GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS! Actually, wait a minute. On second thought, I'll tell you instead. It's time for a new TDPI!

Recap: Last time on Total Pokemon Island (not including the Aftermath, which gave my ex, Cresselia, a cameo), dodgeball was the game and pain was the name! Torrent dominated and technically won the game for the Raikous. The girls made a list of hot guys, placing some people in surprising places. Zero got first, Ray got second, Kai got third, and Cactos got last, which brought him to tears. Sheila was voted off, which caused TyTy to destroy the confessional. He is currently in the infirmary, still dozing.

On other notes, Zeneith got annoyed with Aria and apologized. Redd and Steve finally became two different people thanks to Sebastian's owner's pill. Blaze and Electra are still getting acquainted, as are Torrent and Francis. Speaking of Francis, he protected Torrent from a ball, which was quite a shock.

Will Redd be a threat without his alter-ego? Will Zero stay in the alliance much longer? Will TyTy and Cactos get over themselves? We'll find out right now! This is Total Drama Pokemon Island!

Darkrai and Thundurus were thinking of ideas in their air-conditioned cabin. It was the hottest day of the year thus far, and Darkrai felt a little under the weather.

"Do you have any ideas?" asked Darkrai.

"Take the money and run." answered Thundurus. "I didn't sign up for this, you know. I was punished for electrocuting Manaphy on accident. Sea-guarding little wuss."

Darkrai rolled his eyes. "That's not a very good idea. This is like parole for you, so don't do anything stupid. Anyways, Back to my question."

"I'm thinking." said Thundurus. "You know, I don't even like thinking anyway. It makes my head hurt."

"All brain and no brawn, huh?" asked Darkrai, raising his eyebrows and chuckling at his own joke.

"Oh shut up." said Thundurus. "Well, we need to think of something, we need our ratings to go up."

Darkrai grinned an evil grin. "That's it! Call up some legendaries! We've got a challenge!"

TyTy woke up suddenly one bright day with A Chansey by his side. The Typhlosion rubbed his eyes. "Wow. What happened? Who are you? Where am I?"

The Chansey giggled. "Too many questions at once! My name is Grace. This is the infirmary. You were put to sleep after you burned down an outhouse."

TyTy remembered this, mopping his sweaty brow. "Oh, that's right. Sheila was voted off, and I was so angry with myself that I... I..."

"I know." said Grace. "Just relax. It's been a while since then."

"What do you mean?" asked TyTy. "It only seems like it's been a night."

Grace shook her head. "It's been 6 days."

"I've been asleep for nearly a week?" shouted TyTy in disbelief.

"Yes." said Grace, giggling. "Like I said, relax. You won't be in here much longer."

TyTy sighed. "Okay, I guess you're right."

"Of course." said Grace. "I specialize in healing. I am a Chansey, after all."

Redd began to nervously twiddle his thumbs. "You know, I've been thinking that I won't last much longer, since I don't have Steve to bail me out of deadly situations. For example, the cliff-diving challenge, or the swimming leg of the shortened pentathlon. I'm doomed."

"Our next move is to exterminate Redd." said Calla tensely. "He's vunerable without his alter-ego to take over for him."

Ava raised her hand. "Who is Redd again? The Whirlepede, right?"

Calla sighed. "That was Lawrence. Redd is-,"

"Then how about the Cacturne?" asked Ava.

"That's Cactos." said Zero calmly.

"Oh." said Ava. "I understand. So it's Tyson's friend, right?"

Calla gritted her teeth. "Why can't I get anything through your thick, air-filled HEAD?"

Zero stood up. "You leave her alone."

"Why should I?" seethed Calla. "She's holding us back."

"Oh, I'm sorry." said Zero sarcastically. "I thought she was just another pawn in your game of chess."

Ava raised her hand again. "That's the guy that always wins, I think."

Calla raised her voice. "So WHAT if she is? Everyone is so damn useless anyway!"

Zero was silent. "If that''s how you feel, then I might as well just leave now." He stormed out of the cabin, slamming the wooden door hard.

Torrent was sitting under a cool tree as she saw a solemn Francis pass by. What's up with him? She then began to think about him and blocking the ball from Zero. Did he do that out of dumb luck or because...

Oh, who am I kidding? thought Francis. She doesn't love me. Besides, that's the least of my worries. All I can think about is... Is... His eyes began to well up with tears. Matthew. This is why Lawrence is my friend, man.

The Octillery walked off quickly, taking his art pad with him.

Charles was talking with Zeneith. "So, how did you end up on this show? You were sort of a new contestant, since you weren't one of the original 27. No offense or anything."

"None taken." said Zeneith. "I saw the first ad and wanted to make some friends. Though I'm unbearably shy, so I didn't know how I would, so I didn't. Then the next ad came along and I saw that I was losing my chance, so I finally made an audition tape. Somehow, I got chosen. I don't know how, since I was just filming myself and saying how I wanted to be on the show then tripping over my trainer's garden hose. It hurt, too."

Charles chuckled. "You're kidding! Tripped? I caught my trainer's drapes on fire in my audition tape!"

"Well, after tripping, I crashed into a tree, breaking the camera." added Zeneith.

"Alright." said Charles. "That's pretty bad, I must admit."

Aria came along. "Hey. Can I talk to Zeneith really quick?"

Charles shrugged. "Sure. Be sure to ask him about his audition tape."

"I heard." giggled Aria.

Charles shrugged. "Okay, I'll leave you guys to mingle. Catch you later." He floated off.

Aria looked at the ground. "There's something I want to ask you..."

"Okay." said Zeneith. "What is it?"

But before she got the chance, Darkrai came on the intercom. "CAMPERS! MEET ME AT THE CLIFF IN TEN MINUTES! FOR THIS CHALLENGE, YOU MAY WANT TO START STRETCHING OR SOMETHING, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO PULL ANYTHING!"

Zeneith nodded. "Alright. I guess I will. Want a ride, Aria?"

The Liepard was disappointed that she didn't get to ask him anything. "No thanks. I'll ask you what I was about to ask you later."

Zeneith shrugged. "Alright. And be sure to stretch, I don't want you to pull anything either." He flew off.

Darkrai motioned around. "Thanks to TyTy, we had to build a replica of the last confessional. In fact, it's worse than the last one, just for punishment!"

Aria sighed. "You know, Zeneith and I obviously like each other. I've been weak and tried to pull back, but I've never been in a relationship before. And I mean a relationship that has lasted longer than a week or two. The terrible thing is, I've been trying to ask him all week, but something has always interrupted me."

Blaze sighed. "You know, I obviously like Electra, but I haven't been able to be brave enough to pop the question. She'll call me a fool. The terrible thing is, I could be right."

Zappy sighed. "You know, Thundurus and I obviously hate each other, but I haven't played a good joke on him in weeks. It might not be good enough. The terrible thing is..."

He stopped. "Wait a minute. I have an idea! I need to hurry and get Sparks before it's too late!" He rushed out of the confessional door.

Darkrai, standing with Thundurus, looked about the arriving campers. "If you haven't stretched already, it's too late now!"

"Oh, come on!" shouted Tyson. "It takes us 10 minutes to get here!"

"Exactly." chuckled Thundurus. "Now everybody has equal chance of losing."

"Are they trying to kill us?" Sparks whispered to Ray.

Darkrai began to explain the challenge. "Today's challenge is to climb up this oh-so-familiar cliff and reach the top."

"That's it?" asked Zappy.

"Of course not, you buffoon!" shouted Thundurus. "We called a few legendaries who are here to help us. Well, not you guys, their preventing you from reaching the top."

Darkrai announced, "Here with us today, we have Zapdos, Ho-oh, Kyogre, Deoxys, Landorus and... Cresselia?"

Landorus and Deoxys waved from the cliff. Zapdos and Ho-oh were flying around, getting used to their surroundings. Kyorgre was spouting water gently from the water and Cresselia was sitting triumphantly on the ground.

She got up slowly. "Hello, Darkrai. I've always wanted to tell you that you are a CHEATING LYING LITTLE-,"

Kyogre cut off the angry ex. "HAVE PEACE!"

Darkrai got red in the face and turned on Thundurus. "Did you...?"

"Invite the last two? Of course!" Thundurus laughed darkly. "You obviously still don't know me that well."

"Likewise." said Darkrai. He picked up his walkie-talkie. "Okay, guys, show yourself."

Tornadus and Manaphy came out from the wood. Manaphy grinned. "Hello, Storm. Long time no see."

Thundurus began to steam. "WHY?"

Darkrai chuckled darkly. "You obviously don't know me that well."

"Um, not to be rude or anything, but aren't you fogetting something?" asked Calla. "You know, US?"

"Right." said Darkrai. "These legendaries are here to prevent you from reaching the top."

"To answer you question, they DO want to kill us." said Ray to Sparks.

"So we don't get sued," added Darkrai, "there's a trampoline at the bottom, as you can see."

"Oh, okay." said Ava. "At least we won't die immediately."

"Get to your positions!" yelled Darkrai.

"Let's get to the hurting!" yelled Landorus, causing a mini-earthquake.

Deoxys nodded. "Don't hold back, campers."

"That'll be a bit difficult." said Empress. "Since you guys are LEGENDARIES."

"Yeah, that's true." said Sasha. She then began to choke a bit. "I mean, I was about to say that, but you took the words out of my mouth... and used them in a stupid way!"

Cactos was shocked. "Did you two just..."

"No." they said in unison. Then they looked at each other in disbelief. "QUIT COPYING ME!"

Darkrai lost his patience. "If you don't get into your positions in 5 seconds, you are disqualified. That includes you too, legendaries."

That's what got everyone panicking before it was necessary. Everyone was rushing to their spots so they wouldn't risk disqualification.

Thundurus had a starter gun cocked and aimed at the air. "3... 2... 1... Go!"

From far away, you'd think that it was just a normal rock-climbing trip, except that the weather conditions weren't right and that they were climbing as fast as the could. Some people fell, numerous or not. In fact, Redd was on his 12th way down before things got interesting.

Tornadus began to crack his back. "Time to get furious."

He began to spin rapidly and pick up a strong gust. A few people fell or got swept up in the gust and then fell. Of course, Zeneith used this to his advantage and glided his way to near the top.

Darkrai began to panic. Oh no, the challenges aren't supposed to be this short! He then got an idea. He grabbed a microphone. "New rule! First team up wins!"

Zeneith was just pulling himself up. "Oh, come ON!"

Sparks flew from Electra's cheeks. "Well, Darkrai, you didn't say anything about flying!" She flew quickly up to the top.

Zappy and Sparks looked at each other eagerly. They said in unison, "Let's combined our electricity." They held hands and began to spark up. They then began to cautiously, yet quickly, climb up the cliff.

Darkrai shrugged. "Two on each team have made it."

Ho-oh grinned. "And it will stay that way for a long time, gentlemen. Just leave it to me!"

"Here we go." said Manaphy. "Self-assured Ho-oh."

Ho-oh sucked in a breath and breathed a giant fireball out of its mouth, scattering campers everywhere. A few campers, like Redd, shrugged and kept climbing. Ho-oh also shrugged. "Whatever. Hey, Manaphy!"

Manaphy sighed. "Fine." The Seafaring Pokemon took a deep breath and shouted, "WATER PULSE!"

The fire-type Pokemon were scared out of their wits. If you've seen fear, you've seen nothing like this.

Ho-oh fluttered over to Kyogre. "Hey you. Help."

"But I am one with peace..." said Kyogre.

"No one gives two craps!" yelled Manaphy. "Just make some waves!"

"I refuse." said Kyogre.

"Oh my god." said Ho-oh. "DARKRAI! WE NEED YOUR HYPNOSIS SKILLS OVER HERE!"

In no time, Kyogre was screaming, "YOU MUST DIE!" and making giant waves against the cliff. The fire-type Pokemon, knowing they were screwed, used other contestants as shields.

"Watch it!" yelled Charles to TyTy as he got full-blast of the wave.

The Typhlosion shrugged. "Sorry, I have bad reflexes."

Landorus chuckled. "Hey, Tornadus."

"What?" asked the referred Pokemon.

"You make your tornado and I'll help out." said Landorus.

"How will you do that?" asked Tornadus.

Landorus chuckled again. "You'll see."

Cactos and Flare shared a rare glance at each other, wondering what was going on at the top of the cliff. Suddenly, the whole cliff began to shake uncontrollably. A few lost their grip and fell to the shore. Then came the tornado, which swept contestants up in a rage and violently shook them off a couple hundred feet above sea level. But that's not all; if a contestant wasn't swept up by the tornado or shaken off by the earthquake had a nasty surprise waiting.

The surprise was that Landorus was riding on Tornados with a Hammer Arm clobbering all who try to surpass.

Redd was holding a bloody nose. "That's it. No more Mr. Nice Guy."

Tornadus and Landorus triumphantly laughed at their creation, a cliff devoid of campers, when Redd began to climb with furious speed.

Landorus looked at his Kami brother. "Don't just sit there!"

Tornadus nodded. "Yes, brother." He picked up a gust as Landorus got on.

Redd was still climbing, not scared at all. "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."

"GO FASTER!" yelled Landorus, preparing his Hammer Arm.

"I'M TRYING!" yelled Tornadus.

"Just keep climb-ing. Just keep climb-ing..." sang Redd.

"What is that idiot think he's doing?" yelled Sebastian.

"Beyond me." said Aria.

"He looks mad!" exclaimed Ava. Everyone looked at her blankly. "What?"

Redd grabbed onto the Hammer Arm. "Hasta la Vista, BABY!"

"Wha-?" was all that Landorus could get out before Redd shot off of the tornado up the cliff.

He didn't show up for a while, and everyone was silent until he sat up and gave a confident thumbs-up. Everyone began to cheer wildly and gain confidence.

"If he can do it, I can too." said Calla.

"Awesome!" cheered Zeneith. "I knew he could do it!"

"Thanks, Steve!" said Redd with a giant grin.

"Guys." said Ray, who was also at the top. "Everyone forgot about me. Even those dumb-ass legendaries."

Tornados began to pick up another gust. "You little-,"

Deoxys stopped him in his tracks. "Leave the rest to me."

"I've read about him." said Blossom. "Oh goodness, I wish that the whole team didn't have to make it up."

"Time to climb." said Tyson, grinning wildly.

The Buizel grabbed a rock with his paw and began to climb. Deoxys lit up instantly and quickly began to levitate downward. "Ah, warm ups."

"That's funny." panted Tyson, thrusting himself up the cliff at rapid speed. "I thought the same thing."

"Please." said Deoxys. "I'm the legendary here. You're just lunchmeat."

"If I were you, I'd be saying that my underwear just turned into a lemonade stand." said Tyson.

Ray gaped. "Oh shit."

Deoxys began to fume a bit. "You'll eat your words, Buizel."

"My name is Tyson." he said. "Nice to meet you, Dork-oxys."

Meanwhile, Sebastian was climbing with Francis. Sebastian noticed his sullen demeanor. "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, bro." said Francis, looking away.

"Tell me." urged Sebastian. "Dude, I'm your friend, right?"

That's when Ho-oh decided to fly by, with Manaphy on its back. "I heard about your dead friend." Manaphy said, scoffing.

Francis began to fill with rage. "How?"

"I have friends in high places." Manaphy replied. "Too bad, though. Matthew messed with the wrong people, you see."

"It was an ACCIDENT!" roared Francis.

Manaphy, closing its eyes and throwing its head back to laugh, was enjoying the fury. "Now all you have left is that stupid Tut."

Francis had snapped by then and was on top of Ho-oh. Before it could say anything else, Manaphy was given a punch square to the face and was falling to the ground.

"Dude!" yelled Sebastian. "He's a legendary!"

"And I don't give two shits." said Francis. "Hop on."

Sebastian looked at Ho-oh, who looked willing to take Francis anywhere due to fear, and nodded. "Alright."

Francis was still seething. "No one makes fun of my best friends and gets away with it. No one!"

Torrent was shocked. "Oh my god. He punched a legendary. Something tells me he doesn't always play by the rules."

Darkrai got his mega-phone out to speak to the campers. "Due to Thundurus' insane amounts of happiness and due to the fact that no one liked Manaphy anyway, Francis isn't disqualified."

Torrent was just pulling herself up to hear this. She didn't see a happy Francis or an angry Francis. She saw a quiet, frustrated Francis, something she had never seen before.

Torrent walked over cautiously. "Are you okay?"

Francis sighed. "Yeah. I'm fine."

Sebastian was stifling laughter. "Did you see him punch that guy? That was awesome!"

Francis shrugged. "That jerk pissed me off. I'll tell you about it later, alright?"

Torrent nodded. "Okay."

Sebastian ran over to the edge of the cliff. "Look over here! Tyson is fighting Deoxys!"

Ray galloped over. "What?" Then he saw. "Oh my god. He's... He's..."

He was evolving. Deoxys was on the ground, panting like crazy while a Floatzel was cracking his knuckles and frowning.

Cactos was flabbergasted. "Again? Another evolution?"

Flare shrugged. "Now each team has had at least one."

Deoxys began to fly up the cliff to the Floatzel, yelling, "I will finish you!"

Tyson, not scared at all, just waited patiently. "I'm sure you will."

"TAKE THIS!" yelled Deoxys, raising a fist.

But Tyson also raised a fist and gave Deoxys a straight punch to the face. Deoxys fell 50 feet and Tyson began to climb very rapidly. Before Deoxys could say anything else, Tyson had reached the top.

Ava gaped. "He looks... Different!"

"The score is tied!" cheered Darkrai. "Five to five!"

"They're going to win anyway!" yelled Sasha.

"They have more contestants than us!" yelled Empress.

They looked at each other in horror. "STOP!"

Ray looked at the new Tyson quizzically. He was still as a statue with a stern look on his face. If you had seen the old Tyson before, you would know something was definitely wrong.

"Ty?" asked Ray nervously. He was silent. "Ty?"

TyTy was pulling himself up. "Yes?"

"NOT YOU!" shouted Ray.

TyTy hung his head. "Sorry."

"I am fine." said Tyson. "Why do you ask, Ray?"

Ray looked even more closely at him, which seemed to make Tyson a bit uncomfortable. Ray asked, "You weren't like this in your past form."

Tyson shrugged. "I have matured. I am now a different person, and now people will respect me rather than just laugh with me."

"What do you mean?" asked Ray, who was very frightened.

"Our immature days are over." said Tyson.

Over. Over. Over. The words were like a knife, stabbing into Ray, each time more painful. Over and over and over again. Then, Ray didn't say another word and just walked away, pondering how he will get his best friend back.

"Out of all of the things that could have happened." sighed Charles. "That happened."

Cactos shook his head. "I can't say I'm not sorry for Ray, but that means that he and Tyson can focus on the tasks at hand."

Flare shook her head. "I can't say that I'm sorry for Ray, but that means that he and Tyson will focus on the task at hand. And possibly become threats."

Redd simply said, "My neck hurts."

Zero glanced above him. "Just a few more meters." He reassured himself. Then he felt a yank on his leg and he lost his grip. When he fell a few feet and regained his grip, he saw that Calla was smugly smiling.

"Oops." She said coldly. "I thought you were someone else."

Zero began to climb even quicker and still made it before Calla. But Zero, not one to rub it in, just walked over to a grassy place and sat down. "I made it."

Calla called to him. "Zero! Come here!"

Zero walked over. "What is it?"

Calla sighed. "You know how I yelled at you earlier?"

Zero nodded. "Yes, I do. What about it?"

He then felt her paw on his back and her whisper, "I'm not sorry at all."

Ava had just floated up. "What's going on?"

But Zero had already lost his balance and fell to the bottom of the cliff.

Calla laughed triumphantly. "Hurts, doesn't it?"

Ava was unbelievably scared. She shouted after him. "ZERO!"

Thundurus blew his whistle. "As of now, the challenge is over."

"WHAT?" yelled people on the cliff.

Darkrai shrugged. "You guys took too long. The Suicunes win. Raikous, see me at the campfire in 2 hours."

"It's already 5 o' clock?" yelled Cactos. "No way!"

"Way." said Flare. "Let's go, team."

Ava turned on Calla. "You monster!"

Calla shrugged. "Oops."

Ava began to cry. "I never want to be in an alliance with you again!"

Everyone was silent. There were a few 'what's and 'how's fron the crowd, but Ava couldn't take back her words.

Calla shouted at her. "YOU IDIOT! I COULD JUST-,"

But before she could "just-", Ava slapped her. Calla grabbed her cheek and ran away. Ava just stayed there, still crying.

"How do we get down from here?" asked Kai.

Blossom was curled up in the corner of her cabin, thinking about what traumatized her enough to be there: Zapdos, the Electric-type legendary bird Pokemon. Then, a flash-back began to take place.

Cresselia was sitting with Darkrai and Thundurus. "Hey, Darky."

"Don't call me that." moaned Darkrai.

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME!" shouted Cresselia. Then she was calm again. "Do you know how much I've missed you?"

"Uh..." thought Darkrai. "No?"

"Of course you don't." said Cresselia. "Because I DIDN'T, YOU HEARTLESS-,"

The future Blossom came in. "Uh, this is the wrong flashback. This is Darkrai's."

Aipom Boy III stopped. "Oops. I can fix that."

"DON'T YOU DARE-," was all Cresselia could get out before the scene was cut to Blossom with her buddies, Birch and Blaze. They were watching Tyson kick Deoxys' ass.

"I think I've been inspired." said Blossom. "I'm going to climb."

Blaze gaped at her. "Are you sure? It's a long way up."

"And a long way down." added Birch. "If only there were some sort of treatment that could make me come with you..."

Blaze continued. "But I guess there's no stopping you. It would be inappropriate if I told you to break a leg, so good luck."

"Be like that climber!" exclaimed Birch. "Junky Tabby!"

"It's Jukno Tabei." corrected Blaze. "Not Junky Tabby."

"Oh." said Birch. "Okay then. Be like Jacko Tabitha!"

Blaze sighed. "No, it's-,"

Birch shrugged. "I never was good with names. Just go, babe."

And she did. Blossom was only a few feet up when Zapdos saw her and plummeted. "Alright, time for some ACTION!"

All Blossom could register was, "Ah..."

"THUNDER!" bellowed Zapdos as the shock hit her. Then the flashback went away.

Blossom sat up. "I never knew there was an ointment for nearly everything."

Speaking of ointments, Grace the Chansey was tending to a heavily-injured Zero.

"Would you like something to eat?" she asked him.

The gauze in his mouth made it hard to understand him. "Mmm mmm!"

"What was that?" asked Grace.

"Mmm MMM!" said a muffled Zero even louder.

"Oh, never mind." said Grace. "Your mouth is too full of gauze." She then saw a box. "Hello! What's this?" She read the note. "This is the only time we are saving your... bleep..." She censored the ending because of her hatred of cursing. She opened the box and saw something that made her gape. "Oh my god."

"Mmm?" asked Zero.

Torrent was studying a solemn Francis, who was looking blankly at the campfire. The firelight dance on his aged face and she wondered what he was doing there. So she asked, "What are you doing here?"

Francis sighed. "I got a note this morning. Before you'd be able to understand, I'll have to tell you about a friend of mine, Matthew. He was a Carnivine that went to my old art school, the one I went to before I came here. He's my best friend because he is the only person who has ever stood up for me... And I never really thanked him for that."

There was silence. Torrent asked again, "What happened? To Matthew, I mean."

Francis leaned back a bit, feeling tears well up. "Another friend of mine named Tut, a Cofagrius, sent me the letter I mentioned earlier. The letter said that Matthew had been shot in the head by accident due to a gang fight he was passing by."

"That's terrible." said Torrent.

"The worst part is that the gang that shot Matthew was the same gang that Lawrence came from." said Francis, tears running down his cheeks. "Of course, he wasn't the one who shot him. And I bet he wouldn't have shot him at all either, because I know that Lawrence wouldn't do that. He was dumped by the gang anyway. I hear that Pedro, the Emboar, died and that Cron, the Gigalith, is now in jail. But the thing that gets me is that they haven't done a damn thing about Vinnie."

Francis then remembered Lawrence telling him and the others about his story. The whole time- unbeknownst to anyone else- he knew exactly which gang Lawrence was talking about. He figured that's why he and Lawrence were such good friends and got along with each other. Not only were they from the same hometown, but shared a deep connection, something deeper than most anybody had experienced before. They have both had tolls taken upon them and had come through one way or another.

Soon, the campers filed in except for Birch and Zero. Darkrai and Thundurus also came eventually. Darkrai cleared his throat. "It appears that Thundurus has misplaced our Potions..."

"I did not!" shouted Thundurus.

"We'll have to postpone the campfire ceremony until later." continued Darkrai. Then he and Thundurus left to sort out their differences.

"Why would you need those for a ceremony anyway?" asked Electra. "I've already got a bunch of Potions myself. My mom says that she's worried I'll get hurt and bleed to death or something."

"That's my biggest fear." said Cactos. "That's why I hate fighting so much."

"Because of a little blood?" asked Zappy. "That's a bit..."

"There's an actual fear fur 'at." said Travish, taking a swig. "It's called hemophobia."

"To be honest, I got the fear from witnessing a brutal beating of one of my kind." said Cactos silently. "He was beaten to death, and I never want to see anything of the sort again."

"Dae ye want tae ken whit aam afraid ay?" asked Travish.

"I have the strange feeling you are going to tell us anyway." said Ray. He was about to nudge Tyson, but he didn't speak a word.

Travish continued. "Nae kergo. An' havin' tae bevvy water. 'At tasteless piss will be th' end ay me, Ah swear!"

"My fear is going to the dentist." said Ray. "Or listening to the Jonas Brothers for 24 hours straight. Or writing a fanfic."

"Well excuse me!" said Aipom Boy III.

Ray ignored him. "If that's not enough, then add 'no soda for the rest of my life' to the list."

"That's a lot of fears." said TyTy. "Mine would be the apocalypse. I can't bear to think of anything crashing and burning, but a whole world?"

Tyson finally spoke up. "My fear would be getting beaten up by a girl."

Empress scoffed. "What makes you so high and mighty now?"

"I thought we were friends!" added Sasha.

They looked at each other again, but just said, "Oh, what's the use?"

Tyson shrugged. "I don't know. I'm not sure why that would seem so frightening, but it does." He looked around. "Does anyone have any food? I'm starving."

Ray handed him a RageCandyBar. "How about this?"

Tyson shrugged. "Okay, sure." He ate the whole thing in one bite.

Ray was nearly about to cry. "He's showing some similar traits! It's a start!"

Tyson rubbed his belly. "I'm tired." He then took a nap.

Ava simply said, "I hate hurricanes."

Calla ignored her. "Being trapped in a dump would be awfully frightening."

Sasha sighed. "Mud."

Empress scoffed. "I'm not afraid of anything."

"What a load of bull." teased Zappy. "Of course you are. Even a little bit."

Empress laughed, but then tapered off. "Fine. Heights."

Zappy was shocked. "Me too!"

Aria gasped. "Me three!"

Sasha shrugged. "I guess that's reasonable." They were too tired to realize they were agreeing anymore.

"Hoses." said Redd.

"Being betrayed, losing a battle, or getting kissed by a girl in front of a large crowd." said Kai.

"The sun crashing into the earth, crazy exes of new boyfriends, or Chimchars." said Torrent.

Flare looked at her. "You aren't scared of me, are you?"

"Not at all." said Torrent. "But when you jumped off of that cliff, that was a bit frightening."

Flare shrugged. "Alright. I'm afraid of earthquakes or my trainer."

"What's so bad about-," Cactos began before Blaze cut her off.

"Definetely Taurus." said Blaze. "No doubt about that. They killed my parents."

Everyone was silent. Then Blossom broke the silence. "The legendary bird Pokemon, but it seems that I already faced that fear."

"Being buried alive." said Sebastian.

"Bug Pokemon." said Chelsea.

"Harsh critisism." said Francis.

"Volcanoes." said Electra, eyeing Blaze and thinking about his sudden confession.

"Water." said Charles.

"Being framed as a cheater or being banned from a competition." said Sparks.

"Losing, being weak, or further disgracing my clan." said Chad.

Zeneith sighed. "Being stuck in a cave with no way out."

Zero appeared, fully healed. "Being ignored."

"Camerupts." shuddered a voice. It was Birch, who was walking.

Blossom ran over, gave him a hug, and kissed him. "You're healed."

Grace appeared. "Thanks to new technology from the producers."

"Thanks." said Zero and Birch together.

"No worries." said Grace, leaving.

Darkrai and Thundurus entered. The host sighed. "You know what? We don't need them, we have wasted enough time. Let's just have a bit of suspense."

"Uh-oh." said Ava. "I don't know what that word means, but it doesn't sound good."

"Drumroll, please." Darkrai said. Thundurus took out some drumsticks and a random bongo. "You don't need drumsticks for that." Thundurus sighed, put the sticks away, and began to beat the bongo with his hands. "The person leaving tonight... is..."

The Raikous were on edge, and a few people looked at...

"TyTy." finished Darkrai. "It's time for you to go."

TyTy was shocked, but put on a smile. "Good luck."

"Thanks." said some campers.

He walked over to his boat and turned around to ask, "Does this mean I'll see..."

"TyTy!" called a voice. He turned around to see Sheila running towards him. They embraced as the campers cheered.

Sheila slapped him. "That was for not saying goodbye to me." Then she kissed him. "And that was for being sorry enough to burn down a confessional."

TyTy was so dazed that he mumbled inaudibly and fainted. After he was carried onto the boat and the boat left, Darkrai dismissed the campers.

"You got the tape?" asked Thundurus.

"Yup." chuckled Darkrai, showing it to him. "This will come in handy. Suckers!"

Aria was walking sadly back to her cabin, alone, when Zeneith flew along. "Could I talk to you for a second?" he asked.

"I was hoping..." began Aria before Zeneith interrupted her.

"I really like you." said Zeneith. "You might have already known that, but now I've finally said it. You may not feel the same feelings, but I just wanted you to know-,"

This time, it was Aria that kissed Zeneith to shut him up. "I think you would make a great boyfriend." she said after pulling away at last.

Zeneith felt his heart beat furiously, and even more furiously with fear when a voice said, "I knew it."

It was Charles. Zeneith gritted his teeth. "Jeez, man!"

Aria giggled. "Was that good? I think I did a pretty good job of shutting him up."

"You sure did." said Charles. "Welcome to the alliance."

Thundurus stretched and hopped into bed. After he closed his eyes, he heard an annoying song. One he absolutely detested...

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you...

Thundurus snapped awake. He had just been RickRoll'd, and wanted to know where the music was coming from. He tore apart his cabin to search.

Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you...

Thundurus heard the end of the song and felt relaxed that it was over. Until it looped again...

We're no strangers to love...

Now Thundurus was furious. "Whoever did this will pay!"

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

He finally found the music coming from a Hallmark card under his pillow that was open.

Don't tell me you're to blind to see.

Thundurus ripped the card apart. "ZAPPY! SPARKS! THIS IS THE LAST STRAW!"

The two were outside, looking through the window. They chuckled and shared a kiss in the mischievous moonlight.

Aaaaand that's a wrap! So yeah, the fear challenge is next! Who will survive? Well, I hope everyone does, but still. You neeeeeeever know. Zero nearly died.

TyTy: Thanks for all of the fun, guys! And review!