"Wowie Wow wow!!! Somebody already started died and it's literally only been twelve hours since I told you?! This is going to be exciting I tell you!" Monokuma's voice could be heard reverberating off of the walls as everyone who had discovered the body looked on in disgust.
Twilight looked around the room, attempting to not look directly at the dead body. Not everyone was here yet, but she did notice that not everyone was in the gym when they all awoke. Perhaps they woke up at different times or something of the sort?
"Monokuma...what did you do?"
"What what whaaaaaa? You think I did this?" Monokuma asked, putting both of his paw like hands over his mouth and giving a small giggle.
"Your the only one who could have you little rat!" Nightmare angrily proclaimed, smashing his fist into a nearby desk, breaking a crack Into it.
"No no no. I assure you this was not me. One of you got very desperate to escape and decided to kill kill kill!"
"You can't be serious..." Nightmare muttered as he walked closer to the now deceased Zinc McChloe, whose entire body had gone limp. He pushed past Trixie, who had her mouth covered in surprise and her eyes shot wide open. Her eyes were a bloodshot red from shock and it was apparent that tears were beginning to form.
"M-McChloe!" Victor yelled, flinching violently backward.
"There's no way." Orige commented, stroking her chin. Her snakes began to slither back into their slots inside of her cloak as she stared onward. "Did he not knock us all out overnight? How could this have possibly-"
"Why would she do something like this?!" Fluttershy asked, starting to tear up from the shock of seeing the now deceased Zinc McChloe. She had fallen completely limp, save for her hands that seemed to still cling to the medication bottles.
"So...your implying suicide." Victor answered, eyes closed, as if deep in thought.
"Welp! How about we do this the official way!" Monokuma called out as everyone watched as he waddled quickly out of the room and across the corner. Meer seconds later, the intercom to the school came on. The television inside of the school gym came on after a bit of static, revealing Monokuma in the same control panel-like office as before, with his stubby legs crossed on top of the desk in front of him.
Ding-Dong-Ding-Dong
"A Body has been discovered! After a set amount of time, which you may use however you like, the class trial will begin!"
"So she really is dead..." Lyra hazily commented, rubbing her head. She stumbled backwards some before regaining her composure as she sat Into one of the multiple wooden desks aligning the rows.
"Monooooookuma appears!" Monokuma sounded aloud as he appeared out of nowhere in front of the crowd that had begun to gather in front of Zinc's body. "Before any of you asks, yup! My rules still hold true!"
"Rules, the hell?" Pressure Point, who had just walked into the room cracking his knuckles asked. "WHAT IN BLAZES?!" He screamed as he saw the dead body lying motionless in the very classroom that he had awoken in earlier. He started to flick water off of his hands and while it from his face. He shook his head quickly, attempting to regain his composure. "You talking about that class trial crap?"
"Yup! Gotta figure out the "blackened", you might call them, or else..."
"Elaborate yourself, you'd best!" Victor exclaimed, pointing his finger directly at the psychopathic bear. His words purely radiated his confidence in himself, and his expression showed everything but cowardice.
"To put it bl-untly...find out 'who-dun-it', or I'll execute everyone but the "blacked!"
The heart rate of everyone in the room collectively picked up pace, as they all began to break out into a nervous sweat.
Twilight's eyes dilated as she began to access her situation.
"So one of us killed Zinc...and one of us has to be found out and executed...or else ALL of us but *them* get executed?!"
"That's the ups and downs, ins and outs, forward and backwards, horizontal and diagonals of it!" Monokuma jokingly responded, giving his signature "pu-hu-hu" laughter. "But anyways, enough meaningless chatter! I'm here to give you what will aid you in your 'investigation'! Iiiiiiiits the Monokuma File!!"
"Monokuma File...?" Nightmare asked as he flicked his lighter on, it letting out a beautiful blue flame that began to then dance in his hand.
"Yup! It wouldn't be very fair if I just tossed you all headfirst into the investigation with no experience whatsoever now would it? Soooooo I'm installing a file in each of your e-books!"
"E-books? What? When did we..."Trixie reached into her pocket and pulled out a small, blue screen-like contraption that when she touched said a phrase aloud.
"Welcome, Trixie Lunamoon."
"Yup! What better name to call it? It's sort of like your cell phones! It has all sorts of application that'll aid you around the school! But anyways, happy investigating kiddies!" Monokuma announced as he sprinted out of the room.
"Wait a minute where's my cell phone?" Trixie asked as she noticed it wasn't where she normally kept it. She checked every nook and cranny of her clothes and came up with nothing.
"I had to take those of course. It'd be a shame if one of you called for help." Monokuma said, peeking his head into the room before again sprinting off as if running from all of the other potential questions they may ask.
"That bear is no help at all is he?" Pinkie Pie complained, unlike her usual self. She kept a pouty expression on her face and folded her arms, tapping her feet.
"That's besides the point. We need to figure out who did this. There's no possible was this was suicide, before any of you say so."
"How do you figure?" Twilight asked him curiously.
"She's holding two prescription bottles. Why would she try to commit suicide with two different medications? It's obvious the murderer was just too incompetent to leave just one." Victor Excellence replied in an abnormally low tone, pointing his finger at the two.
"I-I think I'm gonna go lie down." Cherry Blossom unsteadily said before she crippled to the floor, Da'Orige catching her before her head collided with the tiled floor.
"I'll take Cherry Blossom back to her room. The rest of you continue the investigation." Not even awaiting a response, she headed out of the room to the right.
Twilight quietly looked on before Nightmare waved his uniquely blue lighter into her face to snap her out of her trance. The warmth began to burn the individual pores on her face with her flinching backward violently in complete and utter surprise.
"We don't have time to waste. I need you to go figure out where these medication bottles came from. According to the e-shit there's a chemistry lab on this floor. Take Pinkie and Fluttershy with you since they're contributing nothing to the investigation."
"That's...not nice." Fluttershy rebutted in her trademark low tone.
"I just don't seem to care." Nightmare shot back, lifting up the head of the cadaver. "She bled from her mouth. I guess there is the possibility that she swallowed some of the medicine." Nightmare continued, ignoring any further comments from her.
As Twilight departed from the crime scene, Zaccarius Night stared angrily at Nightmare, raising his sword to him.
"That is no way to speak to ladies you disrespectful cur!"
"Signs of a struggle on her facial area." Nightmare commented, starting to get back into his legs and stare at Zaccarius. He clutched his lighter as he tinkered with it for a moment behind his back. He held it up once again, this flame being completely black. He held it closely to Zaccarius's face, and allowed the menacing heat of the dark flame begin to burn his skin, to which he stepped backwards in response.
"Night. Compared to me, your nothing but a boy. A boy shouldn't come at his superior like that."
"What'd you say?! How dare you! I'll rip your impure soul right out!" Zaccarius proclaimed heroically, beating his fist against his chest.
"And I'll fucking burn your soul with my fire." Nightmare shot back in a menacing tone that would scare away even the bravest of lions.
"...you two...stop." Cinder commanded, entering the room whiping her eyes. "Just continue the investigation we have better things to worry about."
Nightmare glanced at her, deciding it would be best not to argue with yet another person if they all planned to live. Nightmare pocketed his lighter and turned his attention back to the body.
Some twenty minutes later, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie sprinted back inside of the room, Nightmare and Victor beginning to wrap up their investigation.
"This is what we have learned. Victim died of an *apparent* overdose on the Poliarr medicine. There was an injury noted on her upper temple area, and, unlike her usual wear of the Labcoat, she is wearing it like a normal person would. Other than that there were no other notable differences."
"What we have discovered is that the medication was taken from the Chem lab, and they were on a shelf in an illegible type of English, as in the words were unrecognizable. We also found a suit of armor with a spear in its hand. It had traces of blood on it, but we aren't sure who's blood it is. We also found a note inside of the armor."
'Meet in the Chem lab when you awaken. I have found a way out.'
"Probably just a way to lure Zinc out." Victor asserted.
"Oh wait! A suit of armor?!" Zaccarius cried in ecstasy as he dashed out of the room and downwards towards the Chem lab like a dog that had just been called for food. Nightmare, Twilight, and Fluttershy all chased after him, now curious about what exactly he was going to do.
"I can feel my very soul jumping for joy!" Zaccarius bawled out looking at a completely golden suit of armor. It was the same model as his, save for having a spear instead of a sword. The spear was unnaturally long, being taller than the knight itself at about 7 feet long, and it had a small, inconspicuous bloodstain on the edges of it, that would have been unnoticeable had it the suit not been completely golden, making the bright pink stand out on its own.
Twilight walked up to it, and inspected it from top to bottom.
"Hey Zaccarius...you know how to take the helmet off don't you?" Twilight, called, giving the helmet a few tugs before realizing it was not going to budge.
"Why of course, milady." He responded with a cultural bow, beginning to unscrew the head from the knight.
Twilight looked into the inside and narrowed her eyes. "The gold plating looks like it's rubbed off on the inside." She started to run her finger along the inside of the night, feeling moisture and panickedly flicking it off of her hand in disgust.
"And the significance of that? How can you even be sure there was any on the inside in the first place?" Zaccarius asked.
"It's just worth noting. I can't be sure of anything yet."
"I...hmm." Zaccarius put his hand up to his chin as if he was in deep thought about something.
Twilight cocked her head.
"I feel like I'm supposed to remember something. As if my soul is revealing something that happened recently. As if my soul is connected to this room."
"Hey, shadduo with the soul stuff." Cinder commanded, attempting to lean her body against the wall, but noticing too late that the wall was a couple inches behind her. She instead hit herself directly onto the knight, whose spear fell forwards and banged itself into Twilight's head.
Even the Ultimate Librarian couldn't comprehend what happened next. She was lying on the floor in complete pain. After a moment of wincing and staggering, she got up onto has feet and focused her vision on Zaccarius, who was still looking as if he needed to remember something. She then began to hear the voice of Zaccarius, albeit distorted, talking to himself, even though his lips weren't moving. It seemed as if he was unaware of it.
"I feel like I've been in here.
But when could I have been in her though?
My soul feels some sort of connection.
The coldness of the floor
Trickles of blood down my noble face
The falling?"
"Huh? The falling? Blood down his face?" Twilight wondered her eyes large in wonder of what was occurring around her. "Wait a minute."
"Just a second Zaccarius!" Twilight said, coming back to terms as she bolted off the floor. She wiped the dust off her skirt and looked directly at Zaccarius.
"Huh?!"
"Does the back of your head hurt at all?"
"Feel a tad groggy, so yes I'd figure." He responded, beginning to pick dried blood scans from his head then noticing that he had an opening on the back of his head. His face changed to that of a shocked expression as he began to realize that he must have been knocked out.
"That's probably why the spear has blood on the hilt as well. Whoever assaulted him mystics used the hilt to knock him out." Victor claimed, arms crossed as he looked on with one eye open and the other in a state of rest.
"So wait...when did you awaken?" Twilight questions.
"I don't particularly remember unfortunately. This is a pretty nasty blow."
"Now that that's out of the way. I looked over the body, not touching it directly for gender reasons. Seems she has a cut on her face, and as far as we can assume she must've died due to an overdose on this medication, but I'll have to assert that it was nonintentional or it was a murder of course." Nightmare explained, not wanting to stay on the subject.
"The Monokuma file just gave us the bear basics." Pressure Point said rubbing his back by repeatedly moving his stethoscope side to side. "Nothing in here but where the body was found and what was on it. Must mean anything else would give out the killers identity. Also says something about each of us having a specific time for us to had woke up because of Monokuma's 'Timer gas'."
"Timer gas?" Asked Fluttershy, following along well until he said those words.
"According to it the gas was set to wake each one of us at a specific time."
"Interesting." Noted Orige, who had just walked into the room followed closely by a drowsy Cherry Blossom. Cherry Blossom had a small King Snake wrapped around her forehead like a crown, seeming to not effect her at all.
"And allegedly the medicine she "overdosed" on is on a shelf where things are very illegible. But not to one of the medically trained." Nightmare concluded, shoving his closed lighter deeply into his pocket.
Everyone in the room had their head turned and were staring directly at Pressure Point, who stared right back at them with a no-nonsense look plastered across his face.
"No." He plainly remarked, before being interrupted by a voice from the entrance to the lab.
"Hey...whys there a dead person in the classroom?"
Everyone turned to look at a tall, lanky figure standing at the door. He was a typical light yellow skinned male with a brown droopy bowl cut. He wore a blue jumpsuit that was half zipped, showing a small amount of skin, with surprisingly some muscle showing. He wore bright red boots at the bottom of his jumpsuit . He also wore a rock shaped helmet on his head with a light emanating from the middle.
"...and you are?" Orige asked suspicious of the new character.
"Clay Miner." He said, swiping his hair from his face as he cracked his neck. He looked towards Twilight, the light shining directly into her eyes causing her to flinch backward. "Oh. Sorry." Clay then turned off the shining light and returned his eye contact back with Twilight.
"So let me guess, your talent is claying correct?" Victor asks, arms crossed.
"I'm going to pretend you didn't just say that. It's mining obviously. But that's not the point. Somebody explain the dead girl?" He asked nonchalantly. It was somewhat disturbing that he talked more of an object than a dead body, giving off the aura of someone experienced with dead bodies.
Nightmare ran him through on the entire crime, before the school bell rang.
"Alright alright alright, getting sick of waiting!" Monokuma squeaked over the loudspeaker causing Clay Miner to flinch backwards.
"What the FUUUUUUU---" he screeched before Cinder covered his mouth with a weary look in her eyes.
"All of you should head towards the red elevator. So we can get this show on the road!"
"Damn it. We aren't even done bear!" Nightmare said in an aggressive voice that would scare away even a grizzly bear.
Facing the reality of the situation, they all headed towards the elevator the back of the main hallway in the school, frightened as ever. They all boarded the elevator, despair clear on each of their faces, them sending accusatory looks towards one another.
"One of us destroyed the soul of Zinc McChloe. And on my honor as a knight, I will take you down!"
And thus, the final battle begun.