Ace felt like he was floating in an abyss. He glanced around, not sure why as everything was the same shade of black.

Suddenly everything began fading. Ace felt rather confused although not sure why. But as quickly as the abyss changed, it vanished. Leaving Ace to a sudden strike of pain.

Ace felt his body jolt forward as the pain had awoken him. He glanced around to see a blurred group of ponies.

Then pain flooded through his head and Ace pressed a hoof to the side of his head, only to feel sticky liquid.

"You okay, Ace?" Ace's vision began to straighten out and he looked up. He saw the worried face of his best friend and Ace struggled into a sitting position.

Ace then noticed the other ponies had been gathered in the room. Then everything came flooding back, causing Ace to double forward.

Vinyl.....

"V-Vinyl..." Ace looked among the faces in the room, hoping that what he had seen was just a nightmare and that the unicorn was perfectly fine. She wasn't there.

"Ace.....Vinyl's dead..." the words sounded so blunt to Ace. After a few moments it sank in and Ace felt his eyes well up with tears.

"No.....No no!" Ace repeated the words as if they would change the fact Vinyl had been killed.

Ace got up, despite his wooziness, and ran. He honestly didn't care what the other ponies did, He just wanted to make sure that the death of his new friend hadn't truly occurred and that she was just perfectly fine.

His hopes were immediately shattered as he came across the music room. Vinyl lay there. Her lifeless body slumped over the DJ booth.

Ace steadied himself against the door frame. The reality of everything washed over him and he took a deep breath. He turned to the gathered group of ponies behind him.

"I.....I don't believe....I don't believe she's dead...." Ace said, not caring that nearly no one heard him. With that, he turned and walked into the room. He ignored the sirens going off in his head and he placed a hand on Vinyl's shoulder. Her shoulder was so cold it was numbing.

Ace stared at Vinyl before turning to the ponies behind him. Wait for it.....Wait for it....

As if on cue, a puff of smoke symbolized that MonoColt had entered. MonoColt looked at the corpse of Vinyl for a moment before breaking out into laughter.

"Wow! You guys sure do wanna get out! Killing someone on the second day!" He jumped around like a happy child, Ace could see the annoyed faces of the others and he knew some were trying to keep from throwing themselves at MonoColt.

"Now! Its time to get investigating!" He said happily. "I'll see you guys in a little bit at the Class Trial!" And as quickly as he appeared, MonoColt vanished.

Ace felt the tension of the atmosphere. It was painful.

"I-I can't believe....That...Someone would kill Vinyl...." Cloud murmured and he approached the dead body.

"I can." Trixxie said in a loud voice. "Obviously someone wants to get out and doesn't want to wait for us to get them out."

Twilight nodded to the unicorn and walked over to observe Vinyl's body. "It appears she took severe blows to the head." She muttered thoughtfully.

Ace scanned over the rest of Vinyl's body but found no other wounds. "I guess that was the only cause of death." he replied to Twilight.

"Yeah. And it appears the DJ booth is what her head was bashed against." Cloud was now helping while the others wandered around the music room to find anything else that may be of use.

Ace observed Vinyl's stature."It appears she was about to put on some music when the killer attacked her..." Ace said to himself. Then he thought of her facial expression, hidden by here large shades. Ace gingerly reached out and pulled off the glasses. They were surprisingly clean, except for the side were it had been in the blood. He looked at Vinyl to see her eyes were wide, filled with fear and horror.

"She definitely died in pain." Twilight murmured after looking at Vinyl's pain twisted face.

"Hey, Twilight...?" Ace asked as a thought came to mind.

"Yes, Ace? Is something wrong?" Ace looked at the calm and collected unicorn.

"Since I....Since I was the first one at Vinyl's body.....Am I a suspect?" Twilight thought for a moment before she answered his question.

"Yeah....I guess so." she replied and Ace swallowed around the growing lump in his throat.

"Okay." He said in a shaky voice before getting up and walking around the booth some more. As if the evidence would just pop out if he waited long enough.

To distract himself from Vinyl's horrified face, Ace thought through the schedules of every pony.
I had gone to my room to rage at around 12:30....I left at 1:05 and found Vinyl at 1:10.....But I didn't see anyone near the rooms. Let alone the music room. There was no way this murder occurred in 5 minutes. But Vinyl was alive at 12:30....So when did the murder occur?

"Twilight....Where was everyone during 12:30 to 1:05?" I asked her and she thought about that.

"We can discuss that at the trial." she said and went back to investigating.

Ace sighed and shoved his hands into his pocket, leaving the murder scene and wandering down the hall. He remembered Snowflake's headband and picked it up.

It was clean, not a speck of blood. He shrugged and walked back to the investigation. He walked over to Snowflake and tapped on her shoulder. She spun around and stared at Ace.

"I...I tripped over this on the way over here....when I first found the body..." Ace muttered as he held out Snowflake's headband. Snowflake looked surprised to find her headband and she snatched it up.

"I was wondering where this went!" she said happily as she fixed it upon her head.

"Glad I could find it for you." Ace said politely and shuffled away. After examining the crime scene from top to bottom they still had no idea who the killer was.

Ace sighed as he looked around. Then he noticed something in the plant pot.

Ace reached in and pulled it off the branch of the small tree. It was a pair of white gloves, splattered in blood.

Ace spun around to go confront Twilight about the new evidence when a loud bell erupted through the school.

Ding Dong! Please head to the gym where an elevator will bring you to the courtroom.

Ace sighed and headed towards the gym.

This will be the end of us all if I can't figure out who this killer is.

Author's Notes:

So lonnnggg and yeah I'm new to investigation stuff i just love murdering people :D