Survivor - Kodai Island

Chapter 36 - Day 27 Part 2 and Day 28

So yeah, last reward challenge was made up, but it really felt good to call the challenge "Target Smash"! Should I bring it back for future seasons? Probably. Honestly, more made-up challenges were supposed to take place this season, but trust me, it's much harder than it looks.

Onto the chapter itself, here's the new majority: (Tatakai Alliance) Link, Ike, Lucario, Wii Fit Trainer, Pit, and Mewtwo. (Power Sumasshu Alliance) Bowser, Mario, Sonic, and Wolf. So four of these castaways are in jeopardy and three of them are sort of like "the main characters" of the season. If you are rooting for him, they will have to luck out somewhat.

But what can they do? Also, will Lucario really find his second idol? The guy's already considered to be a physical threat and he did play a part in the Donkey Kong blindside even though he literally admitted that he never intended to (lol). So if he has two idols, his threat level will completely skyrocket. Oh boy...

~KF

Senshi

Day 27

"Do you guys think it would have made much of a difference if we used the red's team strategy for the target portion of that challenge?"

"I doubt it." Link shook his head with a sigh, not meeting eyes with Ike. "Their targets were placed in the exact same spots as ours. Even though Sonic smashed the target at the top, he was being Sonic, so that played a role of leading the red team to victory because they had a head start on the puzzle."

"Perhaps at this point all, it is simply best for me to rely on this thing called 'luck' when it comes to reward challegnes…" Mewtwo rolled his eyes with tied up arms.

"I am getting more and more frustrated within every loss. Out of the people remaining on the island, I am the one person that has not went on one reward within the post-merge portion of the game. Wolf on the other hand has been on every last one thus far. It is basically the Pit vs Bowser Tribal Council situation and I can not say that I am fond of it. ...Yet as of right now, the only benefit of losing this reward challenge is that I get to spend more time with Lucario. Not only he is apparently willing to work with me in the future, but he has shown me his hidden immunity idol clue as a way for the two of us to be each other's ally. I say it is a good move on his part, since he could have easily saved the clue for himself, yet he chose to sacrifice that in order to share it with me."

"May I see the clue again?" Mewtwo asked the other Pokemon.

Watching Lucario nimbly moving his hand through his bag, he eventually found it. "Here it is."

Opening it up again, he had to remind his own self of what the clue said, since this was one of the few opportunities the two would attempt at searching. "...Looks like we need to look for a tree that has a japanese symbol on it. This might take a while, so we both need to commence our search party immediately. Sonic, Link, and Wolf are elsewhere, and we only have so much time before the other five return."

"Now that Mewtwo has flipped back to our alliance, I can now fully take advantage of the situation by having this golden opportunity for us to hunt for the hidden immunity idol. Even if he flips yet again, having him with me can potentially decrease my chances of getting booted on in these next few Tribal Councils, so I am making rather quite, yet powerful moves here to progress my game. The most fortunate part about it is that I already have my own immunity idol; retrieving a second one will be an added bonus, increasing my chances of making it to the finals."

As they both carried their belongings while leaving the shelter, Link, who was coming back with more firewood, witnessed the both of them from a distance.

Then a few seconds later, Ike came from the beach. "Bowser soaking in the water to calm himself down instead of the usual log he sits on. ...Where did Mewtwo and Lucario go?"

"They're going off in the woods." He explained, still watching them from afar. "I swear… sometimes I feel those two have something going…"

"I'm slowly starting to see Mewtwo and Lucario hang around each other much more often. A couple people including myself have seen them whispering for quite a while now. Mewtwo already flipped… twice… But this time, Mewtwo apparently explained that his reason for flipping was because of DK… Okay, even I of all people don't understand it and I'm not even in the same alliance... He wasn't even on the bottom for crying out loud! But besides that,... I think there's more to the story. Does he have something going on with Lucario? ...I... can't really say… His name was not even written down last Tribal Council, so there's also a possibility that I'm just thinking of this in my head, but it's Survivor. You never know."

"Do you think that they know something we don't?" Link questioned. "Or… am I just being the most paranoid person in the world?"

"Well, I can say that I've seen those two go off elsewhere behind our backs throughout the past couple days; this isn't really the first time." Ike brought up. "Maybe they're slowly growing on each other?"

"All I gotta say is that power couples don't last in Survivor at all." Link shook his head. "Look at seasons like Millennials vs Gen X. It's something else we need to discuss in the near future. ...So anyway, now that we're in the majority again thanks to Mewtwo, who would be our next target?"

"Obviously it would be Bowser. Let's try that same trick against them to see how they like it. You see, this is exactly what I mean when I fight for my friends." Ike smirked. "Since DK is now gone, he's the biggest physical threat, and he can be very sneaky, especially since people have tried getting rid of him before, including ourselves. Even though he doesn't know what he's doing socially, he's good at everything else."

"Good call." Link nodded. "He'd better not win immunity. I heard he was a target since day one, anyway. If he doesn't have an idol, immunity is the one thing that would stop us from voting him out. We just have to make sure Mewtwo is really with us this time, especially now that he has Lucario.

"You don't think those two would flip and blindside us, would you?"

"I really hope not, Ike. The two of us plus Lucario have been loyal to each other the entire time. No matter how dangerous Mewtwo gets as of now, we can't vote him out. I don't think it's the best move to do so since we just got back in the majority. If we do so, it's then a 5-4, and then Lucario would be the one person that would be motivated enough to flip."

"I'm a physical threat. Everyone knows it." Ike said. "And now that I have the majority here, now it's time to once again (hopefully) turns the table on them and vote out Bowser for being a physical threat. But since Mewtwo flipped twice now, I'm worried that he could become untrustworthy and blindside us again, and then I would really hate him for it. Me and my pal Link are speculating that since he's talking to Lucario a lot more, we presume that Lucario might have played a role in that. And if that's true, then I'd consider him to be a strategic player, whether good or not. He is definitely somebody we need to think about."

Day 27

"Woah! Now this is definitely something I needed. Way better than just sitting around camp waiting for the next day all the time! This is what I was hoping for the entire time and I can say that it is something that is worth the wait." An elated Sonic stated, staring out the window in awe. "...And that's coming from me!"

The hedgehog, accompanied by Mario, Wii Fit Trainer, Pit, and Wolf were all on Master Hand's promised helicopter trip, the vehicle flying around Kodai Island, giving the five reward winning passengers a view of the island like no other. See? Starving for twenty-seven days for something like that was something that one could remember for the rest of his or her lifetime.

"Hey, is that Bowser floating in the water down there?"

Mario and Wolf, who were on the same side as Pit, all stared out the window the latter was pointing at. Within a few second of staring, Bowser Koopa was located floating in the water with arms behind his head.

Then all of a sudden, he was seen opening one eye.

"..."

Next thing the winners knew, he began making his way out of the water with a major eye roll.

This caused Wolf to laugh slightly. "He's irritated that we're on the reward than he's not."

"Well, he'll stop being a sore loser eventually." Wii Fit Trainer stated. "He always has been whenever things don't go his way."

"Wait a minute guys, I'm confused…" Pit suddenly thought of something.

"What?" Wolf raised an eyebrow, adjusting his headset microphone he had to wear for the flight.

"If we're in Kodai Island right now… But... this is in the Okinawa islands, I'm… I'm confused…" He shook his head nimbly, assuming his geography skills were not exactly sharp.

"There are islands within islands around the world. They consider Kodai Island to be part of Okinawa, only somewhat smaller." Wii Fit Trainer lectured. "The concept is not uncommon."

"...Oh…" He blinked. "Well okay, then. As long as everything looks nice, I'm pleased nonetheless. Seriously. Everything looks so beautiful from up here."

"I agree." Mario smiled. "We don't get to appreciate this location enough because we're all strategizing every five seconds. As important the strategy aspect of the game is, we didn't come all this way just to ignore what area of Japan we're in. 'Survivor vacations' are hard, but all these rewards are very well worth the struggle."

"The view at Kodai Island from the helicopter was beyond beautiful. Maybe sometime after this game is over I can vacate her in Okinawa myself and bring some friends with me." Mario might as well have made future plans at that point.

Sometime after they landed, they were wandering around a private beach until they eventually found the second part of their reward.

"Alright, now we're talking! Meat, here I come!" Wolf clapped at the sight of the food placed on a brown, picnic like table. He held no shame in dashing right towards it like a little puppy he once was... only that he never ran on all fours, but that was besides the point.

"But now we're at the food portion of this reward and surprisingly, the people on the bottom now have the majority. The only person from my alliance that is not here is Bowser of all people. Unfortunately, there's Wii Fit Trainer and Pit."

"Don't try to overdo it rapidly, guys." Wii Fit Trainer wanted to warn them briefly before Wolf even took his first bite of a cheeseburger. "There have been seasons were people have thrown up for eating too much; and before coming out here, I watched Survivor - Kaoh Rong and very late in the game-"

"Please no spoilers, Wii Fit Trainer." Pit said. "I haven't finished that season, yet. Besides, you're on camera so you could spoil the season in front of millions of people."

"Well, I just don't want you guys to go too far. I promise that there's way more food at Ponderosa, anyway." She began to eat a few french fries.

"With Wii Fit Trainer, we could try to plant a seed in her head for her to come to our side, but we all know how that played out at first. She's probably the last person we'd strategize with. But as for Pit, I gave him a couple opportunities to work with me, but a few tribals ago, I could tell that it was not going to happen, especially after we struck his alliance first. Most likely, he doesn't think that he can trust me, so now I don't trust him. So the moment when he was in danger I knew I had to deny it because I didn't want to mess my game up."

"Sonic past me that ketchup over there." Wolf readied his hand to receive the condiment. However, upon squirting the bottle, he never paid attention to the direction it was pointing due to hunger possessing him. As a result, the direction the ketchup was squirted in ended up landing on Wii Fit Trainer's tank top.

Sonic the Hedgehog and Pit's laughs that followed the small incident never held back, especially knowing the victim in particular.

"Oops…" Wolf said.

"No!" Her head shake said otherwise, pointing at Wolf to scold him as if he was an elementary school kid in trouble. "You did that on purpose, Wolf! You already searched through my stuff, now you have two strikes!"

Eye roll. "Whatever... Lemme just enjoy my food, 'cause I don't wanna go back..."

"I'm surprised that hardly anyone in the Tatakai Alliance has talked about the now discovered 'Legacy Advantage' as far as I'm concerned. Then again, I think it's because that the whole thing is overshadowed due to Mewtwo's flip. So as the five us were laying down in the sand after we ate, I ended up with Sonic. Clearly we were gonna be talking for quite a bit."

"What should we do now, Sonic?" Mario whispered softly. He thanked the Survivor Gods he was next to him.

"Um… I dunno…" He shrugged.

"Well, we have to do something. Otherwise, we could be just picked off one by one." He hypothesized. "If we're gonna remain on the bottom, should we at least change our vote, or stay consistent?"

"I think we should just stick with the vote for Wii Fit Trainer." He felt it was a no-brainer. "If we actually have a chance, I want that advantage gone. She's messing with everyone's nerves, anyway, and everyone has been wanting her out for this entire game, even more than Bowser. Now we both want him to stay here. I want to talk to Wolf about it, though. I think he's pretty good at convincing people to flip, and right now we need two."

"I'm gonna do some stretching farther down the beach." Wii Fit Trainer all of a sudden got up and walked off. "Pit, come with me. I need to talk to you."

With the brown-haired castaway standing with slight confusion, he reluctantly headed down in her direction to join her. And no, he was no reluctant of some stretching that he might had to do. Nevertheless, she made one big mistake.

"...Is she really just gonna get Pit of all people with her and leave us three here by ourselves?" Wolf realized that almost his entire alliance was left behind on the sand. "...Seriously? ...Is she that stupid? At this point, she might as well be one of 'those' Survivor players, if either of you know what I mean."

"It's like she's asking for it." Sonic added. "Ike was right. This person really didn't know what she signed up for."

"I knew I was not gonna like Wii Fit Trainer the moment I saw her, but I'm used to seeing her working out all the time. Now all of a sudden since people have tried to lie to her and her name was written down, she's obviously getting worse as each day passes." Sonic sighed, taking the time to remember absolutely everything he seen her do thus far. "She's just really bad at Survivor. That's a long story short right there. She's doing a great job at making sure her name comes up as much as possible."

"Well, I guess since the three of us are conveniently the only ones here, now we can strategize to see what our plan is." Wolf naturally took the perfect opportunity to talk it out with his allies. "Did you two discuss anything?"

"We still want Wii Fit Trainer out. I dunno how we're gonna do it, but we're gonna do it." The hedgehog told. "She still has that advantage. If she is out next Tribal Council, then we can finally get rid of the Tatakai alliance starting off with Mewtwo. But now, it has to be Wii Fit Trainer. Don't worry about who she is going to give the Legacy Advantage because at this point, it could very well be freakin' anyone."

"Unless an idol is played on one of us, we need two people to flip." Mario raised two fingers. "If Mewtwo doesn't flip… for a third time, then we can vote him off later. But if he's not flipping, then who do we talk to? At this point, I am starting to care less of whatever two people would join our side..."

"Beats me being the only one from Tatakai in your alliance..."

-/-

"So, what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well, I just wanna make sure that Bowser is next, right?"

"I haven't heard anything, but I think most likely is him." He nodded even though without official confirmation. "I feel like if we don't take him out now, he could very well go on a run. He should have been gone a long time ago, but he was either always kept for challenge strength, or saved by someone else, so I think we finally have a good shot at taking him out."

"Okay. I was just checking so that I won't have to worry about being lied to again." She responded, bringing up the whole Donkey Kong incident for the umpteenth time. "But out of all the remaining people here, you are one of the few that I wouldn't mind having a cup of tea with if you know what I mean."

"...Really?"

"Really. You are one of the few people that I didn't get mad with. But the main reason on why I'm telling you this is because that we're the only ones that are in the same alliance right now on this reward in particular."

"...Oh…" After a couple moments of silence of not knowing what exactly to say, Pit simply scratched his head in the reaction. "...Well, I guess that's good to hear."

"I don't know what I did, but all of a sudden, Wii Fit Trainer is actually fond of me. I appreciate it,... but I don't know what I did. I mean, is it because of what we said of how we're the only ones from our alliance that is on this reward together? ...It's just… it just seems so random. But now I know that if I somehow make it to the end of this game, and if she's on the jury if she actually gets voted out, at least I know that it is likely that I'm gonna get her jury vote. But then if she's in the final three, maybe I have chance at... Oh, who am I kidding. Anyone can beat Wii Fit Trainer at this point."

Senshi

Day 28

It was super early in the morning of day twenty-eight in the Senshi camp, explaining the reason to why only one person proved to be active, which just so happened to be Mewtwo. Judging by the situation, as well as his conversation with another certain Pokemon yesterday, one could have inferred that he only had one thing on his mind.

"It is almost seven in the morning, and I made sure that I was quiet as possible so that I can escape the shelter safely." He elaborated on his intentions. "Me and Lucario attempted looking for the idol yesterday, and I purposefully stayed with Lucario the entire time in order to keep watch, even though I am aware that there was a possibility that he would me had he find it, anyway. After all, he came to me for a reason, yet I just wanted to be a hundred and ten percent sure just in case."

He was then seen staring at trees again, glancing at each part that seemed rather 'out of place' to him, remembering the contents of the idol clue.

"Just because he enlightened me about the idol clue does not mean that I am going to let him find it. It would be grand opportunity for me personally since we are working with each other, yet since he told me, I am going to use that for my advantage and not his. My goal is to find it before he does, and I figure that this is the perfect time. Lucario tends to be one of the last individuals to arise from their sleep after all."

He spent quite a lot of time in the woods with the occasional strange, yet somewhat curious facial expression whenever he witnessed many bugs crawling around in groups. Muck to his luck however, after twenty minutes, he finally found something that was supposedly calling out to him.

"At one point, I found a sign on one of the many palm trees that had two Japanese symbols on the trunk, followed by a giant red arrow pointing downwards. I assumed that the symbol meant to dig."

And thus, it was what he was doing. Once he started, he almost immediately found the item he was looking for.

"And there it was: the key in the game." He grabbed the immunity idol that was now sitting next to him. "I at long last found it. Now that I know that Lucario does not have it, I shall use this to my advantage. You desire as much power as possible. I have taken quite a bit of heat last night, because of my fellow castaways having the inability to understand the position I was in. With that being said, if they choose to attempt to get rid of me to have my torch snuffed by the master out of spite, I now have the most powerful tool in this game that I could put to good use."

*Sighs* It had to be Mewtwo. Of all people, it just had to be him lol.

Let's have a recap on who has what. Mewtwo has an idol, Lucario has an idol, Wolf has an idol, Bowser has an extra vote, and Wii Fit Trainer has a Legacy Advantage. Half the tribe has some type of power in the game, and with the numbers decreasing, things tend to get more intense. Since the merge, nobody has played anything, which then causes more hype. But other than that...

Questions:

1. It seems Bowser is once again in trouble immediately after being back on the bottom. Would he get voted out for real, or do you guys think something else would happen?

2. Link and Ike are now growing more careful of Lucario and Mewtwo. They never said that they wanted them out, they just said that they basically could be considered dangerous (especially now that they both have idols). Would they try to get rid of him, or just simply do something beyond their control?

3. Wii Fit Trainer all of a sudden tells Pit that he's the only person in the game that seemed to never disrespect her in any way. Why do you all think she would tell him this and what could that mean?

Vote on my pool if you havent already and I will see you all next week! (I am one person away from twenty voters)