Zoostuck 2

By monkey. She met her demise by monkey. Also I think the time-acceleration was only experienced by you and 1.

That's right! It was that monkey over there! The one in the trenchcoat! You've got to catch that murderer before it's too late!

You are now a monkey detective, and you're in trouble. This letter thinks you killed his number girlfriend, or something. Thing is, you didn't. You were working on a case and busting some heads, and then suddenly you were here and there was a dead number on the ground.

You're about to punch the letter's lights out just to get him off your back when there's a loud noise and a horse with hoverjets comes rushing in from nowhere and knocks the letter aside. You recognize him - he's that jerk detective who's always been telling you that you can't solve mysteries with just violence, you're supposed to painstakingly examine the clues and use brilliant insight to piece together the puzzle.

Man, you hate that jerk. That's why you hit him in the foot last time you met him.

Anyways, he's babbling something about how he was framed for a murder he was investigating but the real culprit was a pumpkin. Damn, you must have hit him real hard, he's totally lost it.

You're about to deck him when a squirrel suddenly rushes out in front of you. She says she's psychic and got a vision of the past -because apparently that's where you are - while she was being framed for killing God's second cousin, who was an ice cream vendor or something. Apparently there's another psychic squirrel here and he might know something about who's behind the murder. Ugh, great, this is a pain.

Suddenly, a spider scurries over dragging a fancy computer made from a web. She says her computer's calculated that she's stuck in the past, and she's looking for her ancestor who's supposed to be pretty smart and can probably help her figure out who framed her for killing a really ugly scientist in another dimension, has anyone seen any really intelligent spiders around?

Oh great, you're caught up in some kind of stupid time-and-dimension-spanning conspiracy, and now you probably have to help these jerks solve their crimes if you're going to clear your own name. Goddamn it, that's the last thing you want. You haven't had a day this lousy since you were in detective school.

Uh-oh. Something's wrong. You can feel it.

You've been trapped in a flashback. Worse, it's to that day. The day when everything started going wrong.

It started out simple enough. You were in math class, when suddenly your textbook started playing music. You flipped the pages, and the songs changed. And then you realized that you were doing it! You had the power to give pages themes!

But that wasn't all. Aided by the clarity of the music, you were able to read the textbook in a new light. You understood math as you never had before.

And that's when you realized it. The stuff in your textbook, that you thought didn't make any sense? It really didn't. You weren't just too dumb to get it. The whole book was total nonsense. Your teacher was just trying to distract you, distract the entire class.

But why, you asked yourself, and then as some more music played from your textbook, you understood.

Your teacher was an alien. And you were the only one who could prove it.

How did you do that, again? And how did it all go wrong?