Ponganronpa: Harmonious Killings
Chapter 2: Intermission
Previous ChapterNext ChapterCheerilee, the Ultimate Teacher, looked at the crystal map nervously. She was surrounded by Rainbow Dash, the Ultimate Flyer, and her husband BigMacintosh, the Ultimate Agriculturalist.
"So, you're saying that Fluttershy, Starlight, Applejack, Twilight, Spike, Trixie, Thorax, and many other ponies/creatures we know have gone... missing with no trace, and no summon from the map?" Cheerilee questioned.
"Eeyup."
"Also missing are Shining Armor, Gilda, Derpy, Diamond Tiara, Quibble, Cross, Zecora, Octavia, Vinyl, Discord, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and their father Snap, Nurse Neightingale, Clear Sky, along with Filthy Rich." Rainbow Dash pointed out.
BigMac nodded nervously and continued the list.
"Eeyup, also missing is Saffron Masala, Sunny Delight, Sidirourgous Smith, Corriander Cumin, Splash Refresh, Dusty Mosaic, Brulee Crems, Gretta the Griffon, and Doctor "Time Turner" Whooves..."
Cadence, the Ultimate Foalsitter, came in behind them, carrying some information scrolls with her horn.
"I found every current missing pony report around Equestria, we're going to have to save them."
Cadence opened up the scrolls and began reading the rest of the names.
"Petunia Paleo, Pearl Paleo, Gleam Refresh, Garble, Fiddly Faddle, Neon Lights, Pharynx, and..."
"As of last night, neither I nor Celestia could locate Princess Luna."
Cheerilee, BigMac, and Rainbow froze until the shock settled in and Rainbow flew into the air and angrily asked
"So a member of the royal guard, two of the crusaders, half of the elements, Discord, AND now TWO princesses are all missing?!"
Cadence solemnly nodded.
Cheerilee was tapping the table after each name was read and her face went pale after the last tap.
"That's... 41 missing creatures."
"Eenope, eenope, eenope!" BigMac said
"Did I do the math wrong?" Cheerliee questioned
"Eenope, I'm just wondering how someone could've pulled this off, right from under our noses."
"Well whoever it is, we'll find them and kick their fucking asses!"
"Rainbow, please, language. Sweetie Belle, the Ultimate Carpenter, is in the other room!"
"Please, Cadence, she's 16. She's definitely heard a swear word by now, and you may be the Ultimate Foalsitter, but nobody here is a foal."
"I also believe there are more pressing matters at hoof here." Sweetie walked in and behind her tread, a pony nobody but Sweetie Belle knew.
"This is someone I bumped into outside, they knew who Gilda, Gretta, and Derpy were."
"Please, Sweetie," The griffon started "Applebloom, yourself, and Scootaloo really helped me."
She looked behind Sweetie at all the other ponies in the room.
"Oh right, where are my manners, I'm Gilda's sister, Gabby Gruff and I'm the Ultimate Mail Courier!"
"Great, the more the merrier!" Cadence nodded.
"This situation is anything but merry, we need to find out who's behind all this!"
A burst of laughter, not a joyful one, but a sinister one filled the room. All of the sudden, all five corpses from the game shone onto the crystal map causing everyone to gasp in horror. They didn't get to see any executions, they didn't know about those but they saw Petunia in the washing machine, Octavia with a wagon part piercing her heart, Fiddly cut in half, Zecora with a bloodstain oozing down from the back of her head, and Snap's burnt outline. Rainbow Dash zipped around the room.
"Where are you, how could you do this to them, show yourselves!"
That laughter filled the room again.
"Oh, Rainbow Dash, I'm far away from you all, you'll never find me there, I was just showing you where some of the missing ones you were looking for are!"
Cheerilee and Sweetie shook in fear as she looked at Snap's outline.
"That was Scootaloo's father!" Sweetie shouted.
"Well, he's the one who murdered Zecora, so I punished him. You're welcome." A maniacal laugh filled the halls and slowly faded, but before it did it piped up with one last thing.
Nobody believed in that lie of the fact that Snap murdered Zecora.
"Well, you found five of them, so that makes only 36 missing creatures."
They all just stared in horror as the voice had left the image there.
"We're going to find out who did this and I'll make sure of it."
Sweetie nodded as the others did too.
"We've got a crusade to run."
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