Type: Human AU/Murder Mystery/Among Us AU

Ship: No Ɛ>

TW: Death, Murder

It was a normal day on the Skeld. Patton was taking care of his children, Roman and Remus were annoying each other, Janus was steering the ship, Thomas and Emile were talking about cartoons, Logan was teaching his intern how to do wiring, and Remy and Virgil were stealing all the coffee on the ship.

"See, you connect the wires of the same color," Logan instructs.

The mini-crewmate tries their best, but what Logan doesn't know is that they're colorblind.

"Hmm. Maybe we should just fill up the engines instead," Logan says as he sees his intern struggle.

He takes their hand and they walk down to storage, where Roman is sitting on top of the pile of boxes.

"Roman? What are you doing?" Logan asks.

"Hiding from Remus. He started threatening to take the knife from his head and use it on me," Roman says.

Logan nods.

"Ah. Well, my intern and I have a task to do here, would you like to stick with us?" he asks.

"Yeah, I heard a rumor about a killer or something," Roman says, hopping down from his boxes to stand next to Logan.

---

An hour passes when Patton enters electrical.

"Hi kiddo!" he says, seeing Janus.

"Hello, Patton. Have you come to help with the lights?" Janus asks.

The lights flickered on and off, making it near-impossible to get a good look at anything. Then they go out again, staying that way for a solid few seconds.

When they come back on, Patton lets out a shriek. Logan and Roman come running.

"What is it, Patton?" Logan asks.

Patton continues screaming as he points at Janus' body. Both Logan and Roman pale.

---

Body Reported, go to Cafeteria. 

Virgil sighs as he sees the bright red message flash across his screen. Someone's dead, or this is another one of Remus' pranks. Of course, it's always the latter.

"C'mon Remy, let's go. Emergency meeting," he says.

Remy nods.

"Don't look so down, gurl. It's probably just a false alarm," he says.

But when they enters the cafeteria, they notice Janus is missing.

"Hey, guys." Virgil takes a seat on the bench as he waits for Remus and Emile to arrive. Remy opts to stand instead.

"Hey, Virgil. Hey, Remy," Thomas says.

Once the other two arrive, the meeting starts.

"Where?"

"Where?"

"Where?"

"Electrical," Patton says.

"I was in Nav," Virgil says.

"Roman and I were together," Logan says, "We had just left lower reactor when we heard Patton scream."

"I was in Nav with Virgil," Remy says.

"I was in Coms, I saw Virgil and Remy in Nav too," Thomas says.

"And I was in Weapons!" Emile says.

Everyone looks at each other.

"Pink sus," Virgil says.

"Proof?" Logan asks.

"Never saw him in Weapons," Virgil says.

"I probably got there after you went to Nav," Emile says.

"Hmm," Patton says.

"ITS MEEEEEEE! I'M IMPOSTER!!!!!!" Remus shouts.

"Ok, so we've ruled Remus, Roman, and I out, correct?" Logan asks.

"Yeah," Patton says.

"Yep!" Thomas says.

"Should we skip?" Remy asks.

"Yes, there are still eight of us left," Logan says, nodding.

Everyone places their votes, and nobody is sent into the void of space. Yet.

---

Virgil and Remy split up after the meeting. Virgil goes down to Medbay, and Remy goes off to who-knows-where.

As he stands on the pedestal, preparing himself for the scan, Virgil studies the test tubes in front of him. Then he hears a slight swish and two hands place themselves on his head.

"Um- I don't like being-" he starts to say before the person snaps his neck.

The person vents away and Virgil is left a ghost.

"Wow, that was rude," he says.

---

Two hours later.

Virgil, Thomas, Janus, and now Logan are all dead.

"My poor intern, they're all alone..." Logan says when he appears as a ghost.

"It'll be okay. But for now, finish your tasks. We might still win this thing," Janus says.

Logan nods and floats off.

---

Remy hums to himself as he waits for his coffee. Emile does wires next to him.

That's when the lights start to flicker, going out for a few seconds. Remy hears a small click and is shoved to the floor. He reaches out to something, anything before he's shot in the back of the head.

The lights go back on and Emile looks to his left.

"That was weir-" he stops when he sees Remy.

Body Reported, go to Cafeteria. 

Everyone comes rushing in.

"Another?" Roman asks.

Emile nods. It was just him, Patton, Remus, and Roman left.

Little did anyone know, the dead crewmates were just vibing as ghosts above their friends, floating around their killer, and doing tasks. They all also took turns babysitting Logan's mini-crewmate, or as he calls them 'his intern'.

"It's got to be Emile, then! He was at the body multiple times!" Roman says.

"If it was me, then why would I report it?" Emile counters.

Patton shrugs.

"Self-report?" he suggests.

"Yeah, I think so! Remus, anything to add?" Roman asks.

"I'm here to be as annoying as possible, so I'm not saying anything," Remus says.

Roman sighs. Everyone places their votes.

Therapist: 2 votes

ThePrince: 0 votes

Dadof2: 0 votes

DikSucker: 0 votes

Skipped: 2 votes

Nobody gets ejected, and everyone goes off on their own, not trusting the others.

Roman wanders down to Admin, starting his first of many attempts on the card swipe.

"Goddammit-" he mutters as it rejects his card again.

Patton enters the room. But not through the entrance. Through the vent. 

Roman stares at him, frozen in shock.

"Patton, it- it was you?" he asks.

"Always has been," Patton says with a smirk, opening up his mouth. 

His long tongue pierces through Roman's forehead, and Roman slumps to the ground, dead. Patton just smiles and crawls back into the vent. 

Body Reported, go to Cafeteria.

"Alright, it's gotta be Emile! Everything is fine until someone kills Roman!" Remus shouts.

Ghost Roman smiles a bit.

"I knew he loved me," he says. 

"Only I have that privilege!" Remus says.

"Oh," Ghost Roman says.

"Well, yeah, that makes sense," Patton says.

"Wait, you guys- it's not me! I was in Weapons, doing wires!" Emile protests.

But it's too late. The votes have been cast.

DikSucker: 1 vote

Dadof2: 0 votes

Therapist: 2 votes.

"Please! You're making a mistake!" Emile pleads as Remus grabs him by the wrists.

Patton and Remus put on their helmets as they open up the eject door, throwing Emile out of the ship.

Then Remus turns around to face Patton.

"We did it!" he says.

Patton starts to giggle, slowly going into full-out manic laughter. Remus begins to sweat nervously.

"Everything alright with you, Pat?" he asks.

"Y̶̨̠͐́̄͜o̴̩͑́̀ͅú̶͍̳̎ ̴̬̘͆f̴̻̭̗̊̊̋o̵̲̩͐̾o̴̪̝̝̓l̷̰͉̰̔.̵̛͓̈̾ ̸̲̓̃̽P̷̝̄a̸̜͂̂̽ţ̴͍̼̃͌̈t̶̞̭̓͊ö̶̦̠̀͜n̸̰͖̒̇ ̵͖̠̿ī̷̤̝͎͌s̴̜͂ ̷̟̤̗͗̃̓l̷̩̥̍̊̾͜ŏ̷͓̟̝n̴̖͖͊͋g̷̜͐̈́̓ ̶̳̋g̸̛̻̻̓̌ő̴̻̮͙̔͘n̴̪͊ê̵̘̳͒,̷͓̥̯̇͝ ̷̠͈͑ã̶͑͜n̶͈̉̿̀d̶̮̈́ ̷͙̿̋y̶̯͋ͅo̴͖͔̲͆̀͌u̶̖͚͛ ̷̞̯̜̄w̴͍̠̌͋̋ȋ̷̤̺l̵̩͑̾l̵̢̤͈͛͝ ̶̞̙̄̿͆b̵̼͂̕ę̵̨̖̏̋ ̵͈̭̇͛j̷̥̍ô̵̱̠̈̃i̷͚͙̐̈́ͅn̸̓̾͘͜i̷̖͍̋̆̈́n̵̪̓g̷̦͆ ̷̠̜͎͐͂̚h̵͍͉͐͌̚i̸̼̟͒ͅḿ̴̧̯̟̏̈ ̸̟̏̉š̶͚̱̕͜ờ̷̘͈͛o̵̙̓͒n̵̢̗͉̔.̵͇̗̆" 'Patton' says.

Remus looks up at the man in fear, which he quickly replaces with hardened resolve. If he was going to die, he wasn't going to do it while crying.

The eject zone had long since locked shut, so Remus couldn't open it back up. His only option now is death.

"Do it, you coward," he spits.

'Patton' grins and stabs him five times in the back. 

Remus joins his fellow crewmates, now a ghost.

"So what now?" he asks.

"We start a new round. I can't believe Patton was actually the Imposter," Thomas says.

Remus nods and they reappear in the launchpad of the ship, all alive and ready to start over.

Don't y'all just love that an 'Among Us AU' can be called an 'AU AU'? Well, I do and I'm using it to piss people off! Spooky prompts are still open, peace out my peeps!