Lizzie's POV

"Alright losers! It's time to determine who killed DanTDM!" Monokuma called.

And then the trial began.

"We already know who it is!" I said, "It was Max, Ross, or Barney!"

"I already told you, I did a receive a note, but I wasn't foolish enough to actually go" Ross said.

"Y-yeah! I didn't go either!" Max stammered.

Barney looked at him.

"Heh. I saw what you did..." he said.

He pointed his finger at Max.

"Max killed him!"

"I WHAT?!" Max exclaimed.

"I went early to the room, and hid in one of those lockers. Dan came in, then Max a little after that. When Max came in, Dan told him to wait for Ross and I. Then Dan said, 'I'm going to put a stop to all of this'. Max freaked out and smashed one of those bottles over Dan's head and ran." Explained Barney.

"So it was you Max!" I cried.

"But I thought he was gonna kill me! And put a stop to this school life!" Max said.

"Enough talk! Can we start the voting now?" I asked Monokuma.

"Not so fast Lizzie," Nick said, "That story doesn't explain everything"

   "Yes. Dan had two injuries on his head. Max only hit him once" Olivia said, "who inflicted the second injury?"

   "Barney," Ross said, and Barney seemed to flinch, "After Max left the room, what did you do? Be honest"

   Barney sighed.

   "I was sneaking out of the locker, but I tripped. When I was getting up, I came face-to-face with Dan, blood dripping down his face. I freaked, and hit him with a bottle. Then I got out of there."

   "That settles it! Let's vote already!" I snapped.

   "Wait, something doesn't seem right..." Jess interjected.

   "Oh come on..." I muttered.

   "Barney, where were you when you hit Dan!" Jess asked.

   "I killed him right in front of the magazine rack." Was his reply.

   "You're wrong! Dan was sitting on the chair when he passed away!" Nick said.

   "So neither of those blows finished him off?!" Tommy exclaimed.

   "Yeah, Nick is on the right track. Allow me to present some evidence." Ross said, holding up a small bottle of poison.

   "Isn't that the bottle of poison that was in the supplement cabinet?" Nick asked.

   "Mhmm. Don't you find if strange? How do you think a bottle of poison ended up with the supplements?" Ross said, "the culprit left this byproduct when switching the bottles."

   "What do you mean?" Tommy asked.

   "This" Ross replied.

   Then he downed the poison. 

   "Oh shoot! Ross spit it out!!" Jess shrieked

   "What the heck man!" Max cried

   "I'll admit, this stuff make want to gag..." Ross said.

   "Ross can I see that bottle?" Olivia asked.

   "Sure" he said, tossing the bottle to her.

   She dumped it into her hand, and licked a little bit.

   "This is protein powder" she announced.

   "Exactly. That bottle was holding protein, not poison!" Barney said, "there was a protein cup in the game room. When you put these two clues together, what do you get?"

   "The culprit swapped their contents!" Max exclaimed.

   "Yeah! Then they gave it to Dan, claiming it would help him with his injuries." Tommy added.

   "The culprit used poison to murder Dan," Barney said, "And that culprit is you...

   "Lizzie"

   I tensed up at this.

   "What?! That's crazy! Dan and Lizzie were best friends!" Nick cried.

   "There was spilled powder in front of the cabinets in the Chen lab. Footprints were made by boots in the powder. The only ones who wear boots are Lizzie and Jess. These prints were made by smaller feet, so it wasn't Jess." Barney pressed, "I'm guessing you left the prints when switching the protein and poison."

  "And it explains why she's been pushing us to vote." Tommy said.

   "Yeah, she wanted to pin the blame on someone else before the blame came back to her" Ross concluded.

   Tears were rushing to my eyes.

   "I-I..." I started, then I broke down, "I did it! I killed Dan!"

   "I thought you two were friends! I don't buy it!" Jess cried.

   "She used that to her advantage. Dan never suspected a thing." Barney said.

   Tears were starting to stream down my face.

   "No...he didn't." I said," I found Dan in the game room, he'd been injured. He asked me to get some supplement for him. But when I got to the Chem lab, I realized I could use the oldest trick in the book.
    "That's when I switched out the protein and poison. And... when I gave it to Dan, he downed it so fast. After the poison killed him, I ran out the door..."

   Olivia's POV

   There was a hole in her story. Nick pointed it out.

   "That's not true! Before Dan's body was discovered, the game room was wedged shut! It was a sealed room!" Nick said.

   "Sealed room?" Tommy asked.

   "Lizzie, how did you block the door with a chair from the inside after you ran out the door?" Jess asked.

   Lizzie winced.

   "At this point, let me present some new evidence." I said, "Ross, you provided this clue.

   I showed everyone the protein powder in my hand. A shard of glass was mixed in with the powder.

   "The bottle had a shard of glass from the door window Nick broke to enter the game room." I said.

   "Wait... pieces of glass I broke ended up in a bottle in the chem lab?" Nick asked.

   "Mhmm." I confirmed, nodding my head, "and one more thing. Did you notice the glass shards were under the cup? Not on top of it."

   "Well are you going to elaborate?" Tommy asked.

   "Yeah, what do those shards mean?" Jess asked.

   "I've got it..." Nick said, "the bottle of poison was originally in the game room. Lizzie picked up the bottle while Olivia and I were focused on the body, and afterward she looked for a chance to drop the protein cup she had brought from the chem lab! The glass was under the cup because she had brought the cup after the window was broken!"

   "You're wrong..." Lizzie said softly.

   "As for the powder on Dan's feet, the same stuff is scattered across the floor in the chem lab, in front of the cabinets. Dan must have spilled it when he was getting the poison. There can only be one answer to why he was getting it...." Nick said, his words tinged with sadness.

   "wrong! Wrong! WRONG! I KILLED DAN! FIND ME GUILTY!" Lizzie yelled.

   "Dan commited Suicide." Nick said, and the sadness was more present in his voice," he took poison to end his own life."

Lizzie's POV

   "It explains the blocked door mystery as well. Dan blocked the door to keep anyone from stopping him" Olivia said.

   "How could you reach that conclusion?" Barney asked.

   Olivia looked at him.

   "You assume that someone here had to have killed? You think anyone here, especially Lizzie, would kill their best friend in this god-forsaken school?" Olivia asked, "if so, it's no wonder you came to wrong conclusion."

   "Look, I gotta admit, you're giving us good character drama here, and I really hate ta be he one to point this out, but you still gotta vote on who killed DanTDM." Monokuma said.

   So we did. My face was wet with tears by now, as the slot machines all stopped, one by one, on Dan's face.

   "Cha-Ching! Dan did his own dead lift!" Monokuma announced, making my stomach sink even deeper.

   I felt sick.

   "Why then..." Barney asked, "you stood nothing to gain! If Dan really did kill himself, then why would you hide it Lizzie? All of us would have died if you'd succeeded!"

   "That was my goal..." I said.

   I pulled a piece of paper out of my pocket.

   "This is Dan's last will and testament!!" I yelled, showing them the note.

   Ever since the bear outed me as the mole, I've seen the hate in everyone's eyes. So I choose to go by my own hands before the inevitable attempt of someone else...

   "Dan felt awful about being the mole! He was going to beg you for your forgiveness, but...."

   My mind flashed to Dan with blood running down his face. "Lizzie, could you get me some supplement?" He'd asked. I'd nodded, and ran to the chem lab. I had seen the spilled powder, and the missing poison bottle. "Did Dan take some poison?" I had asked myself, and ran as fast as I could down to the game room. I had found the note. I had tried the door, but it was stuck. "Dan! Let me in! Please!" I had yelled, "why does Dan have to die?"

   I looked angrily around at everyone in the room.

   "Dan had feelings too! Feelings you ignored! DAN DRANK THE POISON, BUT WE DROVE HIM TO IT!!" I cried, "it's not fair that we keep living while he's gone..."

   "So that's why you were trying to get us all killed?" Tommy asked.

   "You wanted to reach an incorrect verdict..." Jess said.

   "*ahem* Sorry to interrupt, but that letter was a fake." Monokuma said matter-of-factly, holding up  another folded piece of paper with To Lizzie on it, "This is Goggles real last testament. That one is just something I whipped up for fun."

   "w-what...?" I asked.

   "Lemme read it out loud in my best Dan impression..." Monokuma said, then started to read.

   Lizzie, keeping that I was the mole was the worst possible thing in this school. I tried to tell you once, but I didn't get to. I'm so sorry. Monokuma took my family hostage, otherwise I would have never helped the bear. I know you must be mad at me for leaving. But I didn't want anyone else, not even Barney or Ross, to stoop as low as a murderer. That is why the life I took was my own, so that the rest of you can live. Don't play the bears game, I know you can stay strong. Live on Lizzie, for me and everyone else who's died in the school.
-Dan

   "Upupupu~! What a heart-wrenching read! I must say! Too bad you almost got everyone killed, and Ol' Goggles died in vain!" Monokuma crowed.

   No... I thought. Dan's last testament, and I almost got everyone killed.

   "He didn't die in vain!"

   I looked at the person who'd spoken. Jess, who looked legitimately ticked for the first time since I met her.

   "Oh heck yes! Dan reminded us that we're not each other's enemy, you are." Max said, pointing to the monochrome bear.

   "Um, excuse me? You are enemies! Did you forget the School Life Of Mutual Killing?" Monokuma cried.

   "You do have a point, this game is to undermine our peers," Barney started.

   "Barney..." Nick started.

   "...which is why I'm dropping out." Barney finished, "I don't know about the rest of you, but I see all that remains is to find the Mastermind, and give him a harsh punishment."

   We all grinned at that.

   "Can you say Dan 'died in vain' now?" Olivia asked Monokuma. 

   "Hmph, I guess you're right. Punishment, you say Eyepatch? We forgot the punishment for murder is death."

   "Um, Dan's already dead..." Tommy pointed out.

   "Yeah, but I have a special execution planned, and it'd be a shame to let it go to waste."

   And with that, we were yet again in the punishment area, but there was no person behind the chain link. Instead was a Laptop with five colored heads. The Vacktor Family.

    "no...oh no..." I heard someone mutter.

   It might have been me. Monokuma was driving a construction vehicle. Faster than any of us could react, Monokuma pounded the laptop, bringing up dust clouds. When it cleared, instead of a laptop, all I saw was a black sphere of metal, with the the evil eye of Monokuma on it. The Vacktor Family... Was no more.