Welcome back! Yep, part two, yep, this is happening.
I've decided which two contestants will make it into the season, I've decided which contestant goes home, I've even decided the challenge. For once, I'm prepared to make an awesome chapter. Well, the SECOND part of a chapter.
Oh, and I wanted to give you the list of Pokemon that are in today's challenge:
Pyukumuku M | Oranguru M | Toucannon M | Torracat F | Mudbray F | Grimer-Alola M | Bewear M | Charjabug M | Comfey F | Shiinotic M | Salazzle F | Incineroar F | Passimian F | Lurantis F | Dhelmise N | Wimpod M | Drampa M | Minior N | Diglett-Alola F | Palossand M | Mimikyu F
Not much to say, sorry it was REALLY late, Enjoy!
"So, why are we here of all places?" Incineroar asked, looking at the large hedge to the right of her. "Well, Incineroar, using the power of this awesome cruise ship, we created this huge maze! It's a mile wide and two miles long." "But even in the Pokemon world, this doesn't sound possible-" "Excuse me, I want the 4th wall to stay intact this episode," Gliscor said bitterly. "THIS IS ALL FAKE AND WRITTEN BY RUNTO-" "SHUT UP!" "-ASTRUN, A VERY AWESOME AND GREAT GUY!" Toucannon shouted incredibly loudly. Then, Toucannon got WHAT WAS COMING TO HIM. A laser went right through him, and he suddenly disappeared. "W-where did he go?" Mimikyu asked in the back. Heliolisk started chuckling. Gliscor smiled grimly."He went far, far away. How DARE he think he can get away with that. I'm so sorry, audience." "Don't you mean readers?" Toucannon's voice could be heard from far away. "Ok, I'm done here. Use any of these 8 entrances and have fun. Also, no flying, teleporting or cheating in general. Blocking the path? Sure. Fighting another competitor? Not this challenge, as you guys aren't official contestants yet. GO!"
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Salazzle was the first to enter the maze, going through the 7th entrance. Mudbray was next, going in the 2nd exit. Slowly but surely, they all started to make their way through the monstrous labyrinth.
Comfey was right at the back, picking up a large collection of flowers that Lurantis had scattered with Petal Blizzard. Right at the front was Diglett-Alola, who was creating a rather dangerous and jagged path behind her. Near the front was the Alolan Grimer, who had covered the path with his trail of sticky paint. The combination of the two hazards led to a rather annoying journey for the others.
Wimpod was stuck in a crevice caused by the rocks, Charjabug, who was already slow enough as it is, was moving very slowly as he trudged through the paint. This did give some of the others an advantage, however. Mudbray was leaping around the rocky path, as she was well adapted to that kind of path. Pyukumuku was sliding across the paint, moving much faster than he would have been moving when on the normal floor. Eventually, however, he caught up to Grimer and had to slow down. "C-can you move a bit faster for me, f-f-f-friend?" He squeaked, revealing his white insides as he spoke. Grimer looked back at him in disgust, as if he were far more superior than a sea cucumber. "P-please, I'm t-trying to get here as f-fast as p-possible. A-anyway, t-two people are w-winning this, so i-i-it's not like w-we c-can't both w-w-w-w-" "Can you shut your mouth? You look gross when you speak." Grimer said, frowning.
Passimian was walking slowly, holding the Pokemon equivalent to a mobile phone. Texting stupidly fast, she had both eyes fixated on the device. Then, she got a text. "TURN AROUND." in red. She continued walking, not paying too much attention to her surroundings. Another text. "Oh Arceus dammit, turn around!" Ignored again. Salazzle, who was following her, sighed and pushed her into one of the walls. While she was there, she stomped on and smashed Passimian's screen and continued to deviously slink out of sight.
Now in the lead was Oranguru, who was following the left wall. Palossand was doing the same but on the right. Shiinotic and Incineroar were both running around randomly.
Mimikyu and Minior were making their way together. "So, how does your 'shield' work?" "It crumbles and falls off when I'm weak, which makes me vulnerable AND is also very dangerous for me as I start to deteriorate," Minior explained, spinning as they spoke. "YO FIDGET SPINNER, PIKACHU FAN, GET OUT THE WAY!" Shouted a grating voice, as Torracat practically flew past them. The two covered Pokemon felt a strong gust of air from the force of Torracat's movement. Unfortunately for Mimikyu, the wind blew her cloak away. Now a black blur with two blindingly shiny eyes, Mimikyu rushed off, going directly through the bushes and leaving Minior on their own. "Well, this blows. Hehe."
Bewear was slowly walking around the maze, mainly for fun.
"You know, I guess I could join this contest thing. I may have been forced to do this by a terrifying clown, but this will be so much more interesting than my life in the trees. Like, hugging things is fun, but everything I hug breaks! Trees, people, Pokemon, it really upsets me, you know? Now I can actually try something! This'll be really good for me!" Bewear said, grinning.
"Oh hi there, this is the confessional room, right? Well, have I got a deal for you!" Toucannon said, holding a box of cereal. "For just £3-" NO NO NO NO NO. GET OUT OF HERE TOUCANNON AND NEVER RETURN!
Torracat had now caught up and was racing head to head with Mudbray. "YOU'RE NOT WINNING THIS!" Torracat shouted. "YEAH I AM AND YOU CANT DO NOTHING!" Mudbray responded, speeding up. "You two DO know that both of you can win. Not like you will." Spoke a soft, deep voice that made them both slow down. Oranguru was walking at a very slow pace, dragging his arm against the left wall as he walked. Suddenly, however, his arm was tied to the branch he was touching. Turning around, he saw Dhelmise had used a vine to trap him. "Aren't you supposed to be psychic? You should have seen that coming." Dhelmise's voice was raspy like a smoker's. Oranguru took a deep breath and waited for a few seconds before he spoke. "Aren't you supposed to be seaweed? How do you have vines?" "First of all, took you long enough to think of a comeback. Secondly, it's because, uh..." "Exactly. And anyway, you don't learn vine whip or anything." Oranguru continued. While they were talking, Torracat and Mudbray left to reach the exit.
"Oh wait a minute, I'm supposed to be racing!" Comfey cried, dropping all of her flowers.
After about three hours, nobody had managed to reach the end yet, much to Gliscor's disappointment. "Hey Heliolisk, do you have any ideas about how we can speed this up?" "Yeah, how about we allow them to escape through the entrance as well as the exit." "Eh. Hey, will any of the maze control buttons help us out?" Heliolisk pushed a random button.
All of the walls on the inside of the maze quickly disappeared, leaving the entrance in plain sight. Quickly, they all tried to make their way there as quickly as possible.
"HELIOLISK! Quickly, press another button!" Heliolisk did as he was told and the maze started filling up with water. None of the water seemed to be able to go through the exit.
The contestants all did what they could to adjust to the water. Palossand absorbed some of the water and got very slow and heavy. Grimer panicked as he started to dilate. Torracat, Salazzle, and Incineroar all started freaking out and ran even faster to the exit.
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The contestants all ended up outside of the maze, each very damp. They were all staring at Gliscor angrily.
"Okay, so now that you're all safe-" "Except for Mimikyu, Salazzle, Palossand, and Grimer, " "Yes, except for them, we want to congratulate Shiinotic and Lurantis for winning the challenge and becoming the new contestants!" Shiinotic and Lurantis both smiled. "Even MORE grass types? BIAS!" Shouted Toucannon from afar.
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The other Alolan Pokemon left and both Shiinotic and Lurantis went on the cruise with the other contestants. The cruise had now left the island.
"OY, EVERYONE, REPORT TO THE DOCK SO WE CAN DISCUSS HOW THINGS ARE GOING TO WORK."
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The 32 contestants were standing on the dock with Gliscor and Heliolisk. "We'd like to welcome Shiinotic and Lurantis to the show!" Lurantis stepped forward. "Hi, everyone. I'm Lurantis, I think you're all great! I was watching the first few episodes of the show and it's pretty cool."
"I haven't just watched this, I've watched every Total Pokemon Island season EVER, and I know that I've got this. Like with all other shows, I made this!" Lurantis showed a notebook and each page had a different contestant. "I'm keeping track of friendships, enemies, which stereotype each contestant is and more! Parasect is an obvious threat, as he also seems to know how these shows work. Sableye's also a threat, as contestants like him always get far. Forretress was kind enough to be a threat, but others got rid of him. I definitely need to look out for Mime Jr as she could always randomly eliminate me. That's just how contestants like her are. BUT ENOUGH TALKING! I've got this."
Shiinotic just stared at everyone, smiling. "You wanna say anything?" Gliscor asked. Shiinotic just stared at Gliscor for a few seconds.
"Oh dear, they're going to replace me with him aren't they, I just know it!" Probopass shrieked fearfully. "They're gonna see that I'm just like him, that he's way better and that I'm trash!"
"Something's off about that new shroom, I'm tellin' ya," Amoonguss said gruffly.
"Oh my god they need to stop interacting with me. If I sit in the background for everything without actually doing anything, I'll win for sure! I mean, they'll never want to eliminate me if there's no reason to! I'll just attempt challenges and avoid making friendships!" Shiinotic smiled the same smile he always smiled. Wait, what?
"Something's off about both of these new guys. I'll watch out for those two." Beheeyem frowned.
"Now you've met the new contestants, here's how this is going to work. In two days, these guys will get to choose to eliminate someone together. During the next two days, you guys should appeal to these guys' good sides. That is all, now go do what you like." "Wait a minute, why two days?" Bastiodon asked. "Because in two days we reach Dewford Town, our next destination!" "Two days!? Dewford is in Hoenn! We're in Alola!" Altaria stated. "THIS CRUISE IS VERY FAST SHH."
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Darmanitan and Bastiodon were in their cabins playing chess. "Why do you keep moving your rook random places?" Darmanitan asked. "It's all part of my strategy." "Well if that's the case, your strategy sucks because CHECKMATE!" Bastiodon frowned and looked at the board. "I can just put the rook piece here." He smiled. "Oh yeah. Well, I'll just kill it with my queen." and so he did. "Then I can just kill your queen with my second rook. And would you look at that, you can't move your king anywhere without dying next turn, and unless I'm mistaken, that's a real CHECKMATE!" "W-What! How did you do that?" "I dunno I never play. Six years of chess practice my ass, Darm."
"And here's the food court," Arcanine said to Lurantis, who was just smiling and blinking back at Arcanine.
"Do you think she was eyeing me up? I mean, I know I have that effect on people, just look at me, but she's a grass type." Arcanine seemed conflicted. "Not that she isn't hot, and there's nothing wrong with grass types, but seriously, I could harm her."
Sableye was staring out into the ocean, as usual, occasionally taking a sip of an alcoholic drink. That was when Beheeyem went up to him. "Excuse me, Sableye, I want a word with you." "NO." Sableye turned around and got ready to throw his bottle. "Easy, friend. I can help you. You don't have to act like this." "GO AWAY! YOU... YOU DONT CARE ABOUT ME, NO ONE DOES." Sableye tried to look threatening. "What was it, loneliness? Parental neglect? Trauma? Speciesism?" Sableye didn't respond. "I can help you," Beheeyem responded. Sableye turned away from him and looked back into the ocean.
"Hey Druddigon, have you seen Minun anywhere?" Haunter asked. "No, why?" "Well, we're playing hide and seek." "Asking me is a bit of a cheap tactic, isn't it?" Druddigon asked, frowning. "Eh. Anyway, bye!" And Haunter went off. "No wait, I was going to ask-"
Klefki found a cabin key on the floor and picked it up.
Alomomola had locked Tympole in her cabin with him. No one dared to find out what was happening.
Porygon2 and Herdier were chasing each other round the cabin, occasionally knocking into each other. "OI, WATCH IT!" Yelled Whirlipede as he got knocked over. "Now you know how that feels," Magneton said blankly as he floated by. They also knocked into Cryogonal and shattered them.
Swadloon was reading a book in her cabin with Exeggutor, both feeling rather agitated. "Arceus, I hate this book. It's so boring." Swadloon said grumpily. "Wanna do something?" Exeggutor asked. "Yes but no, doing things requires effort." "I know what we can do." Exeggutor smiled, and Swadloon blushed. "And what would that be?" She asked, winking at him. "Get some food, I'm starving!" And with that, Exeggutor left to get some food, leaving Swadloon feeling mortified.
Ferrothorn was battling (and losing very badly) to Hawlucha, and in the end, they laughed and went to get some food.
As it was getting dark, all contestants went to the food court together to eat. Right before their food was delivered, however, a sheet of paper fell and landed on Amoonguss' head. Whirlipede picked it up and started to read. "Read this sheet aloud." He said stupidly. A few of the contestants chuckled and Toxicroak facepalmed. Exeggutor started to laugh but then saw that Toxicroak wasn't happy and frowned. "I'd like you guys to get to know each other even more. You shall play a game of Truth or Dare. When you finish reading the sheet, a spinner will be dropped down. This spinner will decide which contestant gets asked. Whoever is reading this asks first." And as he finished reading, a spinner fell and landed on Krokorok, who frowned and rubbed his head.
Then the food arrived.
"I'll spin first!" Herdier said excitedly, and span the wheel. It landed on Tympole. "Tympole? Who's that?" Minun asked. "Must be a mistake." Altaria agreed. "Uh, hi, it's me." Tympole was covered in lipstick from Alomomola. "Uhh, you have some stuff on your face, lemme just get it-" "NO. IT MUST STAY." Alomomola shrieked. "Truth or dare, Tympole?" Whirlipede asked. "Uhh, a dare I guess?" "You have to..." Whirlipede thought for a moment. "Tonight, you're sleeping in Alomomola's cabin." Tympole stared at Whirlipede, wide-eyed, as most of the contestants laughed. "Can I change to a truth?" "Unfortunately not, pal," Parasect said, chuckling. Tympole spun the wheel. It landed on Probopass. "I know you can't really tell us if it's a truth or dare, but you can't really answer a truth, so it's a dare, and I dare you to..." Tympole thought for a moment. "I dare you to rub your food into your iron moustache so it all gets stuck."
"I want Tympole dead, my moustache is near impossible to clean," Probopass said angrily.
Probopass did so, staring malevolently at Tympole the whole time. Mime Jr then decided to spin the wheel for Probopass, and it spun for about 9 minutes. Eventually, it landed on Lurantis. Probopass pointed at Magneton to say they could ask. "Oh. Hey, Lurantis, truth or dare." Magneton asked. "A truth, everyone else has done a dare so far." "Oh. Ok. Hmm, what's a commonly asked Truth question?" Magneton wondered. "Do you have a boyfriend?" They asked. Lurantis tensed up, looking around at everyone. When she spoke, she spoke very slowly. "No... B-But I might get one by the end of the competition..." She smiled weakly at Arcanine, who smiled back.
"I was lying, Sceptile, I swear," Lurantis explained. "If I say I have a boyfriend, Arcanine won't want to be with me. At least these guys are way too stupid to realise I was lying."
"She's an idiot," Beheeyem said.
"She's obviously lying, but I'm kinda excited to see what her plan is, so I don't really care," Porygon2 stated.
The game lasted very long, going late into the night. The game finally ended when Mime Jr successfully completed her dare of slapping Heliolisk in the face as many times as possible before getting punishment. Klefki ended up in the infirmary after jingling his keys at him, too.
They learnt that Beheeyem had a girlfriend at home, Whirlipede had a fear of motorbikes, Bastiodon spent most of his life in the PokePark, Druddigon used to have a girlfriend, much to Krokorok's disliking (Things generally got a bit tense after that), Haunter thought Duosions were hot and Amoonguss was an orphan.
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When they all woke up in the morning, Gliscor greeted them all. "Good Morning you lot. Looks like you all slept well! Today, we decided we'd open both the pool and arcade rooms. Have fun!" "Hey Gliscor, there are only 31 contestants here," Heliolisk stated randomly. "Oh. Can you guys make sure whoever's missing is informed?" "Sure!" Altaria chirped.
Alomomola quickly entered her cabin and locked the doors. "Tympole, you okay in here? I know I locked you in here, but it's fine! You're fine! Now come here and make out with me!" Tympole was hiding under the bed.
Meanwhile, the other Pokemon were either in the pool or the arcade. "Frogadier is a terrible arcade game, like, why is that frog crossing roads? Moorio is terrible, and why they chose Miltank as a character I'll never know. Caterpiellar is just as terrible, it's so hard to aim!" Minun was complaining to Altaria. "If you hate arcade games so much, just go to the pool!" "I'd rather not fry everyone in the pool," Minun muttered.
"How am I not first on the leaderboard? I didn't hit a single obstacle!" Darmanitan complained. "You're supposed to hit everything." Bastiodon sighed. "Oh."
"How am I not first on the leaderboard? I've hit every single thing on the map!" Whirlipede complained. "On that game, you're supposed to drive safely." Bastiodon sighed. "Look, how about you two switch games." They both nodded.
Meanwhile, Beheeyem and Sableye were in their shared cabin. "So tell me, why are you like this?" Beheeyem asked, wearing glasses and holding a notepad. "Well doc," Sableye said, laying down in his bed, "I've kinda always been this way. I never knew my dad and my mum wasn't very kind to me, I never really had any true friends, the other kids were scared of me because I'm a Sableye and I have a creepy mouth and gems for eyes, I ended up joining a gang as a little kid. Spiritomb, the leader, just understood me, ya know?" Sableye's eye gems started to water. "Listen to me, I can't change that, but you need to know that we're all here for you, and we can all understand you and make you feel better. We all... Well, most of us want you to enjoy this season." Beheeyem had a few of the devious contestants in mind. "Thanks..."
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"Everyone, we reached the island! You know what that means? We're losing a contestant!" Gliscor said, gleefully.
"First of all, since when were you excited about losing one of us, and secondly, what if Shiinotic and Lurantis want different contestants to go home?" Parasect asked.
"I secretly hate you all and the two chosen contestants will battle. Okay, up first is Lurantis because of alphabetical order."
"As much as I want one of the threats gone, I don't want to eliminate someone who's done nothing wrong to me as of yet, so I had to choose-"
"Magneton for asking me such a personal question in Truth or Dare!"
"Excuse me? It wasn't my fault, I asked a perfectly acceptable question." Magneton replied, feeling slightly nervous.
"Alright, and Shiinotic?"
Shiinotic grabbed the spinner from the night before. Everyone stared in fear. She gave it to Mime Jr to spin, and it ended up spinning for a full 17 minutes. When it finally stopped, it landed on... Ferrothorn. Everyone apart from Ferrothorn calmed down.
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Ferrothorn and Magneton were both on a small platform above the pool. They both looked extremely nervous. "KNOCK THE OTHER CONTESTANT OFF THE PLATFORM TO STAY IN THE GAME. GOOD LUCK TO BOTH OF YOU. 3... 2... 1... GO!"
"Listen, I'll jump off and you can stay in and win," Ferrothorn said, frowning. Magneton wasn't really listening and was about to attack when he suddenly realised the spikes on Ferrothorns limbs were dug into the ground so he couldn't fall off. "Oh forget this show, you win!" Magneton said angrily as he went to float off. Ferrothorn, who was trying to be as nice as possible went to jump off but realised he was planted firmly in the ground, and he just looked like he was trying to jump.
"Well, that wasn't a very fun battle." Heliolisk moaned.
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Magneton was on a small dinghy. "THE OTHERS GOT WOODEN BOATS, WHY DID I JUST GET THIS?" He yelled angrily. "You know, I could have lifted Ferrothorn up with my magnets, but he was a nice guy anyway. I guess I just didn't want him to go home." And with that, he floated off.
Yo! Finally finished the chapter, after a lot of time and effort. In case you were wondering, I know I said the contestants up for elimination were the ones who didn't bring an Alolan Pokemon, but Magneton was one of them anyway so hey, what can I say?
Yes, Magneton went home. Didn't really have any plans for him anyway, he was just there.
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Next Chapter:
When Gliscor is unable to host a challenge, Heliolisk decided to give a contestant the chance to host a challenge. Which contestant is given the power? What could go wrong without Gliscor? Find out next time on TOTAL... POKEMON... ISLAND! (Again Yay)
