A/N: I should probably mention that this chapter was originally intended to be a Halloween special but a case of deciding to take a break and then taking time deciding on how to execute this chapter caused it to be moved way past the month of October. Though seeing as it is more me trying to invoke the horror movie genere than anything I think I can still make it work. As for why I was making a Halloween special for chapter two despite the fact that I will most likely have a decent chunk of the cast remaining by the next October? Because the amount of contestants remaining is the infamously unlucky number 13.
Anyways regardless of whatever I do I don't own Pokemon or Total Drama
Arceus could be heard over a recap of the previous episode
"Previously on Pokemon NOT an Island. Our contestants were introduced to the competition and all that would be involved into it. This included the concept of cheap death when they were faced with a challenge that involved placing nukes on pedestals before the nukes exploded and killed them. In the end the Buffoons failed and killed everyone so they had to vote someone off so they choose Sparkle who was annoying the whole team with her massive ego. What will happen this time? Find out on this episode of Pokemon NOT an Island!"
Zorro was lifting a giant rock while illusioned as a Machamp to look under it to see if the invincibility statue was under it. You could tell it was Zorro because the illusion had the same tail all Zouras have when not illusioned. After seeing that there was nothing under the rock he threw it a far distance.
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"I know I am not in any immediate danger at the moment, but obtaining that statue would be a nice advantage to have," said Zorro. "Which is why I have spent the past three days looking for it."
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About a few hundred feet away, the rock Zorro threw was going to wind up almost crushing Alfred, only being stopped because he caught it with his psychic powers. He then broke it into a ton of pieces and found what looked like a folder with Zorro's face on it, which he proceeded to pick up out of curiosity.
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"Apparently Arceus decided to hide files containing information about us," noted Alfred who was holding the folder open. "These could be some good blackmail. Now that I think about it Arceus said nothing about not being allowed to teleport them."
Before Alfred could do that however, he obtained a splitting headache from Arceus communicating telepathically basically telling him in a screaming voice that he couldn't do that.
"So much for that plan," Alfred struggled to say due to the headache.
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Meanwhile at the girl's cabin none of them had been able to sleep because Mint had kept them awake all night long due to the loud noises that were made by trying to make the place more clean. This was pointless however as the cabins were apparently cursed to never be clean and tidy meaning they would become terrible again in a matter of minutes. It was this cacophony that gave Ember an excuse to leave the cabin on the first night without looking totally suspicious.
"The place is filthy and apparently can't be cleaned Mint can you please stop!" Snapped Rusalika who was starting to get tired of Mint. She was even considering trying to get rid of her before Alfred if only due to the fact that not getting any sleep whatsoever would make it easier for the psychic squid to take her out of the contest.
"Clearly you do not understand how many germs are located in this cabin that will kill us," Responded Mint.
"Well you can't comprehend the fact that you can't get rid of them."
"Well when they return I just remove them again"
Honey decided to jump in to try stop the argument. "Perhaps we can figure out some way to seal the germs so this no longer happens."
"The cabin isn't even that lethal," Lea thought to herself. She decided to quickly leave before things could get worse.
Upon Lea stepping outside, the area started to spontaneously snow.
Lea blinked in utter confusion and then decided to find a warmer area, only to run face first into Mimicks who was currently digging a hole in the snow for unknown reasons.
Mimicks turned his head a full 180 degrees to face Lea, an action that was made only slightly less creepy by the fact that it was the cloak head and not his real face.
"What is so important that you must try to knock me over," he asked.
Lea panicked at Mimicks's sudden hostility
"I'm sorry I sincerely was not trying to knock you over please don't kill me."
Mimicks readjusted his head and then turned to face Lea and spoke.
"If I wanted to kill you I would have done it by now, but here you are still standing. So I ask again why you are here? I know nobody wants to deal with me if they can avoid it."
Lea did not want to irritate Mimicks any more if possible, so against her better judgment she decided to make up a reason that could possibly help her regardless.
"You know how these cabins were cursed right?"
"You assumed I would know how to remove the curse and came to ask for my help," finished Mimicks. "While I have dealt with similar things in the past this curse was created by Arceus himself and therefore is far beyond my power. So unless you want to help me obtain the materials to summon a portal to release the only being who has even a remote chance of undoing it, I believe we are finished here."
It didn't take a genius to realize that the being Mimicks was referring to was Giratina, and regardless of how terrible things would get in the cabin Lea decided that summoning him was by far the worse option, and took the opportunity to get away before Mimicks changed his mind about not killing her.
Over at the boy's cabin Bob could be seen sleeping inside with no one around. One thing everyone could agree on was that Bob was lazy and definitely not any help to the Dirtbags whatsoever, and that was exactly what Alfred was counting on when he teleported inside the cabin.
Covered in sand because he was caught in a vicious sandstorm. Which made his first action removing all of it with psychic. After doing so he quickly mind controlled Bob to wake him up in a way that was subtle enough to not be noticed and then released the control. When Bob was awakened Alfred laid out a preposition.
"I have come to offer an alliance," he said.
"Why should I trust you?" Bob responded.
"It's rather simple actually. Alliances are known to help contestants get far and when you, me and one other person I plan on inviting form this alliance, we will dominate this competition."
"Alliances are known to harshly backfire and fail."
"I hate to sound cliche Bob, but this one will succeed."
"Fine I will join."
"Pleasure doing business with you."
Alfred then teleported away to an unknown location. The reason why he chose Bob as an ally was because he planned on inviting Mint into the alliance and figured the two would turn on each other and vote themselves out, and even if they didn't both contestants would be easy to backstab and get rid of. Contrary to what one may believe Alfred wasn't lying when he said the alliance would succeed.
It would succeed in amusing him if all went well, which was it's purpose.
Meanwhile somewhere else on the peninsula a powerful thunderstorm was occurring. Seen in the thunderstorm was Merrick sprinting as practice, and if anyone in the storm saw him they would think likely he was a tough person as a fire type was not exactly suited to this type of weather.
Except for possibly the one contestant currently watching him: Phantos.
What Phantos was originally doing in this area in this weather was unknown, but it was quite clear that the ghost was an enigma as no one had yet to see him move an inch or speak a single word. While most if not all of the contestants would agree that Mimicks was more terrifying, it was also agreed that Phantos was at least a little unnerving.
Merrick eventually noticed the Dusknoir behind him and turned around to face him.
"Are you trying to challenge me?" he asked trying to sound intimidating.
Phantos did not respond, nor was he intimidated. Merrick backed away and got into a fighting stance in case he was attacked. However before a possible fight could occur a painful psychic telepathy message from Arceus went through the minds of every remaining contestant to make an announcement.
"Attention contestants, your next challenge will be in the abandoned haunted house that I have recently summoned on the peninsula, head there immediately so we can begin."
While the message was not played as loudly as the one sent to Alfred earlier, it still had the intention to cause headaches in the contestants. Because of this, it took about two hours for everyone to reach the recently summoned haunted house. The first person to make it there was Phantos due to his movements and the fact that he wasn't that effected by the telepathy (or at the very least was showing no signs of it), followed by Alfred who had developed a little bit of resistance to it due to being hit with a stronger one earlier. The last person to make it there was unsurprisingly Bob due to his laziness, to the point where Arceus was considering penalizing the Dirtbags for making him wait so long.
"Hello again contestants, how did you like my method of contacting you?'
"It was terrible," responded Honey.
"Excellent because that was the purpose. Anyone who enjoyed their first few days here please raise your hand or some sort of appendage."
The only person who actually enjoyed their time was Mike who didn't have any appendages to raise.
"Not my problem," responded Arceus. "Anyways first things first the invincibility statue has already been found."
If Arceus had a mouth he would be smirking at how easy it was to fool everyone when he saw the shocked reactions on pretty much everyone's face.
"I'm actually joking it hasn't been found yet. There are however files containing the personal data of each and every contestant hidden among the peninsula, maybe you have already found one. This place is also being used for a weather experiment I have been doing, hence the spontaneous weather changes. As for the viewers at home, I have decided to auction to you an ordinary can of tuna, if you want to bid for it call the number on your screen. Now that all of that has been taken care of, it is time to announce the challenge. You will all go inside this house at once and try to survive as long as possible, whichever team dies first loses the challenge and will eliminate someone."
"And by die you mean get surrounded by "terrifying" smoke and disappear mysteriously or something," said Derek believing it was going to be the same as all the other horror themed challenges on other Pokemon Total Drama shows where no one actually died.
"Arceus literally killed all of us with a nuke last challenge I think it is safe to say we will be genuinely dead if we fail this challenge." responded Ember
"Well yes but what about the censorship problems?"
"I don't have to deal with them," declared Arceus.
"But won't they cancel your show if it's too violent?" asked Mike
"Let me put this simply, if they do cancel me I can simply adjust reality to put this show back on air. Anyways to make this more entertaining I hid a few of the files inside the haunted house. With everything being said you will all be teleported to random spots now."
Arceus teleported all 13 of the contestants and a fog soon formed outside the haunted house due to the spontaneous weather. 5 figures obscured by the fog soon walked up to Arceus.
"Do we begin the killing spree?" one of them asked.
"You and the others are allowed to begin now," responded Arceus.
The first thing Mike did upon being teleported was look around to see his surroundings. He then heard a whimpering noise coming from some a pile of wood which be quickly rushed over to. After an initial struggle he finally succeeded and found an individual Zygarde cell that had been trapped.
Or so he thought.
The cell then formed what was basically an evil smile. "Did you really think we would really be trapped under some wood? Your niceness is pathetic and will cost you and possibly your team and then they will consider you nothing but a hindrance."
Mike was panicking at the thought of being labeled useless but then realized it was just once individual Zygarde cell and not the full legendary. He may not have been the greatest battler but surely one cell would not be that much of a problem. All of his hopes were then dashed when more of Zygarde began to appear and the 10% Zygarde was formed. They then shot a thousand arrows attack at Mike, killing him on the spot.
"One down twelve to go. Hopefully they will be more formidable or at the very least smarter than this sad excuse."
Meanwhile elsewhere in the haunted house Mimicks was wandering around aimlessly. Considering his general demeanor it was unsurprising that he wasn't scared of this place at all. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that the original inhabitants were already removed for the purpose of not interfering with the challenge Mimicks would have easily scared them all out. He then saw two members of the Dirtbags and decided to walk over there.
The two dirtbags Mimicks saw were Bob and Mint who were clearly not working well together.
"You need to move to not get killed you worthless slob! screamed Mint at Bob who was clearly not listening. Bob had not even moved from his spot and was likely never going to. They both then saw Mimicks standing right next to them.
"Hi" was all he said.
Mint then screamed loudly and ran out of the room simply because of all of the dust and dirt that had accumulated on Mimick's cloak and no other reason. Bob just stood there.
"Thank you costume being," Bob then said. "She was really starting to get on my nerves."
In case it wasn't obvious, Bob was too lazy to remember names. Meanwhile in the Kitchen of the mansion Merrick could be seen throwing things to the side while muttering to himself.
"Keep it together Merrick. If they see a Pokemon that isn't scared of this then you have succeeded. Wait what am I saying Phantos and Mimicks are likely at home here. Let's just not count those two then. They are the feared, you are the fearless.
Merrick then found a knife.
"Just what I was looking for. Wait this won't do anything to a ghost what am I doing."
Merrick then threw the knife, which barely missed Derek who had walked in.
"Did Arceus secretly grant you and one of my teammates immunity in exchange for killing us?" Derek asked as he had just almost died from the knife and was trying to comprehend what had just happened.
"No. If that was the case you would all be dead by now." responded Merrick. Why are you here anyways?
"Ignoring the fact that you think you can kill Mimicks and Phantos in the amount of time that has passed especially in a location that is basically homefield advantage for them, I was going to see if there was anything edible in the kitchen."
"Unless you consider food that has expired 20 years ago edible, there isn't."
"So since this is Arceus we are talking about here I don't think he sent anything normal to kill us. Five bucks says he sent Tornadus."
"I've never met the guy, but I don't think Tornadus would be the right pick. I do get what you are saying however. Darkrai maybe?"
"Arceus can manipulate reality and stuff like that. He could totally make Tornadus as terrifying personality wise as he is appearance wise."
"I'll give you the reality warping part but Tornadus is by no means terrifying."
They both then heard a voice.
"Your guesses are both wrong. It is us."
The voice turned out to be two 10% Zygardes. One of them then used earthquake to break most of the ground to reveal a long fall downwards.
Derek was then shivering in fear of the height while Merrick then stood his ground. The two Zygardes then fired dragon pulses that Merrick manged to dodge, Derek on the other hand got one through the chest and died as a result. Merrick then stared at the Zygardes
"You can stop pretending. We know you are scared Merrick," they said to Merrick.
"I am not scared," Merrick responded. "But how do you know my name?"
"Arceus gave us the files to look at. We know everything about you, including your fears."
"My fear is not heights."
"We know. Some fears are harder to invoke than others. But deep down you know you are nothing but an act. Appearing tough in front of others when in reality you can't handle it."
"You're lying."
"If we were lying, then why have you not even attempted to fight us when we were talking? Or do you really think you can take us in a fair fight? That is not bravery. That is pure stupidity."
Merrick had enough of the Zygarde's talking and attacked them with Brave Bird. Neither Zygarde was hit because they just stepped to the side. One of them then took advantage of the opening and used a Thousand Arrows attack on Merrick, which knocked him on the ground but didn't kill him immediately because some of the arrows missed, which was exactly what the Zygarde intended to do. Merrick would die a relatively slow and painful death that would likely allow at least one other contestant to see him suffer.
"We will keep watch of him," one Zygarde said to the other. "Help the rest of us hunt down the others."
Mint was searching for a place that wasn't completely covered in germs, obviously though she wasn't having any luck doing that. Alfred could see her nearby and attempted to execute the second part of the alliance formation.
"Mint," Alfred said through telepathy as the lack of close physical contact was the most efficient way to not spread germs to appeal to Mint's sense of cleanliness. "I have come to offer an alliance to defeat the ones of filth."
"Who is there?" Mint asked in confusion. "And why should I form an alliance with you?"
Alfred facepalmed out of annoyance. As if any other contestant had the ability to speak through psychic telepathy.
"It is Alfred that is currently speaking to you. I have learned that Bob is actually one of the more sanitary contestants along with myself."
"Are we talking about the same Bob?" responded Mint. "Because the Bob I know is utterly lazy and does absolutely nothing."
"And he is still sanitary by comparison. Because the others..."
Alfred went on to talk about all of the horribly disgusting things he had "seen" the other contestants do. Obviously he was completely lying about the contestants themselves but that didn't change the fact that he said what he said. Mind reading causes you to come across some very twisted stuff that can easily be used to disturb others.
At the end of the conversation Mint had her eyes wide open in shock. "Ok Bob is nothing by comparison," she then admitted as she believed his lie.
"So are you joining?"
"If I must I will."
"Perfect."
It was at that moment 50 Zygarde cells showed up out of cracks in the floor. The reason they were separated as opposed to in the 50% form was because the cells resembled bacteria. This had the intended reaction as Mint backed away with a visual expression of fear. Alfred saw the cells and concluded that they were here to kill everyone and then realized if he could control them he basically wins this challenge as they would not go after him if he controlled them.
One of the Zygarde cells began talking. "Ironic how you are scared with us when you just joined an alliance that includes an absolute scumbag."
Before his true plans were revealed Alfred quickly took control of Mint's Mind with his psychic powers to keep her from hearing or sensing anything. One of the Zygarde cells rolled their eyes at this action. All 50 of them then turned to face Alfred.
"So you know of my true intentions," Alfred noted. "Then you will know that I don't care if you kill her or not. In fact let's make this easier for you.
Mint's neck was then snapped by psychic forces by Alfred himself not even waiting for the Zygardes to do anything. He then used his psychic powers to push them against the wall which worked rather well due to the fact that the cells were rather weak when not combined. His attempt to mind control them immediately afterwards on the other hand.
Not so much
The only thing it really did was anger the cells, who then managed to merge into 5 10% forms which gave them enough strength to break out of the psychic grip.
"Be honest with us," one of them snarled. "Was this just to win the challenge or were you attempting to do so much more with control over us?"
Alfred was in complete shock and didn't respond. Sure he didn't expect to have constant control over them forever but they had broken out far quicker than he had expected.
"Let's make this painful for him as possible"
The screams of Alfred being ripped into shreds by the Zygardes similarly to how a wolf attacks it's prey could be heard from a far distance.
Elsewhere a chandelier was cut down by a Zygarde cell to crush Bob. When he and another cell tried to scare Bob with the concept of exercise the only thing they got in response was the most lazy scream they had ever heard and Bob was genuinely scared. It was considered a waste of time so Bob was quickly killed to get it over with. The two cells then heard the screaming of Alfred from before.
"Glad the rest of us is having fun," one cell said to the other in annoyance.
Elsewhere in the mansion Mimicks could be seen staring at a folder that was on a table that had Phantos's face on it. After looking around to make sure no one else was around and picked it up and began reading it. Upon doing so he placed the folder down with a wide eyed facial expression.
"No." Was all he muttered. One thing was for certain.
Phantos had to be eliminated. And it had to be done soon to prevent any risks.
Before Mimicks could do anything however his entire body was crushed to death not by Zygarde, but Phantos himself via use of Psychic as he had snuck up on Mimicks without anyone seeing him. The emotionless Dusknoir then lifted the folder with psychic powers and tore it to bits to keep anyone else from reading it.
Phantos knew Mimicks's hours were limited due to his personality, so he would hunt down the other contestants and kill them for Zygarde to force a loss for his team. The others could never learn about this.
Elsewhere Zorro could be seen pulling a folder out of a bookshelf. He then took one look at and sighed.
"You think you're really Fucking Hilarious don't you Arceus," he mutted to himself.
Turns out Arceus had placed Sparkle's folder in the mansion despite the fact that she was already eliminated. Zorro briefly glimpsed it over just in case it was more than a practical joke but found nothing and tossed it to the side.
"Wait a minute, what's stopping me from tricking those after me?"
Zorro then used his illusion abilities to morph into Yveltal.
"Now they will think twice before going after me."
Zygarde then walked into the room and noticed Zorro.
"Yveltal," Said Zygarde who was supposedly fooled. "What are you doing here"
"I was sent here because death and whatnot." Responded Zorro trying to keep up the act. "Arceus thought I would be amazing for this."
"Something is up with you," responded Zygarde causing Zorro to think he had been caught. "Then again it's not like Arceus ever tells us anything. There are 6 contestants left, hunt them down and kill them."
Zorro then flew up through the ceiling/floor to get away from Zygarde.
"How stupid does he think we are. The real Yveltal hates his position of death and would also stay as far away from us as possible. We will be seeing him soon enough."
Meanwhile Ember could be seen in the boiler room of the mansion talking to herself.
"Soon I will have to manipulate one of my teammates into joining me. But which one of the three should I pick?" Ember then thought some more about it. "He probably would be the easiest of the three to fool. I am going to have to do it after this challenge however."
The water pipes then began to break open causing water to leak out of them. Ember rushed to the door in an attempt to leave but discovered the door was shut and she couldn't leave. She then used flamethrower on the door but somehow the door was not damaged by her attacks.
"This can't be happening," panicked Ember. "This can't be happening"
The noises of drowning could be briefly heard until they suddenly stopped as Ember had drowned. Outside of the door was Phantos who had executed the whole thing.
After all, the sooner Mimicks was eliminated, the better.
Zorro was still illusioned as Yveltal and broke through the floor Honey was on, causing her to jump back
"I'm not the real deal," admitted Zorro to keep Honey from doing anything that might have given away their location. I am only pretending to be Yveltal to fool Zygarde who is apparently a hivemind that has been sent to kill us. According to them they have killed all but six of us. I have no clue who is left besides us."
"Any idea on how he is hunting us down besides the obvious way of splitting up?" asked Honey. "If we figure that out we can avoid him."
"We could tell you what we do, but that would be unfair," interrupted a 50% Zygarde. "Congratulations on finding one of the contestants Yveltal, or should I say Zorro. Your Yveltal impression was one of the better ones we have seen we will admit, but it was still pathetic."
"Run while you still can Honey I will hold them off," declared Zorro.
Honey ran for her life immediately with no hesitation. Zygarde split into 5 10% forms and sent one after her to finish her off. The other four shot Thousand Arrows attacks at Zorro until he was dead, which didn't take long.
Meanwhile back at the kitchen Lea had walked in and saw Merrick's battered but still alive body. After gasping at the sight she quickly opened a kitchen drawer and grabbed a roll of tape. Lea knew she would have to work fast to keep Merrick from bleeding out. She quickly applied pressure to as many of the wounds as possible to keep them from bleeding and put tape on them to stop the leaks.
"They are here," Merrick strained to say due to his injuries.
Before Lea could use heal pulse however she was hit with an Iron Tail attack from the Zygarde that had been watching Merrick. Said attack knocked Lea away from Merrick's body
"And you were so close too," they said. "Too bad he was only bait."
In an attempt to get back to the body Lea used Vine Whip to try to move Zygarde away but they simply grabbed the vines with their mouth and threw Lea into a wall.
"You can't get past us. Give up."
Lea then tried to use synthesis but the lack of sunlight meant the healing move did nothing in terms of helping her. To Lea's horror Zygarde ripped the tape off and then finished Merrick off by stabbing him with Dragon Claw. They then used the same move on Lea to kill her.
Phantos was floating in a room. Zygarde then walked in as the complete form, as there were only two contestants left to hunt down.
"We know what you are hiding Phantos. And we intend to utilize it."
Zygarde shot a thousand arrows attack at Phantos which he blocked with protect. He knew those arrows were headed for his chains. He could not let them be broken. If there were other contestants Zygarde would have to be the one to kill them. Phantos grabbed some of the arrows with psychic and stabbed himself with them to end himself.
Zygarde sighed to himself. It was a rather pathetic way to end what had been a somewhat decent killing spree.
"And the Greedy Dirtbags win again!" Announced Arceus who was outside the building. "But we won't be letting Rusalika get away with not dying."
Arceus teleported Zygarde in front of her. One death later and Arceus proceeded to revive everyone outside of the building.
"I believe this was a rather uncomfortable experience for you and I don't care about that." Anyways Buffoons you will be voting someone out tonight. Arceus then pointed at the building and changed the composition of it to melted cheese which caused a big puddle of the stuff to form because the mansion could not remain standing because it was melted cheese.
"Reality warping is the best," he then said. "I mean anyone can just destroy a mansion or teleport it away but why do that when you can turn it into melted cheese?"
Derick and Ember saw Mike talking to himself but neither one could understand what he was saying.
"I guess the ghosts in there really got to him," guessed Ember.
"Ghosts?" questioned Dereck. "We were being hunted down by Zygarde."
"I didn't see anything that could be related to Zygarde when I was killed," responded Ember who was planning something. "I think one of the ghosts sabotaged us."
They both looked at Mimicks and Phantos and then back at each other.
Meanwhile somewhere else on the peninsula Alfred Mint and Bob could be seen arranged together for an alliance meeting.
"There are quite a few contestants we need to eliminate, but lets start with Zorro," said Alfred throwing his folder down so the others could see the contests.
Little did they know they were being watched by Rusalika who was going to tell Honey about the alliance and go from there.
Some time later the Buffoons were all gathered at the voting ceremony for the second elimination.
"Second time you guys are here, you do realize the team names weren't meant to describe you all right?" mocked Arceus. "Anyways lets begin passing out the pineapple pizza slices. Mike you are safe."
Mike got a pizza to the face.
"I bet you want to evolve just to get arms to catch those. Also safe are Dereck, Lea, and Ember."
The three contestants all successfully caught their slices.
"Phantos and Mimicks, even without the suspicions of sabotage by one of you, you two are easily the most unnerving contestants in this competition so it does not surprise me that one of you are going home. And the contestant going home tonight is."
Before Arecus could continue however he got a phone call which he proceeded to answer.
"Yes I plan on resetting the universe again to accompany the new lore and all of that just realize that aside from the ancient starters nothing has really been revealed yet so just be patient for once in your life."
Arceus then hung up the phone.
"Like I have time to sit around and wait and do it every five seconds have they seen the google images I have to use every time I do it? Anyways the person going home is."
"Mimicks!"
"I bet your expecting me to curse you all or something but in reality I am not," Mimicks began saying while Phantos got a pizza to the face. "I will however warn you that there are far greater threats than me. Ensure that they are not released or you will all be doomed!"
Mimicks then walked into the vortex willingly. Phantos was staring at where the portal was because besides the obvious reason of never moving while others are watching he was thinking about what Mimicks said. It wasn't enough to fully expose him but at the same time he would easily be on the suspect list. The chains were placed there for a good reason and he knew it.
Arceus turned to face the camera. "Like I said before not a very surprising outcome. But clearly more is to come so tune in next time for another episode of Pokemon NOT an Island!"
A/N: This took WAY longer than it should have. At this point one could argue this now an early Halloween special for this year as opposed to a late one for last year. Going to be honest I think I shot myself in the foot with this chapter's premise at my current skill level of writing, even more so than the general idea of making this story in general.
While the challenges are the one thing I have consistently planned throughout, my lack of an order for them concludes that the next one will be keeping everyone together to give me a break. No spoilers on what it is, but I will guarantee that it is not another guaranteed death challenge.
Anyways enough self depreciation lets have a recap of what went down in this chapter.
First off we have the first non Sinnoh legend to appear in this story. This incarnation of Zygarde is a hivemind because lets face it with 100 lifeforms combining together it could totally be a hivemind. Just out of curiosity does anyone else see a smiley face on the chest of the 100% form or is it just me? But yes Zygarde is always like that here and was not acting for the challenge. Speaking of which this challenge was an attempt to form a unique or at least less used take the fear challenge and instead of going one at a time with the contestants it was instead done all at once (basically anyways) by combining it with the killer in a mansion challenge. Lets take a look at the individual contestants.
Mike: So basically he has a fear of living up to the expectations of others so I decided to axe him first to try to make the most of his fear. Not much to say otherwise for him this chapter
Derek: In addition to his fear of flying types he also has a fear of heights so I decided to go with doing that. I also had him guess Tornadus would be the killer as opposed to a more intimidating flying type because in addition to wanting him to be comically wrong Tornadus is the only (at the time of making this chapter) fully evolved mono flying Pokemon.
Mint: As we all know Mint is a germaphobe which made the fear part easy enough. As for the newly created alliance she has joined, the only reason she did was because she believed Alfred's lies. Like I said before it was super disturbing stuff he said, disturbing as in like taking the fan art from the dark web and multiplying it by 687. First person to guess why I chose that specific number correctly wins absolutely nothing.
Alfred: His fear is his true villainous personality being discovered, hence his quick mind control of Mint before Zygarde could say anything. So in true villain fashion I decided to give Alfred the most horrific death out of everyone.
Bob: As directly noted his fear is exercise. I like them idea of him being too lazy for Zygarde to get any entertainment out of so Bob would be killed quickly as a result. A moment that was mostly skipped due to meta humor.
Mimicks: His fear is of others seeing his true form, but Phantos killed him before we could see that. Honestly I let Mimicks discover the folder because I did not know what to do with him so I had to quickly boot him (though really I don't think he was going to last long anyways) but decided to give him some type of relevance unlike Sparkle who was booted because lets face it she was not winning. Speaking of Sparkle her fear is being forgotten which was not seen because she was obviously eliminated last chapter and I am only putting this here to put all 14 contestants here.
Ember: Her fear is drowning so Phantos had a lucky guess. She is beginning her plans and brought attention to the ghosts to frame them due to them being the biggest threats on her team and plans on moving on to the rest of her teammates.
Zorro: Like Alfred he also has the fear of his motives being discovered so I had him illusion himself as another Kalos legendary. The disguise failed and that was all I could think of without repeating Alfred's moment with Zygarde.
Honey: Her fear is heights but I already did that so I just had Zygarde quickly axe her to just be done already.
Merrick: Not certain if I have been able to get the point across (my fault if I haven't) but basically Merrick pretends to be all tough but in reality is constantly cracking under the pressure, so Zygarde drew upon those fears to drive him to rage and then quickly brought him near death to use as bait.
Lea: She has skills in medics and her fear is not being able to help others recover so Zygarde obtained bait and formed a mockery out of it before killing her.
Phantos: He is hiding something and those chains are behind it. His fear is of them breaking and he wanted Mimicks out of the way after he discovered everything.
Rusalika: She has a fear of blood and while that could easily have been arranged I just wanted to be done with this chapter so I just had her win as the last contestant and had her discover the alliance so she wasn't a complete nonfactor this chapter.
I also decided to add contestant identify folders as a few other people have done before me.
And then you have a reference to the as of the time of writing this upcoming Sinnoh games because Arceus meta reality warping and whatnot. Decided universe resetting was a good explanation for new game content and ran with it. Speaking of Arceus, the can of tuna thing was just something random I came up with. Please don't bother guessing it because the reviewers don't influence it's price just wait until the finale. As mediocre as this story may wind up being I do plan on at least finishing it so at least give me credit for that.
Hopefully next time won't be as long, but I will see you next time.