Survivor - Mexico (Brain vs Brawn vs Beauty)

Chapter 38 - Day 36

Alright, guys. Welcome back to another chapter of Survivor - Mexico (Brain vs Brawn vs Beauty). This chapter, we're going onto the next immunity challenge. And in case you haven't noticed, we are getting close to the finale (which I usually start at the final five). Things are starting to get real here. Six players left: Panther, Isabelle, Chica, Incineroar, Plague Knight, and Funky Kong.

We still have a couple more people left to reveal for Survivor - Caribbean, so stay tuned for that as well. For now, let's get into the final six!

~KF


EPISODE THIRTEEN: That's My Final Three


Fuerza

Night 35


Incineroar, Chica, Panther, Plague Knight, Funky Kong, Isabelle

-/-

The final six of season three all laid down their torches returning to their camp. Daisy's elimination took place not too long before they arrived thanks to the swing vote of the voting round, resulting in completely mixed emotions about his decision.

As it was slightly drizzling at the time, Incineroar sat still in the shelter with anger, clearly too annoyed to think about Plague Knight at the time even though the vote went his way.

"I don't know, man... Something told that she was gonna be sassy right from the get go." He complained staring at the ground. "I'm glad she's gone. This was the perfect time for her to go after all that because her mouth got her in trouble."

"Just don't worry about it." Funky Kong suggested, Isabelle hooking her immunity necklace onto the tree branch. "It's over. It's over and done with. We'll just go to bed and you can sleep it off. Tomorrow's a new day. That's the way I would look at it."

"That may be fine for you, but you know me." The Pokemon replied. "I try to be as upbeat as possible but when I get mad, I get mad. And I'd get mad for a while depending on how I feel about it... Im'ma try, though. Maybe me writing her name down sending her home was more than enough."

"We were gonna vote out Panther over her, but thank Arceus that Daisy's gone, whether Panther had an idol or not. She ran her mouth through the whole Tribal Council, then gets surprised that her name is written down. She got blindsided tonight, but that's what she gets. She can run her mouth all night long but then gets surprised when she's no longer in this game. Oh well. I have no sympathy for her. She shouldn't have let her mouth get into trouble like that. Karma bit her in the butt and now she's on the jury."

Panther Caroso was also sitting in the shelter near Incineroar. Yet he was of course mad for a completely different reason.

He cursed under his breath and shook his head in disbelief.

"I can't believe she's gone..." Chica whispered. "Like, even though she had a chance of going home last time, I didn't want her out because she was supposed to be part of our plan. Now we're at the bottom! ...I'm on the bottom... Again!"

In contrast, Isabelle hugged Plague Knight.

"Thank you so much..."

Though to her confusion, he did not hug back. Nonetheless, it never bothered her that much.

"I could have sworn that something told me for sure that Plague Knight was not going to align with us." Isabelle shook her head, fearing the worst up until the votes came through. "I thought that me, Funky, and Incineroar already had a low chance of the vote going our way tonight due to the Brains history with Plague Knight. But, what do you know? He actually did it... or didn't, as in he did not vote against us... I am shocked... Like,... I don't even care why he had a change of heart, just as long as my alliance is still here, hahaha!"

"I don't know what made you do it, but thank you. You just saved me from being on the bottom and the Brains have the numbers again."

"Woah, woah, woah..." Funky Kong came by. "I am responsible for giving Plague the most thanks here, since I was almost voted off again. Thanks, man."

Shaking his hand, he sighed in reaction.

"It wasn't easy. Not gonna lie. You two got lucky."

"..." Blinking in reply, he shook it off. "Ugh. Whatever. Bottom line is I'm still here and I have you to thank for it. "Wish it was Panther, but I bet if Daisy was still here, there would be a big argument going on right now and no one would get a good night's sleep."

"Okay, I get I got some explaining to do for everyone watching this. Yes, I've wanted to get rid of Funky Kong and Isabelle for the longest time. I've wanted to outsmart every single person in my entire tribe from day nine, and now I saved Funky Kong from being voted out. So, what made me change my mind? Well,... it's about Incineroar. I have no reason to care for him at all, but he ticked me off yesterday. And after all that stuff with Daisy, she was not lying at all when she said that he has no chance of winning this game. I was actually one hundred percent going to align with the three pretty people had I not realized what type of player Incineroar is."

"Now watch her look at herself on TV." The champion lied down, still complaining to Funky Kong about how 'awful' Daisy Rose was to him. "Betcha a million dollars she's gonna regret everything she said in five seconds after she sees the edit. Don't make no darn sense..."

"Dude..." Funky Kong slightly chuckled with a sigh as he lied next to him. "Come on, already. It's raining a bit harder now and I wanna go to sleep."

"I mean, I'm gonna do whatever I can to win this thing just to prove people wrong. Incineroar's not a threat to win in any way, but he's a threat to get to the end because he win a million immunity challenges. He already won one immunity and he won the Loved Ones challenge. But the thing is, he's dumb. That's why he's not winning like Daisy said. I don't need to vote her out. Specter even told me that he didn't think that Chica had the 'strength' to win this game. He's even received hints from both Panther and Daisy that they don't even like Chica that much. So if she can't get the votes, she's another goat to the end. I don't need to vote her out either. I, however, do have a chance of winning. But I think what's best for me is to just carry the two people that can't win. Incineroar's chances are lower than Chica's, so I voted against Daisy just to make sure Incineroar stays around. Panther and Daisy were just far more threatening in my opinion, espescially since they almost had the numbers. So, after me and my 'alliance' votes out Panther, I need to take Chica and Incineroar in. That's my final three."


Day 36


"Come on in, guys!"

Though not a reward challenge, the fact that it was for individual immunity alone made the castaways feel that it was far more significant to win that a simple reward challenge, in spite of everyone including Incineroar being fond of food.

"Alright, you guys ready to get to today's immunity challenge?" Master Hand certainly was. "First things first, Isabelle, even though it was a big moment for you, you gotta give me back that necklace."

With no complaints, she did what she was told by taking off the necklace herself and meeting the oversized glove halfway.

"Thank you. Once again, immunity is back up for grabs." Only three more individual immunity challenges left. "For today's challenge, you will race to unlock three sets puzzle pieces. You will then use those puzzle pieces to assemble your staircase one step at a time. Once you completed all three sections of the staircase, you will solve a slide puzzle at the end. First person that finishes win immunity and a guaranteed spot in the final five. Losers, Tribal Council where someone will be the thirteenth person voted out of Survivor and will become the sixth member of our jury. We'll draw for spots, we'll get started."

-/-

"Alright, here we go..."

Isabelle, Incineroar, Plague Knight, Panther, Funky Kong, and Chica all stood side by side in their starting positions.

"For immunity and a guaranteed spot in the final five. Survivors ready? ...GO!"

The competitors grabbed their set of three keys and raced onward, reaching their first set of stairs to unlock their first set of puzzle pieces. From that point on, it was basically a matter of hoping the Survivor Gods were on one's side when it came to finding out which key worked. Plague Knight and Funky Kong got lucky with the first key their chose, but not for Incineroar and Panther.

"Funky Kong and Plague Knight are at a fast start as they begin working on their pieces." Master Hand narrated. "Those two along with Isabelle make up half this tribe, and the three of them were Brains in the beginning. Would any of them use this opportunity to once again live up to their name?"

As for Incineroar, he was doing the exact opposite, proving to be Brawn over Brains, yet again. By the time he finally unlocked his first set of puzzle pieces, he was simply trying one piece at a time. The thing was that each puzzle piece was made different, and Incineroar acted as if he had no plans on carefully figuring out which piece was set to fit on the step.

"Plague Knight, who has yet to win immunity has the lead." The master alchemist was already on his fourth step of the first section. "He has played a major role in this season since the merge. Who knows where he stands at this point."

Though he had the advantage early on in the challenge, he clearly was not the only one who had the desire to win individual immunity. Isabelle and Panther were quickly making progress with their puzzle pieces. Though the concept was rather simple since all they were doing were simply putting pieces down, the six different sized holes in each puzzle piece made things rather complicated for the castaways.

"Come on, come on... Oh, potions!"

"Plague Knight's piece wouldn't fit! Now he's gotta go back! That's gonna open the door for Isabelle and Panther!" Master Hand glanced at the other three. "Funky Kong and Chica are finally beginning to get their first section together! Incineroar on the other hand only has one piece down."

"I'm gonna be in it in a minute..." He said to no one in particular.

Panther Caroso attempted at hammering down one of his puzzle pieces. Though realizing that it was just not going to work, he realized that he was completely wrong.

"Panther's gotta go back! Isabelle is now the person to beat!"

"My goodness..." She mumbled to herself. Maybe it was the possibility that she, of all people, was set to start a winning streak if she was really set to win her second individual immunity."

She eventually was able to be the first to complete her first section, Funky Kong, Panther, and Plague Knight all fighting for second place at the time. Chica was not exactly out of it, yet Incineroar definitely was, with only four of ten pieces being placed down at the time.

"People are now moving onto their second section..." The master noted. "Even though it might not seem like it, the difficulty still increases. Why? Say if one messes up, one has to go all the way down to the bottom just to pick up what they think is the right piece."

Panther and Plague Knight were eventually able to make it to their second section with Funky Kong right behind. Yet early on, there was already a mess up with Funky Kong, attempting to make the wrong puzzle piece fit.

"Within one piece Funky Kong has already made a mistake! Now he's gotta go all the way back down causing him a ton of time!"

"I betcha my cousin would have done better..." He complained on his way down.

At least he was doing a much better job than his best friend Incineroar was, who was only on piece number six by the time everyone else made it to section number two.

Master Hand decided to not even comment on him anymore unless he somehow made a comeback, which he predicted was rather unlikely in his honest opinion.

Chica, however, was still attempting to stay in it, Funky Kong's recent misplacement of his puzzle piece giving everyone including her a slight advantage.

"Whew..." Panther had to take a second to wipe sweat from his forehand. How unfortunate for him being a furry.

"It's a rather hot one today in the Aztec Empire." Master Hand spoke.

Soon afterwards, Isabelle's second section was now completed, her being the first to move onto the third and final section.

"Isabelle moving on. She's still in the lead and right now it is her challenge to lose!"

"Come on, come on..." Plague Knight repeated. Even though he figured that he did not necessarily needed to win, he felt that he desired to win immunity simply for the sake of having it. Yet he was successful at completing his second section, still in second place right behind Isabelle.

Panther, who was in third in time was the next to move on, Funky Kong nearly finishing up with his second section. Chica, though slowly falling right back out of it, was attempting at her best.

Incineroar was not even halfway through his second section at the time.

"Fit already..." Kong was on his second to last piece of his section, yet despite there being two pieces left, they were apparently the hardest to tell apart. And unfortunately for Donkey Kong's cousin, he found out the hard way.

"You've got to be a kidding me..

Major setback for him, that was for sure. At that point, Plague Knight and Panther were the only two people that had a chance of overtaking Isabelle. Yet for all three of them, it was not hard to notice that due to the constant running back and forth (even when they had their pieces right), they were growing tired by the minute.

Since the heat was also playing a factor, Plague Knight actually decided to rip his mask right off his face and tossed it to the side.

"Plague Knight exposing himself to the world again!"

And like the other Shovel Knight characters, no one ever knew why they were always wearing their masks and helmets in the first place.

"Isabelle getting very close with three pieces left..."

Although, it appeared that the Master Hand spoke too soon, her current piece she was holding not exactly working out for her.

"And she's wrong! That is her first time she judged a puzzle piece incorrectly this entire challenge!" She was no longer in the running at that point. "She has to go alllll the way back to the very beginning of this challenge!"

With that, Panther and Plague Knight were now battling out, the former having a one puzzle piece advantage over the anthropomorphic cat on his fourth to last piece. Caroso however, was doing everything in his power to catch up towards him even thought time was running out. The panther even risk hopping back down upon being safe enough of a distance to do so.

Unfortunately for the master alchemist though, he made the same mistake Isabelle made.

"...What!?"

"Plague Knight is wrong! That is gonna heavily benefit Panther in this challenge!"

Though now relieved, it was not over yet with four pieces to go. It was simply a matter of performing quickly, yet carefully at the same time. However, he was still growing tired by the second, to the point where he began to use a puzzle piece as if it was some sort of crane he would have needed at a certain age.

"Panther now his last puzzle piece..."

Since he figured he had nothing to worry about at that point, he simply took his time fitting the piece in.

"And with that..."

"PANTHER WINS INDIVIDUAL IMMUNITY!"

"Guaranteed a spot in the final five!"

Though he would have celebrated, he was simply lying on top of the finishing platform completely exhausted, breathing as if he had never done so before. He softly cursed at himself covering his eyes with his buff.

Master Hand nimbly floated to his side.

"Panther... You alright?"

No words were escaping from his lips, though he gradually lifted his hand in the air as a way to express some sort of signal to the master.

"Do you feel like you need medical or do you think you can stand? Crazy Hand, water!"

It was that point to where the other castaways began to make their way to the top of the stairs, Crazy Hand making his first ever appearance in Survivor other than Ponderosa.

He quickly handed Panther a canteen filled with water, the purple animal snatching it to gulp down the cold drink almost immediately, wiping his mouth in the process.

"I... I-I'm okay..."

"Come on, man." Funky Kong grabbed one of his arms, Incineroar grabbing the other. "Get up..."

And the two former members of SGA helped him right back on his feet.

"Thanks..." He actually felt a bit embarrassed.

"Here... I'm gonna bring it right over to you." Master Hand decided to bring over the necklace himself, hooking it on Panther's neck. "You earned it, and you clearly felt like you needed."

"I did..." He was breathing much more slowly now. "I was next..."

Chica Candance's face showed that she felt a bit sorry for the guy. She knew very well that it was not uncommon for her teammate to overexert himself in challenges. Yet at that time, he showed that he clearly had his limits.

"I don't need you passing out on this show!" Funky Kong glared with a raised finger. "You're probably at the finale now. Do you really think now's a good time to get evacuated?"

"Sorry..."

"You know," The ape spoke to the host. "You can't say that this is not real."

"What do you mean exactly?" He asked out of curiosity.

"Well, people all over the universe always underestimate how brutal this game can be, yet at the end of the day, we're all... human just like everybody else, meaning just like the people who simply watch the show. These are the things that we have to go through."

"Well, Panther, glad you're alright." Master Hand was relieved that he never had to go through the process of medically evacuating Panther Jackie Caroso.

"I'll have to write this down." Doctor Crazy began scribbling all over his clipboard before quickly floating off. "B-Bye!"

"...Alright..." The master brushed it off. "Panther, you are safe from Tribal Council. As for the rest of you, somebody is gonna be the sixth person on the jury and will be eliminated from the game just three days short of making it to the end. Panther, it obviously will not be you. Congrats."

"Panther winning was our worst case scenario. Not only he is the bigger threat compared to Chica, he is the biggest threat overall at this point." said Isabelle. "And now he's even more of a threat because he was already well known that he would do anything to win a challenge, even going as far as possibly being the first ever medivac for this. So I guess the Brains plus Incineroar now have to come up with a Plan B once again..."


...Oh my god, I was actually on time for once lol.

But, there you have it! Panther (although possibly scaring some of his fans) wins immunity when he needed it most and now he is automatically going to final five... Does this mean that Chica is in trouble? We'll see...

Imma make this really quick cause I gotta go, but Corrin is coming to Survivor - Caribbean as the final FE character for the season! And yes, I'm making her female for this. Why? Mainly because just so the season could have more female castaways. She was going to be male, but I changed her gender last minute.

See ya on Wednesday! (Hopefully)