Chapter 2: Tension Investigation
A few days have passed since the train incident, and the girls along with the police have no idea who is behind this. They try their best to find any clues, but whoever is doing this, has this planned out. Now all they can do is wait to see what will the criminal do next.
At the Utonium house, the professor, Blossom, and Buttercup are getting the house clean up. Tomorrow is the girls' birthday, and they are excited. However, they feel sad that it's going to be another year without Bubbles with them. After getting much as they can set up, the family of three take a lunch break outside in their backyard.
"This is great lunch professor," Buttercup says. Then eat her food.
"I'm glad you like it, but try not to eat your food fast, Buttercup," the professor says.
With food in her mouth, Buttercup says, "Sorry."
"Try no to talk with you mouth full either," Blossom remakes.
The professor asks, "So girls, how did things go with your investigation?"
"Okay I guess," Blossom answers.
"There were a lot of tension that it almost turns into a fight when we visited Mayor Tanizaki the other day," Buttercup adds.
The professor becomes confused, and asks, "What happened."
Blossom becomes a bit worried, and says, "Well it happened like this…"
They can remember talking to the mayor and assistant of Crown Rose City, along with people who have come to see him. They have some knowledge about the incident on the news, and what the mayor and assistant been telling them. There are three other people besides them
The first man has dark tan skin, black curly hair, and brown eyes. He is wearing dark blue sweatpants and matching jacket, a white shirt, and running shoes. He is also holding a soccer ball. His name is Simon Harris.
The second man has orange color hair that is long enough to make a braid, light tan skin, blue eyes, and a orange mustache. He is wearing a brown business suit with matching shoes and pants, and a black tie. His name is Coner Chang.
The third man has tan skin, brown spiky hair, and hazel color eyes. He is wearing a brown shirt with a black jacket, blue jeans, and red shoes. His name is Toby Samson.
The last one is a woman. She has light skin, and long dark brown hair, and hazel color eyes. She is wearing a casual blue dress with dark blue curves and swirl like patterns on it, black high heels, and a white coat. She is also holding a dark blue purse on her left shoulder. Her name is Zoey King. This is someone the girls know, because she lives across the street from her house.
Once Blossom explains about the threatening letter, everyone are rather shocked by it.
"Someone send a threatening letter to the mayor?!" Ms. Roberts exclaims.
"I'm afraid so, but we were able to be sure that no one was hurt," Blossom says.
"But why would someone want to be sure that the train to both cities? It doesn't seem to make too much sense," Ms. King asks.
"That is something we want to ask you about," Buttercup says.
Blossom turns to Mr. Tanizaki, and asks, "Mayor, do you have any idea who can benefit from stopping the ceremony to the city."
"I don't know from the top of my head, but I do remember that I had rub people the wrong way. Including about what happened eight years ago," Mr. Tanizaki answers.
"What happened eight years ago?" Blossom asks.
"Well, it all happened two years after I became mayor. To be honest, the city you know now wasn't the original city," Mr Tanizaki explains.
"Huh?!" Blossom and Buttercup react in shock.
Ms. Roberts giggles, and explain, "What Mayor Tanizaki is saying is that before Crown Rose City was created, all the citizens including ourselves used to live in Autumn Town."
Blossom then remembers, "I think I remember reading something like that on the paper. The paper said that you all had to move out because a dam that was being built that will put the city underwater."
"Is that true?" Buttercup asks.
"It is. We were all born and lived there until he had to move. Of course, I do love living in Townsville, but I do miss Autumn Town," Ms. King says.
"Yeah. We had a lot of memories living in the town," Ms. Roberts says.
She then becomes sadden, and says, "Good and bad."
Everyone excluding Blossom and Buttercup becomes sad and quiet after Ma. Roberts statement. Blossom and Buttercup are looking rather confused.
Mr. Chang calmly speakers up, "Come on Madison, you shouldn't bring up stuff like that."
"I know, but I can't stop thinking about what happened before the dam construction started," Ms. Roberts says.
"But it is understandable, after all we had to go through the problem together," Mr. Tanizaki replies.
"Yeah. We still don't know what she was doing on the road that day," Mr. Samson says.
Blossom asks, "Um, what this about?"
The mayor and the others look at the girls with confused looks on their faces. They realize that the girls don't know what about their situation.
Ms. Roberts explains, "We're sorry about that. We were just thinking about the accident that happened eight years ago."
"What happened?" Buttercup asks.
"I believe it will be a good idea to show you as well as telling you," Mr. Chang says, as he takes something from his pocket.
After getting the folded paper out of his pocket, he unfolds it reveal a piece of a newspaper article, and Mr. Harris turns his head away seeing the article, feeling depressed to see it. The girls look on the article to see Mr. Harris is on the front page of the article.
"What happened?" Blossom calmly asks.
"Well, eight years ago there was a hit and run incident on Townsville Mountain," explains.
"What?!" Buttercup exclaims in shock.
"A hit and run incident?!" Blossom adds.
"I'm afraid so. It was a terrible accident. Simon was driving in Townsville Mountain during the rainstorm," Ms. King explains.
Eight years ago, on Townsville mountain it's raining so much that it doesn't look like it will stop. In a black sedan car, Mr. Harris is driving and trying to be careful on the read. He is simply driving like there is no trouble.
"Simon was driving on the road that day, and was trouble to be careful because of the hard rain on the mountain," Mr. Chang explains.
continues to drive on the highway on the mountain with his front car lights on. Just then, he notices someone on the road. The person is a woman, who is wearing a thick red rain jacket, black boots, and umbrella. She has light skin with freckles on it, light blond hair, and gold color eyes. She has a suitcase next to her. Seeing the woman, Mr. Harris tries to stop the car as soon as he can. Sadly, the car ends up sliding on the street and makes it harder to stop. And the rain is not making it easier. Sadly, a large bang and light surrounds the area.
"So you accidently hit the girl on the road?" Blossom questions looking sad.
Mr. Harris sadly nods his head, "Yes. What's more, she was our very good friend. I always wonder what she was doing there that day. Now we'll never know."
"Soon after the hit, he went to check her to see that she instantly died after the hit. Not wanting to leave the body, he moves it and puts the copes in a ditch next to where the accident is. Then he drives back in the morning to the police and reveal what has happened," Ms. Roberts explains.
Blossom and Buttercup becomes shocked to hear the story.
"That sounds awful," Buttercup says.
"Yeah. I'm sorry for your loss," Blossom replies.
Then Blossom asks, "What was her name?"
"Tomo… her name was Tomo King. She was my younger sister," Ms. Kings explains.
"Your sister?" Blossom and Buttercup exclaim.
"Yeah. It wasn't easy for all of us, especially for Zoey and her family," Mr. Samson says.
Ms. King calmly says, "Yes. I also have trouble forgiving Simon from what has happened. But I couldn't stay mad at him, especially since it was an accident."
"Again we're very sorry for what happened to your sister. We really understand what it's like to lose a sister," Buttercup says.
Mr. Tanizaki says, "Yes. I remember reading on the paper about your sister has been in a coma for eight years. I'm sorry for what happened."
"It's okay. We just hope she'll wake up soon," Buttercup says.
Then Blossom asks, "Let's try to talk more about the case."
"Right. I still don't have clue about who could have been behind it. But I do think the dam might have something to do with it. The new train line goes over the dam," Mr. Tanizaki says.
"That could be it, and I can think of who would be able to benefit from it," Mr. Samson says, glaring at Mr. Chang.
"What does that suppose to mean?" Mr. Chang sternly asks.
"Well, you're the one who decided to have the dam build and having a new town made. Knowing you, you want to have the chance to get the insurance money that came with it," Mr. Samson shouts in anger.
"Oh yeah!" Mr. Chang shouts back.
Soon the two men begin to fight with each other. In fact, the fight almost turned into a toal fist fight. Ms. Roberts and Ms. King have to pull them apart.
Mr. Tanizaki turns to Blossom and Buttercup, "We can continue discussing this at a later time. I apologize for their behavior."
"It's alright," Blossom says.
"Yeah. We'll see you later," Buttercup replies.
As the girls leave, the two men begin to call each other really mean names, like stupid or idiot. They also called each other bastard or bitch, and other kinds of bad names they can say to each other.
After explaining to the professor about the incident, the professor is rather shocked to hear how the investigation, mostly the bad languages the two are saying in front of the girls.
"Sounds to me like you girls had it rough," the professor says.
"Yeah. If you ask me, that Mr. Chang is kind of a bastard," Buttercup replies.
"Now Buttercup, I don't need you saying those kind of language," the professor sternly replies.
"Sorry professor," Buttercup replies.
"At least the mayor was able to give us useful information about the case, but it still isn't enough," Blossom says.
"I'm sure you girls will be able to figure this out," The professor says.
He then smiles and says, "Let's try to focus on getting everything else ready for the party tomorrow."
"Yeah! Me and the girls are going to play a killer game of death ball!" Buttercup shouts looking excited.
"Just try not to break anything," Blossom calmly replies.
"Fine fine," Buttercup mutters.
Buttercup and the others continue to eat their lunch, and then continue to get the house ready for the party.
Across the street, there is a white house with red roof. Inside the living room of the house, Ms. King is vacuuming the house. After she is done, she puts the machine away in the closet. Before she leaves, she look at the Utonium house and show the sad expression in her eyes. She is worried and sad about something, and worried about it coming to light.