Chapter Six — Extreme Challenges That Aren't Extreme
"We're home!" Gold announced as he busted the door open. He tossed his shoes off quickly and ran to the kitchen. Silver and Crystal followed behind him with irritated looks while taking off their shoes properly and closing the door quietly.
"Welcome back," Red responded, glancing away from his DS to greet them.
"Yo, where's the others?" Gold asked, looking around to find the house half empty. Only Green, Blue, Red, and the Johto crew were here. It was already seven PM, and usually that's the time they come back if not earlier.
"Yellow and Emerald is talking to White about something and Ruby and Sapphire are making out," Blue answered.
"What?" Gold, Silver, and Crystal said flatly, responding to it skeptically.
"They're with Yellow and Emerald," Green answered truthfully. "We're supposed to go on a reality show tomorrow as guest stars and they're getting the details about it for all of us."
"Reality show? Cool! I love being on the gambling wheel of fortune ones," Gold said.
"Mm... I hate reality shows..." Crystal muttered distastefully. She found them horrible. It was literally just a show about humiliating people on T.V. and making fun of them, so that the whole crowd can just get a laugh at them. Every time she sees them, she feels bad for the person. Wheel of Fortune is different though.
"Really? I love them," Red replied. "They're fun to be on. Well, I've been on just one, and it was Wheel of Fortune." He put his arm out to high five Gold since the two agreed.
Just on cue, the door was heard unlocking. Even if you didn't hear the quiet sound, you would hear the loud shoutings of Ruby and Sapphire and a loud door slam. Yellow quietly walked in, closing the door behind her and Emerald. The short blond boy kept spouting complaints about the couple.
"Why the heck is everyone slamming the door?" Green commented, his eye twitching.
"You slammed the door earlier," Blue pointed out.
"I was soaked for nothing," Green retorted, finding a good reason.
"I cannot believe ya or White! Why are ya two so crazy?!" Sapphire shouted, entering the room with Ruby.
"Us? Okay, maybe White is insane, but I am perfectly sane! You're the crazy one who made the director add a wild reality show twist in it instead of having it questions and answers only!" Ruby retorted.
"Wait, what?" Red said, interrupting the two's argument. "What did you say about the reality show?"
Ruby turned to his senior to give the answer, "Turns out the reality show we were on was just a normal, simple question and answer couple one to show how much we know about each other. Nothing big. Then this idiot had to say it was boring and mushy and said it should be filled with exciting challenges because they're 'fun'. The director of the show found it very intriguing and then added it. So, in the end, we're doing a physical challenge that has hard challenges."
"It's okay. She just tried to make it more entertaining," Red said. "And c'mon, seriously, when do they ever do anything crazy on reality shows? It's not like we're going to die."
"We're going to die," Silver announced as he grimaced at the two person booths. Remembering how it was a couple show, it was obvious that someone was going to be paired lovey-dovey with Blue, and it sickened him that it would be any of the crew.
All ten celebrities were standing on the stage of the reality show, currently getting ready as the crowd was settling in their seats across them and the crew of the set was moving the cameras and getting the show ready. It was about five minutes before everything started, and they still didn't have an idea of the show. Well, besides the part that it must've been dangerous or something. Everyone was dressed in military camouflage clothes with matching blue or red helmets; red for the girls and blue for the boys.
"It's not that bad. The director told me he changed lovey-dovey to team challenges," Emerald said, making Blue and Gold click their tongues in disappointment.
"Yes, that is true~!" A male voice said, appearing behind the curtains. He had purple hair and a shaved beard, looking like he was one of those adults who wanted to become popular or fit in as a thug. Either way, Ruby found his taste in his haircut and clothes very horrible.
"Bonjour! It's nice to meet you! Everyone calls me Sycamore," he said, giving the girls a flirty look. It failed and only made them get chills since they found it creepy.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you as well," White said, suddenly appearing in front of the others. Black was running behind her, currently running out of breath while carrying many things. "I'm White, their manager and the one who spoke with you the other day."
"Yes, I recognize you," he said.
White continued, "I'm honored. Now, all my clients wants a glimpse of the reality T.V. show and the changes because we weren't really clear of your idea," she spoke for the rest.
"I was actually going to explain it right now," Sycamore said. "Instead of a lovey-dovey show, a lot of viewers found it more interesting as teams; two groups of five people. The groups will be decided by a lottery drawing at the beginning of the show, and the two teams will be choosing their names. This type of show is just a quiz-action show. Each group will have a representative each round that will answer a question about each other. The one who gets it right first does not have to do the extreme challenge that will be picked by a large wheel," he gestured to the large colorful wheel beside him, "If the two do not know the answer, then both of them have to compete against each other in another challenge that is on the back of the wheel." He got the wheel and pushed it, turning it over and revealing another set of choices.
"Another part is the bonus round that happens after at the end. To earn bonus points for your team, the whole team competes in a challenge that is yet to be revealed," Sycamore explained. "That's basically everything, I think. Any questions?"
"Uh yeah. We barely started living together. I don't even know anything about most of them," Silver pointed out.
"Okay, no more questions! We're starting in a minute. Get to your places," Sycamore said, ignoring him and walking to his stand.
A tick mark appeared on Silver's forehead as he was about to march over to complain. Red stopped him and Blue persuade him that it was okay. Without any complaints or anything, the crew just went to their spots on the long couch that the backstage people put on. Unfortunately, it was too short and small that it barely fit everyone and it reminded them of the van.
"Oh my gosh, move it!" Sapphire said, elbowing Ruby in the side as she desperately tried to make space for herself.
Ruby cringed at the jab. "Ow! That hurt you idiot!" he exclaimed, shoving her back even though it wasn't really working.
"Guys, stop it! I can barely breathe," Blue said.
"Make room for Blue!" Silver yelled, shoving everyone from his side to shoot over. The people; Crystal, Gold, Yellow, and Red felt horribly squished together since Silver basically shoved them together even more.
"Someone sit on the floor or something!" Crystal suggested, forcibly shoving Gold off of the couch.
The poor raven haired boy fell onto the floor since he was on the edge. Luckily for the other squished three, they felt very comfortably with the extra room made. It didn't even take a second for them to take up the Gold's space so that he couldn't sit there back.
Sycamore sweatdropped, seeing the scene. He glanced at the crewman who was signaling him off at when the show was staring with his fingers. Once he reached zero, the man opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by a shout on the stage.
"You guys are assholes!" Gold said, seeing them shift quickly.
"And we're on the air!" Sycamore awkwardly shouted to get their attention.
The nine stopped shoving each other and Gold turned around to give the viewers an awkward but handsome smile to cover up his last incident. "Assholes that I love, haha!" he added to cover up. "Why don't you start the show, Sycamore?" He backed up besides the couch and gestured him.
"Got it," he replied. He turned to the crowd. "Hey everyone! This is a brand new reality T.V. show that features all kinds of celebrities and stars! Today, we have the Pokespe Drama crew as guests on the first episodes! Give a hand to them!"
The crowd in the audience clapped on cue.
"Now here are the rules," Sycamore began, later repeating the rules from before. After thoroughly explaining them, he brought out a fish bowl filled with cards. "Everyone will draw their cards! If it's a green card then they are on the left, and if it's a yellow one then they are on the right. Each team later discusses their names, and then we'll begin the questions portion!"
The ten members went over to him in a line and drew; Sapphire beating Gold in a race to be first. In end, the teams were divided into five people; the green people consisting of Yellow, Gold, Blue, Crystal, and Ruby while the yellow team was Green, Sapphire, Red, Emerald, and Silver.
"I'm not with Blue..." Silver said, sulking.
"Yes! I'm with Super Serious Gal and Sexy!" Gold cheered, glancing happily at Blue and Crystal. At the same time, Sapphire was cheering how she was on the same team as Red.
"Now that you guys and girls are separated into teams, pick out the team names! Oh, but not any team! But your opponents! This show has a twist, the opponents will name your teams!" Sycamore shouted, gesturing them quickly.
"Losers!" Sapphire shouted suddenly without asking her team.
"Minus Crystal!" Emerald added at the end. He would've saved Yellow as well, but it was on the impulse.
"The Stalker Crew!" Blue yelled back, earning looks from the others. She was the biggest stalker out of everyone.
"..." The competing members got quiet when they heard the ridiculous names.
"Okay now that everyone has their teams and names, let's continue the first challenge!" Sycamore announced in a T.V. host voice, separating everyone to each part of the room. The couch they were sitting on earlier magically disappeared unnoticed by the crewmen and was replaced with two stands in the middle.
"When I say who the representatives are, please step up to the stands and then answer the question!" Sycamore said. He picked up a notecard from his own stand and lifted it up. Speaking into the microphone in front of him, he continued, "And the first people to battle against each other is Red and Crystal!"
The two aforementioned people walked up to the stands, then turned to the host for the question.
"Go Crystal! Rip him to shreds with your mind!" Blue cheered.
"Thanks Blue," Red said sarcastically.
"No offense Red," Blue added, sheepishly smiling.
"Okay, so the first question is about Crystal's teammate Yellow!" The spotlight landed on the Yellow as the host gestured towards her. The blonde felt her cheeks flush at all of the attention. "The question is, if Yellow went into a café to get a drink, what kind of drink would she get?"
"... A coffee?" Crystal answered obviously, only deciding that there was that in the shop. It was a horrible answer, considering Yellow hates bitter things.
"A fruit smoothie! Preferably mixed berries," Red answered.
"Dude, that's not even in a café," Gold pointed out, slapping his forehead. Even if they weren't on the same team, it was sad to watch.
"Let's see what she answered backstage hours before the show!" Sycamore shouted, gesturing to the plasma T.V. on the side.
In a second, Yellow appeared on the screen, looking meek and smiling sweetly. "Umm... my favorite drink from a café? Well, I don't usually go to cafés for drinks but food. Oh, but I would get a natural fruit smoothie. Probably berry flavored since the tastes of delicious berries are nice! Oh wait, do they have them in there?" She tilted her head adorably, looking confused.
The T.V. screen shut off black and the focus was back to the two people.
"Looks like the winner of the first round is Red!" Sycamore announced, clapping for him. "Crystal will now have to do a challenge, and The Stalker Crew earns 100 points!"
Red goes back to his team, high fiving them proudly while Crystal goes back to hers, sulking and looking ashamed. She goes to Yellow first. "I am so sorry Yellow! I've been living with you for years, and I can't believe I don't know you better than Red..."
"Leave it to Red the stalker," Blue grumbled. Even though she was a stalker herself, she found Red a bigger one for knowing that.
"What was that?" Ruby asked, hearing her mumbles and awkwardly sweatdropping to them.
"Nothing~!" Blue chirped.
"C'mon guys! We're already losing," Gold said. He turned to Crystal. "If you don't complete the challenge then we lost 100 points. And don't forget, we don't have 100 points, so in the end, we'll have minus 100 points on the first round. You can do it Crys. If you can't, then you'll have to be punished by me." He gave a smirk at the end.
SLAP!
Crystal turned her heel around and proceeded to walk back to the middle of the stage to get her challenge over with. She went to the giant spinning wheel in the middle and waited for Sycamore to tell her to spin it. After he gave her permission, she spun it hard. It took a minute or so before it began to go slower. She watched cautiously as it went to a stop onto a weird picture of legs.
"Okay, the first challenge is nothing big or humiliating!" Sycamore announced. "Well, that is if she's not flexible! All Crystal here has to do is do the splits!"
"The splits? Easy," Crystal said, immediately sliding into her splits easily. She stretched forward and stomach literally touched the stage. Guys near her immediately felt the chills as they thought about something splitting during that time. After a few seconds, Crystal got up and went to her team.
A loud bell was rung at the end.
"And Crystal completes the first non-extreme challenge! Great job," Sycamore said. "Team Losers Minus Crystal is at 0 points, while The Stalker Crew is at 100!"
"That name pisses me off," Gold stated.
"I know right. Gold is the only loser on this team," Blue said, high fiving Crystal, who nodded and agreed.
"Wha! Hey!" Gold shouted.
"Continuing!" Sycamore yelled, interrupting their dispute. "Round two! Representatives for Losers Minus Crystal this time is Yellow and The Stalker Crew's representative is Green!"
Before Yellow went up to the stand, Blue stood behind her and patted her shoulder, encouragingly. "Don't worry, Yells! Green is a totally heartless person who doesn't even know crap about us, and you're going to win with no problem! Green has always been a loser anyways!"
"I can hear you!" Green shouted from his place behind the stand as everyone else sweatdropped.
"I don't care!" Blue shouted back, totally forgetting that they were on T.V.
"Spoken from the Loser Team..." Green grumbled as Yellow awkwardly stepped forward to her place.
"Minus Crystal, guys. Don't forget that," Emerald reminded.
"Okay, now that we have our two competitors, let's head on to the question! This question is about Blue!" He took a pause for dramatic effect. "What is her favorite hobby?"
There was a long silence as the two stopped to think. Yellow kept thinking about the stuff she does at home, but she couldn't really find anything, considering Blue doesn't really do anything but watch T.V. and act. But that was when she remembered seeing Blue do something.
"Ooh! Ooh! I know! Blue's favorite hobby is dressing up and coordinating outfits!" Yellow answered.
Right after her, Green answered, "Butting into people's lives and ruining them with her perky personality and also shipping them even though they're crack." Everyone didn't know what to be surprised at; the fact that Green actually guessed her favorite hobby that matches her personality, or knew what crack shippings are.
When he had finished saying that, a shoe flew towards him and hit him on the forehead. He looked around, irritated, and looked for the person who's responsible.
Blue whistled across the stage as she went over to get her shoe. "Oops, my bad. It slipped," she apologized in a fake voice before going over to her spot.
Trying to fill the awkward atmosphere, Sycamore continued, "And the correct answer is..." he trailed off, gesturing to the T.V. screen that everyone turned to.
The T.V. flashed on again, and this time, Blue appeared. "My favorite hobby that I like to do is probably shipping people and making them come true. Isn't it kind of fun to meddle into people's businesses?" After she answered, it turned off again.
Yellow facepalmed at herself, feeling guilty for getting it wrong since she knew the girl for years. "Why didn't I think of that?" she mumbled to herself.
Green nodded his head in victory, fully knowing he would get it right.
"And... the winner of this round is The Stalker Crew again!" Sycamore announced as the crowd cheered for them.
"I can't believe you, Blue," Ruby said, sweatdropping.
"What I can't believe is that he got it right! Like, what the heck?" Blue commented.
"That doesn't even count as a hobby..." Crystal muttered.
Gold slapped his forehead. "C'mon guys! Get it together! We're losing," he said.
"Sorry," Yellow apologized, sulking. Crystal rubbed her shoulder, trying to comfort her since she knew how she felt.
"The only thing I'm worried about is the challenge Yellow's gonna get," Ruby said. "I mean, think about it. Sycamore said that doing the splits was the easiest one, and the only one who can do them is probably Crystal. Even Sapph probably couldn't do them."
"It's okay! Yellow's tough," Blue reassured, patting Yellow's back. "Go get them!"
Yellow nodded, determinedly and walked up to the wheel. As Sycamore was talking to the audience, she went up and spun the wheel with small force. It spun round and round before stopping in about ten seconds, slowly landing on a picture of a cake.
"What's that...?" she inquired.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it turns out that little Yellow has gotten the sweets challenge! She has to eat at least ten cakes if she doesn't want to lose 100 points from her team!" he announced, gesturing to the cart of cakes that a crewman was rolling onto the stage.
Yellow gulped when she saw that each cake was bigger than her head.
The blonde was currently on her ninth cake, and it looked like she was about to pass out any minute. It took her at least a minute to finish each cake, and surprisingly, she could handle it, or at least that's what everyone thinks since she ate it in one gulp.
"You're almost there, Yellow!" Sapphire cheered.
"Stop routing for the other team," Emerald said.
"Dude, I'm not even eating the cakes and I feel like throwing up," Red said.
"Gross," Silver commented.
As the other team was chatting, she finally finished her last cake then stood up in her chair slowly and put her arms up in victory. Even though they still had zero points, she was still proud of herself for not losing. Her team cheered and congratulated her.
"Wow! Surprisingly, the little singer Yellow has finished ten huge cakes! Good job!" Sycamore said as a crewman came and pushed the cart off of the stage.
"Yeah, Yellow!" Red ran up to her to also congratulate her because he felt the urge to. "Great job!" He patted her back in a proud manner.
Just when he did the first pat, a loud gargling noise was heard from her stomach. Yellow placed her hand on her mouth and tried to hold the feeling, but she couldn't and the cakes came back the other way out and through her fingers, landing on Red's shoes.
"Ooh!" Sapphire exclaimed, grimacing at it and covering her eyes afterwards. It was too ugly to watch.
From the other side of the room, you could hear Blue laugh at the two, Gold snickering at the scene, and loud slaps and hits from Crystal.
After she finished her long two minute puking attack, at which Red didn't move the whole time, Yellow wiped her mouth with her sleeve, feeling a tiny bit better. Well, that is until she saw what she was puking at. She gasped and covered her mouth in surprise when she saw it was Red's shoes.
"I am so, so, so, so, so, so, sorry!" she apologized, bowing a million times.
Red tried his best not grimace at it and gave her a soft smile. "It's... totally cool," he said. He turned around and quietly went back to his team.
"He's crying," Green announced.
"Huh? But he's smiling," Sapphire point out, seeing the huge smile in his face. "Oh wait." She stopped when she saw small tears form at the edge of Red's eyes.
"Those were his new shoes that he just got this morning," Green answered the reason for his crying.
After many moments later and the break Red took to change shoes and pants, they continued the game. Ruby and Sapphire stepped up to the plate since they were called next. At the stand, Sapphire growled, showing a competitive side while Ruby just shrugged, wanting to get it over with. He partially cared about it, but then again, he thought this show was overrated when he saw Blue stand on two poles and dodge bouncy balls. Unluckily for him, she fell on him. Then there was also the unfashionable outfits they were forced to wear.
"The question is... What sleeping position does Red sleep in?" Sycamore asked in a dramatic voice.
The two twitched their eyes, completely finding the question stupid.
"I'm not a stalker! How would I know that?" Sapphire snapped.
"But aren't you apart of The Stalker Crew?" Ruby retorted slyly. Sapphire wanted to snap and growl, but then she remembered she was on television and White told her to restraint herself. The others remembered, but act somewhat badly and not as much.
She bared her teeth. "Red sleeps like an angel, sleeping in a ball form!" she answered.
"My answer is, Red sleeps on his side, all messily with the blanket all over the place," Ruby answered.
"How much of a slob do you think Red is?" Sapphire snapped.
"From my memories of waking him up in the mornings sometimes, I remember that the most," Ruby said. "... Or was it Gold?"
"Let's find out on the screen!" Sycamore shouted, gesturing to the screen.
Once again, it flashed on again and this time, Red was on the screen. "Umm... how I sleep? Well according to Green, I sleep like a dead person, but loud. Like I sleep similar to a mummy and cross my arms, staying face up while snoring, or at least that's the example Green gave me." After Red answered, the screen flashed off.
"I think I should be right because angels are dead people in a way," Sapphire reasoned.
"Sorry Miss Sapphire, but nope! Nobody got this round," Sycamore announced. "But you two can duke it out in a different extreme challenge together!"
"If it's an eating competition, I think I can manage..." Ruby mumbled, thinking about the previous challenge.
Sycamore left his stand and went over to the wheel and flipped it over the other side to show more challenges for two people. "Who wants to spin the new wheel?" he asked the two.
"Ooh! Ooh! Me!" Sapphire shouted, raising her hand. Without any permission or anything, she ran over to the wheel already and spun it hard.
"You better get something easy," Ruby said.
"No! Let's get an extreme challenge! The other ones barely compare," Sapphire told him.
It took about two minutes before the wheel stopped spinning, the arrow pointing at a picture of a Japanese character. Ruby furrowed his brows as he read the character out loud, "Sumo?"
"Looks like their challenge is a sumo match everyone!" Sycamore announced, turning to the crowd. "These two will compete in a fight whereas they pushed each other out of the ring by force! And to spice it up, they have to wear the sumo outfits!"
As he finished that, the crewman walked over to them with bloated suits, designed similar to a sumo wrestler's body with the thong.
When Ruby saw that, his eye twitched again. "Oh, I am not wearing that."
"I want to cry," Ruby said as Gold finished zipping him up into the suit.
"Don't worry, Ruby! You'll do fine! Just use your mind and strength to beat Sapph! I know you can do it," Blue encouraged as she waved bye to him. Crystal and Yellow nodded, agreeing. Ruby just shrugged then turned over to walk to the middle.
When he was out of earshot, while smiling and moving his teeth slightly to talk, Gold said, "He's totally going to die and get crushed."
Blue did the same thing, "Totally."
"Okay, to be fair, you were against Sapphire, and Red would probably lose," Blue said.
"Yeah, it's okay Ruby," Crystal said, handing him the ice pack to put on his head.
They took another commercial break after a few more matches, and currently, Ruby was using those last minutes to survive since he wasn't allowed to use the ice pack on T.V. Apparently, it would make the show look dangerous and Sapphire a savage, or so Sycamore said. Yellow argued with him, but lost when White told her the next break was in five minutes.
"Well, we're losing," Gold said, completely changing the subject.
"Does winning really matter that much?" Crystal snapped.
"Yes! I don't wanna be a member of the Loser Team Minus Crystal!" Gold said.
"I don't want you either," Crystal retorted. "Anyways, after the rounds after Ruby's and Sapphire's, we caught up to them."
"We're 100 points behind," Gold pointed out. "Isn't this the last round?"
"Don't worry guys! This is a team event! I'm pretty sure it won't be anything big!" Yellow optimistically said.
"I have a bad feeling..." Emerald mumbled as he looked at the set the crew was putting onto the stage. There was a large pool of mud under a long metal pole that nearly took up the whole stage. There were two support poles to support it at the ends.
"Really? Looks fun," Sapphire commented.
"Yeah, I mean, this isn't like a freaky reality show with chemicals or eating cockroaches, so we should just relax and have fun," Red said.
"But it's still painful," Green retorted.
"If they hurt Blue again..." An ominous aura surrounded Silver.
"Okay everyone! This is the final round of the whole game aka as the bonus round!" Sycamore announced. He walked onto the middle of the stage, smiling.
He continued, glancing at the mud set. "For the final round, the two teams will compete in a competition whereas they hold onto the pole and do their best to last the longest! The last one holding onto the pole is the winner of the round, also winning the game for their team! It's worth 300 points, and the losing team can even make a comeback!"
"I'd rather die than compete in that challenge!" Ruby whined.
After he explained the rules, Sycamore gave them four minutes to do a 'team meeting' to discuss the strategies they should do with their abilities. Currently at Team Loser Team Minus Crystal, Ruby was complaining to them at how he didn't want to get all dirty by the mud. This time, Blue had to agree, but she thought it'd be fun to see Green faceplant into the mud, and thought it was worth it.
"If you don't want to be covered in mud, then become the winner of the competition," Crystal encouraged.
"Hey, maybe Ruby's desire to not get mud on himself might strengthen his efforts," Gold said.
"I try," Ruby defended.
"You were running away from Sapphire during the sumo match," Gold pointed out.
"You would've done the same."
"Okay, I get your point."
"Guys, get your head back into the game!" Blue said, snapping her fingers to get their attention. "We need to win! Or at least let Green lose."
"Blue! It's not about competition! It's about having fun," Yellow reminded.
"The fun died when we were named Loser Team Minus Crystal, Yells," Gold responded.
"Crush them. Then win. Got it?" Green asked, finishing the team strategy up in four words.
"Crystal clear!" Sapphire said, nodding her head.
"What the heck? That's not even a strategy plan," Emerald commented.
"We'll just wing it. We're up against Ruby and Gold," Silver said, thinking that those two are the weakest of the team. Yellow seemed pretty weak to him too because she'll probably feel bad for someone and jump off to help them when they fall, but then again, that was just her nice conscience. Red would do the same too, of course.
"Let's do this!" Red cheered.
It was so obvious that Sycamore really wanted them to fall down before the show ended in forty-five minutes. He just gave them a look that seemed like it, and it was very clear to all the participants in the show that he wanted them to drop down so the crowd can laugh at them. He even jokingly remarks that pissed some of them off to pass time and keep the audience entertained.
"Drop out already," Blue said to Green for the millionth time.
It's been fifteen minutes since they started, and so far, nothing has happened yet besides arguing.
"You drop out," Green responded, not caring.
"I can't believe Gold didn't drop out in the first three minutes," Silver commented.
"Me either," Crystal agreed.
"Hey! We're on the same team!" Gold snapped. Crystal shrugged in return.
"I wonder who'll win," Yellow said, quietly talking to Red. "I think Sapphire or Ruby will win. To me, the younger people are, the more energy they have."
"Please Yellow, we're not that old yet," Red replied, laughing. "But anyways, I think Sapph is going to win. She's got the muscles."
He nodded his head to the juniors next to him and the two adverted their eyes towards the two who happened to be next to each other.
"I want to die. I want to die. I'm going to kill myself if I get mud on my clothes," Ruby announced.
"Stop complainin'! Ya can always take a shower and anyways, those aren't yer designer clothes, but the clothes the show gave out!" Sapphire reasoned.
"I'm still wearing my hat under the helmet," Ruby said, referring to his usual white cap.
"And who's fault is that?" Sapphire snapped. "Dang, I'm sick of yer whinin'! Fall already!" She pulled on the bar and turned her body towards Ruby, raising her legs. Without any warning, she kicked him hard, trying to knock him down.
Desperate for keeping clean, Ruby held onto the bar really tight and was just shoved into the person next to him, which was Blue.
"Gyah!" Blue exclaimed as she was shoved, later falling into the mud pool under them because she wasn't prepared of the attack. As she rose from the pool, she rubbed her eyelids, clearing it so that she could see. She looked up at the two.
"You're gonna pay for that, Ruby!" she shouted.
"It wasn't my fault! Sapphire kicked me!" he responded.
From the corner of her eye, she saw Green smirk and quietly snicker. She glared at him. Screw what the media thinks of her. Letting go of her goody two shoes act, she jumped up and grabbed Green's leg barely then yanked him down. He would've had the strength to grab on and pull against Blue, but then he didn't expect her to break her act. Without bracing himself, he fell down, on top of Blue, who let out a shriek when his elbow jabbed her in the neck.
As the two got up from the mud, both irritated, Blue hissed, "Ow! That hurt!"
"And who's fault is that, Pesky Woman?" Green snapped.
"It's your fault for being a mean person! You laughed at me for falling!" she snapped back. She looked up at Ruby. "You're next!" Blue jumped up as high as she could in the mud pool to get him, but missed when Ruby bent his legs to make it harder for her to grab it since the height was farther. Because she missed and didn't grab anything, Blue fell back down onto the pool, accidently falling forward onto Green, who was getting up. The two fell into the pool again, feeling mud get in places they did not think mud would reached.
"Phew," Ruby sighed in relief. "That was close."
"Blue!" Silver shouted, jumping in as well to help her. Too bad he made it worst because he landed on the two as they were getting up again.
"Hey, that way seems more fun than just hangin' here all day!" Emerald said. "Time to get rid of someone! Heave ho!" He kicked Gold as hard as he could on the back and the raven haired boy fell. Or, almost fell. In mid-air, he hugged Crystal's leg, barely hanging there without touching the mud since his legs were bent.
Crystal felt a blush creep on her face. "Get off of me!" she scolded, shaking her leg. Without any avail, he wasn't budging.
"C'mon! We're a team! Let's help each other out!" Gold said, not wanting to be in a pool with the most bitter people he had ever met. Blue would probably strangle him and use him as a weapon against Green, Green would probably punch him back, and Silver would just drop kick him in the face for no reason.
"Hey, get off of Crystal!" Emerald said, scooting over to Crystal and reaching out to kick Gold off. Too bad he couldn't because his legs were too short. He sighed, feeling irritated. "Sapphire could probably win in the end..." Using himself as a sacrifice, he dropped from his spot and landed on Gold's face to yank him off. Unfortunately, Crystal couldn't support the two of them with one leg, so she fell down with them.
"Ack!" Crystal exclaimed as she made contact with the mud and helped Emerald up.
"Look what you made Crystal do!" Emerald scolded as he tried to hold onto the rim of the pool.
Gold jumped from his spot. "Yeah right! That was all your fault!" he blamed, pointing an accusing finger at him.
"Oh man, that was close!" Ruby said, barely dodging the huge splashes of mud when they fell. Some of the mud accidently landed on Sapphire's pants already.
Now, there was only four people left holding onto the pole. Yellow was already getting tired though, Sapphire was hanging on as best as she could, Ruby was just avoiding getting mud on himself, and Red was just hanging there.
"Stop sayin' stuff that barely makes you clean," Sapphire snapped. "Damn, why do ya have luck all of a sudden?"
"What are you talking about, luck? I ran out of it when I was forced on this show!" Ruby said.
"Ooh! Seems like Ruby actually hates this show!" Sycamore commented, gasping.
"Shut it," he snapped.
Yellow sighed. "My arms are getting tired..." she muttered.
"Yells! Don't let go! If you go now, then we'll have to rely our hopes only on Ruby only! You can't make us go through something that horrible!" Gold shouted, making Ruby's eye twitch.
"Yeah! And I'm trying to pull him down right now too!" Blue added before turning to Silver. "Hey Silv, let me get on your shoulders so I can reach him."
"You guys are the worst teammates ever, just saying!" Ruby shouted back to them.
"It's okay. They're just kidding," Yellow reassured.
"No they're not," Sapphire added quickly.
"Guys, get along! This is supposed to be a fun team event," Red reminded.
"Uh, the fun ended when Sapphire tried to kick me into mud," Ruby retorted.
"Correction. Not tried, I will!" Sapphire shouted, preparing another kick. Just as she thrust her leg forward, Ruby caught it with his legs in mid-action and shoved it back, making it go backwards. Sapphire's leg accidently swung backwards, landing in between Red's legs.
Red cringed when he felt the pain at that spot, and every guy did the same, knowing the pain. He fell forward as he dropped, making Yellow slip off because she couldn't handle his weight. The two fell into the mud pool, luckily landing on no one.
"Wha— You idiot!" Sapphire spluttered at Ruby. She looked down at Red as he resurfaced, covered in brown liquid. "Don't worry Red! I'll avenge you!"
"You're the one who's at fault, idiot!" Ruby corrected. "Stop kicking around!"
"It's faster than wastin' all dis time! We all know I'm gonna win! Just fall in the mud already!" Sapphire insisted.
"No way! I rather cut my own head off," Ruby responded.
"Silv! Just a little bit to the left!" Blue ordered, pointing towards Ruby side and interrupting their conversation. Ruby bent his legs up and hung from the pole like a monkey to avoid the two. Blue tried to reach for him, but lost her balance for a second, leaning forward against Sapphire's leg. Sapphire felt off when she felt a feathery, slimy texture, which was her hair, touch her skin in the small space between pants and socks. She giggled, being easily tickled.
"Hey stop it!" she said, laughing crazy. When she laughed crazy, she would hold her stomach. That was the habit that literally let to her failure. She forgot her surroundings for a second, and held her stomach, falling off of the pole and falling onto Blue. She knocked Blue off of Silver's shoulders and fell towards Yellow. Red quickly grabbed her out of the way though, and they ended up Emerald. The three plunged into the pool, and the two heavy girls were laying on Emerald's body so it was hard for him to get up. Emerald was literally drowning.
"Rald!" Crystal shouted, taking a deep breath before diving in to save him.
"Ding, ding!" Sycamore interjected. "Looks like we have a winner! Ruby has won it for Team Loser Minus Crystal! Let's congratulate them, folks!" Applause was heard from the crowd in the room and the host.
Ruby turned to the camera and smiled nervously as he used all of his strength to hold onto the pole. Like Yellow, his arms were getting tired. Gold was in the pool, cheering while the others stayed silent.
"Good timing too! We have to end it here because we're running out of time! It was nice to have all the Pokespe Drama cast guest star on our show and let them show how fun anything could be when they're around! Let's give them another round of cheers as we conclude our show!" Sycamore announced, expecting someone cheering somewhere.
"And cut! That's a wrap!" the camera person shouted, putting his camera down.
Sycamore's smiled dropped into a straight face as he raised his hand to get a bottled water after the whole forty-five minutes.
"Hey someone get me down from here!" Ruby shouted, quickly wanting assistance.
"You got it!" Sapphire shouted back, rising up from the mud pool. She jumped high and grabbed his leg successfully.
"You wouldn't dare," he mumbled.
"I would!" she responded. Wrapping her arms around his leg, she yanked him down with all of her force and the two fell down into the mud pool.
As Ruby quickly resurface, he repressed the urge to puke. Mud probably got into his mouth, and his whole entire body and homemade hat was now covered in dirty mud, one of the last things he wanted to happen in his life.
From the side, you could hear Sycamore laugh. "You guys were hilarious! Your personalities were totally different from what I expected! I thought Ruby and Sapphire were besties!" he exclaimed.
That was when he reminded everyone of something. They were out of their good character and broke in front of the camera.
"Sapph, go find that cameraman and break the camera and destroy the film," Green commanded seriously as if the girl was a Pokémon.
At lightning speed, Sapphire jumped out of the pool and over the border, landing onto the stage. She quickly ran backstage, tracking mud everywhere.
"No! She can't! We have evidence of everything!" Sycamore shouted, about to run after her.
But he stopped when someone grabbed his wrist. He turned around to see glaring red eyes. "Oh, you're not going to escape. You're the other reason why I'm drenched in mud. If you had gotten me down sooner, my hat would've been saved." A menacing aura surrounded Ruby.
"Drown him in the mud," Blue suggested from the pool, feeling equally pissed off that she was used to fool around. "I really, really want to take my anger out on someone."
Silver's eyes lit up with fire. "I'll get the legs," he offered, climbing out of the pool with the others following behind.
Color drained from Sycamore's face as he let out a loud shrill that echoed throughout the set.
A/N — Oops, sorry guys that this was like 2 days late, but it was longer than the others and I wanted to add more! Anyways, sorry if this chapter felt short though DX I had to cut out a lot of things to make it under 8,000 bc I didn't want it to drag on. Any who's, midterms are coming up on Monday tomorrow guys! Damn, why does high school have to be all about exams? TT^TT Well, aside from whining, I'll get straight to the point! Even though I have midterms, I'm not gonna go on hiatus on this story (maybe the others but not this one) so I guess I'm safe.
Also about the events with the robbery and the professor, it has no mention in this story bc I wrote in third person and it's in Crystal's thoughts so... I'm going to hold it off for a while, sorry! As for other events, the next one should be about a 'break' chapter like a usual that goes deeper into the previous scene and then the forest chapter XD As for the agencyshipping fans, the next chapter will be FILLED with it omg. I already wrote it XD so yay!
Ahahaha, aside from that, here are the replies to the reviewers!
TO THE BEAUTIFUL REVIEWERS:
Sakura fields — thank you!
QueenLlama — thank you :)
hshh (guest) — um yeah, I'm not really into dark themed, so turning this will probably be unlikely. but tbh, I'm going to just add drama and not go into too much dark details. I found it uncomfortable to write it My Online Life :/ well, anyways, thank you for reviewing XD
Just Another Kid — asdfghjkl! I LOVE YOU! LOL. Thanks :) you're so sweet! And I kind of getchu. Anyways, this chapter was cut short, but oh wellz! The next should maybe be longer though with all the scenes so yay! haha. Thanks for always reviewing and dang I love how they're long :)))))
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