My goodness! The last part of Episode 2! Sorry for uploading it so late in the night! But please take your time to read, if you may : )
Just what happens? What concludes? The final parts of Episode 2 play out. And twists...are ahoy.
Episode 2 (FINAL PART)
The players were in dazed silence.
"One of you didn't simply just try to cheat in a mission," the host continued, "but one of you, from our sources, tried to cheat beyond the boundaries of The Mole. To obtain…outside information." As everyone just looked at the host with edged eyes, McHallyboo turned to one of the players in front of him.
"And that player...was you," the host said, as all eyes turned to the pointed player player of the group with a sense of disbelief. "Bowser Jr." The player himself held a stunned look, almost matching those of the faces around him. Bowser Jr. simply stood in place, back at McHallyboo.
"What? I...no!" Bowser Jr. claimed, his voice in a stutter that gave everything away. "I swear, I didn't cheat! I would never!"
"Either you can tell us," McHallyboo said, taking a device out of his pocket that was handed to him by a producer just minutes ago, "or, the video camera can tell it instead." The players were all silent, and everyone in the room just cotinued to look at Bowser Jr. The player, after a second, let out a breath of defeat.
"Or I can do it," Wario said, stepping forwards and speaking. Everyone looked at him in confused silence.
"It was during the time I went into the corridor to use the restroom, when Bowser Jr. approached me. He offered me…well, a bribe." At that moment, Wario fished into his pocket to reveal a set of shiny coins. All players in the room, shocked, looked at it in disbelief. The odd and unbelievable story continued from Wario's mouth.
Tiny: I couldn't believe it. He did a bribe? I just couldn't comprehend that someone would do that in our game...nor could I believe the story that was told to us all.
"One-hundred coins," Wario explained, "to get as much outside information about the game and give it to him. There was a special request from it." The accused player lightly growled, and stepped forwards to speak.
"I gave him the money," Bowser Jr. confessed, his head low and not looking at any of the other players, "to secretly meet up with Flurrie after Episode 2 was over. Then Wario would somehow…in any sort of method…relay the information back to me while I was still in the game. So…I would know who she voted for on the quiz. I wanted information from Flurrie, to get further." Everyone around him was silent. There were stares of incredulity from the people that surrounded him, and ocean waves could be heard from outside their boat due to the silence in the still air.
Piantissimo: It was definitely a shock...to me. And knowing how close I was to Bowser Jr, this really was one of the last things I suspected to come from him. He helped me be a better person…but then this? Why did he do it?
"Luckily," McHallyboo said, stepping in, "Wario took the right move as a veteran in this game and did not fall to the bait of the bribe. "Wario lightly grinned to the host.
"He informed me right away, after the dinner was over, on what had happened." The host turned to Bowser Jr.
"Cheating, in this game, is never tolerated," McHallyboo said to the player. "However…because no harm was done…I will spare the team a money pot subtraction. I will even spare you, Bowser Jr, your place in this game." In total, everyone seemed relieved, mostly at the first sentence. Bowser Jr. didn't say anything.
"I will, however, void your round in the game," the host continued. "So out of the three remaining rounds, two must have been successful."
"I just want to say," Bowser Jr. spoke, and he faced everyone in the room. "That I'm sorry for what I did. It was all in the heat of the moment, and I fell to temptation. So…I'm really sorry! I really am." As Bowser Jr. said his statement to them all, the players were confused and mixed: some of them either nodded, approval in their hearts and minds, but some of them were still in rejection for his act.
Mimi: I just...can't believe at all...that he did that! Cheating is just a terrible thing. He went so far to try and cheat. I would have never, ever done that.
Éclair: As much as we are to blame Bowser Jr, I believe that we should forgive. I could see that he struggled in making that decision and was truly sorry about it.
Bowser Jr: I didn't even think the transaction was possible for Wario to give me outside information. The whole thing was out of fun and experimentation. But I admit now: it was wrong.
"True, yes, that was an awful act I cannot smile upon at all," Luvbi said, as Bowser Jr. looked down. But then, she continued, almost wisely.
"But…I believe we all had our moments of downfall We shall not judge others on mistakes. I had made many mistakes during my game in The Mole, so I am not one to speak." Wario looked at her, almost smiling.
"And I'm about to make a few right now," Wario said, prepping himself for the end of the game, "when I guess your actions completely wrong for this upcoming part of the mission." Everyone in the room smiled.
Dashell: You know what? Maybe it was all an elaborate scheme. Bowser Jr. cheated to make the team penalized. It just can't be denied that his whole situation was so bizarre and just unreal. You never know.
"Well, let us continue back to our game, shall we?" McHallyboo said, and he fully faced Wario and Luvbi.
"Mission 4 has ended, and I must ask you two to please use all the knowledge you have to conclude this game. So please, right now, state your predictions for each player! The question is: what was their action?" He pointed to Dry Bones, as the player gulped.
"Hmm, Dry Bones," Wario said, thinking. He looked at the player closely, as if studying him.
"He did a little performance," Wario said in memory, as the four diners winced. "And it really was out in the open. Was it…to do a dance?" At the statement, the four dinner players seemed to relax a bit.
"That…is incorrect," McHallyboo told him, as Wario frowned with a laugh.
"Hmm." Taking in and studying everyone else's reaction, she took a few seconds of thinking before speaking once again.
"Was it perhaps to sing a song?" Luvbi said to them. Everyone looked defeated.
"Darn!" shouted Dry Bones, as a collective sigh rang through the air. "You got me! That was it. To sing a 15-second song." The group groaned, as Luvbi smiled sadly.
"I am very sorry, players," she told them. "But it is my job to foil you guys at this moment." McHallyboo laughed.
Tiny: I think Dry Bones could have done a better job in his task. It seemed like he didn't even try to hide his actions. I would have at least thrown in a few red herrings , but he didn't even try that.
"That is zero for one," the host to the team. "Now, only Dashell and Éclair remain. If you both go undetected in guesses, then the money will be won. However, if just one of you is suspected…I must declare a loss for this game." Dashell and Éclair looked at each other, nodded, and looked back at the two players of Luvbi and Wario. It was up to them.
"We will start with Dashell," McHallyboo said, and attention was turned to him. Luvbi pondered for a second.
"I believe I know," she stated, as everyone held their breaths.
"You were a person who left to the restroom for a long amount of time," Luvbi said. "So I believe that was your action: to leave the room." Dashell sighed, shaking his head.
"Nope, that's not it," he informed her. Wario paused for a second. He looked at Dashell carefully.
"Then it must have been you and your antics and comments about the food," Wario said. "Or showing disgust towards it. Am I right?" As McHallyboo shook his head, the group cheered. Dashell looked at them, triumphant.
"With the action of coughing twenty times," McHallyboo said, winking at Dashell, "you indeed were able to solve the secret boundary and do it out of view of the others. It was all about listening to instructions. Well done." As the group clapped, Luvbi and Wario clapped as well, still happy despite their personal loss.
"Ah and that leaves one more person," said McHallyboo. All eyes, including Wario's and Luvbi's, turned to Éclair.
"You went to the restroom too," Wario said, and then he nodded. "Ya know, I'm gonna guess that. That your task was to use the restroom." Éclair shook her head, smiling a bit.
"That is incorrect," stated McHallyboo, and the room went silent. All eyes turned to the final guesser of their game, the final live obstacle that separated them from their money: Luvbi.
"Hmm." Luvbi looked at the player in front of her strongly. Feeling Luvbi's eyes on her, Éclair was silent.
Eclair: She was a very clever player of Season 2. That is why she was able to make it to the final four in the previous gamed. For that reason...I was anxious.
Zess: We completely flunked our mission, so we needed to succeed this one. But part of me said that in the Mole, you gotta accept losses! Things happen for a reason. So if you lose, you lose.
"You asked many questions, and that was noticed," Luvbi began, as Éclair looked down with lessened hope.
"So I believe, Éclair, that your task was to ask a certain number of questions," Luvbi stated. "Before dinner ended. That is my final answer." As Dashell shouted in success, Éclair gasped in realization: it was not the right answer.
"The team...has won!" McHallyboo said, as the group cheered. "It is unbelivable how even the smartest and most clever of individuals could not keep the team from winning this game." Luvbi smiled at everyone, and then to herself.
"Players, I grant the largest amount of money to be added in your game, as of yet: 25,000 coins." Everyone combined, the spirit was happier than it had been ever before aboard the ship of sabotage: their pot had nearly doubled.
Team Pot
55,000 COINS
"You know!" Wario shouted up. "We should have just lost the game on purpose! To make you guys win!" Everyone laughed, their feelings better. They had played a game with those of players in the past, and it was a rewarding experience.
"Well done, players," McHallyboo said. "But…" Everyone turned to him.
"Of course, we must not forget that twenty thousand potential coins was lost from the pot as well," McHallyboo added, and he faced the group of five. "Exemption or Bust was a loss. It was a game out of greed and decision-making, but in the end, it was not successful. I am sorry, players." Snifit looked to his left, and saw to his notice that both players, Piantissimo and Mimi, were nowhere standing near each other. To his right, he saw the sighed disappointments of Tiny Kong and Zess, who tried to fight for an agreement in the mission. His mind was trying to collect everything that happened an hour ago.
Snifit: You just didn't know which one of us was it that destroyed the mission. Sure, we all contributed in some way to the downfall, but I believe that a player was trying from the very beginning to make sure the mission didn't go through. It could be any of us. Or...maybe the Mole tried to win the game. Who knows?
Bowser Jr: If the Mole just so happened to be one of those five, then I'm going to kick myself forever: it would have been so easy to pinpoint which player sabotaged that game, but I wasn't there to witness it. So now, I'm going to have to go and live on word of mouth…and now with me being an untrustworthy player in this game…it's gonna be hard.
Tiny: You can't trust anyone. Piantissimo and Mimi did not let the game go through directly. But I know that Zess and Snifit were in my group as well, and the question is, did they say things as well that made the game not work? This whole game makes me as clueless as I was from the start.
"Let's end these mission," McHallyboo said, "by saying one thing: that tonight, there was deception and loss, but success and joy. Joy, we all must agree, that comes from having two special guests spend the night with us." Luvbi and Wario looked more than content, standing before the players.
"Thank you for having us," said Luvbi, and she bowed deeply to the people before her.
"You're gonna need luck," Wario said, and he gently smirked. McHallyboo smiled: it was Saboteur's Island, ending.
In the middle of the night, Bowser Jr. heard a knock on his door. The room he was in swayed back and forth, with the motion of the sea, and as he made his way groggily to the door, he saw something slipped under the door of the ship cabin: two white slips of paper.
Bowser Jr: My reputation is dangerously gone in this game. I'm just going to have to wing it from now on and pretend nothing happened the night before. Either that, or just keep on playing this game step by step.
"Hmm?" he said, rubbing his eyes and bending down to pick it up. It was two pieces of paper, and as he read the text upon each piece, he realized they both held the same message.
"Ugh…so early…what's that?" came Dry Bones' voice, rising up tiredly from his own bed and looking curiously at Bowser Jr. "It's like 3 o'clock in the morning. What exactly is happening?"
"You can ask me anything, but I'm not sure myself," Bowser Jr. said, looking at the paper, then holding out one for Dry Bones to grab. "But I think this is for you…also." Dry Bones got out of his bed, and read the text carefully on the single page:
List Below: Your 3 Least Favorite Players
It was morning in Isle Delfino. It was a funny phrase that struck the host, because it was all too familiar to him. But this time around, it was with a different cast of people. A different group of people who differed so much in personality, and thought as well. A group of players who were ready to play in an unknown and new territory of uncertain, dangerous adventure. A cast that was ready discover the Mole among them, and to play the game.
But, it was also a group of players that, in the soon future, was about to decrease: one of them was leaving that very night at the execution.
"I honestly hate this time in the game, before an execution," Tiny said, sighing. "It's like Episode 1's nervousness all over again." She was lying on a beach chair, under a large parasol that protected her from the sun above her. It was Mimi and Zess who sat in their own chairs, by her side.
"Young girl, you keep on worrying, but do you think it will change anything?" Zess said to her, applying another layer of sunblock to herself. "If you get executed, you're executed. That's that! Worrying won't make it happen less. So let's just keep our chins up high!"
Tiny: Ugh. I knew that if I didn't stop attacking myself, then my place in this game would be over. I had to focus on everything important.
Mimi: I didn't get an exemption the last game, but honestly...I don't need an exemption. I'm sure I'm smart enough to make it at least a good way through!
"Let's just all pretend we'll make it to Episode 2," Mimi said, sounding confident in her voice.
"Now, don't count your chickens THAT soon before they hatch," Zess warned. "You never know what's gonna happen in the game. I have to be honest: at this stage, it's still luck." Mimi did not know whether to believe Zess' statement or not.
"So who did you put on the list? The one asking…for your least three favorite players?" All girls received the same piece of paper, with the same message upon it that asked for their unfavored teammates.
"You think there's a money offer in it?" Mimi wondered out loud. "Like whoever we listed as our last favorite players would get money?" Zess shook her head.
"I'm suspecting that the person chosen and voted the most will be eliminated or something!" Zess laughed. Her two teammates looked at her, shocked.
"Oh my goodness," Mimi said, covering her mouth and hoping it wasn't true. "That would be awful!"
"If that was true, then don't worry," Zess said, laughing again, "because I didn't put any of your names on it." They smiled at her, relieved. The three females looked at the beach before them that they were at. On the other side of the beach, another group of players were in conversation.
"The guys, hmm," Tiny noticed, seeing their strong level of talk. "Is it just me, or does it seem like the males are going to dominate this game? There's more of them at the moment, with Flurrie gone. The worst thing we can have is another female eliminated. And we all know that just could happen.
"We just gotta stick together," Zess winked. "These guys aren't gonna control us. Where's the female pride?" They continued to watch the group of males, and listening from afar, one could correctly identity their conversation being one of a heated, arguemental debate.
"I want to know why you did that!" Piantissimo exclaimed out loud, looking at Bowser Jr. directly in the eye. "With Wario…and breaking the system…and taking advantage over us by cheating! Especially since I trusted you! Why?" It was dialogue about Bowser Jr's cheating incident from last night, and Bowser Jr. was on the spot. Dry Bones, standing between them, didn't know what to say at all. It was a difficult situation.
"Trusted me?" Bowser Jr. said, frowning and leaning against the stone wall, obviously much more calm. "Why would you trust anyone in this game, Piantissimo? This is the game of The Mole." Stopping his talking, he turned slowly and looked at the sun in the sky.
"Nobody should even consider giving anyone else their trust. Remember, not even this world is real. So just…just don't trust me anymore, Piantissimo!" The player turned around, heatedly. "I don't need your trust!"
"But I gave you my trust," Piantissimo said silently, looking at Bowser Jr. Bowser Jr. stopped, his face sad.
Bowser Jr: It's kinda sad, how easily a friendship can fall apart. Piantissimo was the only person I trusted in this game to a strong amount. He was almost like me: he had an outside, tough exterior but a completely different interior. I guess a single, little action…just like the one I tried to do last night…could ruin a alliance between two people.
"So do you still like me as a player anymore, Piantissimo?" Bowser Jr asked him, turning around and wanting an answer from the masked man. Piantissimo didn't say anything.
"Hey guys, you know, we should still just all be friends?" Dry Bones said, trying to change the mood. "You two seem like the two best buds in this game. You should keep that!" Bowser Jr, after a small second, nodded with true thought. All of a sudden, someone came up from behind him.
"That was a very interesting and unique move," Snifit spoke up, his voice almost in a tone of admiration to Bowser Jr. Everyone looked at the player who had just arrived with surprise and confusion.
"I…just thought it was smart, how you tried to go around the boundaries of our game and everything," Snifit continued timidly to the others. "Contacting Flurrie and all and seeing who she voted for on the quiz. It was...smart." Bowser Jr. couldn't help but grin.
"Haha, well, thanks for that, Snifit," Bowser Jr. told him, coughing. "I'm lucky my soul is still even alive. I expected McHallyboo to slit my throat and leave me for dead after that happened." Dry Bones heavily nodded, breathing a breath of relief.
"It was risky," Dry Bones said, nodding. "But at least we're okay, right?" The players, perhaps in relief, chuckled as a group.
"I'm just fishy that one of you is the Mole, and right now, you're making us lose track of what's really important," spoke up Piantissimo's voice. Everyone became silent and turned to him. But instead, Piantissimo's face was different. It was no longer one of dejection.
"Let's just take Episode 3 like a new world," Piantissimo said casually, facing the others. "Let's just let everything go. Grudges, what not." He stuck out his hand to Bowser Jr.
"And you're still my friend…rule-breaking or not. If you weren't my friend, I don't think I'd even have one in this game. So thanks...bud." Bowser Jr. faced him, with a surprised grin. He shook his hand.
Bowser Jr: If I were Piantissimo, I don't think I would have said the same thing. You know, even with the strain of everything, and even when everything was at its low…we were still able to make the right moves to fix it. For every obstacle that the Mole put to block our way…we were still able to tear it down.
Then, Piantissimo turned to Snifit, who turned to him, startled.
"Hey, sorry for being a jerk last night," Piantissimo said, sticking out his hand for Snifit to shake. After a small second of surprise, Snifit nodded, taking his hand.
That night, the second execution of the game would come. The players, most of them, were ready. But some were preparing in understandable fear. As the sunset approached, Éclair and Dashell walked down the other side of Isle Delfino, the sun setting and the episode entering its final moments.
"It is a very unfortunate thought, that one of us will be exiting this episode," Éclair said, her red dress illuminating in the sun as they walked down the beach.
"Nah," Dashell said, shaking his head with false disagreement. "It'd be fine with me if I was the one executed. Two episodes is good enough for me. I had a good adventure!" He laughed, kicking at the water which reached his feet.
"You are simply saying that to cover disappointment," Eclair said, smiling. Dashell looked at her with surprise.
Dashell: Dang…Éclair's really good at studying minds, or I'm just a very readable person. Which is not a good thing in this game. At all.
"Well…yeah," Dashell said, dumbstruck. "In a way, I would be kinda disappointed to be executed this episode. But hey. What's done is done, if I do get executed." He pondered his sentence.
"Something strikes me," Éclair said, looking at him. "In Mission 3...your team, with the megaphone. I do not mean to insult, but…" Dashell turned to her.
"That was quite an abysmal plan, the one that was devised for Dry Bones to run for the megaphone. I believe whoever came up with that plan is the most suspicious and should not be trusted at all." Dashell stopped his walking.
"Was that your plan, or Bowser Jr's plan, for Dry Bones to grab the megaphone?" Éclair ask him. Dashell was silent for a second.
"That was Bowser Jr's plan," he said, looking straight ahead. "It was all his idea. He was the one who made that plan, for Dry Bones to run." Éclair nodded, and stepped towards the sea. Her dress glowing like the fire of the sun before her, she looked into the sunset.
"Execution…if I were executed, I would accept it," she said, looking at the sun. Dashell slowly walked up to her place, near the water of the ocean.
"You know, I would be a bit disappointed if you got executed as well…you really are the best and most wonderful player in this game," Dashell spoke, his eyes staring straight out at the sun as well. He did this to avoid the look that Éclair gave him after he had spoken his daring line.
"You know, this was the place that the players of Season 2 continuously ate at over and over and over again," McHallyboo informed them, grabbing a durian in his hands and displaying it to the others. "And they got tired of it." The nine players were in a restaurant that served delicious dinner food, durian juice, and unsurprisingly, durian chunks even for for dessert.
"Durian Café?" Bowser Jr. remembered. "That's the name of this place, right?"
"It was really fun eating with the others last night," Dry Bones saying, almost missing them. "This is nothing compared to that. I think that's the most fun dinner I'll ever eat here."
"Oh, hush hush," Zess said to him, and the group in total. "We'll all be having more adventures after this episode! And I'm excited to play them!" The players couldn't help but feel inspired by the old player's words: their game really did have more adventures to take part in, and so far, they had already played a chunk-full.
"Well, one of you won't," McHallyboo said, tapping his mouth with a napkin. "The second execution, like any other execution, will take one of you as a victim. You will no longer play in this world." They all continued to eat, reminded of the truth.
"Do you still have your papers?" McHallyboo reminded them, and everyone stopped eating: they knew exactly which important papers he was talking about.
"I would like you to hand them to me," he said, and one by one, folded papers began to make their way over to the host. When he had all nine, the host began reading them to himself, keeping them hidden from the others.
"Hey, so…what are they for anyway?" Tiny Kong asked. McHallyboo shrugged, laughing.
"Nothing really," he told them, reading it. "It's just a sociological experiment. I just want a sense of which players are more liked, and which aren't like as much. Then I'm matching that to the identity of the Mole." The players nodded a bit, wondering the results themselves.
"So," the host said, putting the papers into his pocket," I would like to remind you all that once again, the quiz is 10 questions, and will cover this episode. Whoever scores the lowest will be at risk of execution." As the dinner started approaching its end, it was time for the quiz of the game. Someone, on the land of the dolphins that very moment, was going home. Just like in their previous game.
An agent would be taking a player.
The quiz took place on the beach, and when the players made their way to the sand-fitted chair and table, they felt the sea breeze hit them with every question they had to answer a question. It was the second quiz of the game.
Positioning himself at the laptop, Bowser Jr's feet were in the sand as well as he answered the first question.
1. The Mole is:
-Male
-Female
Bowser Jr: I have people with me and against me in this game right now. It's good to have both. Like they say, keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.
Eclair took the time to look out at the ocean before taking her quiz. She then began to take it, question by question.
2. When did the Mole get off the boat when the boat had arrived at Delfino Plaza?
-First
-Second
-Third
-Fourth
-Fifth
-Sixth
-Seventh
-Eighth
-Ninth
Éclair: It is always good to find someone to trust in this game. I am able to keep trust in some people here.
Piantissimo read his questions carefully, but speedily. He even answered questions at a pace that matched his overall tone and personality, and he did his best to be careful too.
3. Which team was the Mole on during Saboteur Island Sabotage?
-The Dunk Team
-The Megaphone Team
-The Camera Team
Piantissimo: Is it not too obvious that Tiny, on her own camera, had a deleted photo? Sure, she could be telling the truth, but it is a perfect cover up to make it seem that it was TOO obvious to have been her. So I'm saying that she is still suspect.
When Tiny Kong sat down, she did it with nervousness, making sure that she clicked every question that she wanted to as she went through her quiz. Tiny Kong eyed her computer screen carefully, looking at Question 4.
4. How much money did the Mole individually earn for their team in Mission 3?
-0 coins
-1,000 coins
-2,000 coins
-Undetermined positive amount
Tiny Kong: Zess is a player I think a lot of people aren't considering to be the Mole. You wouldn't really think she could be it. Why would they make the Mole the old lady? But in Mission 3, she couldn't snap the shutter on the camera...and that's what makes me suspect her just a bit.
Dashell took his seat in the chair. He clicked his answers, one by one. On Question 5, he hesitated.
5. As of far, has the Mole had the opportunity to earn an exemption?
-Yes
-No
Dashell: Biggest suspect…probably Tiny or Dry Bones. Dry Bones has this personality that's just care-free, and he seems like this guy who's just playing friendly and excitedly in the game. But you know, it's a good cover-up if he was the Mole.
It was Snifit who took his seat next in the game. He was brought to the chair by the beach without a word. Even the waves beside him were louder than his small whispers, ones he made as he answered each question of the quiz.
6. Was the Mole invited to eat dinner with the veterans?
-Yes
-No
Snifit: Mimi is a player we can't ignore. She has cost the game the most so far, individually. She cost 20,000 coins with her words in Exemption or Bust, and in Episode 1, she failed her jump. Has she been sabotaging so outwardly that no one would really think she was the Mole?
Mimi made her way to the table, making sure her feet didn't get touched by any of the sand. She had a look of certainty on her face as she began to answer the questions of Quiz 2.
7. Did the Mole get up from their table at all, during their time duration of their assigned mission on the boat?
-Yes
-No
Mimi: I'm still set on Piantissimo as the Mole, making his suspicious moves in the game Exemption or Bust. Not only did he try to go against me in the game, but it also did the second move of sabotage. And that is exactly what the Mole tries to do. So I'll be setting on him...for now.
Zess huffed, finishing each question and being forced to answer the next. If it weren't for the breeze of the outside wind, she would have given up the questionnaire, presumably just halfway.
8. What was the outcome of the Mole's mission, either Mission 5 or 6?
-Success
-Failure
Zess: I'm looking back at the previous mission, where the others had to steal the megaphone. Now I heard from Dry Bones that the idea was Dashell's to make him run. Now…why did he do that? Why did he make such a bad plan, but not tell anyone later it was his idea? He's a smart fellow. But he's still suspicious.
Dry Bones sat down in his chair, and immediately began thinking as he began to take the quiz. He was up to Question 9.
What is the Mole's journal number through?
-Journals 1-3
-Journals 4-6
-Journals 7-10
Dry Bones: Bowser Jr. cheating, I mean, maybe he did it on purpose, or maybe he really wanted to try and win the game. Either way, it sabotaged the team, so…could he be ultimately it? He seems to just know everything about this game too. Maybe...he is the actual Mole.
The tenth question that ended the quiz was an important one. It asked the question that needed to be known to continue in the game…or else execution would be just around the corner for them.
Who is the Mole?
-Bowser Jr.
-Dashell
-Dry Bones
-Éclair
-Mimi
-Piantissimo
-Snifit
-Tiny Kong
-Zess
It was a location too familiar for the host, but for the players, it was somewhere new. Despite being new to them, the location had already given them all an unsettling feeling. It was a feeling they all dreaded, but had to endure. Someone was soon leaving the game, as the second victim of the game of twists and turns. A game of the Mole.
"Hello, players." They were at the boathouse of Delfino Plaza, outside on its dock. "This is the exact place where Episode 2's execution of Saboteur's Island took. Since we are back here in this land…where else could be more appropriate?" The players, even though repulsed with nervousness, could not disagree: it was the most appropriate place they could be for the ceremony.
"I will enter your names, one by one," the host said, eyeing them all. "If I enter your name in, and the screen turns green, then you are safe. You move on to the third episode." He looked at the screen besides him, instead of the players.
"But if it turns red, that means you are the lowest scorer of the quiz, and you must go home as the second executed player." Everyone nodded. They knew that soon, somebody would be going home.
"No exemptions were earned this episode, so you are all eligible for elimination," the host added, and Piantissimo couldn't help but look at Mimi. Feeling his glance, Mimi shot a glare to Piantissimo's direction before looking back.
"Piantissimo," the host began, and the player immediately straightened up at his name being called. The host, now sitting in his seat, began entering his name in.
Piantissimo cleared his throat. He sat quietly, waiting for his fate.
P-I-A-N-T-I-S-S-I-M-O
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GREEN
"Phew." He tried to hide his sigh of relief, but it was still strong enough for the others to hear.
"Mimi, would you like to go next?" McHallyboo asked, as the player immediately had a look of fear terror, on her face. Her name and fate was about to be revealed.
"Oh my gosh...okay..." Mimi whimpered, covering half of her face with the front of her dress.
M-I-M-I
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GREEN
She gave out a large smile for the others to see. McHallyboo turned to another player, and then nodded with a big smile. It was Zess that he looked at next.
"Would you be next, Zess?" the host said, and the player laughed lightly. Then, the little lady sighed with a smile, and nodded.
"Ohh goodness...let us see what is in store for me," the elderly lady said with anticipation and hesitation, and the host typed her name in. Everyone looked in silence.
Z-E-S-S
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GREEN
"Oh boy," she couldn't help saying, shaking her head in relief. The old chef sighed with a smile. She was safe.
"Bowser Jr," the host called next. Bowser Jr. faced the screen, a grin of edginess.
"Let's go," Bowser Jr. in a ready voice. The players watched his name appear on the screen, and then was entered.
B-O-W-S-E-R J-R
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RED
"What!" As the screen turned red for Bowser Jr, everyone was in collective shock. Each player saw the red screen ahead of them, and connected it to the player who it was for: Bowser Jr. It was not mistaken that he was the second victim of the game.
"Darn," was all the red-fated player said. Bowser Jr, though shocked as well, stood up from his seat. Piantissimo remained seated in the seat beside him, his face twisted in shock and sorrow.
Tiny Kong: One of the strongest and best players of this game…just left the game. This game was awful.
"Well, I guess I'm not trickier than the Mole," Bowser Jr. said, looking at the others before standing up. He walked over to the row of bags, grabbed it up, then shot a last wave and grin at the players.
"Bowser Jr…please follow me," McHallyboo said, as everyone watched the player leave and the host leave. It was a silence of disbelief. The waves, once again, conquered in sound.
"Bowser Jr, you are the victim of this execution," was the first words from the host to the player. Bowser Jr. snapped his fingers, looking regretful but slightly eager to say his final words.
"Man…I thought I had it!" Bowser Jr. said honestly and shaking his head. "I really thought I had it, McHallyboo. I wanted to conquer this game, and beat and solve everything about it." But then, he nodded his head, almost in acceptance.
"But," he said, looking sad a bit, "you never know that this game brings. Being an expert of this game, I know that something existed in it: unpredictability." McHallyboo nodded.
"Unpredictability," the host repeated. He looked at the player before him.
The players, not knowing why he was the second victim of the game, remembered Bowser Jr. together. Not as a person who fell to a cheating temptation in his final mission of the game, but for the great player he was.
"Man, if there were two words to describe that guy," Dashell said, being the first person to speak, "it was ambitious and awesome. And extremely clever."
"I am so confused…but sad to see him go!" Tiny Kong said, shaking her head. "I did not expect him to leave tonight." Everyone nodded in agreement, some of them feeling sadness among their shock.
"Why, he was a fun guy to play with," Zess T said with a nod, looking at the others and reminiscing. "In the Purchase of the Desert game, I've never seen someone sleep as soundly as him." Éclair and Mimi, who were at the scene as well, smiled themselves with memory.
(flashback of Bowser Jr. waking up groggily from sleep in Mission 2) Flashback Bowser Jr:"Hey…hey guys, what are you all standing there for?" (Zess only holds in her chuckle)
"Actually, you are right...about unpredictability," said McHallyboo, and before Bowser Jr. could speak again, he held up a simple card into the air, one he had been keeping since the very previous dinner of that night. He showed it to him.
"Bowser Jr," the host began, as the player looked at him in confusion and slight alarm. "How much would you give to be back in this game? To be back…as a player?" Bowser Jr. faced the host with the widest eyes ever.
"That's…that's the card I filled out earlier, isn't it? That's my card." It was: on it, three names were pasted, ones that Bowser Jr. had written on the card earlier that day, in the very early mornings of his fateful day.
"On this paper," McHallyboo announced slyly, holding the card up for him to see completely and clearly, "are three names you had declared to be your least favorite players in this game." Bowser Jr. nodded, but he did not know what was in store.
"Now, these three are at risk," said the host silently, "because if you choose to, one of these people will be chosen to substitute you: substitute your place in death. Instead of you being executed tonight, a randomly selected player from your list of hated one…will take your place instead." Bowser Jr, listening to the host's words in stunned silence, understood completely.
"So…" Bowser Jr said, looking at the host carefully, "if I accept this offer, someone will take my place in execution, instead of myself?" McHallyboo only nodded, and Bowser Jr. eyed the card in his hand carefully without a word.
Bowser Jr: This was unbelievable. I couldn't believe I was being offered this.
"Then McHallyboo," Bowser Jr began, nodding. "Please don't hate me for my decision. I feel like I have to do it." The host held the card up to Bowser Jr, shaking his head.
"No judgements. I'm the host," McHallyboo simply replied. "Make your choice." The player before him only nodded, and grabbed the card quickly from his hands.
"This is for the game…" Bowser Jr. looked at the slip of paper carefully, the three names shining out to him. One of these three people could substitute his place out of the game.
"Let's play this game how it's supposed to be played." Bowser Jr. declared in a loud voice, and with the strength of his two hands, he ripped the card in half. This time, it was McHallyboo's turn to be caught off guard.
"It is…ripped up," was all the host could utter. "Is that...a no, Bowser Jr?"
"Yep." Bowser Jr. looked at the host.
"I know what you're trying to do in this game," Bowser Jr said in a voice of reflection, almost accusingly to the host himself. "You want drama in this game. For people to fall apart. For everyone to fall apart. But this…" He let both halves of the card fall to the wooden ground below them.
"This isn't how the game works…and I'm keeping its sanctity," said Bowser Jr, looking at the ground below him and smiling. "I tried to ruin its sanctity when I cheated earlier in the game, but you know what, McHallyboo? I'm saving it. This game…is awesome. And I'm keeping it that way when I leave it."
"I think my favorite memory of Bowser Jr was during the beginning of our game," Mimi said, even speaking out herself about a player she never got along with. "I liked teasing him for being Bowser's son and already having a bad reputation!"
(flashback of Bowser Jr, his arms folded and sitting among the players with lessened enthusiasm)
"Man!" said Tiny. "And he ended the game liking it the most! Even more than me." Everyone else couldn't help but agree completely: it was a three-hundred sixty degree turn well made.
"It's so funny," Bowser Jr. said, thinking with a smile. "Just yesterday, I tried to rig the game. I tried to cheat it…really badly. Not gonna lie, it was bad." He looked back at the dock, the ones the players were still situated at a far distance away.
"But now I just turned down the offer that would ruin the game," Bowser Jr said, sounding triumphant." I kind of reversed my actions, didn't It?"
"You can almost say you redeemed yourself," McHallyboo said, with a small grin himself.
"He was totally the opposite though when he began to play…he played good," Dry Bones spoke, as everyone else nodded. Piantissimo, out of all people, nodded the heaviest. For the whole time after the red screen, he had remained silent. And now, he finally spoke
"He was…a great guy," was all Piantissimo could say. Just from his few words, anyone could know that he was downhearted in thought and feeling. Piantissimo sighed, one of sadness and disappointment.
"And...a friend gone."
"Bowser Jr, what was your favorite part of the game?" McHallyboo asked him.
"Well...besides everything..." The two of them made it closer to the end of Delfino Plaza's strip. Towards the end of the lighthouse's terra firma of land, strangely, was not a piece of land that would usually be existing in the real world of Isle Delfino. Instead, it was something that would shock and frighten anyone who ever bared witness to it. A large, dark orb of spiraling madness existed, and it gave the image that everything that would come in contact with it would be sucked in, to disappear from the game. Indeed, it would.
"You know, besides all the missions and all the cool things I did and tried to do," Bowser Jr said, thinking back, "it was truly just meeting everyone. Everyone is so awesome. And I have to be honest: the game wouldn't have been awesome without them." His eyes then turned to the ominous large darkness in front of him.
"I'm not going in there, am I?" Bowser shouted with disbelief. "What is that! Why are we walking this way, McHallyboo?! Take me back!" McHallyboo couldn't help but smile.
"This is unreal." Splashes of water, from ocean water flying in the air and being sucked into the orb, was splashing into their faces. It was a supernatural and amazing scene before them.
"Well, this is the way out of this game," the host said, and Bowser Jr. shook his head with excitement. He knew that very soon, he would be exiting this world. This fictional world of strewn truths and lies, a world which he had been immersed in for five days, was about to disappear, and now, he was leaving it. Bowser Jr. took one last look at the moon in the sky.
"I'm going to miss this fake world," he said, smiling, and giving a small sniff himself. "And now…now…I have to tell my sister than she made it farther than me!" He laughed with unfortunate humor.
"To the best lucks," said the host, stretching his hand out, and Bowser Jr. shook it heavily.
"Hasta la vista, McHallyboo." He was right on the edge of the land that separated from the mysterious empty air. Hands stretched to the sides, ready for a free-fall, he couldn't be reminded more of his jump from the first mission of the game. He closed his eyes and let go, and fell forwards. He was gone.
OOMPH!
Bowser Jr. landed roughly on the pavement ground, much to his surprise. He looked around a bit dazed, stumbling at first to keep his balance. His hand fell upon his suitcase, and he was balanced again. He looked around.
"That…moon," Bowser Jr. said, looking up. His eyes twinkled with excitement, and thought it had a tint of bittersweet sadness, he was overall relieved to see what was above him in the sky.
"It's…it's real."
YES! The moon was real! And so was the execution of Bowser Jr… ToT
…This was a twist execution, but one that was turned down to save the game's play. He made a choice well done, the good executed fellow. THE QUESTION IS: would you have done with Bowser Jr. had done?
Quite a devastating disappearance, especially just for the game's well-being : o just how will the game fare from now on? Bowser Jr. is now gone…and the Mole lives on. The question is...who is the Mole?
Let me reply to you all!
FrittzyCrazy: Ah, it was! But surprisingly…the moment was not as troublesome as it could have been. McHallyboo must be a lenient host ; ]
sixthsense6: (checks Season 2 for similar Mission) Ah, I cannot seem to find a similar challenge EXCEPT for perhaps the Bottle Mission in the final 5 of saboteur's Island? Or the final Dosser Auction game in the first Season. But maybe my memory is bad as well and there was similar challenge xD that is all I can remember though. Season 2 was originally gonna have an Exemption or Bust Game! It would have Luvbi and Wario being the strong voices of the group, perhaps even causing controversy….but maybe not even as much as Piantissimo or Mimi did in this one? x) I guess we'll never know.
Elemental Queen: NO NO NO! Please state your suspects! And if you're wrong, it won't make me nervous at all ; ] haha, but even if you are right, I'd be totally happy to read your suspect words and reflections.
fredthemontymole: Éclair using mind control….I almost DIED reading that statement. Lol, it scares me to even think a player was using witchcraft in this game D: Anyhow, ahh! I hope you get a good night's sleep of rest! Perhaps for next review? Hehe.
Moley Koopa: Ah haha, your dislike for Piantissimo makes me chuckle heavily! Unfortunately, he is still here, but Snifit is still here as well! Yes yes, I create some players to be likable, and unlikable. But don't be surprised if things change for some players halfway!
fiction idea: Yes, good job for correctly identifying Bowser Jr as the cheater = ] About the whole Bowser Jr's task of having to drop the utensils, opposed to simply putting them on the ground, Bowser Jr. actually DID drop his utensils. He would have passed his task completely…had he not been disqualified for cheating later lol.
FireKai: Luvbi was really indeed one of the most unique players of Season 2, so I was happy just showing her back for whatever time she could : ] ah yes, good predicting on Bowser Jr! And luck on the exemption, it was almost proposed! I guess things just don't always work out when greed is in the air, unfortunately….
J.C. Doggendoodle: I must say, that was the original storyline of Bowser Jr! He would have told Wario about the mission, thus rigging the entire thing. But, I felt like Bowser Jr's character was more conniving and clever than that. He wanted to do something extreme…and that he did!
PJCanada: Ah, wonderful review! Yes yes, I am so glad you are now able to catch this 3rd season, and I'm able to hear your words for you : ] I absolutely loved your predictions descriptions! It really made my eyes open completely. Despite Bowser Jr. not making it to the end, you still had good points about all the rest of the players and I truly enjoyed them! I knew Bowser Jr. was leading into becoming a largely-centered player, so I knew his execution would surprise some viewers and readers! Poor guy…sniff…but thanks for that!
Ah, and the journal entry of the Mole! It is now uploaded! : ) ah, call it a postcard from Isle Delfino itself.
Episode 3 is beginning….and in this episode, things will not be easy for the players at all. Please stay tuned for the next part of the adventure! Where will the players go next? Stay tuned!