Kodai Island - Ponderosa

Chapter 6 - Juror #6

Alllllright, so we just went through another unexpected elimination yesterday. This season has been a wild ride. The pre-merge was great (even though five Sumasshu players went home in a row in the beginning), but once the merge happened, it... it was really something lol.

So just like the Bowser vote, there was some criticism going on. Mainly around Wolf again, Pit (obviously), to even Ike himself, and it's understandable for all three cases. We all know what Pit could've did, and potentially Wolf by not playing his idol on the obvious target (despite it still being risky), and Ike himself for also not flipping. I'm just gonna say right now, I don't blame the people criticizing Ike for that, since if I was him, I would have clearly flipped myself. (I would have actually purposefully voted for Mario on the first try, and then be like "Uh, Pit? This is your last chance..." and then after he disagreed for a second time, then I would have flipped lol.)

But all I gotta say was that... it was simply Ike's way of thinking lol. In his mind, he thought that he was gonna be the immediate target after flipping, even though that might not have been necessarily true, due to Link and possibly even Wolf trying to keep him around, and Ike could always win challenges. Thus, his decision to not flip was rather questionable.

Some of you are probably also wondering this: Why. Didn't. Mewtwo. Play. The Idol? (This is his second missed opportunity, but that will be explained later.) But for right now, this chapter will be all about Ike. Enjoy.

~KF

"Hello, I'm Ike, and this is my Ponderosa."

Night 33

...

Nothing.

...

Nothing at all.

...

Not even a sigh, let a single word escaping from the latest jury member's mouth. Yet he was not even taking his time anymore. With a pretty decent speed, he headed straight for Crazy Hand's tent.

"Well, it's official. I've been eliminated by pure fate, that was decided by a rock. I am now the victim of only the fourth rock draw in Survivor history. I know how rare it is. The show has about forty seasons, and I of all people of course didn't get lucky tonight. Am I frustrated? Maybe, but I'm way more upset than frustrated. I wanted to make a move, yet when I wanted to do it, I get my torch snuffed. ...And now I gotta live with it for the rest of my life..."

-/-

"So, how much weight do you think you lost?"

"Well, let's see..." Ike obviously had to take a break from thinking of the events that just occurred in the game. "Um... Well, I'm a meat eater, and I love chicken... And the only time we eat some type of meat is when we kill a chicken or win a reward... Let's see... I guess between fifteen to twenty pounds? ...I'm not a math expert, honestly..."

"Step on the scale." The host's brother pointed as he did just that.

"...158.7..."

"And you weighed a 180.3 pounds before you started, so that means you lost exactly..." He did the necessary subtraction in his handheld calculator. "..21.6 pounds..."

At least he was close, but he still seemed to be a little stunned, still staring at the scale. "...Wow... Well, looks like I need to eat a lot tonight, huh?"

"I have never dreamed of losing this much weight on the show. This isn't fake, guys, for whoever is watching back at home. This is all one hundred percent real. I need to get my weight back, 'cause I wasn't this size when I was like... seventeen..."

Ike took his time getting off the boat.

"...Oh my god, Ike..."

"This first person that greeted me was Wii Fit Trainer of all people. Yet at this point, I didn't even care. Why should I? Me being annoyed by her was the last thing on my mind based on how I went out, and everyone that came here before me felt for me, which felt good since they felt that I could have made an even further."

After Wii Fit Trainer finished hugging him, everyone else proceeded to do the same, with the exception of Ganondorf who gave him a respectable hand shake, with an additional pat on the back.

"You were quite interesting out there." commented Bayonetta. "Bowser told me everything. You should have made it to the final four."

"...Yeah... yeah I should've..."

"Ike didn't have to go out the way he did... I mean,... he got eliminated from the show by a rock for one thing. But the guy got out by drawing the wrong rock, without even having his name written down... That's sad..." Donkey Kong said. "But this time it's just unacceptable. I don't know what happened back there, but... I'd rather get blindsided than drawing a rock. That's just my personal opinion..."

-/-

"...Why didn't anyone tell me that I looked homeless?"

It was now time for Ike to stand at the mirror to take a minute to glance at himself. Indeed he did look a little dirty, and when he took his shirt off that had dirt stains all over, he appeared to be thinner than ever before.

"...Okay, I can't handle this..." Ike threw his shirt on the ground. "I need to eat... Now."

And so he did within the next few minutes.

"So Ike, where do you wanna start off?" Bayonetta had the desire to know of the latest information of the game as soon as possible.

"Well,... other than the final four alliance that was planned, I guess I could say that I pretty much knew everything after Wii Fit Trainer left. I knew about potential Mario blindside, I was the one that volunteered to talk to Bowser, I voted for him on purpose just to play both sides, I continued to play both sides earlier at that tribal..."

"Did you know about my voteoff?"

"Uh, not necessarily. Link actually told me that he wanted to make a move and use me to flip with him, but I rejected because I didn't want to have a bigger target on my back, but he still pulled it off with Bowser's extra vote."

"..."

"And today I tried organizing a plan to blindside Mewtwo by splitting the votes between Lucario and himself, but then Pit wouldn't flip, and here I am sitting at Ponderosa..." He was staring down at his food at that point.

"Wow..."

"I believe he should be ridiculed for that..." Bayonetta opinionated.

"Why wouldn't he flip? 'Cause now at the end of the day, his alliance is in jeopardy..." Donkey Kong questioned.

"Ike became just the fourth castaway in the history of the show to be eliminated at Tribal Council, without ever getting a single vote. And for to go out like that is completely unfair, especially since apparently he attempted at making a move and getting rid of Mewtwo once in for all, but after what we heard tonight, Pit screwed him over..." Bayonetta then sighed with a roll of her eyes. "Oh, I wish I was there... I would've took that offer in one second, even if I had no other choice..."

"I dunno... He told me that he doesn't trust Mewtwo as far as he could throw him, but he completely trusts Lucario in terms of bringing him to the finals... See, this is why if Bowser wouldn't have went home last night, none of this would've happened..." He found himself staring at his food.

"...So why didn't you flip?" Wii Fit Trainer blinked.

"I thought I would've became the immediate target." He responded in self-defense. "I would have been public enemy number one, but now that I think about it, there was a fifty-fifty chance of that happening, but it is what it is. Lucario over there should know that you have to have guts to risk drawing rocks for Mewtwo. That's why I said that if Bowser was in the game this wouldn't have..." Ike started to trail off, but then all of a sudden, he snapped his finger in between bites of his burger. "Oh, by the way, Bowser.,.. there is something that I wanna tell you. ...This is a little abrupt, but I hope that you can take it..."

"I'm listening..." He blinked.

"So um... That idol that Wolf played tonight? ...Well," He decided to recall previous events. "remember the tribal before that went you went home? I noticed Link looking at Wolf like he had two heads. Apparently, Link accidentally found out about Wolf's idol before that Tribal Council took place. He had it."

"..."

"...Wait, what?" Wii Fit Trainer leaned closer with a confounded look.

"He told us that he found out during some idol hunt that took place before the merge."

"..." Bowser dropped his jaw. "No way..."

"..." Donkey Kong's jaw was hanging as well. "So it was him! I knew he had it all along. I just never asked him about it! He could've saved Bowser last night!"

"Wait, then why didn't he play it?" Bayonetta cocked her head to the side. "So that's why Link looked ticked off..."

"Exactly." Ike nodded. "He told Link that he wanted to keep it for himself. There's no way that I'm lying about it because not only that I'm sitting at Ponderosa right now and have no reason to lie, but he literally played at tribal today. ...Bowser, I don't know about how you feel about him now, but he... he's a traitor. Link doesn't trust him anymore..."

"..."

"Obviously somebody's not gonna sleep well tonight even though he's at Ponderosa, hahaha! ...But really. I feel bad for Bowser. Not only that I blame Pit for obvious reasons, but Wolf still takes some of the blame. If Bowser was saved, there was no way that this was gonna happen to me. No way."

"Okay... What do we have here...?"

Ike just turned the lights on in his room he was supposed to stay in for the next six days.

"I think I'm the first Survivor castaway that came on the show with blue hair, and when I washed it... the dirt... it... it was just so embarrassing, haha. I have never had that much dirt come out of my hair before. But then again, I rarely even thought of my hair on the island unless I found time for something to complain about, so I think I've spent the most time on my hair than the rest of my body, even though I'll probably still have some dirt that I need to get rid of anyway."

His voice was heard from the bathroom. "I think I'm gonna be in here all night...

Day 34

"Where's Bowser?"

"He's still mad about finding out about 'the truth' last night. The Koopa's down by the beach somewhere."

"...Where's Ike?"

"...Um... He's lifting..."

"...Again?"

"Ike has been workout out all morning." Bayonetta noted. "Now I'm hearing from Donkey Kong that he's lifting for the umpteenth time. It does get sort of boring when you observe someone repeat the same repetitive movements. He was doing sit ups before I left, yet when I came back, he's resorting to another exercise he did early today. ...Look, I know you're trying to stay fit, but at this point, even Wii Fit Trainer is starting to get concerned about it. That's a problem..."

Like Bayonetta, even Ganondorf Dragmire was busy eyeing Ike's workout routine in the Ponderosa.

"...How long?"

"Oh, I don't know, Ganon..." She shook her head. "...I just don't know... We have a whole beach here. So much more you can do while we're out here waiting out here for the finals..."

"Whew..." He was seen wiping sweat from his forehead. "Alright, I think that's enough..."

"About time..."

Ike apparently never even realized that there were not one, but two of his fellow jurors standing near. Well in his defense, they were at the opposite end of the cafe, so one could not have blamed him.

"Oh, what are you guys doing here?"

"How many more hours do you plan on spending on making sure you're the alpha male of the week?"

"...Wha?" He held his head back quite a bit in reaction to the Umbra Witch's question. "Oh, no, no... It's not like that... It's just that I haven't been using equipment like this before..."

"Well, if you put it that way, then I guess that's somewhat understandable in your case." The female then shifted her head to the Gerudo. "Then again, he has never used equipment like this before either, and where he comes from, it is without question that he has even more of a disadvantage..."

"..."

"...Yeah, offense..."

"..." Ike bluntly sighed with a head shake. "Look, I'm sorry if I'm freaking you guys out... It's just... I'm trying to deal with everything while I'm still here. ...You know, to take my mind off of things?"

"I understand." She nodded in assurance, beginning to wander closer to the swordsman. "Nobody in this entire Ponderosa understands how you feel. But just working out alone won't help as much. Find an activity or something. ...Or simply have general conversations with others. ...You know what, Ganondorf, you never went fishing that much either for a while. Let's go."

"I'll be sitting right here watching you both. You both can swim, you both have caught fish before, so jump in."

Bayonetta decided that it was a good idea to have Ike and Ganondorf go snorkeling while catching some fish. All five jurors were on a boat ride at that point anyway, so why not? Wii Fit Trainer wanted to make sure that they were doing the procedure properly, despite her barely fishing while she was on the island. Perhaps she cared more about them swimming in the water. Bowser on the other hand was asked to join the other two men as well, but he was apparently too upset to swim. He found himself to never be a fisher, anyway.

Donkey Kong volunteered to join them though, so there they were.

"Maybe Bayonetta was right. I'm just finding it difficult on how to cope with everything the day after I got vo-... uh, eliminated from Survivor. It's best to focus on the positives all the while, and then jump back into it at the Final Tribal Council. ...But anyway, yeah, we did catch quite a bit of fish today. Wii Fit Trainer as usual tried to take charge of everything. She was worried about any possible stingrays that were in the water... But we've literally caught stingrays while on the island... Whatever. I just let her be her and that's it..."

"And Ike," Her hands were over her mouth. "I hope you remembered to put on sun screen!"

"What would your sister say?"

In spite of her bossiness from earlier, the fitness trainer actually sat down with Ike to have a one on one conversation.

"Um... She would be mad that of how I went out, but she..." She was thinking of her as he was elaborating, causing him to glance away. He could not have cried at that point; not in front of Wii Fit Trainer of all people. So he managed to hold it out in the end. "She would have still told me that I've done a good job. Now I have to make sure she doesn't tell anyone everything."

"There are all sorts of places you can go to when the season airs. We have plenty of people on this season that has access to watching it on television. Come to the Wii Fit Studio, because I'm already thinking of inviting Ganon."

"I've made it to day thirty-three on Survivor. My experience out here was something that I will never forget as long as I live. I'm not used to anything like this,... but I think I love it. I strongly recommend this to all of my folks at home. There are beings here that I've never seen, yet some can be rather interesting to interact with. But,... my number one wish was to be the guy that is friends with everyone so I can make it as far as possible. ...And I did it! I never ticked anybody off on the jury (even though I might have if things were different), I've actually met some pretty cool people out here, and I have absolutely no regrets on the type of game I played. I'm still sorta depressed on how I went out, but ignore that,... this is a once in a lifetime experience that will always be with me forever."

...And that was it lol. I actually had a hard time with this one because I literally had no idea what to do with Ike, so that last part I came up with was inspired by another Ponderosa video on an actual season.

Questions:

1. What did you think of Ike's gameplay? Did you like/dislike him?

2. Who would Ike vote for at this point to win Survivor?

If you enjoyed Ike, vote for him on my poll on my profile, and I will see you all next time! (Actually working on the next juror right now.)