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Stella stood in Weapons, as she grabbed Elektra from the rack of weaponry in front of her. Meanwhile Pyrrha sat in the chair, shooting away at the asteroids.
"You've lost trust in us, I see." A voice piped up, as Stella spun around to see Miles had entered the room. "I think everyone has lost trust in eachother." She confessed. Pyrrha got out of the seat, as she had completed her task. She hopped beside Stella, placing her elbow on the shorter girls shoulder. "Hey Miles."
"Hey."
The boy turned to Stella, "You know.. that was nice, what you did for Kiko." Miles confessed as Stella tried to smile back. "Thanks.. though I wish my own words were true." She admitted nervously. "They will be. I'm sure we'll be okay once we find who this new imposter is." Miles declared, before exiting the room.
Stella and Pyrrha looked at the doorway, before glancing at eachother. "I hope so.." Stella admitted, as they had been saying similar things before they executed Davina. "Cmon, let's go to the cafeteria. Maybe the others will be ready for a meeting soon." Pyrrha suggested, as the pinkette nodded.
The girlfriends then left the weapons room, heading into cafeteria.
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"I don't know about you guys.. but I'm really looking forward to getting off of this spaceship." Alec admitted, as he walked with Enzo and Adam. Miles had clearly left the group for now.
"Me too.. I am getting homesick." Enzo replied, before looking to Adam and Alec. "Are you two coming back to Menagerie after this is over?" He asked. Alec shrugged, "Yeah probably. I was looking forward to not going back but after this nightmare.. I'm excited to go home to Menagerie." He said. "Likewise. I was looking forward to getting out of there but now I'm keen to go home." Adam admitted.
Suddenly, the lights flicked off.
"Fucking hell, again!?" Adam growled. Enzo groaned, "Seriously.. this is getting ridiculous."
Alec went to speak, but suddenly there was a thud, as the door between Alec and Enzo and Adam, closed. "Great. Just great. Now I am alone." Alec grit his teeth, as Enzo and Adam were on the other side. "I guess I'll fix the lights then."
Alex spun around, and guided himself to electrical.
The cat faunus reached electrical and pulled open the power box. He began flicking on the lights that had been switched off, and like magic the lights all switched on.
Alec then spun around, noticing Ari and Weiss standing in the hallway, as they had raced over to fix the lights. But once the lights had switched on, they'd frozen in shock.
The blonde's eyes then followed there's, before he realising what they were staring at.
On the floor of Electrical, laid Ilia Amitola, dead.
Alec's eyes widened in shock, "G..Guys! This is not what it looks like!" He admitted as Ari and Weiss glanced at eachother before glaring at the Lightbourne.
"You murderer!! You murdered Ilia!!" Weiss hissed, outraged and disgusted. "The imposter is you!!" Ari growled. "Guys!! You have to understand, I was just fixing the lights! I didn't know that Ilia was in here! I swear!"
Enzo and Adam approached electrical as the doors finally opened, and they joined the group, finding Ilia dead. "Ilia.. no!" Adam blurted, shocked. Enzo glared at Alec as he shook in fear that no one was going to believe him. "You killed Ilia..!" The Lopez growled. "I didn't!! I didn't do it!!" Alec insisted as Adam, Enzo, Ari and Weiss faced eachother. "We need to call a meeting." Ari declared as the other three nodded.
With that, the group left. Alec looked down at Ilia's body in shock. She'd been stabbed once, fiercely in the chest. The Lightbourne's eyes welled with tears, before a loud buzzer was heard, alerting everyone to go to the cafeteria.
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"What happened??" Yang asked, as she could see that Weiss, Ari, Adam and Enzo were very visibly upset. "Where is Lia?!" Kiko demanded, realising she hadn't come into the cafeteria. "And Alec? Where is he?" Elena ordered, looking around in worry.
The group looked to Kiko, sadly. The girl's face fell, when she pieced together why they'd called this meeting. "No.." Kiko shook her head, as she took a step back. "No no.. no Lia can't be.. Lia can't be dead!!" Kiko cried out, as tears rushed down her cheeks. "Lia isn't dead— you're lying!" The chameleon faunus accused them.
Alec suddenly bolted into the room, causing relief to wash over his twin's face that he was alive.
"Just ask Alec. He is the one that killed him." Ari said, bitterly, before the four that had witnessed Alec practically standing over Ilia's body, glared at him. "Alec.. no.. you didn't.." Elena blurted, looking to her twin.
"How could you!?" Kiko growled, pacing over to Alec angrily, as she clenched her fists. Kiko was not a violent person at all, but she wanted to absolutely attack the cat faunus. "Kiko! Kiko, no." Elena squeaked, quickly stepping in front of Kiko, protecting her twin.
Kiko looked up at the cat faunus, tears running down her face. "Kiko loves Lia... Kiko needs Lia!" The chameleon faunus managed to choke out, before she broke down. Elena's eyes welled with tears, as she held the heartbroken girl in her arms. "Kiko, I'm so sorry." She said, in almost a whisper.
"So what are we going to do?" Blake asked, as she was really asking what everyone was thinking. "I want to hear exactly what happened.. and then as a group we will make a decision." Jaune decided. "That sounds like an equitable decision." Jenni piped up, the wolf faunus turning to Alec.
Alec looked at his crewmates, feeling eyes of rage and hatred pierce him.
"I was with Enzo and Adam. The lights turned off, and right after the door between us closed, locking me away from Enzo and Adam." Alec began to explain. "I decided to go and fix the lights, since I was near electrical." He added. "So I went into electrical and fixed them. Once the lights turned on, Weiss and Ari were walking into electrical and found me, near Ilia's body— which I was unaware was in the room!" He squeaked.
Everyone then turned to the four witnesses, wanting to hear what they had to say.
"Ari and I wanted to fix the lights and when we approached electrical and they were switched on, we found Alec standing over Ilia's body." Weiss explained. "Enzo and Adam.. you two are friends of Alec? Do you think he did it?" Stella asked.
Adam and Enzo glanced at eachother, as Alec looked at the other faunus', with pleading eyes. They then turned back to Stella, "I think Alec killed Ilia." Adam confessed.
"Alec didn't do it! He couldn't hurt a fly!" Elena insisted. "How can we believe you?" Miles asked Elena. "We can't trust eachother anymore!"
The crewmates broke out into arguments, as Jaune watched, feeling conflicted. "Alright!! Guys, arguing isn't going to solve anything!" The Arc called out, as the arguing group fell quiet.
He sighed, not liking the choice he was going to have to make.. but Miles was right, nobody could trust eachother. Not anymore.
"We need to decide as a group whether or not we think Alec should be executed." He admitted. The Captain wanted to trust Alec, but there were four witnesses, all of which thought Alec was indeed the murderer— including two of his friends!!
"Everyone that thinks Alec is the imposter and should be executed, raise your hand."
And with that, the decision was made.
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