The Hunt
We looked at our tablets and checked to see if Green was an imposter.
And just as I predicted, it said: GREEN WAS AN IMPOSTER, which was very good, but what unsettled me was the words after it: One imposter remains.
"No, no, no no no" This can't be happening!" Purple said. "There's still an imposter among us! Darn it! I thought we caught it!"
"Well, I guess there's more," Pink said.
"Let's keep on doing our tasks," Black said. Then he looked at me. "I know that you just solved this, and im impressed by it, but that still doesn't mean your clear. You could have been an imposter and just tried to gain an alibi by blaming your imposter friend. So you still not clear yet."
"Im not an imposter, and Greens not my friend," I said boldly. "And what dumb person would try to launch their partner into space?"
"To gain an alibi," black pointed out. But I ignored him.
We left the cafeteria table, and I headed over to the med bay to finish my tasks.
Since there was one imposter left, I felt some relief. Having two imposters was unsettling.
I stepped over the medbay scan and started scanning. I checked my iPad while doing it and then got a bit hungry.
The imposter crisis had got me stressed, so I was starving. All I wanted right now was a McDonald cheeseburger with some french fries.
There was some food in the cafeteria, and it served some mash potatoes with frozen turkey, so I decided to eat that after I did my medbay tasks. Plus, there was a coke machine. So at least I can drink and eat.
I finished my medbay scan and did my last tasks in the medbay. Then, I headed over to the cafe, hoping to have an excellent tasty lunch.
After I finished my meal, I headed over to White, also eating his cold turkey. He feed some bits of mashed potatoes for his mini crewmate. He seemed hungry too.
"It feels good that there's one imposter left, right?" I said to White."Yeah, and it was tough for us to convince Black that we were innocent. You saved me, Red."
"Thanks," I said, scratching my head. "Anyways, I'm done with my tasks. I'm going to go to the security room."
"Ok, I'll stay here and finish my lunch" "Good luck, White," I said. I waved him goodbye and walked out of the cafeteria. I headed over towards the security room and then went inside to check the cameras.
I checked there for a few minutes, when I heard a scream: RED! HELP!"
I quickly noticed that it was White, left the cameras, and was going to leave the room when the doors shut.
I banged on the doors. "WHITE! ARE YOU OK?!"
There was no response from him. I called out his name again. Still no answer.
After the doors opened, I headed towards the upper engine towards the cafeteria, when all of a sudden, the lights went out.
"NO!" I screamed. Why the lights!?
All of a sudden, I saw a vent opening, and a dark figure approached me. I stared in shock and ran towards the cafeteria. I couldn't press the emergency button because you couldn't do one when there was sabotage, so I decided to go towards the electrical room, where the others might be.
I then ran across the cafe, knowing that the imposter was chasing me down the hall.
I ran past admin and then went into storage.
The lights started to burst back to life, and I blew in relief that somebody fixed the lights. I saw purple walk out of electrical when the doors for storage shut.
I was all alone in this room, and the imposter was coming right at me.
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I looked at where the imposter was and bravely called out: "Come show yourself!"
The shadow lurked away and was replaced by another scream. This looked like Blacks voice.
I widened my eyes in terror. It couldn't be. The imposter was making a double kill.
The storage room doors immediately opened, and I ran towards the cafeteria to push the button.
"EMERGENCY MEETING!"
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"What?" Purple said. We were back at the table. It was only me, Black, Pink, and Purple.
"Wheres Black?!" I said.
"I think he's dead," White said.
"What?!" I said in panic. This couldn't be happening.
"I found Blacks body and was gonna report it when you pressed the button," Pink said.
"And White, why were you screaming for help?" Pink said.
"Oh, sorry, it was just a false alarm. I thought I saw the imposter, but it was only a chair."
"Ah," Purple said thoughtfully.
But I ignored everything; instead, I thought about Black.
He didn't deserve to die like this. He was our friend, our leader.
Tears began to fill my eyes. I slumped to my knees and started to cry. Black couldn't deserve to die like this. This incident had already killed his father, and now it was him that was dead.
White put a calm hand on top of my shoulder. "I hope everything's ok with Black, but we have to move on. There's an imposter out there, and we can't give up on this."
White words tumbled into my brain. He was right. Black died, and that was it. You couldn't change anything. You can't change the past, but you could change the future.
I stood back up and looked at the three remaining crewmates. "So, where was everybody when Black died? I know that Purple is safe because he was coming out of electrical when the storage doors closed. I also saw the imposter right behind me but couldn't tell who it was. I was in storage when that happened, and I heard Black dying in there, so the crime scene had to be in storage."
"I was finishing up my lunch in the cafeteria, and the doors also closed," White said. "And also, I couldn't see anything because somebody sabotaged the lights.
"And I was in admin and was doing my swipe task and then headed over to storage and found the body," Pink said.
"Dude, that's kind of sus Pink," Purple said. "Yeah, Purples right," I said. "When I was in cameras a few rounds before, PInk said he needed to do his card swipe task, and that I could come with him, so we went to admin together, and I did my swipe card first, but Pink never did, why?"
"Because the reactor sabotage rang out, remember?" Pink said. "That's why I couldn't do it!"
"That's kind of true," White started to say, but Purple cut him off. "I also saw Pink in electrical when the double kill happened in medbay, and there are vents in electrical connecting to the medbay, so he and Green could have killed and ran or vent away."
"Then Pinks our best suspect," I said. "But," White started to say: "im still not sure Pink really is an imposter. He did help Cyan when he fell"
"Yeah, red, I did help cyan" Pink said.
"He could have tried to gain an alibi, and also; he vouched for Green"
"Maybe we should just skip the vote and see if Pink does tasks" Purple said. "If the task bar dosen't go up when Pink does a task, its him, but if not; then its either of you"
"Ok then," I said. "Pink, what tasks do you have?"
"I have the task in medbay" Pink said. "The scanning one"
"The medbay scan?" White said.
"Yes, the medbay scan" Pink said.
"Ok then, lets see if you innocent" We all skipped the vote, and then headed over to the medbay, to see if Pink really does have a medbay scan.
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