~The death of the innocent and lovable Ramble Room pet, Melville the fish, has led to angry, random accusations and according to Lissa, the only way to solve the crime properly is to go to court. And, that's exactly what the group plans on doing. BUT!....will it be a fair trial? Will the REAL killer go unpunished because of biased opinions? Will Meg and Lissa crack the case?! Will....~
Meg: HEY! Get ON with it!!
~Oh.....sorry. Got little carried away. So...on with the trial, I guess....~
Lissa: *paces the room* Now, since we’re going to court and all.....we’re going to need a courtroom. *snaps fingers and instantly, the RR transforms into a large courtroom* Alright! Court is so cool. ^.^
Others: *look around*
Ashka: Something tells me.....this might not be fun as Lissa says.
Meg: You’re probably right. Ever since Lissa’s been in her little American Government class.......she’s become some kinda Nazi lawyer wannabe......
Lissa: Would you stop associating me with Nazis!? I’m not even the slightest bit German! Besides, it’s a huge insult! My Grandparents were Jewish! God damn!
Others: Sorry. ^.^;;;;
Lissa: *ahem* Ok. We have lot’s to do before we can get started. *thinks* Since the death of Melville wasn’t exactly unconstitutional......we can’t play Supreme Court. *sighs, disappointedly* Normal court will just have to do, then.
Gokou: *blinks* Nani? What’s.....Supreme Court?
Gohan: *smirks* Oh I know! It must be like the “Supreme Kai”!
Vejita: *stares at Gohan*
Meg: ........Don’t even joke about that. No one appreciated that little nick name ugly Funimation gave Kaioshin.
Gohan: Hehe.
Lissa: *ahem* The Supreme Court’s the highest court of the United States government.
Meg: Yes yes, we all know you’re so educated on this subject, but can we just get on with it?
Lissa: *glares* Fine. Ok, so we need a judge. Who wants to be it?
Meg: I do!
Lissa: No, you can’t be a judge. You’d screw the whole thing up and blame it all on
Chaozu.
Chaozu: *growls* You worthless crack whore. *kicks Meg’s shin*
Meg: OW! *bears her teeth* Chaozu! You friggin llama!
Pasha and Ashka: *crack up* Llama! Hahahaa!
Tienshinhan: Meg, I don’t think it’s very nice to call Chaozu a llama....
Meg: I don’t care!
Tienshinhan: Yes, I know, but....
Meg: I SAID, I DON’T care!
Tienshinhan: Yes, Meg.
Chaozu: Tien! Don’t let her get away with it!
Tienshinhan: Enough, Chaozu.
Lissa: Ok, are we done interrupting me?
Pasha: Good question.
Lissa: Whatever. Now, let’s see, who can be the judge?
Ashka: Ed! Ed can be the judge!
Ed: ...........
Ashka: I know, Ed, you’d make a fantastic judge.
Ed: ..........
Ashka: Thanks Ed! But, you’d make a much better judge.
Pasha: *rolls her eyes*
Trunks: Hehe.
Goten: ^_^;;
Lissa: No, Ed can’t be a judge.
Ashka: Aw.
Meg: What about Piccolo?
Lissa: He’d declare Roshi, Gero, Yamcha, Tien, AND Chaozu guilty.....
Meg: Oh, right.
Piccolo: *snorts*
Meg: Then I suggest Vejita.
Others: What?!
Vejita: *furrows brow*
Meg: Well, he hates everyone, so I guess he’s the only really fair one.
Lissa: Exactly, he hates everyone. Including Gokou.
Vejita: I didn’t kill the damn fish! Get off that subject! If I killed it, don’t you think I’d come out and say it?
Meg: He has a point. He’d be bragging about it.
Lissa: Well yeah. But this also means he might declare whoever annoys him the most guilty or something along those lines and sentence them to cruel and unusual punishment.
Meg: Would that be so bad? We all know Chaozu did it.
Chaozu: Shut up, slut!
Meg: EMU!
Chaozu: Tien! Make them stop calling me animals!
Tienshinhan: Chaozu, be a man.
Chaozu: *pouts*
Vejita: *glares* Who says you’re allowed to put words in my mouth?
Lissa and Meg: What?
Vejita: *scoffs* I never said I hated everyone! They’re all just.....ugh!.....pansies.....and annoying!
Lissa: o.O That makes no sense.
Meg: *nods*
Bulma: Oh cut the crap, Vejita.
Vejita: *grunts*
Bulma: *shakes her head*
Vejita: Baka woman.
Lissa: Ugh, then who’ll be the judge?!
Videl: Why don’t you do it?
Lissa: No way. I’m Gokou’s lawyer.
Gokou: ^_^
Lissa: *sighs* Well then, Vejita.........I guess you're our judge.
Lissa: Guess that’s a yes. Now, you need to look the part. *snaps her fingers and a black judges gown appears on Vejita*
Vejita: Eh?! O_O
Lissa: Now get up there and sit in your high and mighty special judges chair!
Vejita: *reluctantly goes* I don’t believe this. I look like a fool!
Bulma: No you don’t. You look........very judge like.
Vejita: *snorts*
Meg: Kay, now what?
Lissa: Well, we need a jury. A fair jury. But we also need witnesses. So, our jury members will be the ones who we absolutely know are innocent.
Meg: But, isn’t everyone a suspect?
Lissa: Uh....not necessarily.
Meg: Whatever. So, we need twelve non guilty people. Obviously, Goten and Gohan wouldn’t murder their own fathers' fish, so, they’re not guilty.
Gohan and Goten: *walk over to the jury benches*
Lissa: ChiChi wouldn’t ever do something like this to her husband in a million years. Join your boys, ChiChi.
ChiChi: *walks over and sits next to Goten*
Meg: Videl’s definitely innocent. Gokou’s her father-in-law. But we’ll need her to testify. So, stay put.
Lissa: Hm. I think that’s about it.
Remaining others: What?!
Pasha: Are you calling me a suspect!?
Ashka: What about me? I’m marrying his son! Do you honestly think I’d murder his fish?!
Lissa and Meg: *look at one another*
Meg: Ashka’s got a point. Go sit down.
Ashka: *grins and sits on Goten’s lap*
Meg: *raises an eyebrow*
Ashka: *slides onto the bench* ............
Meg: *rolls her eyes*
Pasha: HEY!
Lissa: What?
Pasha: I didn’t do it!
Lissa: How do we know?
Pasha: *sighs, desperately*
Lissa: Sorry Pashi.
Trunks: Wait a minute, what about ME?!
Meg: You’re as much a suspect as Pasha is.
Trunks: *gapes*
Meg: Stop gazing stupidly or in openmouthed surprise or wonder.
Lissa: o.O
Meg: Shut up, it’s what the dictionary said.
Lissa: Whatever.
Pasha: Come on Trunks, let’s go sit in the guilty box....
Trunks and Pasha: *walk over and sit down*
Goten and Ashka: *snicker*
Vejita: *scoffs* My son, guilty as charged.
Meg: I think Vejita likes being a judge.
Lissa: Me too.
Vejita: Hmph.
Lissa: Alright, that’s it, we can’t have any more jury people cause then there'd be no case. Ok, everyone go sit where Trunks and Pasha are.
Others: *walk over*
Lissa: Woo, all set. First witness......um..... *thinks* ......yeah sure, first witness! *whispers* C’mon Gokou!
Gokou: *walks over to Lissa and Meg* Now what?
Lissa: Stand over here.
Gokou: *does*
Lissa: *holds up the GW Endless Waltz tape and puts Gokou’s right hand on it* Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you Shinigami, and all that other junk?
Gokou: ^_^
Lissa: Right.... You may be seated. Now then, where were you on the morning of September the 20th, 1993?
Gokou: *blinks* What?
Meg: Lissa! That has nothing to do with anything!
Lissa: So! People in court movies always ask questions like that!
Meg: Ugh. Gokou, what did you do this morning, before you went to check on Melville?
Lissa: Well I could have asked that!
Vejita: SHUT UP! Stop arguing and just ask some damn questions!
Lissa: No, it’s order in the court.
Vejita: I don’t care!
Meg: *’s eyebrow twitches* Gokou, answer the question, please.
Gokou: Let‘s see. I woke up, jumped on the bed to wake ChiChi up, she yelled, got dressed, brushed my teeth, got ChiChi angry again, I don’t remember how, walked into the kitchen, and then I ate some fruit loops.
Meg: Very good. Now, did you notice anything unusual that morning?
Gokou: I don’t think so. ‘Cept Roshi and Gero were acting kinda funny.....but they always act funny, so I dunno if that’s unusual or not.
Meg: I see. Anything else?
Gokou: *thinks* Sean was paranoid.
Sean: I was not!
Vejita: *takes a breath*
Lissa: *taps her foot*
Vejita: *growls* Order in the court!
Lissa: ^.^
Vejita: Shut your mouth!
Lissa: ~.~
Meg: Ok. When you went to visit Melville, you noticed something was wrong?
Gokou: I didn’t think anything was wrong. He looked like he was sleeping, so I told everyone to be quiet. But then Videl started freaking out and then you said he was dead.
Meg: Yes I did. Thank you Gokou, I have no further questions. Do you Lissa?
Lissa: *rolls her eyes* No, I don’t, since you had to hog them all!
Meg: *sighs*
Gokou: Can I go sit down?
Lissa: Sure.
Gokou: Kay. *steps down*
Lissa: Ok then, I call Pasha to the stand.
Pasha: *whines*
Lissa: Let‘s go~o.
Trunks: *nods*
Pasha: *drags herself over and plops down on the seat*
Lissa: Do you swear to do all the stuff I said to Gokou?
Pasha: Whatever.
Lissa: *sighs* Ok. Where were you this morning, before Melville’s death was discovered?
Pasha: *blinks*
Trunks: *sweatdrops*
Lissa: Well? Where were you?
Pasha: I....
Lissa: *waits*
Pasha: ........I plead the fifth.
Lissa: What?!
Pasha: I plead the fifth.
Lissa: How did you know to say that?!
Pasha: I’m not retarded.
Lissa: Ugh.
Pasha: *smirks*
Trunks: *sighs in relief*
Goten and Ashka: *eye Trunks, snickering*
Trunks: ~_~;;
Lissa: *annoyed* I have no further questions since she obviously isn’t going to answer any of them. Step down.
Pasha: Heh. *walks back to Trunks*
Meg: Chaozu, get your guilty ass up there!
Chaozu: I didn’t do it, TRAMP!
Meg: *’s eyes darken* ............ *through gritted teeth* Just take the stand.
Chaozu: *steps up, placing a phone book down before he sits, being too short and all*
Meg: HAHA! Why don’t you get another phone book!? MIDGET! *ahem* Do you swear to tell the truth and all that other crap........even though it doesn’t matter what you say, everyone knows you did it, so help you Shinigami?
Chaozu: I do. And I didn’t do it, you ugly wench! Go back to your whore house and give someone a lap dance!
Vejita: Order in the court! *slams his little mallet down* I’ve heard enough whining from this annoying brat, either he answers the questions or I personally shut him up!
Meg: *smirks*
Chaozu: *cowers in his seat*
Vejita: Good. Proceed.
Meg: Right. Now then, Chaozu, where were you this morning?
Chaozu: In the my room.
Meg: All morning?
Chaozu: No.
Meg: I knew it! There’s no need to keep lying now. You snuck out of your room secretly like the dirty little rat your are, grabbed some sort of poison, slipped it into Melville’s food, and fed it to him when poor Gokou wasn’t looking, didn’t you?! DON’T DENY THE TRUTH!
Chaozu: But it’s not the truth!
Meg: *lunges forward and slams her hands onto the witness stand* You can’t handle the truth!
Lissa: Wow. O.O
Others: *nod*
Gokou: Poor Melville! I didn’t know he died so violently! *sniffles*
ChiChi: *hugs* It’s ok hon, he’s not suffering now.
Gokou: *nods*
Chaozu: I didn‘t! That’s not true! I wasn’t near the little fish bowl all day! But Sean was, and I know why he acted so paranoid!!
All: *gasp*
Sean: *grunts and jumps up* The moose can’t prove anything!
Jury: *are shocked and begin talking loudly to one another*
Lissa: Sean?!
Sean: *sweats slightly*
Kenny: I knew it! MURDERER!
Vejita: Order! *slams his little mallet down, breaking it* Ack o_O *tosses it aside* Oh well. I want silence!
All: *stop talking*
Meg: Chaozu.....what do you mean you know why Sean was acting paranoid?
Chaozu: Exactly what I said. I saw everything he did this morning while I was looking for Tien.
Lissa: This is getting good. My turn!
Meg: Hey!
Lissa: You already did a big dramatic scene! I want a turn!
Meg: ~.~
Lissa: Chaozu, what happened? Tell me what you saw when you came out of your room.
Chaozu: Well, I came out early looking for Tien, like I said, and walked into the RR. There was no one in the room, I guess you were all still sleeping. I headed towards the kitchen to get something to eat and at that same moment, Sean walked in. He looked kinda weird, like he was mad I guess, so I stayed behind the couch and watched him. I don’t exactly know what he was doing, but he feed Melville some food and then he walked away. I found that kinda weird cause I know Gokou fed him every morning, but I ignored it and walked into the kitchen and got something to eat.
Lissa: And how long were you in the kitchen?
Chaozu: Not long. Fifteen minutes maybe, and then I came back out. I walked passed Melville again and noticed he was swimming around in a weird way, like he was drunk, and I decided to go look for you or the whore.
Meg: *grumbles*
Lissa: And the minute you left, Gokou must have come down and discovered Melville floating at the top. Videl saw Gokou on the table, saw the problem, and came running over to Meg and myself. Well, we all know what happened after that. But, we need more evidence. Are you sure you were the only one in the room?
Chaozu: Yes, I know I was, I didn’t see anyone else.
Voice: That’s not true.
All: *look around frantically for the source*
Alex: *steps forward*
All: *gasp!* Alex!
Alex: I was in the room.
Chaozu: *blinks* But I didn’t see you.
Lissa: Wait a minute, we can’t have two witnesses talking at the same time.
All: *stare at Lissa*
Lissa: Ok fine! Go ahead Alex, what did you see?
Alex: I walked in the same time Sean did and stopped, seeing he didn’t look happy, and hid in the hallway entrance. I didn’t see Chaozu at first, obviously, but I was there.
Meg: *jumps up* Yeah, and what did you SEE?
Alex: I saw exactly what Chaozu said he saw. But I also saw something he didn’t.
All: *gasp*
Meg: What did you see, damnit?!
Alex: Relax! I’m getting there!
Meg: Argh.
Alex: Sean fed Melville. Plain and simple. Well, after he walked away, that’s when I saw Chaozu come from behind the couch and go into the kitchen. I looked back at the fish bowl and saw Melville had eaten all the food. But really, the food had nothing to do with his death.
Lissa: How so?
Alex: By the middle of the week, I noticed Melville was swimming around all crazy like, they way Chaozu had said he saw him doing this morning. I figured it was just some kinda fish spasm and ignored it. But then I saw him do it again last night and that’s when I went to the pet store for myself.
Meg: At night?
Alex: Yeah, it was still open. I checked out the fish tanks and saw more fish doing those little spasms. I knew something was up and went to ask Uncle Joe about it. Well, he was really suspicious and by prying information out of him, I found out all the fish were faulty. They only lasted a week, 2 at most.
