[Coolshaymin]

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"Pichu," the Pichu replied simply as he stood up and faced Hades, as he inspected him as he stated his commands. Pichu stared blankly at Hades even after Vector got there. "..." After a few more seconds, the Pichu gave a laugh as he rolled on the ground. "Your going to call me a Joke Character and ask for my help? Yeah, nice try Spaghetti Boy. Ain't going to happen. I have case breaking evidence here, but with your comment, I feel I deserve some compensation for it. I will tell you nothing unless I get rewarded as payment for your joke," Pichu remarked smart alecy.

The scene seemed clean, other than the body. The body had a single stab wound in his back. There were big Yoshi Size footprints around too. Pichu seems to think he knows more about the situation than the group, but he is not talking.1d20+7

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Hades sighed, tapping his chin in thought. He then grabbed vector's gold chains from his neck, handing them to the pichu with a troll smile. "Here, in exchange for what information you have, have some solid gold chains that probably give you more money than what you usually get paid with at the pawn shop." Hades said, laughing to try and convince the little pichu. Besides, it would make his partner angry and that just tugged at the black shriveled wired hades had instead of heart strings.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

It would seem that Vector’s partner in crime had already found a way to screw up a source of information. Hades made fun of the little critter and now it wasn’t going to give any information regarding the crime scene. Why was Vector working with him? He could easily ditch this God and solve the case on his own because at this point Hades was just making more work for them.

The creature wanted payment, so Hades thought it was a wise idea to put his hand near a crocodile’s mouth. That was a poor decision. Considering that Vector held no remorse for Hades he didn’t restrain himself when he bit down on the purple man’s hand. Vector placed his gold chain back where it belonged and locked gaze with the Pichu. “You drive a hard bargain. How’s a Kackle Assist Trophy sound to you? Ignore kelp hair over there, he’s got some mental issues I’m sure. I haven’t been able to fully diagnose him yet though.”

As for the crime scene, it seemed like a quick hit and run. Nothing was too out of place besides the dead body and footprints along with it. That didn’t say much though considering the victim was a Yoshi and there were plenty of citizens in the Life Sphere that were able to fly or float. So overall, the crime scene in itself said nothing other than the murderer used a puncturing weapon and they wanted to kill Yoshi. As well, this means that they were able to kill period and the only being that has shown to have that ability in the past was Vivi. Galacta Knight to a certain extent, but King Hippo was still alive after that encounter, so that was debatable.

[Coolshaymin]

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"Really? You'd think I would accept you trying to bargain your friend's bling?" Pichu declined to Hades' Offer. At Vector's offer, he looked from Hades and then to Vector. Pichu stayed silent for a few seconds before deciding. "The Kackle Assist Trophy sounds good. Glad you are a lot more reasonable than your... partner... Alright, hand over the AT and I'll tell you what I know," Pichu said as he held out a hand and waited for the bargaining chip. He looks like he stowed his behind his back even though it seems to have vanished.

"Okay, I'll start off with the most crucial detail. First, as any rookie can tell, he seemed to have died by a stab wound. Now, I'm guessing you're thinking this means your client is in the clear, right? Wrong," The tiny Electric Mouse pulled out a vial of some green liquid. "I found this stuff in the bushes. Now I am not an alchemy or potion expert of any kind. However, my special... um... Let's call it trait. Anyway, this 'trait' allows me to see that this substance just reeks of death. I am taking a logical guess, since killing is not a common ability, that some sort of blade was coated in the Poison and that is what Yoshi died in a single stab," Pichu finished. "Any more questions?"1d20+7

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Hades scoffed, not amused by how everyone seemed to not like his plan's for selling vectors gaudy chains for information. "Well great, now were one less kackle assist trophy here. i hope your happy lizard lips." Hades sighed, giving vector back his quote on quote 'Bling' before paying attention to the smart alec of a rat. "Oh, so now we can hear the story from beginning. Wonder and whimsy."



Hades looked at the vial of what could only be presumed to be nickelodeon slime. "Oh, yes because just showing me a container of green goop is totally proving that toshi is guilty. Now, if you would allow me, let me ask you this. How does this in any way prove that Toshi was the killer? I hardly doubt some teal dinosaur is the only person in this explorative waste of a city is the only one with acess to poison of this nature. Hell, im sure if i looked in the black market enough i could find some seller of killing slime. Even further, who's to tell that the poison was the one that did it? Weve seen people like Galacta Knight be capable of killing people without need of slime. Perhaps the person who had the ability to kill before hand just left the poison as a distracting peice of evidence. Shall i go on?"

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Vector rolled his eyes as the whiny God complained about how ‘they’ were down a Kackle assist trophy. Mostly his distaste was in the fact that Hades thought they were at a point where the two of them could be conjoined in the sense of ‘we.’ “I wouldn’t be down an assist trophy if you kept your lips zipped” the crocodile added. It wasn’t like losing that one assist trophy was going to make a difference, especially considering that he had two of them originally anyway.

The Chaotix leader listened closely to the words of the Pichu, writing some notes down mentally and others in his notebook. The fact that the victim was stabbed was information that he already knew, but the poison was different, most notably that the creature had it on hand and that he struggled for a word to describe his capabilities for detecting what the poison was. He could have easily just said anything, but the hesitation meant something else. Vector wasn’t going to say that the critter was the culprit, but there were an awful lot of conveniences in the favour of this creature. The culprit just so happened to leave the poison they used to attack Yoshi, which is a rather huge mistake even for a rookie to do. It seemed more likely to be a plant, someone else was looking to frame another.

Vector was about to bring up a whole slew of arguments in regards to Pichu’s story, but it would seem that Hades beat him to the punch. He was ready to groan at the demon’s attempt at looking intelligent, but the crocodile was a bit surprised by him actually posing a good few questions. In fact some of them were things that Vector was prepared to argue. It was hard to say, but Vector was rather impressed by Hades. There was just one question that Vector had to add in, considering that this creature was supposed to be a detective it should come as a no brainer, although he felt it was needed to be asked. “Good point, Hades. On top of that though, have you checked for fingerprints?”

[Coolshaymin]

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Pichu sighed at Hades questioning though Vector did have a good one in Pichu's opinion. "Do I have to do all the deductive reasoning for you, oh Spaghetti Head of the Land of the Dead? You think making potions able to revert a law of how this place works is easy? Though I am not a potions expert, I can inform you of one that may be able to tell you what I do not know about this poison. As for whether or not it was the poison, that is easy to figure out. I took a sample of what blood is left in his bloodstream and the same exact wave of death and substance is in this vial. As for how it applies to your client, there is more proof in the blood. There is traces that can only be left by a weapon made from a metal only on Yoshi's Island. Furthermore, your client uses a sword from this material and only Yoshis and Shy Guys know the exact location of the metal and your client also studies in various forms of magic which include potion making. As for the fingerprints, yes I checked, but the culprit must of either had none or used something like a glove to make sure they left none," Pichu finished his lengthy explanation.1d20+7

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Hades started stroking his chin. "He used a glove, eh?" Hades smiled. "Ok, lets go beat up glover. Seems logical at this point...Nah, just kidding guys. So, only shy guy's and Yoshi's know the material, hm? In that case, our choices are narrowed down. Besides our client, is there any other suspects pichu?" Hades asked, wanting to get a whole list of people to torture today for information.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The culprit either had no finger prints or used a glove. That was a significant statement to make considering their rival in court. Vector wasn’t going to say the computer was guilty just yet, but it did seem rather excited about prosecuting the client. For the time being there wasn’t enough evidence to point in any which direction just yet, but they were building a structure to the solution. The detective himself though was jumping to a few conclusions on their client however, and Hades wasn’t catching it this time.

Hades questioned who this case narrows down to, but given the evidence found there was nothing restricting just about anybody from being the culprit. “So what your saying is; our suspect was smart enough to make sure there were no finger prints left behind, but they just so happened to accidently drop a vial of a specific poison that could only trace back to our client? This is so obviously a plant job. In fact, why would our client use weapons and poisons trace back to him so easily? Why not stop over by the Black Market and buy a weapon that isn’t rare and stab Yoshi with it? And don’t say our client was inexperienced, this is murder we’re talking about, something that would be highly punishable, why would he make it so easily trace back to him when he knows this? As for the murder weapon, Shy Guys occupy the Black Market the same as Goombas, anyone could go down there and buy a specially made poison and on top of that a simple dagger or sword. We can talk hypotheticals all day, our client lacks a motivation to attack Yoshi, so please, answer my colleague’s question. What other suspects are there?” the crocodile answered deductively. He was getting sick of the detective’s bias toward their client. This creature had the life of another in his hands and he seemed to be rather quick on his final judgement.

[Coolshaymin]

Pichu merely gave a shrug to Vector's accusations of him being against their client, "Vector, I never said I was sure your client did it. In fact, I believe him the least likely. In fact, I'm with you on that the real culprit left this poison and used the same weapon material as Toshi's blade to frame him. I was telling you how Linex might try to put this dead end into his favor. Now, the people I suspect most is of 3 different kinds. First, I'll give you my Yoshi suspect, Boshi, he was part of the Yoshi tribe, but he was seen as a bully and he constantly taunted people with his speed. He was beaten by Yoshi in a race and may be looking for revenge. Next our 2 Shy Guy Suspects, first, Asassain Guy, he is a highly trained Black Shy Guy and is a master at stealth and, as his name applies, asassination. Not much is known about him character wise, its rare to ever find the guy. Lastly, we have Captain Guy, a cruel and stern leader of the Shy Guys, he is powerful in stragety and combat. He usurped the old Shy Guy Leader and rules them with an iron... whatever they have. He vows to eliminate all threats to the Shy Guy Army and Yoshi here has destroyed quite a few of them in the past, to put it lightly. Before trying to pursue any of them, I suggest you get more info on that Poison. Go to the Science Cafe and order the Special Potion and say, Twinrova is... hot..." Pichu said, pausing as he finished that line. "Man that password makes sense but it is so stupid," Pichu says under his breath.

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Hades laughed a little. "Well, seems were heading for a science bar vector ol' buddy." Hades said, turning away from pichu. "Thanks for the hints pichu, i suggest you evolve as quick as you can before more people make fun of you." Hades finished with a chuckle, starting to walk away yelling "Come on intern, we dont have all day!" Hades directed the 'intern' comment to vector as hades of course felt himself more important than vector. "Now, science bar....science bar..."

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Was Vector the only one that thought it was strange that they were heading to a science bar to learn about a mystical poison? Maybe the science part was supposed to be taken ironically, either way it was sort of strange, however, he’s heard of much weirder things and its best not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Usually it took a bit more work than that to get to a lead, but he wasn’t complaining in the slightest. Besides being forced to work with Hades. Seriously, just about anyone would be a more suitable partner. Even G&W would probably make for a better district attorney. Alright, that might be stretching it a bit, but it was a close match.

Perhaps he was a bit too narrow minded when it came to the Pichu, but that was how Vector functioned, when he reached a conclusion he usually jumped to it, especially if he was giving the right opportunity. Besides that, he had a big mouth, in all sense of the term. Alongside that, working with Hades would even make Charmy testy. “If you catch wind of anything else, let me know” he stated to the Pichu before wandering off with the God of purple.

“You know we could always split up, you head over to the science bar and I can look up the suspects, and then later go back to the bar once you’ve been kicked out and learned nothing” the lime crocodile plotted out rather quickly. “Probably be faster for both of us…”

[Coolshaymin]

"Will do, Vector. Make sure Spaghetti Lord of the Dead does not get into too much trouble!" Pichu said before turning back to the Yoshi's body after they left. "Evolve... Yeah, if that was even possible for me. This form is only causing more problems than I need," the Pichu(?) said as he looked at the body. "Does not help I still have not mastered my... special talent. If I did, I could just get him to tell me... Ugh, no matter which world I escape to, there is always another problem!" Pichu said in anger before calming down. "I'll just look into the problem more until I'm able to use THAT."

As for Hades and Vector,

CHOICE TIME: Will Hades agree to split up for faster evidence gathering, or will he just keep Vector around to annoy him more?

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Hades stroked his chin, thinking a little. Sure, it would be tons of fun to keep messing with vector. But, it seemed like hades was issued a challenge by the green gator to get some info. "Good point, we'll do more damage that way." Hades said, smiling. "I'll hit the science bar and use my glorious charisma to get the info we need. You go do whatever, i'll meet you outside of it. Hades, out!" Hades said, stepping through a underworld portal. He purposefully didn't give Vector a definite time to meet him because it would result in making vector mad. which was his goal at this point.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Vector sighed as the purple annoyance finally made his leave. Charmy was plenty annoying, so he had a ton of practice with patience. Overall though, he’d much prefer an adolescent bee over the God of man children and arrogance. Now that he had peace and the sound of an orangutan slapping a bongo blaring into his ear, he had to come up with some sort of plan.

First though, which of the culprits should he pursue? Boshi was a simple bully and seemed the least likely to actively go out and kill Yoshi. Some people let emotions conquer their judgement, but for a race? Unless it was a rather big event that caused him to lose a lot that seemed a bit much. As for the other two, they were Shy Guys so they were basically enemies by nature. Of them all though, the not-so-subtly named Assassin Guy seemed like a good place to start. Even if it wasn’t his own motivation to kill Yoshi, someone else could’ve hired him for the job.

In order to find this specialist, Vector was going to have to head over to the Black Market. A place he was already somewhat familiar with, a few connections of his might lead him to his suspect. In fact, this occasion might call for a bit of an undercover job. A simple crocodile looking for a stealthy way to knock off an enemy. A browse in the right side of town might lead him to where he needs to go. And so the two split paths, Vector heading down toward the shadier side of the Black Market for his hit man.