Ross was blown back by the force.

"Ross!" We yelled.

Me and Jess ran to him. He was alive. I breathed a sigh of relieve. We didn't need anymore deaths.

"We need to extinguish the fire!" Tommy yelled.

We rushed to the garden fountain. After a while, the fire was put out. The top half of the body was charred, unrecognizable.

"Ding Dong! A body has been discovered folks! You know the drill by now!" Monokuma announced.

"Jeez..." Max murmured, looking at the body.

"Who is that?" Jess asked.

"Olivia. The Mastermind is another possibility. It would explain why Monokuma malfunctioned..." Tommy said.

Light reflected off something by the corpse. A key looking thing.

"It must have been on the body..." Nick said, "I think I know what this goes to."

And with that, we stood outside a door labeled "Data Room". Nick put the key in the lock and turned it. With ease, he opened the door, and all of us gasped. There were several screens, maybe fifty.

"The feed from the surveillance cameras!" Tommy said.

"This is where the bear spies on us" Nick said.

"We're in the Masterminds Room!?" I gasped.

"Hey, there's a regular TV in here!" Max cried.

"Turn it on! We can see what's going on outside!" Jess cried.

But when Max powered it on, it just showed us, looking at the TV.

"Crap, it's just feed from another camera..." I said.

"Wait, this TV is picking up outside TV signals, but we're on all the channels...." Max said, "I think there's some kind of catch"

"What kind of catch?" A voice behind us asked.

When we turned around, a monochrome bear stood before us.

"MONOKUMA?!?!" Nick yelled.

"Hi. HAHAHA!!" Monokuma cried.

"You're supposed to be dead!" Tommy cried.

"Never assume a bear is dead until you see the rug Smiley!" Monokuma cried, "anyhow, don't you losers have investigating to do?"

We were lucky to be alive. I was surprised that Monokuma hadn't killed us. We got to investigating. The Handbooks weren't very helpful.

Body too damaged to identify

Injuries:

Single abdominal knife wound

Posterior blow to the head from cylindrical object the width of a metal pipe

Body shows signs of lack of oxygen

   It wasn't much to go on, and Monokuma didn't give us much time to gather clues. When Max, Nick and I were exploring by the rooms, I noticed that Olivia's was slightly open. Strange... I thought, Olivia would know better than that. I opened the door farther. Olivia wasn't there, but her room seemed normal. There was a card on her bed.

   "This looks like a dojo key, for the lockers." Nick said.

   "Then let's go check it out." I replied.

   We had to try it on all the lockers before we found the right one. When we did, there were several metal arrows, and a piece of bloody duct tape.
   What did Olivia have these in her locker for? I wondered. That's when Monokuma came over the announcements.

    "Alright folks, get your butts to the trial room!"

   When the six of us got there, we waited for about five minutes.

   "What's the deal, are we doing this or not?" Max asked.

   "I can't start the trial until everyone's here." Was Monokumas reply.

   "Sorry I'm late." Olivia's voice came from the trial room entrance.

   "Olivia!" I cried.

   "You're alive!"  Jess cried.

   "Or a ghost..." Max said.

   "I say she's just tardy! Let's get this trial started!" Monokuma said.

   "Wait, if Olivia is alive, who's the dead person?" Tommy asked.

   "Well, this class trial is for the murder...of a random student!!" Monokuma cried.

   "That literally makes zero sense..." Nick said.

   "Don't question it Twitter." Monokuma said.

   So the trial began.

   "Olivia, you're the only possible suspect." Tommy said.

   "Why's that?" She asked calmly.

   "We found the body at nine a.m. The sprinklers in the garden go off for one minute at seven thirty a.m." Tommy started, "The body was not wet when we found it, so the murder could have only happened between seven thirty and nine a.m. You were the only one not in the gym with us during that time."

   "The body wouldn't have gotten wet if it was covered by a tarp! I found a wet tarp in the garden." Olivia countered," Using the tarp prevents us from narrowing down a window for murder. That makes it impossible to verify our alibis."

   "But the body wasn't there last night, and Max, Jess, Lizzie, and Ross spent the entire morning in the gym! The four of us have the perfect alibi." Tommy argued.

   "Doesn't that make Nick a perfectly legitimate suspect?" Olivia asked.

   "Wh-what?" Nick sputtered, like he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

   "The murder weapon has your name all over it!" Max said.

   "Wasn't the survival knife the murder weapon?" Jess asked.

   "No, I think that was a red herring. Something to throw us off" Max said.

   "The Monokuma Files says that whoever they are got whacked upside the head by something the width of a metal pipe." Tommy said.

   "Like the metal arrows we found in the dojo locker!" I recalled, "there was a clutch of arrows in it, with a bloody piece of duct tape that could have bound the arrows into a rod."

   "We found the key in your room Olivia" Tommy said.

   "I've never been to the dojo..." Olivia said.

   "Then who put the key in there?" Tommy asked.

   "Look, if you must know, I couldn't have gotten into my room if I wanted to. I lost my room key last night, and I had to sleep in a not-bloody classroom." Olivia said.

   "I did see a key in the cafeteria trash can..." Jess said.

  "That makes Nick the only person without an alibi." Max said quietly.

  Nick didn't say anything. He looked worried and like he was thinking hard.

   "If you have nothing to say in your defense, you're guilty" Ross said.

   "Isn't there something weird about this whole trial?" Nick asked," we do t even know who's murder we're solving! There's something more to this case that you're not telling us!"

   The last part was directed at Monokuma.

   "Like they say Twitter, the guilty dog barks the loudest. Anyhoo, TIMES UP! Time to vote!" Monokuma shrugged.

   "What?! There's never been a time limit before!" Nick yelled.

   The slot machine appeared on screen.

   "Monokuma stop it!" Nick yelled.

   The slots started moving.

   "This is messed up! It's obviously rigged!" Nick cried,

   The slots landed on Nicks face.

   "JACKPOT KIDS! The culprit was Twitter himself!" Monokuma crowed.

   "Jackpot?...I'm the killer?" Nick asked weakly.

   "Guys I didn't do it! I swear!" He cried.

   Then we were behind the chain link. Nick was stuck to a rocket with metal clamps, which had a screen showing his Twitter. With each second, his follower count went down. Like a countdown. Before the rocket could launch, the screen flickered. Five brightly colored heads appeared, and instead of blasting off, the metal clamps opened, and the ground beneath him opened. Nick dropped into darkness.