Roleplay:Ace Attorneys

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Overview
Mr. Markus Tranquil, CEO and founder of Tranquil corps, was found dead in the The Bellflower Orphanage, with many stab wounds. The main suspect and the one being accused of his death, is Neo Tranquil, the adopted son of Markus Tranquil. Is Neo truly innocent, or did he truly commit the crime?

Rules

 * This roleplay is not a combatative roleplay,, so do not start fights.
 * Remember to behave in courtroom mode, do not act stupid for no reason.
 * Be kind to the other players, but act however you think your character should act.
 * Have fun.

Participants

 * NeoExlucky


 * Pianoteen


 * Winterleaves112


 * Fox,Fox,Cat


 * AwsomeSONICfan


 * Monk the Cat
 * Zapor888

Secret-keepers
(Important for certain interaction, must have been in the series before.)

Neo Tranquil (Neo)

Fate the Cat (Neo)

Leah the Chao-born (Neo)

Time Spinner (Neo)

Masako Haruno the Fox (MHS)

Prairie Haruno the Fox (MHS)

Argent Hellsing the Wolf (MHS)

Rose Hellsing the Wolf (MHS)

Aurum the Hedgehog (FroZen)

Zapor the Hedgehog

Lexi the Hedgehog

Zak the Kirby

Miyuki Akuroma (Winterleaves112)

Christina "Christie" the Hedgehog (Pianoteen)

Krys the Unicorn (Pianoteen)

New characters
The Judge (Neo)

Mitch Bramble (Neo)

??? (Neo)

Kasari Blackbear(Fox)

Yu Pigeon(Fox)

Sico the cat (AwsomeSONICfan)

Monk the Cat(Monk)

Neil Clements(Monk)

Part 1: The detention center (Investigate mode)
The group stands in the detention center's interviewing room. They await the accused for the crime, Neo, to come out and answer a few questions. The room is fairly large, but grey and very boring.

"I hope Neo's alright..." Fate said.

"Tranquility will be fine." Time Spinner said. "He always is, don't worry."

Zapor, now caught upwith what is going on,"Someone better have either a good lawyer or a good plan."

Christina looked at Leah. "Tell me," she started to say, "What crime did Neo commit?"

"According to the police report he's charged with manslaughter, he killed Mr.Tranquil, his father." Leah sighed. "But of course, we can't just say that we were in the slums fighting people when that was happening, because then all of us would go to jail. Neo couldn't have murdered someone...right?"

"Well actually..." Time Spinner said. "When the rite of Time Turner is activated, Tranquility does go through another series of events, so it is possible...I mean, more than likely he didn't, but if Tranquility got angry...the idea is not improbable..."

Krys looked indifferent. "Nobody knows if he did it." She said. "But if my horn recharges, Time Spinner or I could use a Time Travel Spell.." She told the group.

"No we can't." Time said. "Envoking the rite of Time Turner causes a paradox, destroying time for a few short moments and rearangeing what happened. No matter how many Time Travelers or writers, or meta's we gather, that moment in time can never be re-visted, because it never was in time." He looked down at the ground. "That sounds weird, okay, basically no matter how hard we try, we can't ever go back to that moment in time, we can't change that part of history. It's not a constant in time."

"Time travel...this is such confusing stuff." Leah said. "I hope I never have to time travel."

No one is sure why but after Leah made this comment Fate starts chuckling.

Masako seemed to have caught on to what Leah was chuckling about, and a snicker escaped her for a second.

"I know I've heard something like that before, but I can't remember what or where..." Prairie said.

Fate tries to answer, but is interrupted by the sound of a door opening. On the other side of the detention center room, stands Neo the Fox. He's wearing his normal white clothing, but his glasses look different, and he seems to have gained a couple of cuts. "Hey guys..." He said kind of sadly. "This...this wasn't the kind of 'grand exit' I wanted to make."

"I still don't understand. What evidence could they possibly have to convict you with? Do they even have a murder weapon?" Masako asked.

"I don't know, they wouldn't tell me." Neo said sadly. "Don't worry though, supposedly there's someone else coming to talk with me today."

"Who is it?"Zak said.

"Do you still want us close by...?" Prairie asked.

"Yes...yes...I would prefer if you guys helped look around the crime scene, or something. I don't know you'd have to talk to the guy. Supposedly he's really, really good. His name's Smash." Neo told the group.

"You don't say?" Argent said. "Now, I know this isn't the first time I've heard that name..."

"Ok, someone good iswatching Neo. What are we going to do?" said Lexi

"I think it's pretty obvs." Zapor said.

"I don't know, but I think he has something to do with the bellflower orphanage." Neo told the group. "That's where...that's where Dad was murdered..."

"Hmm..." Krys thought. Her horn lit. A notebook and an inked feather-pen came from nowhere. In the notebook she wrote with both magically in her control: ''Thought one: Bellflower orphanage-..... dad murdered. ''"Do you remember the time he was murdered?"

"No...I couldn't find a clock." Neo shook his head.

Lexi, playing with a ripple energy ball in her hand speaks up."Ok, more complicated questions, how did you get to the place of murder?"

Neo stops dead in his tracks, his face freezes, and for some reason, just a hint of something red around him flashes before disappearing. "Oh...that? Well, you see...I...uh...erm..." He moves his head around as if he's trying to avoid looking at anybody. "I just...uh...w-walked right in the front door."

Leah stops for a second. She clocks her head sideways a bit as Neo answers and her eyes, for some reason, aren't reflecting anything in front of her.

Masako's keen eyesight caught onto both details. Though it was obvious that Neo would be voted "most likely to fail a lie detector test", she seemed more concerned with how Leah seemed to... blank out. Was this the result of some outside intereference? Was she going to be next?

"Leah...?" Fate asked. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm...I'm fine." Leah told her friend. She turned towards the others. "Guys, maybe we should go to the Bellflower, Neo will be back here so we can ask questions later. Right now, some evidence would be good."

Zapor has a clueless look, blinks twice, and then says,"Hey guys. Why are we in the question room? Why does Neo look like he went to the big house?"

"Oh boy, T.S wasn't kidding. Well,  I'll fill you in later (again)." Zak says, then facepalms.

"Yes..." Leah said as she looked at Zapor and then back towards the door. "Yes...I think we should get going..."

"I'll just be here..." Neo said as the group was leaving. "Not like there's anywhere else for me to go..."

Part 2: The Bell Flower orphanage (Investigation Mode)
The group finds themselves at an orphanage. There are a few people here and there, a couple of cops and a matron. Leah takes a look around and looks back at the group, where Time Spinner and Fate are giving her and odd look. "What?" She says.

"Leah, what the bloody hell was that thing back there."

"Y-you mean the red locks?"

"Locks!" Time Spinner asks in a surprised voice. "Y-you know about...the psyche, about the magatama?"

"So someone want to tell me what a magatama is?" Lexi gave an odd look.

"Magatama... this, right?" Prairie held up her necklace, which had a white magatama bead as a pendant.

Time Spinner nodded at Prairie. "Where I come from, some people have magatama sight, the ability to detect when someone is lying. When you own a magatama you can see someone's lies, in the form of psyche locks. In the past, I've used evidence and people to help me break through those locks. It seems Tranquility has psyche locks concerning how he entered,"

"And that's why we're here." Leah finished. "We're going to try and find the evidence we need to break those locks. Though...we're going to need someone who can need to tell his attorney about this..."

"If he couldn't even give a straight answer about his means of entry... then that's where we need to start. We should work our way from the outside in. We might be able to find something between the perimeter and the entrance." Masako suggested.

"Do you want me to go back and tell him?" Prairie asked.

Zapor looks around and looks at the sky. It was dark and about 10:30, three hours before he actually goes to sleep. "When did Neo even have time to get accused by this anyway?"

"All day." Time said. "When the rite of time turner is used, it causes a few rules to come into place. Basically we were with a version of Neo that didn't really exist all day, while the real Neo was transferred...somewhere and was able to do whatever he pleased. Although, it seems when the fake Neo died, all of the things that happened to him today, happened to the real Neo. So I assume he remembers all of that, and probably still has that...injection...in him..."

A male cat has a knife inside of him.

"Sheesh, the minute I'm not around some junk happens." Zapor said.

Zak rolls his eyes."So Neo said he just happened to waltz in the door, so we could check there."

"Right." Leah says. "Let go check it out." The group approaches the door...only to find that their isn't a door. It' been taken off it's hinges and now it just an empty doorway.

Lexi has a worried look on her face."Zak, you don't think.."

"Well if we were against Neo we would have clear evidence. If was still had that injection in him and was enraged, he might've tore the door down."Zak said.

"So? That doesn't exactly point to him. I could've tore the door down."Zapor said.

"Right, but you weren't here...and Neo was..." Leah says as she stands up. "Maybe we should check elsewhere."

"You mean like the place he was murdered?" Zapor said.

"Wait, that's it! If we check where Mr. Tranquil was murdered, we might have a lead." Zak said, then gave a wierd look. "Weird, normally you don't say smart stuff like that."

Zapor blinked twice, flopped his ears up and down, and gave a clueless look."What I say?"

Masako looked at Time Spinner and shrugged. "I just hope nobody's tampered with the evidence."

"Doubt it." Time told Masako. "There's enough police here to keep track of everything."

The group moves towards an area with white tape placed around where the body once was. There's blood on the ground around the tape.

"Well...this is dark..." Leah said as she looked at where the body was.

Masako appeared to be examining the position the body was in, along with the blood spatters. Perhaps she was trying to determine what direction the murderer came from and what direction Tranquil was facing when he was attacked. "Hmm... did they say how much of a struggle he put up?"

"No. Normally I pay attention to how he was killed." Zapor implied as he started to check the body.

Zak looked and saw that thw window was broken. He then ran and saw bloody footprints near the window leading diner. "I think I found a clue."

"Bloody footprintes?" Time Spinner asked as he looked over the footprints. "Someone stepped in the blood...so either the person couldn't see it, or the person didn't care...What do you guys think?"

Lexi looked at the bloody footprints. "Maybe they heard someone come and ran without noticing."

Zapor looked at where it lead to."And it leads to the bar me and my friends usually go to, meaning he's probably still there!"

"First of all, your under-age and that's illegal, Foal. Second, the footprints stop at the window, they don't lead anywhere. Third,the murder happened hours ago, back when we split up in the mansion. He's not there." Time Spinner told Zapor.

"I meant the gun bar." Zapor said pointing to another building.

"Did he die by a gun, or a mass beating?" Lexi said.

Zak gives a pretty obvious answer. "Apart from the fact that the bullet wouldn't make a big hole which pretty much answers the question, you have to take in account the size of the window, which approximately 21 inches wide and a foot tall."

"Pretty sure he was stabbed." Time told the two. "If they have Neo, it's pretty obvious that he was stabbed. That and there's a tape shaped like a knife over there."

"Hmm, knife shaped tape, bloody footprints that end at the bar with no continuation,  and a wide holed window..." Lexi said, thinking about it all.

"He didn't go to the bar. As I've said, the footprints stop at the window, there is no proof that he went to the bar at. Not to mention, the gun bar is fully open, and if a murderer went through there, it would be crawling with cops and be closed." Leah told Lexi.

"Well maybe he could fly" Lexi put in. "No one ever said what he was. He could've flown to the roof and ran from there."

"If he could fly, then we wouldn't be here right now." Fate said. "If the murderer could fly, then the blood on his shoes would have spilled everywhere, causing a puddle of blood. We don't see any of that here, or on anything outside. He never came out this way. Time, what do you think?"

"Let's see..." Time Spinner said, he looked around the area and walked over to where the tape outline of the body was, and laid on top of it, his body matching the position of the tape.

"W-what are you doing?" Leah asked.

"Checking time." Time Spinner told the group. He closed his eyes and his entire body started to shimmer in a gold light, everyone in the group started to see it, and they all started to see something.

It was dark, the lights didn't exactly work right. You could see a figure in a long black coat, holding a red knife. Markus was hunched over, holding what appeared to be a stab wound. The figure continuted stabbing Markus, stopped, and ran out the door, dropping his knife in the process.

"Well that was enlightening." Time said. "Who ever did this, was wearing a long black overcoat and owns a red knife, but we're safe now. Tranquility has those white clothes and uses a white dagger. He couldn't have done it."

"Except...Neo used to wear that black coat, and the red knife looked a lot like the blood blade." Fate told Time. "We need to find something else. Something that can point us in the right direction...we need to talk to someone who has known Neo for a long time..." She snapped her fingers and pointed at Leah. "Call Zero. We need to talk to Vorpa."

Zapor looks. "But what if it was someone else we knew who wore black?"

Zak thinks as well. "Blade is out of the question beacause he was your wingman on your date with Ec..I mean exciting tutor, Mr. Sheepead! You were studying."

"Vorpa? I didn't know she and Neo were acquainted..." Prairie said.

"Vorpa and Neo both grew up in the underground monarchy." Fate said. "She's probably the closet thing to a sister that Neo has. Her and Neo...and Veela..."

"So where are they now?" Zapor asks.

Zak remembers where th3y went after the fight. "Best guess is that they went to your house. But in all worst case sscenarios, they went back to Neo's house...."

Part 3: Evol Estate (Investigation)
"I didn't expect this." Time Spinner said as the group was led by two maids into a courtyard where Vorpa stared into a fountain, and Zero sat on a bench in front of a piano. He was playing a soft tune on it, it was something no one really expected of him. Leah's eyes went wide with shock, Fate had her hand in front of her mouth, and Time Spinner didn't know what to even say. "Zero, when did you learn how to play a piano?"

"A while ago." Zero said. "There was a woman who taught me, she gave me this piano. Came from the Mystic Down corporation."

Leo and Blade walk through the door. "So I went asking around, and one cop said that the only description was that he saw a white blur go past the door." Leo said.

Zak nods. "Did you tell Ages?"

"Yeah, he's taking it pritts hard. But the other thing is still safe." Leo said.

Zapor nods. "So, what are we doing in Neo's house?"