Survivor - Kodai Island

Chapter 4 - Day 3 Part 2

Welcome back to "Survivor - Kodai Island"! Today is the big day. Someone will be officially voted out of this game. If your number one favorite Smasher is on the Sumasshu tribe, you'd better say a prayer and hope that it is not him (or her if it's Samus). No one wants to be the first person voted out, so your fave better be lucky.

As stated in the ending Author's Note, the next season of Survivor will appear next Wednesday, which means today... more specifically tonight at 8 EST on CBS. Watch the season premiere with me if you want! Even if you can't make it, it will be online for free on CBS!

Oh yeah, about that first challenge, it's an actual Survivor challenge that originated in "Survivor - Blood vs Water". Majoriy of these challenges are from past seasons, but there's a couple of them that I made myself, so stay tuned for that. ;-)

Now, let's get to it. Right now, we have twenty people in this game, and by the time this chapter is over, there will be nineteen left. It may still seem like a lot, but over time, it'll fly rather quickly, with you thinking the first voteoff was just yesterday. Here we go!

~KF


Sumasshu

Day 3


When the Sumasshu tribe finally made it back to their camp, to no one's surprise, nothing but them losing the challenge was on their minds. They at first figured that there were plenty of things they could have done to prevent thier loss, yet no matter what they thought, it still happend at the end of the day, and now they had to suffer the consequences by them being at the first Tribal Council.

"Anybody wanna say something?" Snake was the first to speak holding his hands up. "...Anyone?"

"...I guess all we can do is to hope to do better next time." Samus suggested shrugging her shoulders. "As long as we keep hope alive, then we should make it. We'll just deal with Tribal Council and get it over and done with and sleep until the next morning."

"Well, one of us will not be here, anyway..." Fox scratched the back of his head. "But I get what you're saying."

"I know everyone is hoping that it is not them who is going home first, I really hope it is not me." The vulpine shook his head. "I actually performed well in that puzzle today. If I find out that they're gonna vote off somebody who worked on it, I gotta make sure that I'm not the victim."

-/-

"So, after I sorta flopped at the challenge today," said Dedede. "I'm worried that it could be my name on the chopping block. Fortunately, Bowser's having personal beef with Mario. I already stated that as long as it's not me, then I could care less. But I wanted to check in with Bowser to see if his mind stayed consistent, just to make sure, 'cause now we need some numbers."

Dedede reunited with Bowser for further discussion. "Are we still locked in for voting Mario?"

"Absolutely." Bowser promptly answered. "I don't think we're gonna miss much if we vote for him tonight. I don't even see a big reason on why need him in future challenges. He's clearly not the most physical, nor the mastermind at puzzles even though you aren't..."

"I agree..." Dedede replied with a slight laugh of nervousness at the last part. "Mario it is, then. No problem with that. Anybody else that is on our side?"

"I've talked to Donkey Kong, and he seems down. All we need is three more people and we're set."

The Koopa and the penguin then shook hands.

"Alright, brotha'. I guess we can spend the day recruiting more people." Dedede grinned. "Now, who else is not on our side besides Mario?"

He shrugged. "Maybe Sonic? That could be Mario's potential ally. My plan was initially to get the strongest people together, but I gotta be cautious. Not every big strong player here might be with us."

"So,..." The anthropomorphic penguin glanced away for a brief moment. "who do we pull in?"

"Hmm..." Koopa thought out loud with a finger beneath his chin. "I don't think Fox and Falco are with that many people at the moment. If we can pull them in, that's a five. We'll then need one more person afterwards. ...Snake is the one that's talking to everybody, so he's a possible choice."

-/-

The two mentioned animals were in the water with their own conversation.

"Look, all I know is that we need to strike first before anyone else gets a chance, too." Fox said. "No room for error. If us two can trust each other, then we're already having something going. We can miss just one conversation and all of a sudden, we're on the chopping block."

"Can't agree more." Falco nodded in response. "I have talked to quite a few people, but not many have came to me. We need to get some strategy going and fast."

"Over the past three days, I was having some conversations with people." The falcon recalled. "However, almost none of them were about strategy. At this point is very annoying. Like, it's day three, and now we have to go to Tribal Council. Fox is seemingly the only person who cares right now. I'm thinking 'Okay, people. If you don't want to strategize with me, looks like I have to force some strategy here.'"

"Oh, hi." Dedede said with a wave, noticing both the bird and fox coming back from the beach. "Me and Bowser were just getting ready to see you."

"Really?" Fox cocked his head to the side.

"Yeah." He nodded. "We might need you two. This is important."

"About time." Falco grinned. "I've grown too impatient here. Almost no one is strategizing with me. Talk."

"Okay, so here's the thing." Bowser prepared to elaborate. "I don't like Mario and I don't wanna have anything to do with him. There are ten people in this tribe and twenty people in this game right now. If we let Mario go far, then he's going be a long-term big threat. We can make him an easy target and an easy vote off. Dedede over here is down for it and DK is down."

"But, there's one problem here." Fox noticed. "That's only five. We need one more person to make a move, here."

"Exactly." Bowser said with a nod. "We might have you two go talk to Snake while we speak with DK again, just to make sure we're all on the same page. If he is, then Mario is going home tonight."

"Fortunately for me, me and Fox approached Dedede and Bowser at just the right moment when they were getting ready to discuss with us." Falco smirked. "There are apparently two sides in this tribe right now. We need to hurry up and hop on the right train, here. Don't get on the right side, then the train is gonna crash. Hard."

-/-

In the meantime, Mario was having a one on one conversation with Donkey Kong. The fact that he knew that there was a strong possibility he was going to receive votes at the first tribal was starting to get to him.

"You're serious that Bowser wants me out of here, right?" He wanted to make sure.

"Positive." He nimbly nodded. "One hundred percent. I guess he just don't like being told what to do. ...But, I get a strong feeling that he would have done the same thing... in an even more aggressive way..."

"But the thing is, I'm not even trying to take control of everything." Mario was getting to the point to where he was quickly becoming frustrated with the whole predicament. "Where I come from, I'm just used to helping people and making sure that everyone is on the same page. Same applies to here. I help people, make sure everything's going well, and that's it. Yet apparently, not everyone seems to understand that."

"I come from a similar background myself." Donkey Kong responded. "So if Bowser's see that, he's not gonna like it. Something tells me that if you are voted out, he'll target me next if he sees too much of me."

"So what do we do? Vote off Bowser?"

"That would be the smart thing to do. Survivor 101: Always strike before the other person. Hmm..." The ape placed a thumb underneath his chin to think. "I'll see if we can talk to Sonic again and see what we can do. You don't wanna make the wrong choice at the first vote."

"I'm right here."

Both turned to see the blue, anthropomorphic hedgehog coming their way.

"Okay, Sonic." Mario began. "Do you know anyone else who's in Bowser's alliance besides Dedede?"

"Not that I know of." He declined. "What I do know is that they've been scrambling throughout the majority of the afternoon after we lost the challenge. And the most funny thing about it is that neither of them bothered to talk to me. At all."

Mario sighed. "Guess they don't trust you either."

"Hey, it's cool." Sonic waved his hands out. "I don't trust either of them, anyway. And I don't even know where Fox and Falco's heads are at right now. ...Do you think we should trust them to vote with us?"

"I don't know..." He stared at the ground for a bit. "But even if we can't trust them, that leaves Falcon, Snake, and Samus. We need to find them and talk things through immediately. We can't stay at camp forever because we're gonna leave rather soon..."

Unbeknownst to them, Snake was conveniently standing right behind the shelter, hearing every word of the whole conversation.

"Thanks to me eavesdropping, I was fully aware of what's going on. Right now it's between Mario and Bowser. One hero, one villain. Mario has Sonic and Donkey Kong, and Bowser has Dedede. What we need to do is to find out the game plan with Fox and Falco. ...But first, I need to talk with Samus and Falcon and figure out what side should we jump on."

And he did just that. "So, as far as you two are concerned, what's best for your game?"

"Win challenges."

"Winning challenges aren't the only thing we can do, Douglas..." Samus announced Falcon's real first name. "This tribe is already divided and we are forced to pick what side is best for us."

"Well, no matter whoever we go with," said Snake. "the three of us clearly trust each other the most. Maybe we should discuss our plans by the well for now on like we're doing now. Whatever the majority is gonna be, this can be our alliance within our alliance."

"At this point, it is necessary for me to stick with those two for now on." Snake concluded. "They are the two that I have been talking to the most. I've been coming up to them and they've been coming up to me. The three of us can go far together and play behind the scenes."

"In all honesty, if you want my opinion on all this, Mario doesn't like Bowser, and I don't either." Captain Falcon confessed. "Bowser's a villain. Not everyone is one on this tribe including me, and villains have a stronger chance of hurting our games. I'd rather not align with him if I were you guys... Then again, if Mario actually is taking over, that might not be good either."

With an exhale of air, he headed off in another direction. "I'm gonna find Mario or somebody. You two need to hurry up and find out about Fox and Falco and fast. We're gonna leave in a little while."

-/-

Captain Falcon tapped Mario on the shoulder after finding him lying down on the hammock. "Oh, hey."

"Hey." He greeted back. "The vote's for Bowser?"

"As far as I'm concerned. Yes." He nodded before finally glancing at him with his head raised. "Wait... You planning on joining us?"

"Hmm... I would..." He bobbed his head up and down. "I really would, but I don't know if that's the smartest move. I'd rather not have a huge physical player like Bowser out of the game at the first Tribal Council. Don't you think it's way too early?""

"...You know what, now that I think about it, yes." Mario had to admit it. "I guess I was so focused on the fact that Bowser is coming me for basically no reason. ...So if we're not targeting Bowser, who else do we put votes on?"

"I believe it should be Dedede." He requested. "He could be a potential right hand man for Bowser, and he was the least performing player in the challenge today. ...And... he's the only one that is lazy around camp at the moment."

"Okay." Mario then got up to make his way out of the hammock. "Thanks for the good suggestion. We need to tell DK, Sonic, and two other people about this."

"Don't worry." Douglas said. "I'm connected with Samus and Snake. They'd be willing to put his name down. ...What are Fox and Falco doing?"

"Meh..." He quivered his head. "I don't think they're with us. DK just spoke with them because he's trying to play double agent at the moment since Bowser somehow trusts DK. But he was the one who told me that Bowser was planning to write my name down in the first place."

"Okay. After talking, thinking, and strategizing all day, I finally have a clear, mental picture of what's going on." Falcon confirmed. "Bowser, Dedede, and now apparently Fox and Falco wanna vote off Mario because of them assuming that he's an early threat to get rid of. On the other hand, Mario, DK, and Sonic want to vote off Dedede due to my own reasons. So that leaves me, Snake, and Samus right in the middle. We're the swing votes tonight. We can dictate the vote at the first tribal because of us being in the middle. And whatever way we go, time will tell on whether or not it's a good decision to make."

One by one, the tribe of Sumasshu left the camp with their belongings, preparing the journey to Tribal Council.


Tribal Council

Night 3


With it now being past sundown, the Sumasshu tribe made it to Tribal Council at long last.

As fire was the main source of light, there were ten wooden boxes on the ground that represented as he seats for the tribe. The Sumasshu tribe entered the Tribal Council area one at a time, with the tallest individuals sitting in the back. All the while, Master Hand was glancing at each of them.

"Behind each of you is a torch. Grab it, dip it in, and get fire."

Doing what they were told, they each approached the large, centered, fiery pit and lit their torches before sitting it back down in the small holes behind them.

"This is part of the ritual of Tribal Council because in this game fire represents your life." He explained. "When your fire's gone, so are you."

Following them sitting back down in their spots, they all took a moment to observe the scenery of the tribal. There were a couple small, japanese huts, as well as the large one representing the voting booth. All of these buildings in particular contained japanese symbols.

Their observation was cut short when Master Hand began the discussion. "Okay, so first Tribal Council, and this is the tribe that loses. Let's just jump straight into it. Sumasshu was slightly in the lead during most of the challenge, but then it became the opposite when it came to the puzzle. Dedede, you were one of those four. What happened?"

He sighed. "I don't know, master. First of all while we were all strategizing, I didn't know exactly what part of the challenge I would have been better at. I chose to be one of those four to complete the puzzle, but that backfired, and now I deeply regret my decision. All I know is that if I'm voted out, that one bad choice would forever haunt me. Heck, it already is. Right after Tatakai won, I was already thinking of 'woulda coulda shoulda'."

"So, you're saying that if you were part of the physical portion, things would have definitely been different?"

"Right."

"So Donkey Kong, you were one of the six that were a part of that challenge." The host of Survivor recalled. "If you had the ability to decide, how will you all as a tribe move forward."

"Well, like Dedede said, it could all depend on the challenge." He admitted. "But, it obviously can't be the challenge alone. You have to also look at the relationships and cracks within this tribe."

"Wait a minute. Cracks?" Master Hand repeated. "You're saying that there are already cracks within the tribe?"

"Definitely, yes." He nodded. "There are people that are at each other's throats. I can bet my neck tie that by the time we get back to camp, we're going to be even more divided."

Bowser slowly raised his hand and pointed at himself with a large grin.

"Bowser, you seem very well aware."

"I am, master." He nodded in confirmation. "One thing that this tribe needs is somone who is not constantly running the show all the time. Back on day one, we were not even on the beach for at least three minutes before Mario was already barking out orders to everyone.

Mario almost instantly turned around to face the koopa. "Well, the camp was not going to get put together by itself. There were some tribes that ended up getting rained on or something for not having a shelter together in time."

"It does not mean that we work our butts off not even three freaking minutes into this game, Mario." Bowser glared sharply. "You don't just dictate like that, unless you are asking to be voted out."

"Does it ever occur to you that maybe I was simply trying to help the team as much as possible? You know what I said before we were all marooned here." Mario recalled. "When we all lost the challenge, I'm pretty sure every single person sitting here right now is just as upset as you are. Now we have to make sure that we all move forward as a tribe of nine since one of us won't be here tonight."

"Exactly. And you might be the one that walks tonight." Bowser leaned forward with a raised voice. "Everything would be better without a dictator, anyway."

"Did you not hear what I just said?"

"I heard it clearly. You just come off as arrogant and a pain in the butt."

"You just want me out of here because you just don't like me."

"I don't like you, I don't trust you, and I don't like having people like you around." He stated. "Somebody is going home tonight. We're at the first Tribal Coucil right now, and since everyone here is not taking our lost very well, it's stupid to send a strong, physical player home, even though I know you're writing my name down anyway."

"Well, it's pretty clear that you're writing my name down as well."

"You bet I would. Shut up and take it."

As things became quiet within the tribe for a few brief moments, Master Hand began speakinga again. "Okay. Let's see where we are with this group. Since this is a divided tribe, I assume that people are trying to pick sides here. Sonic, what do you make of this?"

"All I know is that I don't like losing." Sonic shook his head. "I hate losing. Even though I didn't exactly flop at the puzzle, it still hit me hard. Sometimes in Survivor, the first tribe that goes to Tribal Council sets the tone for the rest of the game. Best way to avoid this is to simply fight harder, because I still believe in this team right here. We just need to come back stronger than ever and kick butt next time."

"I don't like losing either." Snake was in the same boat. "But we can't just give up hope, now. Tatakai is probably laughing at us right now, but that potentially be a good thing because if we win the next challenge, we're gonna laugh right in their faces of how cocky and arrogant they were."

"So Donkey Kong, you're one of the strongest guys on the team." Master Hand noted. "If you're not going home tonight, do you think this tribe will repair itself to once again become a unit, or will it always be divided no matter what."

"Clearly the latter." He shrugged. "There are two sides here and you have to pick one or the other. Yet, if you are caught at the wrong place at the wrong time, it'll bite you butt as you end up on the bottom."

"And the big part of that is that it explains the reason why this is clearly gonna be a big vote." Fox added. "It's just gonna show who's aligned with who, and who should be the next to go if we come back here at some point."

"So Samus, based on tonight's discussion about whose side someone should be on, how are you gonna vote to night?"

"I'm gonna base my vote on what will get me farther in this game and not off on what will cost me my game." She answered. "When you think you have your vote confirmed, it is only a matter of time before you find out that you made the right decision."

"Sonic, do you feel the same?"

"Definitely."

"How about you, Snake?"

"Definitely as well."

With no one else saying anything, Master Hand decided that it was time. "Alright, it is time to vote. Falco, you're up."

The voting process began. With the avian bird standing up, he made his way over to the voting booth inside the hut. Briefly glancing at the piece of parchment paper placed on the table in front of him, he popped open a historic, fountain pen before writing down a name. Folding up the parchment, he opened the urn to place in his vote. When he returned, one-by-one, his tribemates followed.

When it was Bowser's turn, he made it very clear whose name he was writing on the parchment. Since he was allowed to state his peace, he leaned forward towards the camera in front of him and began whispering.

"I don't need anyone telling me of all people what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. I make my own decisions at home, and I'll do the same here. See ya."

Mario shook his head in irritation. Following Bowser was Samus, then Snake. It did not take him long at all to hold up his vote.

"I'm making a choice tonight. Best move for me is to make sure the right person gets their torch snuffed tonight."

When Sonic was the last person to sit back down after, it was time for Master Hand to do his part. "I'll go tally the votes."

Mario leaned forward a little bit to rest his head in the palm of his right hand while Bowser looked almost completely confident on how the vote was going to turn out.

By the time Master Hand came back, he placed the urn on a small, wooden table. "If anybody has a hidden immunity idol and you wanna play it, now would be the time to do so."

When he looked around seeing that no one was going to respond, he 'nodded' in confirmation. "Okay. Once the votes are read the decision is final, person voted out will be asked to leave the Tribal Council area immediately. I'll read the votes."

Opening the urn, he took the first vote and opened up. "First vote: Mario."

The plumber only blinked while Bowser looked like he was getting ready to laugh.

Master Hand promptly revealed the next vote. "Mario. Two votes Mario."

"Mario. Three votes Mario."

Mario sighed quietly and could not help but worry a little. Bowser obviously was still completely certain as he folded his arms with a large smirk on his face. One would assume that he found the whole thing to be amusing.

Master Hand revealed the fourth vote. "Dedede. One vote Dedede."

The penguin simply stared as if the host actually had a head.

"Dedede. Two votes Dedede."

Bowser quickly shifted his eyes at Mario, then back at the large, white hand again.

"Dedede. That's three votes Dedede, three votes Mario." The show's host recalled.

"Mario. Four votes Mario."

Falco nodded as he took a glance at Fox, who also seemed confident. As for Snake, Captain Falcon, and Samus, the three of them simply stared patiently.

"Dedede. Four votes Dedede, four votes Mario."

Mario ended biting his lip as Donkey Kong squinted his eyes a little, slightly leaning forward.

"Things are heating up here..." Sonic mumbled under his breath.

"Dedede."

The penguin's jaw dropped as well as Bowser's in total astonishment. Fox, with now widened eyes, began shifted his head to different tribe members as Falco rolled his eyes and stared at the sky. "..."

"Five votes Dedede, four votes Mario, one vote left."

"You gotta be kidding me..." Dedede had a million things going through my mind. Bowser on the other hand had already facepalmed himself in disbelief.

"First person voted out of Survivor - Kodai Island..." Master Hand revealed the final vote. "Dedede. You need to bring me your torch."

The anthropomorphic penguin sighed heavily shaking his head. Getting up from his seat, he walked behind everyone else to retreive his torch.

"Seriously..." was all Falco could say as he, Fox, and Bowser were in utter confusion.

As Dedede then placed his torch in the hole in front of Master Hand, he looked up at him for one last time.

"Dedede, the tribe has spoken."

The next thing he knew, his torch was officially snuffed.

"Time for you to go."

While he was beginning to make his way out of Tribal Council, Bowser glared at Mario as he simply stared back without even blinking.

"Well, first Tribal Council," Master Hand spoke again. "and based on the shocked reactions, I'd say that it was your first blindside. Based on the discussion, Donkey Kong had it right. This is clearly a divided tribe. Yet at the end of the day, you all wish that everyone could still work together to avoid coming back here again. Best thing about tribal is that you now have fire in the form of flint."

With Master Hand grabbing the flint that was also on the wooden table, he tossed it at Captain Falcon who caught it with no problem.

"Grab your torches and head back to camp. Goodnight."

Doing what they were told, they all got up and started to make their way back to their camp.

"We're screwed..." Falco muttered.


"Even though I'm disappointed to be the first person voted out of this game, this was a great experience and something that I can now talk about at home. I thought the plan was to vote out Mario, but I was wrong. Maybe I should have talked whoever was an alliance with him so I can be in on it. I definitely did not see that coming at all. But hey, I've got the chance to play this game unlike so many other people who are still applying right now, so congrats to me I guess."


Votes:

Mario - Dedede

Bowser - Mario

Donkey Kong - Dedede

Dedede - Mario

Fox - Mario

Falco - Mario

Samus - Dedede

Captain Falcon - Dedede

Snake - Dedede

Sonic - Dedede

Final Decision: Dedede


Castaways Remaining:

Mario, Donkey Kong, Bowser, Fox, Falco, Samus, Captain Falcon, Snake, Sonic, Link, Ganondorf, Mewtwo, Lucario, Wolf, Ike, Pit, Little Mac, Wii Fit Trainor, Bayonetta


Alright, so it's official. The first person is now voted out of Survivor and is no longer in this game. (Sorry, Dedede fans.)

There are now nineteen people left in the game. Mario and Bowser are apparently the captains of their alliances. And with Dedede gone in a 6-4 vote, the other three that were in his alliance is now in trouble, which means that if your winner picker is either Bowser, Fox, or Falco, you'd better hope that they are not voted out next.

Anyway, the actual next season of Survivor officially premieres tonight at 8 EST! Can't wait for it! If you need help finding it or anything, PM me to let me know and I'll see what I can do!

One more thing. About that poll last week? I made a new one for this to avoid possible spoilers now that this chapter is posted. It asks about your favorite characters in this. You can choose up to five. Go to my profile to vote!

Questions:

1. What's next for the Sumasshu tribe?

2. For the people that are now on the bottom, do you think that they can somehow turn the tables, or are they in complete danger?

3. Now that Dedede is gone and there's a majority of six, who do you think will be targeted next and why?

I encourage everyone including all Dedede fans to review and I will see you next week!