Dangan RomPonya

by Serenade-Stereo

Class Trial 2: Chapter 2

So now I have to go up against Zoom?

Cross Swords

Evidence Blades

-Blood Wall

-Metal Rod

-Monokuma File 2

-Vent

Zoom- She must have been spying, that was the whole reason she and I spilt up! We were on a deadline for the newspaper article. That newspaper was really important to Moonlight...

Serenade- Whilst I do understand your reasoning, you still haven't took anything into consideration

Zoom- But...There's no other reason for her to be in the vent!

I'll cut that claim into pieces!

"Actually...she could have been trying to escape her attacker!"

"E-escape her attacker?" Zoom repeated

"Yes, think about this for a minute. The vent is very small, Moonlight barely fit inside it"

"You must be referring to body size and structure, correct?" Orion asked him

"Right, Moonlight is a female Pegasus, Pegasi are naturally smaller and well...Moonlight was pretty much the smallest out of all of us"

"So...the attacker must have been male or a different species...so that rules out"

"Me" Beau cuts Hammer off.

"Right, Beau is the only other one that could have followed her inside, so climbing into the vent would have proved useless" Serenade explained to them. "It may just be one of us...but at least we've shortened the list of suspects..."

"We could shorten it further if we consider who was with their partner the whole time." Beau says "So that also rules out Serenade"

"Olive and Tickery had not split up once during the investigation!" Tickery spoke

"Lock and I did not separate during our search of the second floor" Lock nods in agreement

"And B and I didn't separate either" Punch adds

"So that leaves...Nimbus, Hammer, Wild, Samurai and Zoom..." Serenade says

"Well...we know how this works..." Nimbus says

Non-Stop Debate

Evidence bullets

-Hammer's testimony

-Secret of the Despair Nightmare's

-Vent

Orion- Well? Shall we hear the alibis?

Nimbus- After I spilt from Hammer...I stayed in the dojo the whole time

Olive- I saw Wild enter the storage closet just before the murder

Hammer- I saw a few people enter the aquarium...But nothing seemed off about it

You got that wrong!

"Actually, Hammer, you stated in your testimony that you saw 'Zoom and Wild, Nimbus, me, Beau, Samurai and Lock...' enter the aquarium...but there is something off about one of those people entering the aquarium"

"Oh really? Who would that be exactly?" Orion asks

One person he also should have seen wasn't there...and that means that the person that was suspicious is...
It can only be you!

"Lock Heart, you entered the aquarium by yourself...but why didn't Hammer mention seeing Orion?"

"H-huh?" Lock seemed caught of guard by the question

"Care to tell us?" Serenade asks

"Allow me to answer Mr Heart...you see, we split up during our search, but only for a few minutes. I searched the Chemistry lab and Lock was investigating the aquarium." Orion explained

"So wait...what time was it when you entered?" Nimbus asks Lock

"About...1:25..." He stated

1:25...anything about that seem noteworthy?

Non-Stop Debate

Evidence bullets

-Hammer's testimony

-Monokuma File 2

-Paint tins

Lock- I went to the aquarium at 1:25

Orion- The reason was that we were indecisive about where we should search...so we separated for 5 minutes

Beau- Even so, you shouldn't have spilt up in the first place!

Nimbus- So what about when you went inside the aquarium

Lock- Nothing was wrong when I went there...

You got that wrong!

"Lock, what you said didn't make sense at all. After all, at 1:25, Moonlight was already dead inside the vent!"

"W-what?"

"Yes, the Monokuma File tells us that much" Nimbus adds

"B-but..." Lock seemed helpless

"Locky...you didn't....?" Tickery said with a nervous tone

"No, of course not! I could never kill anyone!" he retorted

"Nice try! It must have been you!" Wild accused

"Not a chance" Orion interjected "Lock and I separated for 5 minutes, and I was in the geography room the entire time, nobody could have come in and took the globe without me noticing them and I can say now...Lock did not enter the room once before we regrouped"

"So...if it wasn't Lock...then who could it have been?" Samurai asks

"I hate this!" Zoom suddenly cried out "We've been going round in circles the whole time! We aren't any closer to finding out who Moonlight's killer is!"

"Wrong" Beau simply says

"H-huh?"

"Wrong, we are actually a lot closer to finding the culprit...now, Orion, you said the globe was still in the geography room from 1:25 to 1:30?"

"Yes, it was still there...why do you ask?"

"...tell them, Serenade" Beau answers

W-what? "Me?"

"Yes you...tell them what it means if the globe was still in the geography room from 1:25 to 1:30"

What does it mean?
Of course!

"If it was still there between 1:25 and 1:30...it couldn't have been used against Moonlight!"

"Oh I see, if she was dead at 1:20 and the globe was there during the crime scene, then it questions what actually killed her..." Orion says

"So....the globe isn't the round weapon?" Hammer asks

"Nope, it must have been something else" Serenade answers "The question is, what?"

Non-Stop Debate

Evidence Bullets

-Paint tins

-Centre tank

-Vent

Wild- So now we have to figure out the real murder weapon...

Punch- The round one...what the hell is it?!

Samurai- We've excluded the globe....

Nimbus- Possibly the centre tank in the aquarium?

Hammer- It might not even be at the crime scene

Agreed!

"There is one round object that could be used to kill Moonlight...back in the storage closet there was some paint tins...those could have been used to kill her..."

"You don't sound so sure" Samurai notices

"No, I think, Serenade is right on the money" Beau says "Remember, those buckets of paint had red paint in it...but whose to say that it was actually paint? It could be blood...then by that logic we could question one other thing at the crime scene...isn't that right, Serenade?"

Something else we could question at the crime scene because of red paint tins...
Of course!

"You mean the 'blood' wall, right?"

"Yes" She confirms "If it's red paint...who's to say that the blood wall is real?"

"It would also explain why I didn't see any blood oozing out the vent when I went inside the aquarium..."

"So Locky is innocent! Just like Tickery had predicted!" Tickery held her head high.

"So we're back to not having a suspect?" Wild says

"And we're just gonna believe that the wall is paint and not blood?! Hell no!" Punch says

"Well actually one thing about the body proves this..." Beau refutes

"Huh?"

Non-Stop Debate

Evidence bullets

-Monokuma File 2

Beau- Something about the body...proves that the wall is paint

Punch- Like something like that exists!

B- w-we shouldn't exclude t-the possib-bility

Nimbus- Maybe it was The cause of death...

Hammer- Or maybe The weapon...s

Zoom- Or the body placement?

What the heck is Beau talking about? The thing that proves the wall is painted is...

Beau- Something about the body...Proves that the wall is paint

Agreed!

"I see now...you're talking about the cause of death..."

"Exactly..." Beau confirms

"I said it first though..." Nimbus adds

"Oh Mr Darkness, please, complaining like that is very unbecoming of you" Orion giggles

"M-my apologies...Orion..." He uses his scarf to hide his face like back in the dojo.

"Anyway...getting back on topic, Serenade...and Nimbus, unlike the rest of you knew exactly what I meant, the cause of death was 'blunt force trauma' which produces the most amount of blood when the weapon first makes impact and then doesn't bleed that fast to create the 'bloody' wall at the crime scene. Even if she was dead for fifty minutes..."

"So the blood wall...is really the painted wall!" Tickery smiles

"But where does that actually get us?" Hammer asks

"Closer...much closer...because now we have determined that the culprit entered the storage closet..." Beau folds her arms "And that narrows our suspect list even further"

"Hold on though" Samurai speaks up "what does that mean for the metal rod? Orion found it during the investigation of the but not investigating the second floor..."

"The metal rod? Why are you brining that up of all times, might I ask?" Orion tilted her head

"It's just a thought that occurred to me..."

The metal rod...B says that it isn't the flat weapon...so it shouldn't be relevant to the case...it's quite short as well. Wait...Moonlight was the 'Super High School Level Reporter' And she always carried around one thing

Non-Stop Debate

Evidence Bullets

-Moonlight's arm

-Globe

-Metal Rod

Samurai- Sorry to bring it back up...But what is that metal rod?

Beau- Exactly what you said it was...a metal rod...

Samurai- Yes but-

Olive- C'mon, There's no reason to bring it back up

You got that wrong!

"Actually...there is one reason...we still don't know what this metal rod is...or should I say...what it was..."

"What it was?" Olive repeats

The one thing a reporter always has with them...was something I didn't even notice was missing from the crime scene!

Epiphany Anagram

I P O N M O E R C H

I've connected the dots!

Comments

[Mod On Death]

Gonna first state that I haven't read the fic first.

It's funny how I just saw this here. I've actually had a story with this idea going in my head for a while now.

[Serenade-Stereo]

4349157 Coincidence? I think not

[Procrastinating Sidewalk]

Yay! More Dangan RonPonya! That anagram tho.

[ClickClackTheBrony]

4353458 But B said more than once that it was too thin.

[Serenade-Stereo]

4356489 Oh geez, I forgot about that!

[the one guy on the left]

4356489 Cut nade a break, in DR2 they go on for well over a hour trying to decide wether the third trial was a suicide or not.