Danganronpa V.E: Creating Chaos

by Lusaminia

Chapter 1: Despair Begins Again - Trial part 2

“Let’s get right back to the discussion we were having before the intermission,” I suggested to everyone. “So now we know that Octavia and Flash Sentry did have some contact last night, and that means that they are our two primary suspects. However, I think it’s possible to rule both out without any need of evidence.”

“Ya sound rather confident there A.K.,” Applejack stated. “But doesn’t it seem rather stupid to have a side without evidence for it?”

“Yes, I know how stupid it sounds when you say it,” I nodded in agreement. “However, sometimes common sense is the only evidence you really need in a case like this,” I decided to rest my hooves on the pedestal in front of me as I explained my reasoning. “We now have confirmation that Octavia didn’t switch rooms last night and that her alibi is true. Yes, there is a chance she could kill Twilight, but she would have probably done it sooner considering this sleeping problem seems to be consistent.”

“Trixie agrees, Octavia is far less suspicious than that cur over there,” Trixie stated as she pointed at Flash. “Jealousy obviously played a part in his motive, seeing how both he and poor Twilight was familiar with the great Celestia.”

“I would never kill anypony over something so foalish as jealousy,” Flash barked back, feeling the pressure everypony was putting on him. “That’s morally wrong, lawfully wrong, and lacks anything that could point towards me being the murderer. I ask that you keep your thoughts in your own head.”

“Saying such things will only hurt you my dear friend,” Flam teased as he watched the scene before, a smile wide on his face. “And as much as seeing somepony like you get chosen would delight me, I doubt you are the murderer.”

It feels like everypony has different opinions on the murder, but the main pony I need to worry about is Applejack. As long as she continues to deny our evidence we won’t be getting anywhere, and I don’t think I have evidence here that can refute her. However, I’m sure that somepony here might have something I could use, I just have to wait for that to show itself. Hopefully that will change her stance on the issue.

Truth Bullets: Rainbow’s Account, Blood Streak, Sword in Hedge, Signs of a Struggle

Applejack: “After ruling out Octavia, the only other pony who could have done it is Flash!”

Redheart: “But I can’t help but think that somepony like him is innocent. Would a member of the royal guard be that untrained and sloppy? (Memory bullet formed: Untrained and sloppy)"

Trixie: “It doesn’t matter what the crime scene suggests. As long as you had weapon training it would make sense to be the culprit. That’s why he used a sword.”

Ditzy: “Sure, the sword is the murder weapon, but it just seems to obvious.”

“No Trixie, Redheart has a point,” I spoke up, not believe I hadn’t thought about this earlier. “I doubt that anypony in the royal guard, especially the Ultimate Guard, would have caused certain events in the crime to occur.”

“If that’s true, then please tell Trixie before she gets bored of waiting.” Well you aren’t a patient one that’s for sure.

“First off, the very first thing that we clarified when the trial started was that a struggle occurred,” I explained. “That would mean that Twilight saw Flash as he attempted to kill her, and as a member of the guard he has military training. So answer this: would Flash, with the immense training he had to receive, let Twilight see him when his experience would have told him otherwise?”

“I’ll also follow up on that with a little knowledge of my own, or rather an obvious fact nopony here seems to have caught up on” Flam said as I finished my explanation. “Twilight is ground bound, a unicorn, but Flash isn’t. He’s a pegasus, and I’m sure that he would have used that to his advantage in order take Twilight by surprise. I’ll also remind you all that the entry wound was from Twilight’s front, so he couldn’t have taken her by surprise when her body was near a statue.”

“That would have been way to steep of an angle to hit, and the statue itself also would prove to be an obstacle,” Doctor Whooves chimed in. “So I doubt Flash would have been able to attack from an angle like that.”

“Trained or not, I still don’t see any other choices as to who the culprit could be.” Applejack told us, telling me that my attempt to make her switch sides had failed.

“Yeah, I also have trouble seeing anypony else killing Twilight around that time,” Rainbow Dash nodded in agreement as she spoke. “I mean, nopony else was up around the time so what other choice is there?”

“Just because Octavia and Flash were the only ones we know about doesn’t mean they are the only ones who were up.” Ditzy argued.

“But most signs still point to the killer being Flash, so I think it’s far to say that he is in this situation,” Trixie replied as she looked with an almost triumphant gaze at Ditzy.

“Everypony please, just stop and listen!” Redheart pleaded. “It’s impossible to continue if we’re all split, so lets please keep an open mind and-”

“Split?” Monokuma asked, seeming to be trembling slightly in his seat from excitement. “If you’re all split, than I will give you the tools needed to win this argument. Therefore, I now present to you all new, super cool morphinominal trial ground!”

“Morphin-what now?” Pinkie asked, absolutely confused for the what seems like the first time. “I know plenty of words but even I have never heard of that one before.”

Her answer was received in the form of the ground below our pedestals violently shaking as the started to rise. As the shaking stop I saw each of our pedestals was now about the figure of a chess piece, or pawns to be more specific. The pieces than moved until two lines formed on each side of the room, one side the black pieces and the other side white. I figured out what Monokuma was doing at that point; Applejack, Trixie, and the others who believed Flash to be the culprit was on the side opposite of us while Flam, Ditzy, and the rest of us were on the other. This was the time to get everypony on the same side, and if we’re to survive this trial we need them to side with us.

Flash is the culprit: Applejack, Trixie, Pinkie, Rarity, Bon Bon, Rainbow, Bulk
Flash isn’t the culprit: A.K., Ditzy, Flam, Redheart, Octavia, Flash, Doctor, Fluttershy

Applejack: “Flash was in the garden, the scene of the crime.”
A.K.: “But he was only in the garden for a couple of minutes, and that’s not enough time to kill Twilight.”

Rarity: “Flash is trained in weaponry, so he would’ve known how to properly use a sword.”
Redheart: “But we just clarified that whoever did this wasn’t well trained in weaponry.”

Trixie: “Being a member of the royal guard, he would have had the most likely motive against a friend of the crown like Twilight.”
Flam: “No, I’m certain that Flash had no motive that could connect him to this case.”

Pinkie: “As long as nopony saw him he was okey dokey.”
Octavia: “But I saw him up a few minutes before the murder occurred, so I would have noticed him.”

Bon Bon: “You two were the only ones awake at the time, nopony else could have done it.”
Ditzy: “Just because those are the two we knew were awake doesn’t mean they were the only ones!”

Bulk: “I sleep on the very end of the entrance halls right balcony, nopony else could have been stirred by my snoring!”
Fluttershy: “Y-y-your snoring isn’t what would wake them up. They had the intention of m-m-murdering for more than two days.”

“Applejack, I know you don’t want to admit it but your wrong!” I yelled at her. “Flash isn’t the one responsible, he’s being set up by whoever the true culprit of this case is. Why won’t you accept that?”

“Why?” She asked me in an extremely aggravated tone. “Why do ah need to explain who the most likely culprit is? What if your wrong about it being a setup? You’ll be responsible for all of us dying, and I’m not going to let some author who acts like she’s smarter than everypony else-”

“You’re one to talk.”

I looked to Flam, whose constant cheerful and carefree expression was replaced by something much more… frozen. His hat was no longer on his head, and laid on the floor in front of him letting his mane shadow his eyes. No doubt he was the one who had just interrupted Applejack, but this was completely different from the usual feeling his voice gave off. I felt like he was ready to slaughter any of us in here, or thinking about it more notably Applejack was the one he seemed to want dead. I just stood there frozen as he started to speak, worried that he might turn on me if I said anything wrong.

“Applejack, you wanna know what kinda ponies I hate in this world?” He asked rhetorically. “It’s ponies like you, who think they are some damn smart that they are the only ones who know the truth. At least most of those ponies know when to back down, but you? Why would the full-grown filly who was so scared that they wet themselves last night and ask me to keep them safe suddenly acting so tough? Despicable, that’s what you are. Your kind is so despicable that if you don’t shut that hole of yours for the rest of the trial, an apple isn’t the only thing I’m going to shove down it.”

Everything went quiet, nopony wanting to do anything that could even slightly upset him right now. I could see Applejack trembling as he finished speaking, which meant that his words probably had gotten to her in some way. With his left hoof he picked up his top hat and place it back on his head, pausing as he lowered his head to do so. Than, as if the hat was the only thing that actually kept him happy,  he suddenly jerked his head upwards to meet my eyes, that smile having appeared once again on his face.

“Now then,” He started in that carefree voice we were all use to. “if we are all on the same page I say that we just get this over with, what do you say?”

“Trixie can’t help but wonder what you mean by ‘get this over with’,” The Ultimate Showpony replied.

“Well shouldn’t it be obvious?” Flam responded. “I think it’s pretty obvious who the murderer is when you start to think about a couple of things mentioned in this trial as well as just how the crime was laid out.”

“Y-you say they’re obvious, b-b-but I can’t think of anypony who c-c-could have done it.” Fluttershy told him, and I couldn’t help but agree with what she was saying. Off the top of my head I couldn’t think of anypony who would have been more likely.

“Let’s start off first by saying who definitely couldn’t have done this murder, and I would like to call on somepony who has been keeping a very important piece of evidence hidden,” His eyes landed on me as he spoke those words. “Granted Applejack probably wouldn’t have agreed with us even if she had seen them, but didn’t you write down who had motives and who didn’t?”

“Yes, I did, but most of the ponies on that list weren’t prime suspects,” I told him, to which his smile grew even more in response.

“Go figure, the author was so caught up in getting the small details write that she didn’t even realize the big one that was right in front of her,” He casually jokes. “Come on A.K., don’t tell me the little detail of Flash’s motive photo escaped your mind,” My eyes widened as he said that, and I realized just how much of an idiot I had been to not bring it up sooner. “Long story short for those who weren’t there yesterday, we had a little meeting in the morning and some of us decided to give out our motives. Here’s the thing though, out of Ditzy, A.K., Pinkie, Flash, and me, no one had Twilight as a culprit. They, as well as Rainbow and Twilight, the former I had to check to make sure and the latter being the victim, both didn’t open their motive photos. Therefore, all those who had given motives or didn’t have motives open are safe.”

“And exactly where does this get us?” Redheart asked.

“Well, that was merely mentioning ponies who aren’t possible suspects,” Flam explained. “I think that now is the time that we finally clear up what the mess was that caused Fluttershy to find the body this morning. At first we all thought that blood in the hallway was due to the culprit trying to fool us, and while that’s correct the method Applejack suggested was, of course, off.”

“So your saying that it was caused by something other than that gruesome suggestion you had earlier?” Rarity said with an incredibly dramatic gasp at the end. “I’ll admit that I’m shocked it’s coming down to that, but I can’t help but wonder what other method could be used.”

“Wait a second,” I told Flam, who was getting ready to answer. “The murder happened in the garden, the weapon was found in the garden, and one of those had been washed,” As I said that, it finally came to me. “Are you trying to say that the sword used to murder Twilight is the cause of the blood?”

“The sword?!” Ditzy gasped, probably having never thought of the idea until now.

“I don’t exactly get it myself, but I’m interested to know why you think that.” Octavia acknowledge, speaking for most of us here save from Flam and Trixie, who was smiling for some odd reason.

“So what do you all say?” Flam asked us. “Shall we find out why nopony would have noticed this?”

Truth Bullets: Glittering Water, Sword in Hedge, Blood Streak, Motive Photos, Secret Kitchen Entrance

Flam: “Up to this point everypony here has thought the blood streak was caused by the body being dragged. However the truth was the sword is what caused it.”

Ditzy: “That certainly changes things up a bit, but that doesn’t affect the crime at all.”

Redheart: “Maybe, but perhaps there's something that changes if we think outside of the box.”

Bulk: “Think outside of the box?! What kinda answer could we come up with if we thought outside of the box?”

Redheart: “Like the possibility some of the blood was hidden, or more blood was there and it’s gone now. That kinda thinking.”

Trixie: “Trixie believes that it wasn’t the sword exactly but some other object that the culprit used. An object that none of us found.”

“Wait a second,” I spoke up, having realized something about Redheart’s statement. “That’s right! Now that I think about it more blood was in the entrance way before the murder occurred, that’s what the water on the floor is!”

“Um… water on the floor?” Trixie tilted her head as she looked at me, seeming rather confused. “Hate to disappoint you but Trixie, as well as everypony else, can tell water isn’t the same as blood.”

“No, I’m not saying that,” I told her, clearing my throat as I began to explain. “I think that the murderer must have cleaned up the blood just as they had to the sword. If we assume that the murderer used the kitchen to clean off the sword and wipe up the trail they left behind up to the garden door, it would make it look like the body was dragged.”

“Nopony sliced as badly as Twilight had would make a nice, straight trail of blood when we know the culprit struggle to kill them.” Flam added, backing up my statement rather well.

“And since there is a mop in the kitchen they could have used that and the sink to get rid of the blood!” Pinkie announced.

“Hold on, aren’t you all forgetting the nighttime rules?” Flash asked. “Doesn’t that make your argument completely useless?”

I should’ve expected something like this when I brought up the water, but no doubt the murderer went to the kitchen. I just got to prove that to him.

Truth Blades: Secret Kitchen Entrance, Glittering water, Rainbow’s Account.

Flash: “There is a single, fatal flaw in your thinking: the rules state you can’t enter the dining room at nighttime. If you can’t get to the dining room, than you shouldn't be able to get to the kitchen. If your thinking is to be correct, than that would mean the murderer would have to break the rules, and I doubt that Monokuma would allow anyone to break the rules without punishment.”

A.K.: “Your logic relies on entering the dining room, but how are you certain that’s where they entered?”

Flash: “How could they have enter at any other place? The door to the dining room is the only way into the kitchen, and I will stand by that fact. That’s why I need you to understand it’s impossible to do such a thing, and Flam is completely wrong!”

“Flash, there is actually another way to enter the dining room, though I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t know” I replied. “Ditzy, I’m guessing you know the specifics. I overheard you talking about it with Pinkie during the investigation.”

“Yeah, the kitchen has a secret entrance you can activate by pushing on of the stone blocks in,” Ditzy explained. “Pinkie and Bon Bon are the one that found it, and it’s what she’s been using to get into the kitchen before the morning announcement.”

“Me and Pinkie checked to make sure we weren’t breaking any rules after finding it,” Bon Bon told us. “and Monokuma explained that using the kitchen is completely fine since only the dining room is off-limits during nighttime.”

“By making this castle the location of the killing game, I decided to have some fun and make a few secret passageways and hidden rooms,” Monokuma said in his sadistically cheerful tone. “The last few times I’ve done a killing game I haven’t had the kind of opportunity, so I took every chance I had to make this as interesting as possible. Even for someone a strict with rules as me, I’ve always enjoyed finding how ponies can get pass them and find holes in my rulebooks. It reminds me of intuitive some species can be.”

“That’s good and all but we are getting horribly off track,” Flam told everyone, quickly getting us back to the matter at hoof. “With that water and the secret entrance to the kitchen it is all but expected that the killer had to have headed there. Another thing we can confirm through Flash’s account is that the sword wasn’t in the garden when the murder occured. It’s fair to say that, in fear of leading a trail of water to their door, the killer hid it in the hedge so that they wouldn’t be as obvious. However, while I was investigating I found something else of interest, something that helps point towards a very obvious killer.”

“And that would be?” Octavia asked with great curiosity.

Flam didn’t respond with words, instead pulling out a burnt up piece of paper from his hat and present it to everyone. It didn’t take me long to realize that this wasn’t just some old piece of paper, but a motive photo. Despite how burnt it was, there was still some part of the photo visible. To be more exact, you could see a starry sky along with some sort of triangular, purple object. You could so most of the object, as the rest of it is missing due to being burnt.

“Flam, is this the killer’s motive photo?” I asked him, his smile turning smug as ready himself to respond.

“I think we can say for certain that it is,” Flam answered, as he rested against his pedestal. “Most if it was burnt, but the killer had thrown it in the trash bin located in the kitchen. I grabbed it as soon as I saw it to see if anypony matched something in that photo. In fact, somepony rather obvious does.”

“Well than, can any of you guess at who our murder is?” The Ultimate Con Artist asked the rest of us.

Suddenly, things started to make sense in my head as I thought to the two pieces of evidence that Flam just brought to our attention. If it was just one of them I would have been a little concerned, and if it was heavily favoring one pony then I would probably call it a setup, but that’s not the case. The kitchen entrance, the burnt motive photo, and the water that somehow glistened without any natural light. It was enough to make somepony a culprit, and just enough to be believable. Having figured it out, I looked to the culprit, and asked them directly.

“The murderer, is none other than you, isn’t it?” I asked, pointing to the culprit. “Trixie Lulamoon.”

“Trixie?!” Ditzy yelled in shock, most of the others gasping in surprise at this revelation.

I had expect her to revolt back in surprise, or deny me instantly in fear of being found out. However, neither of those two things happened. Instead she looked at me with a genuine smile on her face, her stance tall and proud.

“Trixie is rather intrigued that this is your conclusion,” The Ultimate Showpony stated. “She would ask for you to explain your think, and than judge whether you are correct or not.”

“Well, the motive photo is the most striking piece of evidence, and the most obvious one,” I explained. “The only that it could possibly be is a magicians hat, or the one that you always were to be specific.”

“Your right!” Redheart shouted as she looked back and forth between the motive photo and Trixie. “They are both incredibly similar in design… no, exactly the same design.”

“Heh, so that is your reason,” She said, closing her eyes and lowering her head for a second, before shooting it back up and looking at me with confidence. “However, Twilight would be most disappointed if you made an assumption like that on such a small piece of evidence. A motive isn’t anything without other more… solid proof.”

“Why would Twilight be disappointed?” I asked, having found that statement rather weird. “Answer me Trixie, why would Twilight be disappointed in my assumption?”

“Oh, you’ll have to do a little bit more in order to get in exact answer,” Trixie responded. “If you are to be the hero of this story, you will have to prove there is more to your accusations.”

“Oh, I assure you that there is more Trixie,” Flam told the unicorn. “There is plenty more evidence that shows you have done it.”

“Well then, you better make it dreadfully clear that this is the case.” Trixie stated, her voice full of confidence, though I somehow found that the confidence wasn’t meant to impact her.

Something's going on here. I hadn’t expected for Trixie to act like this when she was suspected and it almost felt like she was waiting for this to happen. Nonetheless I can’t help but feel she is the culprit, but this isn’t how a culprit usually acts. Why would Twilight be disappointed in assuming she was the killer with such little evidence? Why was she acting like everything was going as planned? It didn’t make any sense, but if I’m going to find out I have to pin her, I half to trust Flam and find what’s wrong with her argument, and I’m going to need his argument to do that.

Trixie: “If you think I’m the killer, show me why!” Flam: “I have no doubt that you are the murderer.”

Truth Ropes: Glittering Water, Secret Kitchen Entrance, Sword in Hedge.

Trixie: “Of course the motive photo provides you with evidence, but you need more evidence than that to prove Trixie did it. If I really killed her, something would have made that clear, or perhaps somepony saw me. Of course, if you don’t, than Twilight and Trixie can’t put their trust in you. So give me your reason as to why!”

Flam (sided): “It is clear that there is more here than simply the burnt motive photo. The water on the ground provides the evidence we need. You know why it was glittering, because your the reason that the water shines in the first place. If we assume that the glitter from your cape is the cause behind the reason it is sparkling, than we have clear evidence you were wielding that murder weapon.

Trixie: “The motive photo is your only piece of evidence, so show me what else caused you to think this way!”

“Trixie, those moons on your cape are made from glittering right?” I asked her, getting an unexpected nod in return. “Tell me just how easily does that stuff come off?”

“Well I do have to use glue to keep it on, but I’m sure it would come off at some ponies touch, but how does that help your case?” She questioned me, her head slightly tilted in confusion.

“If that’s the case, did some of glitter get knocked off by water drops on the blade?” I asked her, though I already knew that the answer would be yes. “When Ditzy noticed the water, we saw that it was somehow shining, despite a lack of light from a window or chandelier in the room. You put together the fact that the culprit washed the sword and blood, as well as what you just said about your cape, and it’s pretty safe to assume that your carelessness cause glitter to end up in the water on the floor.”

At this point Trixie’s responses have been so off from what I had imagined that, when she smiled happily at me, it came at no surprise.

“Good work Yearling, for figuring out the truth, and to you Ditzy for all your effort,” She congratulated the two of us. “I can see that you two can be trusted to fulfill my plan, and with that, I admit my faults,” She looked to everypony in the room as she spoke the next few words. “Yes, I am guilty of this crime.”

“R-r-r-really?” Fluttershy replied in shock, probably not expecting her to admit it so casually.

“Your just going to admit it, after everything you’ve done to say unsuspected?!” Bulk Bicep asked.

“Why bother hiding it when there is no point in denying it,” Those words came off more as a statement than a question. “Trixie is happy to see that the sacrifice Twilight made will not go in vain, and that our plan is moving along as planned. Now than A.K., for the sake of Operation Caged Birds, explain everything that went down.”

I didn’t bother asking questions by this point, knowing well enough that Trixie wanted everything currently happening to happen. If she wanted me to finish this, than I would do just that, and clear up any denial ponies mights still have. I don’t know why, but for Twilights sake, I’ll do it.

“It’s fair to say that everything started two days ago, when Monokuma first gave us those motive photos,” I started, doing exactly what Trixie wanted for me to do. “The reactions between ponies differed, some opening there motives while others didn’t in fear being targeted. However, the culprit, straight for that first day, was already planning their murder. When nopony was looking, they went to the barracks and took a sword from one of the weapon racks, the murder weapon used for the crime they would commit in two days.

“Their plan started last night, when they had earlier overheard our victim, Twilight, asking Flash Sentry to guard her. She wanted to look at the statue located in the garden, hoping to find something, and wanted Flash to patrol the castle for anypony planning to murder. The culprit planned to use this as a way of framing the Ultimate Guard, but I think the reason for this was changed, though I don’t know why or how exactly. Nonetheless, when nighttime came around they struck.

“Waiting for the moment when Flash finish patrolling, ten minutes before the murder occurred, they struck. Enter the garden, having no regard for stealth, the attacked. Twilight fought back against the murderer, and that's when the line between the killer's motive and current reasoning seem to blur. I don’t know what happened, but before Twilight was killed, she struck a deal of sorts with the killer. With that, Twilight accepted the inevitable, and let the murderer kill her, striking her through the heart.

“With that, the culprit than started messing with the crime scene, or as I now think it was her way of fulfilling her part of the plan. From this point, Twilight had planned everything for the killer to do, even the mistakes. They used the secret kitchen entrance and washed of the blade, while burning just enough of her motive photo to the point where we could still be able to hint that it was her. Next, she wiped up the trail of blood the sword she had dragged on the floor made until they got to the door, leaving just enough for us to see. Despite everything seeming to be her way of altering the crime scene, it was all part of this plan that the killer and victim had formed in the ten minutes before Twilight was killed. Even the glitter, the thing that made our culprit give in, was a mistake purposefully made from whatever plan this was.

“That is the truth behind all of this, am I wrong Trixie Lulamoon?”