Okay, third chapter, doing well so far. Though I admit, I feel like I could probably do better.

I'm actually making this story as I go; I have some ideas planned, though there are a large amount of gaps. Ugh.

As you noticed, I've been pumping out chapters quickly. That's because I'm still on break so expect a slowdown after this chapter.

I've already put all the disclaimers I need at the moment so I won't put another. Props goes out to Dark Ampithere for awesome stories as usual and letting me use some stuff.

Well, onto the story.


"Wake up campers!" Blared Latias's voice over the intercom. "You guys have a challenge this morning! You'll want to get up early cause this challenge will take all day!"

Most of the campers trudged out of their cabins looking weary and met up with Latias at the center of camp. It had been a week since the previous challenge and Doduo's heads were squawking at each other endlessly as they walked out of their cabin.

"See, I told you we had a challenge today!"

"Yeah, but you also said we would have a challenge yesterday!"

"I was off by one day, big whoop!"

"Not one day; every day since the last challenge, you've said that there would be a challenge. You just got lucky today, that's all."

"Why do you have to be so pessimistic?"

"Why do you have to be so annoying?"

"Can it you two before I tie your necks into a knot!" Shouted Zangoose.

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Zangoose: Dear Arceus, those two have been at each other's necks since day one. Literally! Their endless shouting and fights is getting me annoyed, stressed, and causing me to lose sleep. I think most of my teammates would agree that they are nothing but nuisances.

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Spiritomb: Now I actually regret voting off Pineco. Doduo's fighting and Early Bird ability has caused me to lose so much sleep. At least Pineco wouldn't rant at four in the morning.

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Cloyster: Those two will be off this island faster than soapy butter sliding on a Teflon coated metal slide! *left eye twitches*

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After Doduo had been silenced by Zangoose knocking their heads together, Latias did a quick head count, "Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4…31, 32…hey, seems we're missing a person."

The campers looked around, Lampent then raised her hand, "It's Rotom, he's not here."

Klink, who had Joltik scrambling around him, chimed in, "Now that you mention it, he wasn't in his bed."

"Where could he be?" Asked Latias.

In the kitchen, Latios had just returned from taking out the trash, grumbling. He had to prepare lunch, not his favorite job. He went to open the fridge and was blasted by freezing cold air. What he didn't notice was the fridge was floating a little bit. After it stopped, Latios was encased in a block of ice. The fridge dropped with a slight crash as Rotom floated out of it. Latios's eyes widened as he realized who the perpetrator was.

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Latios: *shivering* R-r-r-r-ROTOM!

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Rotom: *Laughing madly* Oh man, you see the look on his face when he realized it was me? Priceless!"

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Rotom floated out of the kitchen laughing and noticed the group gathered at the center of camp. He floated over, stifling a chuckle, "Sorry I'm late, Latios asked me to help out it the kitchen."

Latias was suspicious but shook it off, "Alright then. Now that everyone is here, follow me to the beach."

When the contestants arrived at the beach, they saw 3 sets of two flags set up; one was on the beach, another was at the opening of the forest and another was sitting in the water.

Latias spoke up again, "Okay, let me explain the challenge which I like to call 'By Land, by Sand and by Sea'. This challenge is a race around the island. Once you finish, you'll come to me and I will give you a number. Once everyone finishes the race, I'll tell you what the numbers mean. There are three paths, the water route, the beach route, and the forest route. Before the race starts, each of you will choose one of the paths you want to take. Flying types and all of you that float, you'll have to take the water path, seeing as you all will have an advantage if you take the other paths. Each route is around the same in length, though each path has different traps." Some of the campers gasped. Latias frowned, "Yes there are traps. You'll find out what they are during the race. When you get back here, you'll pick out a card from that box. You'll find out what those are used for after everyone completes the challenge. Everybody understand?" All of the campers nodded. "Alright, now choose your paths. Make sure you are positive about your choice because once you choose which path you want to take, you can't change it."

Cloyster, Chinchou, Kingdra, Stunfisk, Klink, Rotom, Lampent, Sigilyph, Cryogonal, Altaria, Feebas and Magneton went to the water, Lucario, Spinarak, Roserade, Magmar, Serperior, Joltik, Sawk, and Shuckle went to the starting line at the forest, while Bisharp, Garedvoir, Zoroark, Deerling, Espeon, Absol, Persian, Zangoose, Doduo, Blitzle, Spiritomb, Numel and Aron stayed on the beach. As the campers moved to their starting points, Bisharp noticed something different about Numel, he wasn't asleep.

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Serperior: Spiritomb suggested that Deerling use Worry seed on Numel. This way, Numel wouldn't fall asleep during challenges and could be useful.

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Latias looked around, all of the campers had taken their place at the starting line, "Okay, everyone! On your marks…get set…go!" And with that, the race had begun.

As the campers left, Latias turned around and looked toward the camp, "Alright, now to find Latios and make some calls."


On the beach path, Doduo had taken the lead, though Absol and Zoroark weren't far behind. Bisharp had passed Deerling and Blitzle who were going at the same pace with Zangoose and Gardevoir behind them. Spiritomb had been using Psychic to help him move, while Aron and Espeon weren't far behind him. Bringing up the rear were Numel and Persian. Numel, despite being awake, was going at a relatively slow pace and Persian was more worried about what the sand was doing to her fur than trying to win the challenge.

One of Doduo's heads looked back. They were gaining distance from the second and third place Pokemon, "Awesome! No one can catch up to us! We're going to win!" Said the first head.

"Yeah, I know, that's the third time you've said that." Said the other head.

"Well I like the fact that we are ahead, can't you be a little more positive?" Said the first head as it turned around.

The other head scoffed and turned around to face the other, "I knew that we were first when this whole thing started, so there's no point in saying the obvious right?"

"Yeah but-"

"Don't give me any buts, just-" Doduo was cut off as he tripped over a rock.

The two heads rolled around in the sand for a minute before coming to a halt.

They got up, spitting some sand out of their mouth. Then they realized their necks were tied in a knot.

"What the crap." The heads said at the same time.

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Doduo 1: *heads still stuck in a knot* THIS is why I hate being stuck with this guy.

Doduo 2: We always get tied up into something like this.

Doduo 1: I believe the worst one was when our necks were tied into a double helix.

Doduo 2: Still can't believe that Mr. Mime mistook us for balloons.

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Zangoose: Oh the irony. *she laughs*

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In the forest, everyone seemed to be neck and neck. Spinarak was using her web shot out of her mouth to swing from branch to branch, with Joltik doing something similar next to her. Shuckle was using the same web strings to swing behind them. Lucario was jumping from tree to tree, Roserade followed him from underneath. Sawk was close by, but he kept getting dead branches and rocks stuck in his feet since Magmar, who was in front of him, kept burning everything nearby with her tail. Serperior was slithering left and right through the bushes, though he wasn't on the main path. While he was going through the bushes, he noticed a couple of sharp objects.

"Be careful everyone!" He shouted.

Everyone looked toward the source.

"What do you mean?" Shouted Shuckle.

Serperior popped out of the bushes, "The traps." He said. "I found a couple arrowheads in these bushes. Burn that bush over there if you don't believe me." He directed his head to a nearby bush.

"Gladly." Magmar smirked. She let out a burst of flame from her mouth, incinerating the bush.

When the fire stopped, the people in the forest realized there were a couple of arrowheads attached to some weird contraption.

"Told ya." Serperior said. "I can also bet there are tripwires around here. We're lucky we haven't triggered them yet."

Unluckily, while Sawk was bouncing around on his foot, he activated one of the tripwires.

"Gah!" He said as he tripped.

"Watch out!" Roserade called out. A couple of sharp rocks flew out of the bushes.

Lucario acted quickly. He jumped down from the branch he was sitting on and in front of the rocks. He tensed up and focused for one second and quickly pushed forward. Letting out aura through his palms, he stopped the rocks in mid-air, which fell down to the ground.

Closing his eyes, he relaxed. When he opened them, they were calm, "Come on." He said in a gruff voice. "You'll have to be careful from here on out." He said as he jumped back onto the branch and moved on.

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Sawk: Dang, I could learn something from him.

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Roserade: Wow, the way he responded to that, it was, astonishing, to say the least. I would have never acted like that way. He seemed heroic, so dashing and handsome-I mean cool, he looked cool when he did that. Yeah…

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Meanwhile, there was chaos out on the water.

"What's with these currents? They're all over the place!" Feebas cried out.

"Whirlpool dead ahead!" Kingrda shouted.

"Watch out for the geysers!" Lampent cried.

"Grahahaha, reminds me of home!" Cloyster laughed.

Everyone looked at Cloyster with a strange look on their face.

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Cryogonal: I know I'm his alliance member but man is he messed up!

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Chinchou: *flashes a couple of lights and makes a crazy hand symbol*.

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Latias: I got a couple of college friends to help me out with today's challenge. I called up Manaphy to help out with the sea route traps and Celebi for the later part of the forest path since I knew that the campers would find the shabby traps Latios made. I wanted to call Groudon to help out with the beach but he was out fighting with Kyogre at Sootopolis again. Figures.

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The Pokemon running on the beach hadn't encountered any traps yet but they heard all of the shouts coming from the Pokemon in the water and were a bit uneasy. The positions of each Pokemon hadn't change much, though the distance between Doduo and Absol and Zoroark had shortened a bit after the twin bird Pokemon had taken their tumble.

"They're catching up!" Shouted one head.

"I know that, do we have to have another talk about this and tumble into the sand again?" Said the other.

"Yeah but I'm just telling you so that you can put an extra burst of speed!" The first head returned.

As the heads continued to argue, they didn't realize they were nearing the area that the sea route Pokemon had encountered their traps.

As Doduo's heads were arguing, Absol felt something. Picking up the pace, he ran faster, passing Doduo. He then ran left and right, as if he was avoiding something.

Doduo's head looked shocked as they saw their teammate pass them, "What's up with him?" Asked one head.

The question was answered by a loud "BOOM" as they were sent flying into the air by a large sand geyser.

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Doduo 1 &2: What are the freaking odds.

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Most of the Pokemon running on the beach looked in surprise after seeing the large blast sent the armless Pokemon flying. Doduo landed with a thud onto the sand. The heads only muttered an "ow" as they hit the ground and while the other Pokemon passed them, save a few all the way in the back.

Most of the other Pokemon had slowed down a bit, trying to avoid the blasts. The only Pokemon that was still moving quickly was Absol.

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Absol: I am able to detect any change in the ground and in the sky; hence, I was able to predict when and where the explosions would occur. I'm not proud of it though, many mistake me for Pokemon that causes bad luck.

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Some Pokemon got hit by the blasts, though only the sand usually got caught in their eyes.

Numel however, was hit by a fairly large blast and as a result, was sent flying far away. He didn't even realize he was in the air until a minute later. Even then, he was expressionless.

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Numel: Meh.

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Latias was looking at a monitor which displayed the three paths. Latios was nearby under a blanket and holding a mug of Aspear berry tea in his hands, shivering. Latias had found him earlier still frozen in the kitchen and quickly defrosted him. Now he was watching the monitors with her.

"How many explosives did you bury there?" Asked Latios, indicating where Numel had blasted off from.

"The directions said 20 kilograms of explosives." Latias answered.

"Oh." Latios said. 5 seconds later he did a double take, "20 KILOGRAMS? The directions said 20 GRAMS!"

Latias's eyes widened, "Oops." She said.

Latios face-palmed at his sister's clumsiness, "Great, just great, where is Numel now?"

A nearby noise caught their attention. They looked toward the beach to see small, stubby legs flailing around in the sand. Latias grabbed one of the legs and pulled out Numel. She looked at her brother, "Does that answer your question?" She asked.

She looked at Numel who was shaking off some sand, "Well Numel, since you're the first one back, you get to pick a card."

Latios objected, "He didn't run around the entire island."

"Yeah but he moves so slowly it would take a day for him to get back here, might as well speed things up."

Latias held out the box and Numel stuck his head in. He came out with a piece of paper in his mouth.

"Don't lose it; you'll need it later on." Latias said. And with that she went back to observing the other campers. From what she saw, the group in the forest was still going strong. However, they were nearing Celebi's area.


Roserade looked around, the vegetation seemed to be getting thicker and thicker.

Joltik noticed this as well, "Is it just me or is it getting darker here? He asked.

"It's not just you." Answered Spinarak.

"Well, there haven't been any traps for a while. Maybe we're nearing the end- woah!" Sawk was waving his arms trying to keep his balance. He was unsuccessful and fell onto the ground.

"You okay?" Serperior shouted.

"Yeah, seems I tripped over a large root." Sawk looked at the root and his eyes widened. It was getting larger.

"It's growing!" He shouted.

"What?" Magmar shouted as she stopped to look behind her.

"The forest." Sawk said. "It's growing as we speak."

Lucario looked at him for a moment, "We have to get going." He said

"Why's that?" Asked Roserade.

Serperior answered her question, "If this forest keeps growing, we might not be able to see our way through this place. As a result, we might lose our way and not be able to find the exit."

"Alright, enough talk! Move people!" Magmar shouted as she started to sprint again.

The other Pokemon began to follow the path while the trees kept growing.

Shuckle noticed something up ahead, "I see light!" She shouted.

"We're almost out!" Joltik yelled.

One by one, the Pokemon taking the forest path ran out. Lucario took the lead with Roserade close behind. Joltik and Spinarak swung out with Serperior beneath them. Shuckle flew out with Magmar and Sawk at her heels. They reached where Latios and Latias were and saw Numel sleeping on the ground.

"Guess Worry Seed wore off. But how did he get here so quickly?" Asked Serperior.

Latias directed their attention toward the monitor. It replayed the moment where Numel was sent flying.

"Guess that explains it." Sawk said.

"Welcome back everyone." Latias greeted. "Please pick a card out of that box and make sure you don't lose it."

Each of the Pokemon picked out a card from the box and waited to see who would arrive next.

Absol was the next to arrive; he didn't have any sand on him except for his paws.

"Wow, Absol, you've made it back pretty quickly." Latias said. She then looked behind him. "Where's everyone else?"

"It's going to take them a while." He responded. "They're busy avoiding the sand blasts."

"Alright. Anyways, take a card and wait for everyone to show up." Latias directed Absol to the box and he pulled out a card. He then walked away from everyone else and laid down on the beach.

"What's with him?" Asked Roserade. "He always distances himself from everyone."

"I'll go over there." Joltik said.

"No." Lucario said. "Leave him, he distanced himself from us for a reason. I don't know what, but there is one and we should respect his wishes."

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Roserade: Wow, not only strong, but smart and respectful. I like him.

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Meanwhile, Pokemon in the water were swimming around frantically and Pokemon in the air where flying left and right.

"Left! Right! Right! Left!" Klink's gears were shouting in unison while dodging the water spouts.

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Doduo 1: Now why can't we be like that?

Doduo 2: It's because you're an arrogant prick.

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Kingdra was able to fight the currents while Cloyster let the currents and whirlpools take their course, which oddly enough, was working. Feebas and Chinchou however, were having a harder time as they were smaller Pokemon and didn't have as much strength. Stunfisk was on the ocean floor so he wasn't affected too much.

In the air, some of the smaller Pokemon were having an easier time flying around such as Rotom and Klink, while the larger Pokemon like Altaria and Cryogonal were having a harder time.

Doduo was having a hard time; they had fallen into last place as they kept getting hit by every sand blast they encountered due to poor communication.

"Go left, I mean right! Now right, I mean left!"

"Make up your mind!"

"BOOM!" And Doduo was sent flying again.


Meanwhile at the starting point, Zoroark, Bisharp and Zangoose had already arrived and were watching as Gardevoir, Aron, Spiritomb and Espeon come over.

They all grabbed a card and went to wait by the other contestants. Espeon, however saw Absol by himself and decided to walk over to where he was.

Absol heard her walk over and turned his head to look at her, "What do you want?" He grunted.

"I just wanted know if I could lay down next to you." She answered.

Absol let out a grunt and went back to his original position as Espeon laid down next to him.

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Espeon: His lone wolf behavior worries me, by making himself distant, he's basically asking his teammates to vote him off. I don't want that to happen. My guess is that he's been alone for a long time. He just needs someone to talk to, that's all.

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Meanwhile, the Pokemon that were taking the water route were just starting to arrive. Magneton arrived first as he used his magnets to pull himself toward anything metal, namely Aron. Altaria and Sigilyph weren't far behind while Kingdra jumped out of the water and onto the beach. Stunfisk flopped onto the beach next with Klink right above him. Deerling and Blitzle arrived soon after. As they neared the other campers, Cloyster's shell landed right in front of them with a large thud, causing Deerling to nearly faint. Feebas and Chinchou bounced out of the water while Cryogonal, Lampent and Rotom floated above them. Latios glared at Rotom, still angry at what happened earlier that morning. The campers had to wait a while before everyone showed up. Persian came first, still walking, and with a bunch of sand on her. She shook the sand off herself before going to grab a card though she wanted to take a shower but her request was denied.


Meanwhile, Doduo was panting, "Where the hell is the camp? I'm getting tired."

"It would have helped if your directions didn't suck!"

"It's hard when our necks are tied up like this!"

"BOOM!" And Doduo was sent flying once again. They landed hard on the sand, in front of everyone else on the island.

"Well, seems like the last person has arrived." Latias said. "Doduo, please take a card." Holding out the box, one of Doduo's heads weakly pulled out a card.

"Okay, now that all of you have your cards, take a look. There should be a number on there."

All of the campers looked at their card.

"Now, remember what place you got in the race? If the place you got was smaller than or equal to the number on your card, stand by me, if your place was higher than the number on the card, please stand by Latios." Latias said.

Everyone moved to stand by one of the Eon Pokemon.

"Okay, now that you're in place, those of you standing by Latios, you guys split yourselves into your teams. The team with more people standing by Latios loses today's challenge." Some eyes widened. "Now, how many people are on each team?" Latias asked.

Only one person was standing by Latios: Doduo.

Latias blinked a couple times and looked at all the Pokemon standing by her, "Well, I guess the Lugias win again! Ho-Ohs, I'll see you at elimination once again. Lugias, today, you guys get a reward! A hot tub!" The Lugias cheered in response while the Ho-Ohs gaped and began to glare at Doduo.

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Spiritomb: *chuckles* Actually, Doduo had the card with 18 on it and I had the card with 1 on it. I didn't know what everyone else had but I saw Doduo's when he pulled his out. So, I decided to use Trick and swapped my card with his. I would've swapped my card with one from the other team but I didn't know what they had and I didn't want to risk anything. This way, I was able to ensure that I couldn't possibly on the chopping block and that he could be. I didn't expect things to turn out this way though. Oh well, looks like Mr. Multiple Personality is going to be leaving us today.

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After the campers had left Latias used telekinesis to talk to the two Pokemon that helped her out in the challenge, "Celebi, Manaphy, you're work is done. Thanks for your help today."

Manaphy replied first, "No problem, I've got plenty of time on my hands, call me if you ever need help again."

"It was fun doing this, I need a break traveling through time ever now and then." Celebi said. "By the way, have you seen Mew lately?"

"No, why?" Latias said.

"Nothing, it's just that he seems to be avoiding me. If you ever see him, mind telling him that me and him need to talk?"

"Sure."

And with that, the two other legendaries left.


After the challenge, Zoroark was walking to the beach by the dock as Bisharp had requested a week before. He saw Lucario and Kingdra waiting over there as well.

He approached them, "Bisharp ask you to come as well?"

Both of them nodded, "What I find vexing, is that our host has yet to appear." Kingdra said.

"I see you all have arrived." Bisharp said as he appeared from under the dock.

The other three turned to face him. Zoroark spoke, "We're here, what do you want?"

Bisharp sat down on a rock, "Nothing, just a proposition. I want you three to work with me."

Kingdra's eyes narrowed, "Are you asking for an alliance?"

Bisharp shook his head, "Not an alliance per se, think of it as a war council."

"War council?" Asked Lucario.

"Yes, a war council." Bisharp answered. "We will basically meet after every challenge and discuss future plans; who to vote off, strategy, how to beat the other team, etc."

"Why?" Asked Zoroark. He was getting a little suspicious.

"Like all of you, I want to get far in this competition, but I must admit I'll need a little help. So I sought out some of the stronger members of our team. You three." Bisharp said as he pointed to the Pokemon in front of him.

"Each of us has a special trait." He continued. "Kingdra, you have the brains, Zoroark, you have the stealth, Lucario, you have the strength and I have the power to lead. Combining our abilities, we can make it to at least the halfway point, where I plan to dissolve this group. Do you guys accept?"

The other three Pokemon looked at each other, Zoroark then had a question, "What if we don't accept or want out on this deal midway?"

Bisharp looked at him, "That's fine, I can understand if you're unsure about this or if you have doubts. I won't stop you from if you do reject my offer or leave, though I do hope you consider my proposition. Now, will you join me?"

Zoroark, closed his eyes and thought hard. When he opened them, he was sure of his decision. "I'm in." He said.

"Same here." Lucario said.

"Hope there's room for a third." Said Kingrda.

Bisharp smiled, "Good, I see you're all on board. Now for one of my ideas."

Bisharp took out a magnetic chess set and set it up. "Here's what I see with both of the teams, we are basically two sides of a chess board." He pointed to the white pieces. "This is our team." He pointed to the black pieces. "That's the other team. I've assigned different pieces to different campers, though it isn't complete."

He moved his hand to the white pieces side and pointed to the king. "I'll be the king, which shows leadership."

He pointed to a bishop, "Kingrda, you'll be a bishop."

"Lucario, you're a rook." Bisharp said as he pointed to the piece.

He then put his hand on the knight, "Zoroark, you're a knight."

"And the other pieces?" Asked Lucario

Bisharp sighed, "Not quite sure yet, I need more information before I make my decisions."

He then pointed to the black pieces, "Our goal here is to have the other team lose its king, which would cause the other team to crumble and fall apart. It won't be that easy, since the king is the leader, they have influence over who to vote for. We have to find a way to make the king screw up so that they get voted off."

Bisharp continued, "Now, they," pointing to the black pieces, "have already lost a piece, which I assume is a pawn." Bisharp then removed a black pawn from the board. "With tonight's vote, I assume they'll vote off another pawn again." And so he removed another pawn from the board. "So far, they've only lost two of their pawns, we need them to lose some of the more valuable and stronger pieces if we want to get to their king. All of you understand what I'm saying?"

The three other Pokemon nodded their heads.

"Okay." Bisharp said as he returned to the board, "Now, one of each team's pawns can become a queen. We need to find that pawn on their team so that they get voted off before they become a queen. For us, we need to make sure that pawn stays and can be used to the fullest. Also, on each team, there's something I like to call a wild card."

"Wild card?" Asked Zoroark.

Bisharp nodded, "Yes, on each team there will be someone who will show exceptional ability in some situations. That team member will be the wild card. For now though, we want to focus on the other pieces and find out who they are." He put the chess set away. "Any questions?" There was silence. "Okay, we'll meet here after the next challenge, do your best and try to find information about the other team and ours as well."

And with that, the four Pokemon went their separate ways.


That night, all 16 members of the Ho-Ohs were sitting at the campfire pit for elimination. Doduo was tense and its necks were still stuck in a knot. Spiritomb and his alliance members were smirking while everyone else seemed to be giving someone on their team glares.

Laitas and Latios floated over, "Alright, you guys were here last week so you know the drill. If I call your name, come up and get a poffin. If you don't get a poffin, you're out of the game. Absol, come up and get your poffin."

Absol went to Latios and got a red poffin.

"Feebas, Chinchou, Aron, you three are safe." The three Pokemon went to Latios and got blue poffins.

"Persian, Sawk and Serperior, you three are also safe tonight." They relaxed as they went up and got their poffins.

"Deerling, Zangoose, Numel and Spiritomb, you guys get to stay." Now, only 5 Pokemon were left.

"Doduo and Cloyster," The two Pokemon stood up expecting that they were safe. "I'm sorry but you two are the bottom two tonight. Please sit back down." Latias said. The two Pokemon did as they were told, though they were a bit crestfallen. "That means Altaria, Magneton and Cryogonal are safe. You can come get your poffins."

The three Pokemon let out sighs of relief as they went to get their poffins. Latias looked at the two Pokemon left. "Doduo and Cloyster, one of you will be getting the ax tonight. Will it be our Psycho-shellfish or our twin-headed flightless bird?"

"Just give it to Cloyster already!" Zangoose shouted.

Latias glared at her before sighing, "Fine, Cloyster come up, you're safe. Doduo, I'm sorry but you'll be leaving the island."

Cloyster bounced off his seat and while Doduo's heads began to fight again.

"It's all your fault that we got voted off!"

"My fault? The challenge was luck based! How is it my fault?"

"If your directions didn't screw us up, we may have come in earlier and gotten a better number!"

"Quit blaming me, it's also you're fault!"

"Now you're just being ridiculous!"

"I am not!"

"Yeah you are!"

The heads began fight once again.

"I'll go get their belongings." Sawk volunteered.

When Doduo's heads stopped fighting their necks weren't in a knot, it was tied into a bowtie.

The heads looked at each other, then at their necks.

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Zangoose: Hahahahahahaha!*Laughs so hard that she falls off the seat*

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Spiritomb: Grah ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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Serperior: Pffft, ahahahahahaha!

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Magneton: BZZT. ACTIVATING HUMOR RESPONSE SEQUENCE. Ha ha ha ha ha. BZZT.

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Altaria: He he he he he he!

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Absol: *Cracks a smile*

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Chinchou: *Eyes and lights flash while she laughs silently.*

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Numel: *Asleep* Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

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Doduo walked the dock with its necks still in a bowtie while their team waved them off, though some of them had to stifle a laugh.

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Doduo 1: Is there anything we want to say before we leave?

Doduo 2: Besides the fact that I don't like you? No.

Doduo 1: Well who do you want to win?

Doduo 2: No one really, I don't really care.

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Once Doduo left, the Ho-Ohs left the campfire pit, Cloyster however motioned Persian over.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"I be having a deal for you." Cloyster said.

"Huh? What's your problem?" She looked at him with a queer eye

"Problem? I have no problems. I'm as problemless as a virus free computer with a firewall and high maintenance antivirus system." Cloyster answered.

Persian stared, "Just tell me what you want, I have to go groom myself."

"Me and some friends have formed an alliance within our team to vaporize the competition see, and we want you to join our alliance."

"Tempting offer, what if one of us wins?"

"We split the prize between us."

Persian thought about the Cloyster's proposition, "Fine, but on one condition."

"What is it you ask for?"

"If I win, I get all the prize money and you guys get the treats."

Cloyster frowned, he hadn't expected this, "Wait for me, I will return." He said as he bounced off.

He found Spiritomb and Cryogonal in a clearing, "So, did she accept?" Asked Spiritomb.

"On one condition. The lady says that if she wins, she gets the money and we split the treats between us." Cloyster said.

Spiritomb frowned, he didn't like the offer but he needed to increase his numbers. He then thought of an idea, "Tell her that's fine."

Cryogonal objected, "But what if she actually does win?"

"We won't let her." Spiritomb calmly said with a smile. "We'll make sure that she will become unpopular with everyone else here and she'll get voted off. She's now nothing more than a pawn. That will teach her not to make bargains with us."

Cloyster smirked, "Me likey. Alright, I'll go tell her that we accept her offer." He bounced away.

Cloyster returned to where he had left Persian, he was grinning, "Welcome to the alliance."


Okay, third chapter and second contestant gone. Doduo was okay to write for but it got boring after a while. The only thing Doduo had going for it was that it kept on fighting with itself and that gets tedious really quickly.

Fun Fact: Ummm, I don't have a fun fact for Doduo but I do have one for the chapter; the original challenge was just going to be a race around the island and have Numel somehow win it for his team. I decided that was boring so I decided to spice things up a bit and I came up with this as the final product.

I bet I tricked some of you thinking Bisharp was calling an alliance. Well you guys were wrong! I did however, enjoy writing that little dialogue about how every contestant was like a chess piece.

As usual try to find references to anything you can find and post them in your reviews. 1 imaginary cookie per find.

Doduo 1: Please review everyone!

Doduo 2: Hey! We were supposed to do that together!

P.S. I uploaded this on my birthday so it's a little birthday treat to all of you.


Next Time: Teams get building as they try to impress a certain someone in need of some help. Meanwhile, team members find out about a certain secret and decide whether to reveal it or not.