Chapter 1: The Diving Start
Author's notes: Of course it's not 3 month until the next story, and the next one is here. The Mole: Saboteur Investigation is the title. The players are all the OCs from the last story, so if you haven't read it yet, I suggest you reading it first. But if you can take the randomness, go on. And I also made a mistake in Nicole's occupation in the last fic.
If you don't know what The Mole is, it's a TV show where the players compete in extreme and team working challenges to earn money for the 'Team Pot', and the winner will take all of the money in the pot home. But it's not that easy, among the players is a traitor, that person is the Mole. Their job is to sabotage the efforts of the team. At the end of each episode, the one who knows the least about the Mole will be sent home empty-handed. The elimination goes on and on until the final episode, where only 3 will be left, 2 players and of course, the Mole. They will take the final quiz and the highest scorer will be the winner, and the other player will be the Mole's final victim, leaving empty-handed after all their hard work.
That's basically how The Mole works, but the only thing that would keep the players in the game in the answer to this question: WHO IS THE MOLE?
3 month had passed since the DNA test, Monty Mole, the host of this show, is standing in the middle of Toad Town, patiently waiting for the contestants, and the Mole's arrival.
A helicopter lowered, as soon as the door opened, a pink Goomba wearing a light yellow ribbon on her neck dashed out, she looked at the host, confused.
Name: Nicole
Surname: Holly
Birthday: January 28
Occupation: Archaeologist
Shortly after, another helicopter arrived, a brown Birdo wearing a dark brown bow on the back of her head and a pair of brown fingerless gloves, but not wearing a ring like all the other birdos came out, she looked around.
Name: Lily
Surname: Rockler
Birthday: April 29
Occupation: Artist
Another helicopter came into view, but two people were aboard this time. The first one was a blue-shelled Noki, she wore a pair of golden bangles on her wrists among with a blue sunhat. The second one was a gray-shelled Paratroopa, who wore gray rubber wristbands and a gray cap. They both came out, don't know what to do.
Name: Jenny
Surname: Aquarink
Birthday: April 5
Occupation: Banker
Name: Parker
Surname: Steelix
Birthday: April 14
Occupation: Competitive Kart Racer
After the helicopters left, another one arrived, a purple Yoshi wearing a purple neckerchief came out. He took a deep breath, then went to the others.
Name: Allen
Surname: Leder
Birthday: September 16
Occupation: Doctor
After the helicopter departed, two helicopters arrived at the same time. A green-capped Toadette that wore a green ribbon in each of her pigtails came out of the first helicopter, a light gray Boo that wore a light gray ribbon on each side of her head (like bow's) came out from the second helicopter.
Name: Vivian
Surname: Grassplant
Birthday: September 19
Occupation: Fashion Designer
Name: Flona
Surname: Willie
Birthday: November 1
Occupation: Flight Attendant
After a minute or two, another helicopter arrived, this one containing two people, a white Luma that wore a large white bow on the back of her head and a pair of white, fluffy wristbands came out, then a light blue-shelled Koopa Troopa that had a red star on his left cheek came out.
Name: Katty
Surname: Starbub
Birthday: November 9
Occupation: Florist
Name: Steven
Surname: Idile
Birthday: August 4
Occupation: Waiter
The two that just came out was confused, they walked to the group as a helicopter landed, a Fire Bro that wore a pair of red cloth wristbands and a red neckerchief (like Kooper's) ran out.
Name: Frank
Surname: Flare
Birthday: November 22
Occupation: Security Guard
The helicopters departed. A few seconds later another one came, having the last two inside. First came out a yellow Blooper that had a yellow cap on, then a Dry Bones that wore a Black t-shirt came out.
Name: Evan
Surname: Electro
Birthday: November 29
Occupation: Traffic Police
Name: Andy
Surname: Void
Birthday: May 4
Occupation: TV Reporter
The 2 walked to the group, but before anyone could talk, Katty was struck by excitement, "Omigosh! It's Andy Void from Channel Mushpa! He's my favourite TV Reporter!"
"Err, thanks." Andy replied, as Katty took out a camera from nowhere and started to take photos of everyone.
"Wow! I loved this game already!" Katty giggled, as Monty walked up.
"Hi there players, see if you can if you can remember anyone from the DNA test." He told them, as Vivian's eyes widened.
"You are the one who sat on me during my tantrum! Right? RIGHT!?" She pointed at Frank, who gulped.
"Um, yeah." He replied, as Vivian's anger meter reached the top.
"THEN DIE, DIE, DIE!" She chased Frank around, as everyone else except for Monty asked each other what's going on.
Vivian: Ugh! Why is this guy here!? I can clearly remember him sitting on me as if it was yesterday! And I can't believe I'm stupid enough to recognise him in the castle! Ugh!
Frank: Isn't she the crazy fashion designer? I know her because she is very popular, but can't she be a little calmer than this?
Katty: I'm so happy that I get to meet Andy, but the problem is, we are on a game, so there is chance for anyone of us getting executed first or to be the mole. I'm thinking of an alliance with him actually. Even if it's too early.
"Players, please settle down." The host called, as everyone looked at him."The game starts now, this is a show that you participate in extreme and team working challenges and earn money. The winner takes all money home, an amount up to 500,000 coins!" The players gasped, that's a HUGE amount of money.
Nicole: Wow, that's, a lot of money. I hope I can win it, since we need money for our researches.
Parker: That, was an awful large amount of coins, I bet it could build another castle for the princess!
The host grinned at the stunned faces of the players, "But one of you is a traitor, a liar, that sabotages your efforts, that person, is the Mole. The whole point of the game is trying to figure out who's the Mole. At the end of each episode, the one who knows the least about the Mole will be leaving empty-handed. The elimination goes on and on until the final 3, 2 players, and the Mole. The highest scorer on the final quiz will be crowned as the winner. But, that's future, 9 of you will not make it there. So, the answer to this question will keep you in the game, and the question is: WHO IS THE MOLE? But you'll get hidden clues all the way but if it's me, I'd be worried about the first mission." Monty grinned even more as a small plane landed. "Ready for your first mission?" The players gasped, not expecting a mission this soon. One by one, they boarded the plane, when the Mole got on, they're thinking about the upcoming mission.
Flona: Now I KNOW the game, but surprise! After a stressful thought of who is the Mole, our first mission came! Ugh!
Steven: Wow, this game is complicated. But my biggest question is: What are we doing on a plane?
Allen: I can't believe we start the mission this soon. That is, AS SOON AS WE ARRIVED! Are these producers playing around with us?
When they're above the clouds, the TV switched on. Monty was standing in front of the screen. "Hello players, this is your first mission, called Sky Diver, in 2 hours, everyone MUST jumped off-board with the parachutes provided. If everyone jumped within 2 hours, you'll add 10,000 coins to the pot. You don't need to worry about where you land because the plane is locked on top of the Grand Toad Hotel car park. I'll be waiting for you there." Then he smirked. It's obviously not a very good sign. "But you'll have to jump separately. All using the only unlocked exit on the right. So if you are scared of heights, the bad luck, you're by yourself. The parachutes are in the captain's cabin room. No producers will accompany you anymore. See you in 2 hours." The screen turned off, leaving the players confused by the meaning of 'No producers will accompany you anymore'. A Jumping sound from the captain's cabin, the players rushed to the cabin, opened the door, and was stunned by the view: There's a door in the cabin, the captain jumped out. Leaving only 12 parachutes behind.
Evan: These sickening producers just left parachutes, do they care about us or not!?
Lily: I always wanted to skydive, but does the others wanted to do it?
All the players got the harnesses on, all deep in thought. Frank broke the silence while Evan's opening the door. "Ugh! I hope I can do well, this mission does NOT sound good."
"Shut up! I'm trying to listen! Do you want to win or not!?" Vivian shouted.
"Listen to what?" Frank asked, confused.
Jenny sighed, "Please be quiet… I'm trying to read this book someone dropped on the seat. It's called 'Hinter', a weird title. So I thought it would be good for the game, now, here goes. It only have one page, the others are blank. So it's not a time waster…'The Mole players, I'm the Mole, and I'll be asleep during this mission, which meant that I wouldn't sabotage too, now, good luck. Mole'. That's it, no more." Jenny finished.
"Of course they will not sabotage the first mission! Only dummies will do that!" Vivian shouted.
Andy spoke up, "So, who's first? Or is anyone nervous, because I am very nervous." Steven raised his hand, but didn't say anything, followed by Jenny, who also didn't speak.
Parker grinned, "Then I'll go first."
"But I wanted to go first!" Lily shouted.
"Sorry, but I'm first." He reassured, then walked over to the edge.
Lily: This guy is so sickening! Doesn't he know 'ladies first'?
Everyone watched as the Paratroopa stepped off the plane.
Parker was screaming with exhilaration, when he's about to crash onto the ground (He was still VERY far away from the land), the parachute opened wide, he landed safely on the grass. He took off his harness and went over to the host.
"Good job Parker, you jumped first, and I believe everyone's coming too." The host grinned like always.
"They better be jumping, but I had fun." He walked to one of the 12 chairs, it's one of the 2 blue chairs, there's also 2 white ones, 2 green ones, 2 black ones, 2 yellow ones and 2 red ones. But he didn't care which one he had, as he sat on the blue one in front of him.
Parker: Woo! I really need to do it again sometime. That was awesome.
Back on the plane everyone cheered for Parker, when they calmed down, Lily laughed. "And with that annoying Paratroopa gone, I'm so going next." No one spoke up, they are either in thought or they don't want to go.
Jenny: From what I've gathered, Vivian hates Frank while Lily hates Parker.
Andy: I'm very nervous, I knew that I had to jump, but if anyone else don't want to jump, I'll follow suit.
Lily made her way to the edge of the plane, and took a deep breath, then hopped off.
Lily saw how high she was, she gasped, then laughed from all the fun, 20 seconds later, she landed on the grass. She took her harness off, then made her way to the 2 others.
"Hi there Lily!" Parker yelled from his chair, Lily waved to him with a bored look.
"Hi Lily!" Monty called, "I can see you jumping, now, please sit and relax." Lily smiled, then made her way onto a red chair.
Lily: I was so nervous at first, but this is so fun, I love this game, it just pumps up your blood. But why don't they have fun things like this on Yoshi's island? I know! I'll suggest the idea when I get back, which would take a while since I'm so not going to be executed first, or I'll be pretty upset.
"Who's jumping next?" Allen asked, no one volunteered.
Flona had an idea, "how about one of the scared ones, they'll jump so that we can make sure that they jumped."
"Good idea, so who is it?" Nicole asked.
Andy was very nervous, "No you can't do that, we're ju-"He was cut short.
"Ok then, I'll go."Steven said, as he made his way to the edge of the plane, shaking as he did so.
Evan: Finally he said something! I thought he can't speak for a second there.
Nicole: It's weird how he was very nervous at the start and now he's volunteering. I bet he did it because he can't take the pressure, now Andy and Jenny, who's the next jumper?
The Koopa was shaking for a while, after what seems like 5 minutes (10 seconds), he hopped off, shutting his eyes as he did so.
Steven opened his eyes and screamed when he realised how high he was, then he imminently fainted, 1 minute later, he landed on the grass, not moving (he fainted, remember?). The other 2 looked at him as Monty approached and lifted the parachute.
"Oh it's nothing, he just fainted, maybe he'll wake up when we finish." Monty concluded.
"It's really weird how he screamed when he jumped and then didn't make another sound." Vivian wondered, "Oh well, Andy you're next." She commanded.
"WHAT!?" Andy screamed, but Vivian grabbed his harness and threw him out.
Vivian: This is so much better.
Andy: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Katty: Vivian is kinda forceful, she could very well be a big threat to everyone.
Flona: OMG! VIVIAN JUST THREW SOMEONE OUT!
At the back, Even and Nicole was talking, "Hey, are you Nicole, the archaeologist? You were mentioned quite a few times in 'Shadow Palace', the book Goombella Frankster wrote." Evan asked.
"Why, I certainly am!" Nicole said, smiling.
Evan rolled his eyes, "Well would you like to form an alliance?" He asked, hoping to get a positive answer.
Nicole thought for a while, "Hmm, maybe the next episode, I can't trust anyone in the 1st episode, since anyone could be the Mole."
"Ok then, let's do it the next episode." Evan said as he walked off.
Evan: Well that was a fail. But at least she'll join forces with me the next episode.
Nicole: I really wanted to accept but you can't trust anyone in the first episode.
Andy was screaming at the top of his lungs as he was falling through the sky. He was very relieved when he landed safely. When he unhooked his harness, Steven had already woken up, on a blue chair with his harness off. Andy sighed then walked to the chair next to Steven, a yellow chair. He started to question Steven about his sudden change, he was shocked to find out that Steven fainted. Monty walked up to him.
"Hi there Andy, I guess you're not scared anymore right? Since that was a big scream.
Steven: When I jumped, one second I was screaming, and fainted during the next second. It just happened so fast.
Andy: Pretty shocked to find him FAINTED, but I was about to faint too during that fall, I just hope they'll jump so I didn't do this for nothing.
Everyone else was arguing about who's next, they ended up having Jenny, the only one who DIDN'T join the argument. "NOT FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIR!" She shouted as she was falling down.
Jenny: It was NOT fair.
Frank: Oh no, everyone wants to go now, so I sneaked to the edge and waited until when Jenny should land.
Katty: The battle is on.
Jenny sighed in relief as she landed. She asked everyone to not talk to her, she sat down in a white chair. But not all of the others kept quiet. Like Parker and Steven.
"Hey, your name is Steven right?" Parker asked.
"Yes, it is, why?" Steven looked at Parker as he tilted his head.
Parker folded his arms, "Since we are the only original Koopas here, so why not form an alliance?" Steven's eyes widened at this.
Parker: Please say yes, I need information, it's not you the one who wanted to come down, right? All 3 nervous ones can't come down one after another right? Please tell me whose idea it is.
Steven: Out of everybody, he wish to form an alliance with me? I didn't mean that I don't trust him, but it's episode 1 where EVERYONE is a suspect. It's a hard decision, I don't even think I'll make it to the next episode, I must think about it. Since it's a big chance after all.
Steven rolled his eyes, "I'll think about it. I can't trust you 100%, sorry."
Parker sighed, "It's ok, please think about it." Knowing his plan failed, or did it?
Jenny: I'm trying to act like the Mole now, or am I the Mole? Your choice, I did overhear an interesting conversation between that Paratroopa, isn't his name Parker? And the Koopa, I think his name is Steven, they talked about an alliance, hmm, I think I'll need an alliance too. Or do I?
Frank leapt off assoon as 2 minutes after Jenny went down, everyone else gasped. They rush to the door but then remembered the rules, ONE PERSON AT A TIME.
Vivian sighed, knowing arguing is pointless. "Guys, let's just get a good list of who's going at what time." Everyone agreed at the idea. However, the Mole wish to go last and poke a hole in their parachute, trying to fool all the others by telling them their parachute was broken. Or will the Mole NOT sabotage as they planned, or did the mole jumped already?
List: Katty, Flona, Allen, Evan, Nicole, Vivian.
Frank landed on the soft grass. He walked to the others and sat on the leftover red chair.
"Hi there Frank." Monty called, "You jumped next, 6 left will they jump?" Monty grinned.
Frank: 10,000 coins is about to come in the pot, I knew you guys will jump, please, stop arguing and jump.
The Mole smiled, they decided not to sabotage (or did they?), now it's all up to the players (not so sure).
Next time on The Mole Saboteur Investigation:
Monty announced, "I guess that ? and ? could win an exception each because they ?." The other players' jaws dropped, as Monty continued, "And as you can imagine, ? and ? both gets a '-1' each because they ?." ? and ?'s eyes widened as the remaining players sighed in relief. Monty chuckled. "You will be split into groups of 2, such as if Vivian and Lily's in a group, they'll be roommates for the rest of the game. No swapping, now, find your partner by ?"
The players got their journals.
"I HATE YOU SADISTIC HOST! I HATE YOU SO MUCH!"? shouted in frustration.
? sighed, "Can't we have another host instead of this weird, creepy, sadistic one?"
"That challenge was awesome, creepy at the same time, but we did good."? Cheered
"I'm not so good with these stuff, sorry, but I'll fail epically."? Sighed, as ? shook his/her head.
? face-palmed, "Sorry ?, I'm such an idiot, I held the map upside down." ?'s jaw dropped
? was worried, hoping it was not true, "This is just disturbing! Please tell us the real mission!"
"I hate this host, I just hate him, he's playing us around like toys."? Sighed.
Author's notes: Pretty amazing how I uploaded another one this fast, right? But will they earn the money? Next time on The Mole: Saboteur Investigation.