. Toadette, well she wasn't able to keep her calm and just broke down sobbing when we started to question her. Were we really that harsh?"

Kooper shook his head, "I don't think so."

Iggy continued, "Starlow yelled at us the whole time saying she felt insulted that we had found evidence against her and that she was suspected for robbery. So our list of suspects includes Toadbert, Axel, Peach, and Bombette."

Kooper tilted his head, "Why the last two?"

Iggy shrugged, "We haven't inter viewed either of them, so they currently don't have an alibi. And we didn't really get anything from the guests. Call in Peach."

Kooper nodded and exited the door. Iggy sat down and sighed. Kooper quickly came back in. He sat down and then got up and stood next to the door. Peach walked in and Kooper stopped her, "We are going to need to search you pocket book for any suspicious items."

Peach was taken by surprise. She asked, "Can I take anything out?"

She started to dig in her purse but Kooper stopped her, "Ma'am, we cannot let you take anything out. It could possibly defeat the main purpose of the search. Everything will be needed to be kept in the bag."

Peach reluctantly nodded and handed the bag over. Kooper took it and started to search it. Peach sat down and Iggy said, "Did you steal the coin? Look me in the eyes and answer."

Peach was about to respond when Kooper let out a startled gasp and said, "I think we have out robber."

He pulled out the coin from her purse.

Whoa! Peach has the coin! I had a really short update time! It was only like... 4 days I think? Did you know that originally there was going to be a clue (Although there still might be some) in this chapter, but it was too complicated so I had to trash it? If this was a little quick just review about it. I kinda did update unusually fast. But still, please Review and if you haven't already, vote on the poll! And for the questioning scenes, I didn't have enough motivation to write all of them, so I kind of just did a time lapse. ~Shilo Burbans