Memory's Demise

Memory's Demise is a Squad fanfiction written by Sunniotsuki.

Synopsis (Might revise)
Zach and Drake are a famous detective duo known for cracking mysteries. On one fateful night, Zach and Drake discover a sudden fate of their loved ones. They must discover who is the culprit behind the case, and, perhaps, the truth.

Chapter 1
It was a wonderful evening for the famous duo Zach and Drake to take the day off.

"Aahhh..." Zach sighed while sipping on lemonade. "What a wonderful evening to sit back and not do anything else.."

"Right? Nothing can stop us." Drake called back.

The boys were a famous detective duo, known for solving cases with impeccable logic and memory. They were known around town, and many people say if you find them doing anything you're pretty lucky. They are pretty easy to miss, however ironically stood out for their pink and blue hair color.

"OH RIGHT!" Zach stood up from his chair. "The wine party starts at 10 pm, yes? Drake, what time is it?"

Drake stared at his watch, "Currently 6 pm."

"Oh, great! I can't wait. It is my and Alex's fifth anniversary, after all."

"Yes."

The wine party was hosted by Alex, also known as Zach's girlfriend. They have been together for four years, but today it'll be five years.

When time stuck 10 o' clock pm, Zach and Drake hurried to get ready, hopped on the car, drove to Alex's house, and knocked on Alex's door.

Zach knocked, however no one answered the door.

"Huh?" Zach knocked again. "Hellloooo?"

Drake notices something. "Hey, the door's unlocked!"

"Wha.. what? Alex never leaves her door unlocked.."

Zach opens the door. What awaited them was a gruesome scene.

"Oh my god...." Both of the brothers said in unison.

Chapter 2
There was a horrid scene of Alex’s corpse laying on the ground. Blood was splattered beneath her.

“ALEX!!” Zach rushed up to her body

“Zach… she appears to be dead..”

“She… can’t be... Today was the day we confessed…” His words were cut short by someone rushing into the house

“WHY IS THE DOOR UNLOCKED?! ALEX!!?? WHAT DID YOU DO ZACH?!”

“Calm down, Jade!” Drake rested his palms on Jade’s shoulders. “We saw her like this!”

Jade was Alex's friend. They've known each other since college and stuck together even after graduation. She was an... oddball. She owned an army of rats and she's pretty loud, to say at the least. Zach has some sort of rivalry with Jade.

Jade toned it down. “How am I supposed to know that’s the truth..?”

“Look, guys, Zach said, Her blood is… dry. There’s no way it could be us-”

“No, Zach, that still can arouse suspicion. People may think it’s still us. However, Alex has implemented a doorlog. We might find the murderer!”

“Fine… I guess you’re not suspicious… for now.” Jade said. “Let’s go!”

Zach, Drake, and Jade went to Alex’s security room

“Here! The doorlog!” Drake said.

“Okay, activate it…!” Jade said in an anxious voice.

Everyone sat down on some chairs. Zach activated it, but it only displayed Zach, Drake, and Jade’s logs from when they entered the mansion.

Zach was confused but then figured out what was the matter. “What…? They cleared the rest of the logs..!!”

“Well look,” Drake pointed at the screen. “It says ‘Zach entered the entrance door at 10:20 pm,’ which the same goes for me. Jade arrived at 10:23. The blood has dried long ago, so we could’ve never killed her!”

“See,” Zach stood from his chair and looked at Jade, “WE ARE NOT SUSPICIOUS, YOU DANG NERD!!!”

“Okay, okay!!” Jade says as she stood from her chair. “I’m sorry! I just got worried and suspected you both! I know… you wouldn’t do that. Especially killing your girlfriend.”

“Guys, calm down.” Drake stood between them. “I’m sure we can find something to ease this case.”

“Yeah…” Both of them said in unison.

“First, we have to know the cause of death. That’ll be fine, right?”

“Yeah, let’s do it!” Zach said as he put his fist up in the air.

Zach, Drake, and Jade looked around the house for a piece of evidence they can find.

“Hey, guys! Jade said from the rooftop. “I think I found something!!”

Drake looked up to face her “Huh? Really? Let’s go, Zach.”

Zach and Drake go up the roof to meet Jade.

“What’s up?”

“Look,” Jade holds out a piece of torn fabric. “I found this sitting on the roof, it got pierced by the balustrade. This was from Alex’s dress, so how did this appear here when she was inside?”

“I have a hunch,” Drake said. “That may be the culprit pushed her off the balcony and a part of the fabric got torn off because it got caught by the balustrade. Then, they dragged her inside to lay her there.”

“That sounds about right, Drake!” Zach proclaimed as he looks towards Drake. “We are the best!”

Jade still clutched the fabric. “Uhhh… What about me?”

“OH- and Jade, of course! You did find the fabric after all. Without that, we wouldn’t have known about the-”

“WHAT ARE ARE GUYS DOING UP THERE?!”

Jade, Zach, and Drake looked down. There stood Charli, Luca, Light, and Levi. All four of them were Alex’s friends that she also loved very much.

Charli is always made fun of in the friend group. Even though the majority of the friends did so, including Zach and sometimes Drake, Alex wasn’t always the one making fun of her, which showed her sweet side of her personality.

Luca is a young man with a soft-spoken voice. He is a good friend but can be a little chaotic and sadistic.

Light is one of the airheads of the group. There isn’t much to say about him, but he loves the color purple.

Lastly, Levi. A dark, aloof man that seemed provoked by the other friends. However, he’s closer to Alex if not Luca and the two bonded very well.

“Huh, oh it’s the squirr-” Jade said as her words were cut off by Charli’s screaming.

“WHO KILLED ALEX IN THE CENTRAL HALL?! WAS IT- WAIT… WAS IT ONE OF YOU GUYS?! MAYBE ALL OF YOU?!?!”

“Sigh…” Zach sighs and takes a deep breath. “Goddammit- NO, IT WASN’T US! CHECK THE DOORLOG, YOU SQUIRREL!”

All four went back inside to check the doorlog while Jade, Zach, and Drake followed and activated the logs. There it had Charli’s, Luca’s, Light’s, and Levi’s logs from when they entered from the entrance and Jade’s, Zach’s, and Drake’s.

“See now?” Zach said.

“Fiiiine… I guess it wasn’t you.” Charli looked down.

Jade stepped forward. “We are still trying to figure out what has happened so we were searching for some clues and I found this,” She held up the fabric. “I found this on the balcony’s balustrade, and we have a hunch that she may have died from someone pushing her off the balcony.”

“Ahhh. I see,” Luca looks at the fabric. “Great hunch. Should we look for more clues?”

“Sure! Now that we have seven people, it’ll be so much faster.”

“Right. Let’s get moving!” Drake exclaimed. “Jade, Luca, and Charli will search inside, while I, Zach, Levi, and Light will search outside. Everybody, split!”

Jade, Luca, and Charli headed out of the room, and Levi, Zach, Drake, and Light go outside to search.

Levi sits on a bench and sighs while Zach and Drake look around the backyard. Light notices and sits beside him.

“What’s wrong Levi?”

“Nothing, just…” Levi takes a deep breath. “Alex was my closest friend I had. I felt like she knew what I was thinking and was always there beside me. Now that’s she’s gone, I…”

Levi stops talking and starts to cry. He looks down as the teardrops fall to the ground.

“Hey…” Light put his palm on his shoulder and spoke in a soft voice. “She got the best in us. She was everyone’s closest friend. Now that she’s no longer here with us, we have to avenge for her death, y’know?”

Levi looked up at Light. That was the first time Light spoke in that way. Usually Light was loud but casual towards the others. Seeing him like this was different.

“Yeah… you’re right. This is the time to…” Levi stood up. “Carry on!”

“That’s the spirit! Now, let’s search, shall we?”

“Yes.”

Levi and Light start searching.

A while has passed.

“Oh, hey guys!” Light called out. “I found something!”

Levi, Zach, and Drake rush over.

“What is it?” Zach said.

“I found Alex’s phone here… the screen is cracked.”

“Give it to me,” Levi said, and Light handed it over.

Levi looked closely at the phone for a few seconds. He was just there staring at the blank screen. After a while, he opened it up by double-tapping the screen. The screen shined bright.

“Good. So it works.” Levi handed back the phone.

Drake says, “It could be evidence. Hold that tight, alright Light?”

“Yes!” Light put the phone in his pocket.

The boys continue their search.

“Wha....” Drake sniffed the air. “What’s that smell?”

“I smell it too. It’s coming from the shed!”

Drake and Zach move closer to the shed.

“I don’t know.. Should I open it?”

“Go for it. I don’t know either, brother.”

“Okay… here goes.”

Drake opened the shed door. What lied there was a stack of Sora and Jaxx’s bodies. The stench was the blood, which was merely everywhere in the shed.

Drake’s vision starts blurring. “Oh, my…”

“Brother? BROTHER! Keep your focus, please!!”

“What’s going on?” Light said as he and Levi come over. “W-what…”

Drake was losing his senses and passes out on the grass. The last words before he did so were Zach calling out to him.

“BROTHER!!”

Chapter 3
Drake is in a dream. He wakes up.

Drake gets up and yells. “Hrrghh… Zach? ZACH?! Where are you?”

There was no response. He then looked around. Drake then noticed he woke up in Alex’s backyard.

“What am I.. doing here..?"

From the corner of his eye, he spotted two silhouettes.

“What..?"

Drake followed the figures. They went into the security room.

“Great! Now clear out ALL of the logs!!”

“Alright...”

Drake witness the figures clear the logs.

“No… stop..!!"

He reached his hands out to prevent them from clearing the logs, but his hands went through their bodies.

"W-what…"

"Done.. now..."

"They’ll never know... what we did. Keep it a secret for me, please ~?"

"Of… of course."

Drake tried to decipher each of the voices, but his ears and mind were unusually fuzzy.

“I can’t lose my senses now…!" Drake mumbled.

As soon as he tried, however, he already passed out. Drake then wakes up on a familiar bed.

“BROTHER!!

His first sight was Zach, who came and rushed to hug him tight.

“Guys… What are we doing in Alex’s guest bedroom?"

“You passed out on the grass, so we carried you back inside to rest. Did you got hurt?" Light says as he comes closer.

“No… not at all. Just had a strange dream."

“Really? Levi spoke up. “Would you mind telling us?"

“Sure, I don’t mind. Well, I woke up and found two silhouettes of certain people. They went into the security room and I witnessed one of them clearing the logs… After that, I woke up."

“Brother. Do you know who the two are? Were you able to recognize them?"

“No… my mind was too fuzzy to figure out..”

“Agh… that’s fine. Just glad you told us that. Now we have another clue!"

“Right you are, Zach,” Levi said. “Let’s hope we can find the culprit soon."

“Yes!!”

“Well, should we go gather everyone up?” Light said

“Sure! We need to gather up all the clues.” Drake says as he gets out of the bed.

Zach, Light, Drake, and Levi gather everyone up.

“So, everyone,” Zach says as he stands upon a chair. “Did you find anything unusual?”

“You don’t have to be that dramatic, Zach!” Jade yells “Anyway… I found this photo in the toilet. I know, gross, but you have to look in every nook and cranny, you know?”

Jade holds up a soggy photo. It had a picture of Zach, Alex, and… a person. That person’s face was scribbled.

“Hmm… Seems like they want to…” Levi trails off of his words.

“Want to what..?” Luca says curiously as he looks at Levi.

“Nevermind. I’ve already forgotten what I was going to say.”

“GOSH DANG IT, NERD!! THAT WOULD’VE  BEEN USEFUL!! NO WONDER WHY YOU’RE BALD, LEVI!” Zach proclaims as he yells from across the room.

“Zach!” Drake rushes to calm him down. “Tone it down, okay? Everyone forgets. Even you forget too, Zach.”

“Sigh… Fine, Drake.”

“Sorry… Really.” Levi says as he looks down.

“Don’t be sorry Levi!” Charli walks up to him. “Zach just needs to learn how to not lash on others..!!”

“...”

“Anyways…” Light says. “We found out that Sora and Jaxx are dead. So… that makes three people…”

Jade looks down with a sorrowed face “O-oh… This is no laughing matter, then.”

Luca sits beside Jade while stroking her back. “Of course it isn’t… We lost our friends. It’s not a lot, but it’s not complete anymore, yes?”

“Y-yes..” Jade sniffles and starts crying. Luca gets a few tissues to wipe her nose and tears.

“T-thanks, Luca…”

“It’s all fine, Jade..!”

“We mustn’t give up!” Zach shouts as he slammed his hand on the table, making a loud sound. The sound alarmed everyone, putting their attention on Zach, who was looking at everyone.

“It’s hard, isn’t it? We lost our friends! Sora, Jaxx, and… Alex…”

Zach slows down on his speech once he said “Alex.” He reminisced the day they met, all the wonderful memories that they made. He realized that this was their fifth anniversary and how much time has passed. Tears pricked his eyes as he thought about how he never said his goodbye to her.

“I-IT’S DIFFICULT!” Drake adds on. “This will all be solved! Everything will be… okay. I promise! Fate gives us no mercy to the culprit…”

“Yeah… Everyone!” Jade spoke up. “I was really skeptical at first, but Zach and Drake always remind me to keep on going no matter what! Think about it guys! Let’s put our heads together and solve this case!”

Drake pats her on the back. “That’s the spirit, Jade!”

“Mhm..!”

“Well, everyone,” Zach looks up. “Any more clues?”

Everyone stayed silent.

“None..? Wow…”

Levi stares at the clock. “It’s 12:27 AM now. We should probably continue the search tomorrow, yeah?”

“Sure. Good work everyone. This was one fateful night, but rest up, okay?”

Everyone nods as they leave Alex’s house.

Zach and Drake hop back in the car and drive back home. Zach turns on the music.

While they were driving back, Drake breaks the silence.

“Hey Zach, I think I know who one of them may be.”

“Huh? What do you think, Drake?”

“I think one of them is Levi.”

Chapter 4
It was a silent way home after Drake said that. The only thing that made it less awkward is the music playing on the radio. It was Alex’s favorite song, and Drake sneaked a little glance at Zach holding back his tears.

When they got home, Zach breaks the silence in a weak voice. “So, why do you think it’s Levi…?”

“Well,” Drake starts. “It seemed like Levi was trying to say something to us back then when he said “Hmm… Seems like they want to…”, you know? Even if he said he forgot, doesn’t that seem suspicious?”

“For sure, Drake. You can interrogate him tomorrow… or rather in a few hours since it’s the middle of the night…” Zach says as he yawns.

“You’re tired, Zach. Let’s go to sleep. Tell everyone that the search for tomorrow is canceled for now. We can’t do it since it’s so sudden.”

“Right…”

They both get ready for bed and tell each other goodnight. After that, they drift off to sleep.

The next morning seemed different slightly, but it felt like it dragged on forever. Drake went off to interrogate Levi while Zach stayed at home doing his usual things. Drake came home a few minutes later and tells Zach that nothing useful was taken from Levi’s interrogation, so there’s that.

After that, everything seemed like a blur. Nothing new or good is happening right now. Not after… that… But still. Zach wasn’t very used to this. Sure, he and Drake have worked on many other difficult cases in the past, but it felt hard here. Right now. It must have been an emotional connection.

After the day is over, Zach and Drake drifted off to sleep once more, preparing their minds for the investigation to commence tomorrow.

Chapter 5
To be written...

Trivia

 * The doorlog featured in Chapter 2 is a Reference to the Among Us Mira HQ map.
 * Drake can't handle major gore.
 * As of May 8th, 2021, Memory's Demise was on hold until September 21, 2021 when Everett decided to pick it up again.