Happy New Year! And what better way to than to have a New year mystery.
First, I have a couple notes to make, I would've had this ready sooner but I was using stuff I got over Christmas. On another note, until I mention, any new Characters in the story are not my OC. Oh, and please send in mysteries, I don't wanna make all of them in this story.
So hears another one of my mysteries.
Chapter 3-New Year Saboteurs
(Note: the events take place before New Years)
"Oh boy! I can't wait for the New Year's Festival." Charmy exclaimed.
"Just hold your horses Charmy." Vector shot back. "We'll go right after we put the tree away."
It was New Years Eve and the three detectives were putting decorations away from Christmas.
"My resolution is to keep the planet safe." Espio said. "What about you guys?"
"To drink a whole gallon of melted chocolate." Charmy answered.
"Mine is to make more money than we did last year." Vector said.
The New Year's Festival is a festival held on New Years Eve. The festival held in the high school in the city. There were booths for games, contests, and shops in one gym, lots of good food in the cafeteria, and a movie marathon in the other gym. Then a little before New Years, the groups of people would head to the nearest field and watch fireworks when New years hit.
Soon the detectives were done putting things away and started to head for the school.
"I can't wait for the games," said Charmy, "and the food, and the movies, and the rides."
"Charmy, there are no rides." Vector exclaimed.
"Oh" said Charmy.
Espio pointed to a building. "There's the school."
They walked in and hung any winter wear they had on.
"Come on, I wanna try the games." Charmy said excitedly.
"All right, all right." the other two said.
They were walking through the aisle of booths until Charmy stopped them. "That one." he said. He was pointing to a booth where you have to knock a tower of bottles over.
Charmy threw the softball and it hit the tower right in the middle, but the ball just bounced back and the tower stayed still.
"Cheap! Cheap!" Charmy said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. He hit it." Vector said. "I saw that with my own eyes."
"I can't help you." said the person running the booth. "I just set the tower back up again."
"Come on," said Vector. "lets try another game."
The detectives tried every game in the gym, but sure enough they all were rigged. The detectives turned their hopes to the food. They all got plates and filled them up.
"Ech, this tastes weird." Charmy said.
"I agree." said Espio.
"So you've noticed too." said someone. The detectives turned to face a blue hedgehog in white gloves and red sneakers. It was Sonic the hedgehog.
"What do you mean." said Espio.
"I mean, the food is terrible." said sonic, eating a chilly dog.
"So why are you still eating it." said Charmy.
"You can't let chilly dogs go to waste." said sonic, now walking away.
"The only thing left is the movie," said Vector, "and I'll bet you that it too is not working."
Sure enough, the movie was out of whack and it was playing the movie the way it shouldn't.
"Alright lets leave." said Vector.
They were about to leave when someone stopped them.
"Please don't leave, we're doing the best we can to fix it."
The detectives turned to see a grey cat with glasses. He was a little smaller than Big and a little thinner too.
"My name is Mr. Yonder. And we know there is someone messing with everything and we're doing the best we can. We just don't know who." The gray cat said.
"Maybe we can help you Mr." said Charmy. "We are the Chaotix Detective Agency."
"Oh please, could you?" said Mr. Yonder. "I'll be very thankful and I'll pay you handsomely."
"Alright," said Espio, "lets look and the movie camera."
Mr. Yonder led the detectives to a room with a window. The camera was one of those old film projectors that used a roll of film instead of a video or
DVD.
Vector took a close look at the film, then said, "Look, the film here has been cut and tapped together. So someone helping setting up the movie could've done this."
The next stop was the kitchen to see whose been messing with the food. Vector and Espio were looking in cabinets and drawers while Charmy was looking at the things on the table. They didn't have any luck until something caught Espio's eye.
It was a label slightly unpeeled on a box. He peeled it off and it read sugar. He looked at the other boxes and shakers and they all had fake labels on them.
"Someone has been messing with the recipe." he said as he pulled off another one. "Look, it's on the other ones too."
"Looks like the they did this to mess up the recipe, Mr. Yonder." pointed out the detectives.
The last stop was the game booths. They were looking at bottle game where Charmy got robbed on.
"Look," Charmey said to the other detectives, "over here." The detectives came to Charmey and saw it the bottles were bolted to planks of wood in the back, supporting the tower of bottles.
They looked at the other booths too and they all had been rigged in some way. The detectives needed no more proof, the entire festival was rigged.
They brought this up to Mr. Yonder.
"Mr. Yonder!" Vector yelled to him. "Someone did sabotage the festival, we just don't know who."
"Well," said Mr. Yonder, "maybe this will help." he handed the detectives a clipboard with all the volunteer's time they were helping with what.
Vector examined the clipboard closely. There were three rows for the activities, games, food, and movie. And several columns for time. Some people helped for only 30 min. Most helped for 1 hour. But there were two people he found interesting. One was named Dave, he was helping for a total of about 6 hours. The other was named Jarrod, who also helped for about 6 hours total, except Jarrod spent a lot of his time in the booth area.
"Hmmm…" said Vector, scanning through it one last time, then handing it to Espio. "We have a couple suspects, but to find the culprit, we need to look in the field where they are going to shot the fire works."
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When the detectives arrived, they searched the field toughly, looking under every rock and in every grass patch. Charmey was the only one who wasn't really looking. Instead he was flying around until he crashed into a rock.
Only the rocked swung open showing a secret entrance.
"HEY GUYS, LOOK!" Charmey yelled. Vector and Espio soon arrived and saw the entrance. "It's some sort of secret underground entrance." Charmey pointed out.
"Well, lets see what's inside." said Espio. The three detectives climbed down the ladder that led to a secret room.
"WOW!" said Charmey. He looked at all the strange equipment. He then saw some black rocks.
"Hey," he said "why would someone collect these black rocks?" he asked the others as he showed them on of the rocks.
"Charmey that's not just a rock. It's coal." Espio pointed out.
"That's not the only thing he's doing." Vector said. "Take a look."
He showed the other detectives a funny looking thing. It had some red sticks wired to a clock.
"Ooooo!" said Charmey in amazement. "I've never seen a clock that looks like that."
"Charmey, it's not a clock, it's a bomb." corrected Vector.
"A BOMB!" Charmey said in now sudden fear, hiding behind Espio.
"Don't worry, Charmey," said Espio trying to calm Charmey down. "It's not active now, It's not complete."
"Phew, that's good." said Charmey relieved.
Then someone in a hooded sweatshirt came down the entrance. When he saw the detectives he hurriedly climbed back out.
"Quick, after him." Espio said. As now the detectives were climbing out too.
Not long after the hooded figure climbed out, Espio hopped out and threw one of his stars that caught the figure's sweatshirt and pinned him against a tree.
When the others came out, Vector pulled the man free and held his arms behind his back.
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Back at the festival, they showed the culprit to Mr. Yonder.
"Here is your saboteur, Mr. Yonder." said Vector.
"Jarrod!" Mr. Yonder said in astonishment, then turned to the detectives. "How did you find out ?"
"The first clue was the clipboard that showed the schedules, he spent nearly 4 and a half hours on the booths." mentioned Vector.
"It makes sense because it wouldn't take that long to do what he did to the movie or food."
"The second clue is…," Vector started, "is…. Well, I guess we didn't have a second clue. But because he discovered coal in the area where you were going to shoot the fireworks. He even made a bomb if it came to use it."
"Well," said Mr. Yonder, "now that we know the saboteur, you're going to jail." Turning to Jarrod, then the detectives as police took Jarrod away.
"How could I ever thank you." He said with delight. "You've made this fair safe again. Here, its your pay with a little extra bonus."
"Wow! Thanks!" Said Vector putting the money in his pocket.
"Now enjoy the rest of the fair." Mr. Yonder said. And the detectives did.
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"Lord, I have urgent news!" said someone running into a weird looking throne room. "The detectives have discovered the one named Jarrod and the coal mine you told him to make."
"Settle down," their king said. "There is no need to worry, he has already collected enough and has given it away."
"You're sure the detectives won't sniff out your plan?" said the first.
"I am sure!" their king cried. "I am always a step ahead of them. The people on that planet were enjoying life and having fun and what were we doing? We were trapped, trapped as soon as that wormhole closed and we were almost free until that hedgehog and his friends stopped us. Now the whole planet will pay."
Sorry this came out much later than New Years. I started it around New Years and was a little distracted by things from Christmas, and when it felt it was too late I over half-way done with the Chapter, so no comment on that.
Third chapter done, I will use another idea for the next unless someone else sends one in.
Please comment if you think you know who these mysterious people are. I won't be saying if you're right or wrong, you will have to read and find out.
Also I don't know how many chapters there will be.
Stay cool, readers!