On we go! Episode 3 begins…and what a party it will bring!
This episode will probably bring the most number of twists and turns than ever, and not just in this game!
Which one of the eight remaining players in this game is…the Mole?
EPISODE 3
"Usually, people have to clean up after themselves," McHallyboo said, wiping and cleaning off the mess that the green barrel in the storage room had created. "But you…" He turned to the person beside him.
"Not you. Your job is to create messes and run away."
"It was a risky move, but I had succeeded," the Mole declared, looking down. Then the Mole looked up, thinking.
"McHallyboo, I've sabotaged extremely openly in this game, and nobody suspects me for it. It is a strange feeling." The Mole looked back at the previous episode's events.
"Piantissimo and his actions at dinner…I honestly don't know what to think about it," the Mole said, smiling. "It was a very suspicious act, don't you think? Do you think it was too suspicious?" McHallyboo grinned.
"That's up to you to decide," said the host, opening the door of the hidden garage that existed in Delfino Plaza's land. "Sabotage how you like."
"That, I will do." The Mole exited the door of the garage, and into the sun.
WHO IS…THE MOLE?
PLAYER: Dashell
Surname: Knot
Birthday: September 23
Occupation: Sports Agent
PLAYER: Dry Bones
Surname: Secar
Birthday: July 5
Occupation: Horticulturist
PLAYER: Eclair
Surname: Choux
Birthday: June 30
Occupation: Patron/Pastry Maker
PLAYER: Il
Surname: Piantissimo
Birthday: January 5
Occupation: Competitive Athlete
PLAYER: Mimi
Surname: Shipeshafter
Birthday: April 10
Occupation: Maid
PLAYER: Snifit
Surname: Incognoto
Birthday: December 2
Occupation: Police Officer
PLAYER: Tiny
Surname: Kong
Birthday: October 20
Occupationh: Retail Manager
PLAYER: Zess
Surname: Toad
Birthday: February 26
Occupation: Chef
EPISODE 3
Eclair: I believe that you must be a good person to survive in this game. It is difficult with the fact that everyone is trying to deceive each other and we must all not trust each other. But I believe it is very do-able and possible.
Dashell: Bowser Jr's gone, but you have to realize: when you rid the competition in this game, it makes it easier to make it to the end. So, part of me goes by that, but part of me actually kind of misses the guy who left.
Piantissimo: I am…just so quite alone in this game. Why was execution fated on Bowser Jr? There were so many other possibilities for him that would have made him stay. Perhaps if he just switched one simple quiz answer…just one answer…he would, with no doubt, still be here.
"It's my fault," Piantissimo said, head against the wall of the lobby in Delfino Plaza's hotel. Mimi looked at him, rolling her eyes with a sigh.
Mimi: Piantissimo is moping around for Bowser Jr. Heehee. I think in his heart, he's actually able to contain his feelings. Why, if he feels this way when every player leaves, he will be no more than a shriveled sponge!
"Nah, don't feel that way!" Dry Bones said, who was sitting closest to Piantissimo in the lobby. "First of all, it's not your fault. Let your guilt out! Bowser Jr. is in a better place than us!"
"A better place," Mimi said, nodding her head and actually trying to make Piantissimo feel better and make less noise.
"You can say that again," Tiny said, sighing at the statement. "Look at us: we're just sitting here anxiously waiting for the next part of our game. We can't even think. This game is just so hard."
"Now if we keep acting negatively, we'll just picture everything negatively," Zess said up loud, pointing her finger at the players besides her. "Let's keep a good eye out for what we can do good from now on!"
Zess: Episode 3…oh, my good achin' back. I'm extremely surprised that not only have I survived two execution, but that I have survived to the point...on a physical level.
Tiny: Everyone here has survived two whole episodes with the Mole. So that just makes it easier for the Mole to manipulate us, because he or she knows EXACTLY how we play in this game. So they can control us...which is scary.
Standing a bit further from the rest in the lobby, Snifit just looked at everyone huddled together, waiting for McHallyboo's next statement.
Snifit: Hmm. I feel that this episode is going to be strangely difficult. Like, McHallyboo will pull a bad one on us. I don't know why.
"Right here!" The players turned a corner in one of the hotel floors of Delfino Plaza's lodging building, and saw a large, immense slab of metal before them. It looked all too familiar from what they had encountered unexpectedly their last episode of the game. It was the elevator: one that existed in the real world and was free of electrical fabrication. It was their turn, once again, to move on with the Mole.
"This is not the lobby elevator," the host said, as everybody knew.
"Bring it on…Floor 3," Dashell's voice said, ready.
"It is so unimaginable that in this very spot…directly below us," Éclair said to the others, "we were in a desert hut, in a lobby of Yold Desert." Everyone looked down as well at the plush carpet, and the thought pondered in everyone's minds unnervingly. Indeed, just the floor below, they had taken the elevator to the island itself. Now, they were about to go somewhere else. Somewhere unknown, which though they knew would be fake, would be real to them like never before.
"It's sooo weird, just thinking about it," Mimi said, shuddering.
"Snifit, I'd like you to lead the way into the elevator," McHallyboo said, seeing the player who stood at the front of the crowd. Snifit pointed to himself with surprise, then waited in front of the large metal doors. He separated the players from the next floor.
Snifit: Though honestly, even with respect to McHallyboo…I did not want to enter the elevator.
The elevator was about to reach the third floor. Dashell looked at the lights above the elevator doors' inside, a strange look in his eye as he looked at all seven lights in a row.
"Those lights seems to have caught your attention," Zess laughed, nudging Dashell's elbow teasingly. "You always look at those little lights, fella."
"They just don't seem right," was Dashell's reply to the chef with the spatula. Zess looked at him weirdly, then faced forwards with nonchalant manner.
"Nothing seems right," Zess laughed with amusement.
"I do not want to fall into sand, OR water this time," Mimi said in an unwilling tone of voice, waiting for the elevator doors to open. She was remembering last episode's start and transformation into Episode 2, much with distasteful feelings.
"I don't even WANT to feel the transformation!" Mimi whined, as the elevator doors finally arrived at floor Number 3 of the mysterious building with a loud DING!
"You can't get everything like you want it to be," Piantissimo huffed to her, and the doors opened. Darkness. Pure darkness littered the existence of the floor. It was a black existence that lay in front of them, and they felt the open air in front of their bodies.
"Ahem," McHallyboo said, from behind the crowd of players. "Please allow me to…switch everything on. And most of all: be ready to party." The doors closed behind him, and they were all in full darkness. They could only wait for their next world.
All of a sudden, the entire floor flashed before them and stunned their eyes, but it wasn't multiple, chaotic flashes that hit their minds and vision. It was almost like a single, white blaze stunned them all for no more than the smallest fraction of a second.
"What the…!" Within this brief flash, something large and colorful began to form before them, static flashing as it formed pixel by pixel. The players looked around them, and saw that even when the flash was gone, their surroundings were all white. It was an odd site and location they had undoubtedly arrived in; they were in the entrapment of a rectangular box.
"I'll be darned!" Zess said out loud, looking at her surroundings with wonder. "We're in some sort of white room!" Everyone else gasped, realizing the truth. They were confined.
"Where are we?" Tiny asked, looking perplexed around her and feeling the white wall besides her. It was the feeling of glass, to her wonder.
"Hmm," said Snifit silently, looking at the ceiling above him. It was nothing but white as well, and then he looked closely and saw small, faint cloud designs imprinted on the very walls that surrounded them from all sides. He gasped.
"Party," he whispered in realization. The crowd was huddled in the center, but McHallyboo, standing away from them, took in a breath, ready to greet them all to the new location they had arrived at.
"Where are we?!" was the unanimous question that was asked. The eight players were in the white room, and the host roared with laughter.
"Welcome to the beginning of your third episode, and what a Mario Party it is!" he said to them all, and his next sentence stunned the players. "You are all in this location, about to participate in some Mario Party minigames for your very first mission!"
"…what?" Everyone faced him, some of them having immediate faces of excitement and disbelief, while others were still mystified about the events that were about to occur for their team.
Mimi: We were about to participate in Mario Party MINI-GAMES? We arrived in a white room, and according to McHallyboo, it was the waiting room before a minigame. This was beyond my wildest imagination.
Tiny: I was immediately scared: I didn't know whether each minigame would be worth 10 coins, or 10,000 coins. So this was nerve-wracking.
Dry Bones: Why did I have to come in so far into the series, at Mario Party 7?! I could entered the series earlier, and maybe gotten more practice too.
"This game has put you in a location that's…nowhere seen in real life," McHallyboo said truthfully, sounding a little surprised himself.
"This is like the instruction screen room," Snifit said smartly. "Look." It was as if their floor was transparent glass, and they were standing on air. But they could see right through the see-through ground below them, and farther under them, a little cloud filled with words could be distinguished.
"Instr...uctions," Piantissimo said with interest, reading the words in the little cloud below them. "This is crazier than I thought!"
"And that television-like screen in front of you," McHallyboo said, pointing to the colorful screen of an unknown image floating in front of them, "is your next minigame." He faced the players.
"In this game, you will take turns, four players at a time, playing these wonderful games of the past," McHallyboo to the group of players. "While four of you play, the other four…will be giving in their predictions on how you will play. The money won will depend on these predictions. I will introduce everything once the first game begins."
MISSION 3: Mario Party Madness
"But first…choose your teams!"
"Well, praise the word 'choose!'," Zess snorted, looking to the others. "I want to be paired with people who are athletic and full of energy! We gotta balance our teams out." Everyone considered her line.
"Okay, then let's form groups based on a mixture of athletic and non-athletic," Dashell spoke up. "We should make teams that balance both in each group." Zess nodded.
"I'm not…the most athletic," Dry Bones spoke up, raising his hand. "Evidence from the megaphone game in Mission 3. I'll pair with the most athletic player." Dashell and Piantissimo both raised their hands.
"Hey, let me take him!" Piantissimo said, going to Dry Bones' side. "I want him!"
Dashell: He just wanted an ego boost, so I let him take Dry Bones.
"Fine with me," Dashell said, stepping back unintentionally next to Eclair. They looked at each other.
"Oh, perhaps we should even out the teams?" Eclair decided. "I can go on Piantissimo's if you want."
"Nah, you can join mine...I don't…think it matters," Dashell said slowly. As they formed a team, Mimi nudged Tiny, winking.
"I KNEW it!" Mimi hissed, smiling from ear to ear. Tiny smiled, making a quick hush motion to her.
Mimi: I'm only going to confess it here: I'm a bit jealous of the princess in this game. I wish MIMI had some sort of love flirtation in this game. Where's my big hunk o' Mole to help me through these games?
"I'll go on Dashell's side too!" Mimi jumped up, going to their side as well. "He's a better captain, and we might be able to work together." Piantissimo's mouth dropped open.
Piantissimo: All of a sudden, there were two separate teams and everyone wanted to be on Dashell's team. I felt...extremely insulted, understandably.
"I'll be on your team too…Dashell," Snifit spoke up, going to his side. "I want to be able to work things together, and I feel like you are a sufficient captain."
"Oh come on, really?" Piantissimo sulked, folding his arms and looking even more offended than before." Snifit's face changed, realizing his sentence.
"I did not mean it in that way," he said sorrily.
"Well, if Piantissimo is a track star, and Tiny Kong, who beats my height by tenfold, are going to be on my team," Zess said, smiling, "then take me in! I'm in for Team 2!" Zess and Tiny Kong looked appreciatively to each other as the second team of players were formed.
Snifit: I didn't think our Team was the most athletic. But it was good, because we would balance each other out.
Tiny: I think the worst part of the game was that we didn't know if we would be WORKING together or against each other.
Group 1: Dashell, Mimi, Snifit, Éclair
Group 2: Piantissimo, Zess, Dry Bones, Tiny
"Okay, Group 1 will be playing first!" McHallyboo announced, facing the four players. "Your mini-game…that you will be going to take part in…is…" Everyone looked with full anticipation to the host.
"Mushroom Mixup!" Almost all faces looked unknown to the game title, but Snifit looked appalled.
"Mushrooming Mixup?" Mimi asked, flabbergasted. "I have never played a Mario Party game! Someone tell me what it means!"
"Mushrooms and colors," Snifit said in answer to her sentence. "I know the rules."
"How do you know?" Mimi asked him, looking at him suspiciously. Snifit shrugged.
"Before making an appearance in Mario Party 2, I had to study the previous games," Snifit said to her sincerely. "Plus, Mario Party 2 had a replica called Hexagon Heat."
"Yes, that's exactly right," McHallyboo said, winking at Snifit. "Perfectly spoken. Good job." Everyone looked at him, but they still didn't know the rules of the game.
"You will be upon a plethora of colorful mushrooms," the host explained to them, pointing at the image in front of them. "A toad, on the side, will raise a flag. You must rush to that flag, because every other mushroom that is not that color…will fall!" Group 1 gasped, all except for Snifit.
"Then what happens to those who don't make it?" Mimi asked, wide-eyed.
"You fall in water…and lose," McHallyboo finished. Éclair sighed with a small smile on her face.
Éclair: If I were to lose in this minigame...it will not be the first time I have been sent into a body of water. So I will be used to it.
"Sheesh, sounds just like a Mario Party," commented Dashell, looking at his teammates.
"Oh, and there's once more thing," McHallyboo said, a shine in his eye. "The player to win this minigame…will win a +1 on the next quiz." The players of Group 1 faced each other in excitement.
Dashell: A plus one brings your score one point up on the quiz. One entire point. And that can save you tremendously on a quiz to no limit.
Mimi: I NEED that plus one. But am I really going to fight in this game and win it? It was so unfair, because everyone was just going to fight each other!
"A plus 1 should give you all an incentive to win," McHallyboo said. "So good luck, all." He faced them all as a group.
"Are you ready?" he simply asked.
"What...ready for what?" Mimi asked, her face confused. Everyone seemed lost as well.
"Let the games begin," McHallyboo said, and there was a flash of light within the room. Everyone shouted, and ducked, but what the flash utility did was transport four players out of existence, and into another part of the unreal world. They were suddenly teleported to an area where a game of chaos and battle would take place: right into the minigame.
Mushroom Mix-Up was to begin.
"Where on…where are we!"
They were in a land of color and ocean. The water was dark-blue, and the first thing that hit all of their eyes were colors. Countless colors that littered the platforms around them and kept them high above the ocean floor was the world before them. They were standing in the center of a complex contraption of multiple platforms, and little spots on the ground made them know that they were on large mechanical objects, ones that were supposed to resemble mushrooms.
"Oh no…" Eclair gasped, stepping away from the black mushroom's edge they were standing on. The four of them were stricken with alarm.
"We are in the game!"
"Oh my gosh, why are we here?" Mimi squealed, closing her eyes and grabbing onto Snifit, who was equally alarmed.
"Hold on," Dashel said, not wanting to move a step himself. "If we all just stay still…nothing…will…hurt us." They stood in the center of the platforms, huddled together in fear and not wanting to move. One step, and they were close to the chance of falling a heavy, far distance into the water's body.
"Oh my sweet beans…there they are!" Zess hollered, pointing at the floating screen that existed before them. "On the mushrooms, all scared…look!" The players of Group 2 could see their teammates before them, now located in the screen they were witnessing.
"Sheesh, they look petrified," Dry Bones said, looking nervous as well himself. "I feel bad!" The four of them would soon witness the game to play.
"Group 2…" the host said, as the other team of players turned to him. "Before the game begins, you must predict which player will win. You have two guesses on which two will win the minigame. The money…depends on your betting." The players looked taken back.
"So fifty-fifty chance of winning?" Tiny asked, thinking.
"Unless we're smart with predicting," Zess pointed out.
"There will be a total of four minigames for this ENTIRE mission," McHallyboo told them. "For each correct prediction…I will give the team 10,000 coins." Everyone's eyes jumped up.
"Forty-thousand coins," Zess repeated, eyes shining to all of them. "Then let's do it! We need this."
"If you pick the winner correctly among your two guesses, then ten thousand coins will be earned right here!" Everyone contemplated for a second, facing each other.
"Well, we have to keep in mind how everyone will interact with each other," Tiny Kong began.
"I think Dashell or Snifit," Piantissimo spoke initially.
"Well, isn't that just straight-up sexist!" Zess said without hold back. "How about give one of the girls a chance at a win!" As Dry Bones nodded, Piantissimo hung his head.
Piantissimo: I didn't agree at all, but seriously, I wasn't going to fight with a granny. I'd be the abuser in this debate.
"Then I'll say…between Mimi and Éclair…I would pick…" Zess said, beginning her guess.
"Mimi!" Dry Bones said, jumping. "She's way too aggressive. She beat me at jumping from a cliff, and fought verbally at a dinner table. So I would pick her. Éclair is too delicate, in my opinion." Everyone nodded in consideration.
"Huh, well, I agree on that," Zess said, enforcing the opinion. "You wouldn't picture a dainty princess fighting her way physically. Mimi...that girl can probably take down a man twice her size if she had too!"
Zess: If there was a plus one in play...of course a player will be driven to do things they've never done before!
"Okay, so let's pick one guy and one girl," Piantissimo began. "Hmm…we can maybe see that Dashell is the track star…"
"But then Snifit is the Mario-Party expert and actually KNOWS how this game works," Tiny said to him. "So I vote Snifit." Piantissimo hesitated.
"Hmm, it's a little iffy," Piantissimo voiced. "But..." He nodded, ending his hesitation.
"Sure. I think it's justified if we go for Snifit."
Tiny Kong: If Snifit plays this game, and he DOESN'T win the minigame, then it's a big sabotage from him. He made a big point on how he was such an expert at the game beforehand, so we expected him to play well.
Zess: I just wanted one of the females to win, because we keep on getting so pushed back in this game, and all the males are being captains and everything. So I honestly wanted Mimi to step up and show the guys who was boss.
"Final answers?"
"Mimi and Snifit," Zess said, sounding proud in her answer. They all faced the scene depicted on the scene, and waited for everything to begin. The unfitted party was about to begin.
START!
It was a sound that barked from nowhere. All four players on top of the black mushroom jumped, startled.
"What's…going on?" Mimi asked slowly. All of a sudden, Snifit's body began jumping up and down with terror.
"The toad!" he said, point off into the distance. "That toad!" A toad, into their distance, had raised an object into the air. And to their horror, they realized it was a flag with color: pink.
"Pink…what is the meaning?" Éclair shouted with fear. "What is pink?"
"We have to run!" exclaimed Snifit. "RUN RUN RUN!" All four players immediately turned behind them, where they saw the ground of a pink mushroom before them. Suddenly, the floor began to shake, and Snifit was the first to hop onto the pink mushroom. The rest were panick-stricken.
"The floor is dropping!" Mimi screamed, stepping back from pink mushroom. "What do we do!"
Dashell: The game was starting. And we only had...three seconds to think.
"Hop here, hop here!" Snifit hollered to the others, as the other three had to keep their balance on the shaking floor.
"Wait! Snifit!" Dashell ran to the pink mushroom, leaping lightly onto its base as he made it to safely.
"Oh!" Éclair jumped as well, helped by both teammates of Dashell and Snifit onto the pink mushroom as she struggled on top of it with alarm.
"AH!" screamed Mimi, jumping up as well and grabbing onto the edge of the pink mushroom's platform with one hand. Dashell went out to grab her hand.
"Grab me!" Mimi screamed, her voice echoing in the fictional ocean world.
"I got-" he began, but it was too late, as Mimi fell the far distance into the water below. With a screech, she hit the water's bottom, and her body immediately disappeared like an electronic glitch in a game.
"AH!" With her last audible sound, she was transported out of the minigame's arena. A player was eliminated.
"Mimi!" Éclair cried, looking over the edge of the pink mushroom. "Where has she disappeared to?"
"She…lost this mini-game," Snifit said, not able to choose any better words for what had occurred. Mimi, fallen to the water below, was the first victim of Mushroom-Mixup.
"AWW man!" There were shouts of disbelief and defeat from the group of players back at the base. Piantissimo looked livid, and Dry Bones scratched his head.
"I thought she would win," Dry Bones said, looking at the screen, dumbfounded. "I...don't know what to say." The four of them were struck with overall surprise.
"I thought so as well," Zess said, her voice incredulity herself.
"Well, now we lost!" Piantissimo said, folding his arms. "Zess, you wanted a female. And Dry Bones, you wanted to choose Mimi. And what a surprise: she loses first." As Dry Bones shot him an innocent look, Zess put her hands on her hips.
Zess: Now, I thought Mimi would make it further. It seemed like she was not trying to win the plus one at all! She was so adamant about getting the plus one earlier.
Piantissimo: I honestly wouldn't have picked Mimi to win the game. I think that was a bad move. Just utter foolishness with that choice. We could only hope for Snifit.
"Green!"
The toad raised another flag. Dashell grabbed Éclair by the hand, leading them towards the green mushroom on the other side of the course. Snifit followed behind, looking at them curiously.
"Hmm, I wonder which one of us will win the plus one," he wondered out loud.
Snifit: Why was Dashell helping Éclair in the game? It was a competitive game, fighting for a plus one. And he was risking a loss for a competitor.
The platforms began to descend rapidly, and the three of them made it safely to their second mushroom, still not used to the movements of their game.
"I wonder if the speed will get faster," Dashell said, his eyes filled with alarm. The game's intensity was increasing even too much for him.
"It will," said Snifit, watching the rest of the mushrooms rise once again. This time, the toad in the area raised his flag, much swifter than his previous times, almost as if taking in consideration the statement between the players.
"Brown!" The players moved their way to the dark-shaded mushroom, and began their conversation again.
"Perhaps we must work together to beat this game," Éclair thought, "we can make it to the end? There must be a finish in this game!" Snifit shook his head.
"There is no ending. This game's end is if the others lose. They want a victor…and these mushrooms will be our fate." With another signal, they all ran for a red mushroom, their minds and fear racing.
"I think we should have picked Dashell," Piantissimo said with second thought, looking over at McHallyboo.
Piantissimo: I didn't like our betss at all. Seeing the game, I wanted to heavily reconsider our choices.
"Are we given persmission to switch a bet?" Piantissimo question out loud eagerly. McHallyboo only shook his head with a heavy "no". Piantissimo's face showed heavy disappointment at the host's answer.
"Why do you want to switch?" Zess said, looking excitedly at the screen and pointing to it. "Look, look!" She was pointing out a tragic scene that was before them in the game.
"Ahh!" Dashell made a sound as he slipped, caused by the sudden descending of the mushroom platforms all three of them stood upon. But as Snifit and Éclair safely made it to the orange mushroom before them, Dashell was too slow to come up to his feet. By the time he looked up, it was too late.
"Do your best! Do your best!" came his shouts, his boy situated on the sinking black mushroom as he was brought lower and lower from the other two. "Ec-" Suddenly, with the hit of water, his body vanished into a fit of static.
"Dashell!" Éclair cried, reaching out to him. Snifit stood by her, a blank face.
"Hmm…I guess…it's up to us?" the player said, unsure of the results himself. "I don't know who will be the winner." The mushrooms began to rise again, and to both of their horror, at a speed faster than ever before: the game was reaching its death mode.
"If we fight to the end, then you must promise me," Eclair said, as the platforms began to rise again. "We must keep it fair: none of us will push each other into water. Its not like it is new to us." She smiled, amidst their stressful game, and Snifit, behind his mask, smiled with realized memory as well.
"It just sounds all too familiar," Snifit sounded with a nod, and he laughed. "If I couldn't push Yoshi into the water...I have no courage in pushing you."
"Yellow!" And in an instant, their faces both turned to fear and unsteadiness.
"Dark-green!" The pace was getting slowly faster. Everyone in the waiting room of the world was watching them with anxious eyes, as color after color was called one by one.
"Eclair tripped! She was so close to getting into the water!" It was as if they were watching a sports show, and appropriately, it was being bet on with money.
"Snifit is slowing down!" Dry Bones said nervously, covering his eyes. "I knew we shouldn't have picked him!" The pace of the flags were getting faster, and as the players were forced to run faster each time, Team 2 could only watch, the man in red being their chosen savior for the money.
"As mean as it sounds…I hope Éclair loses," Tiny Kong said, watching the screen nervously. "I know she won't win a plus one, but…"
"What if she gets executed this episode, because we didn't want her to win a plus one?" Zess said, taking another view into point. "Wouldn't you feel bad?" Tiny Kong didn't know what to say.
Tiny Kong: It was very intense, the whole competition of the mini-game being over a plus one. I was terrified on how OUR game was going to play out after this one. It was going to be somewhere along the levels of a nightmare.
"Oh no…it is too fast!" Éclair cried, her feet switching direction right after another flag had been lowered. "I will fall soon!" Snifit, though slightly faster, was having trouble himself.
"I cannot do this!" he proclaimed himself. "I am having trouble too!" A green flag was raised. Éclair jumped from the black platform, and so did Snifit.
He almost got his footing, but then at an unexpected second, he slipped. His foot landed between a stationary platform and a falling one, and with his body being of such small size, Snifit slipped through the formed crack. All of a sudden, he had lost the game.
"Oh-" Snifit's sentence was not even finished due to his vanish from the minigame. Éclair, stunned upon the green mushroom and the only one upon it, was the winner. The game was lost.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Dry Bones said, throwing down the remote control in his hand almost as if it was a video-game controller. "Éclair! Why did you win? Snifit! Why did you loseee?" Zess patted his back.
"There there! We have three more tries to earn as much money as we can," the old lady comforted him, laughing a bit. Piantissimo and Tiny Kong didn't look happy one bit themselves.
"You see, now you know why the females were worth voting for," Zess said to them all, pointing to the happy Éclair aboard the last-standing mushroom on the screen.
Tiny: I can't believe we went through with Mimi winning, and not for Éclair. Our bets were simply messed up.
Dry Bones: Now that I think of it, Éclair was the one last episode who fought the most to push Yoshi into the water, and SNIFIT was the one who chickened out. Man. If only we remembered that earlier, we could have been smarter in our guesses.
"Ugh, Snifit should have won," Tiny said, downhearted.
It was just a few seconds later when the players of the other team appeared. They were dazed, teleported back into view of everyone else, and away from the fungi game they had just mercilessly partaken in.
"Congratulations!" McHallyboo said, going up to them and shaking the hands of the stunned individuals, who had been teleported before their eyes and minds. "You just all survived your first minigame."
"It was NOT fun," Mimi said, brushing off her pants and standing up with a shake of her head. "Not fun at all!"
Mimi: Maybe if they even warned us that one of the mushroom was moving, then I would have had a chance to win. But no. I fell before someone could even say the word, "Unfair".
"If you won the game, you would have probably said differently," Piantissimo said to her, as she shot a look of disparity at him. McHallyboo cleared his throat, and approached the arrived players.
"When asked on who they had wanted to bet for to win the game, the team bet on…either Snifit and Mimi to win the game," the host revealed, as the team who had just played faced the other with surprise.
"Meeee?" Mimi exclaimed, even surprised herself.
"Oh…well, I'm sorry I let the team down," was Snifit's sentence in reply to the host's declaration.
Dashell: Not to sound conceited...but Snifit and Mimi? Those were the last two players I would have expected to win the game. I would have chosen me...but you know...nah, I'm not the best or an ex-track star or anything.
Tiny: I was completely disappointed that Snifit didn't win. He made such a big announcement of being the expert of the game, so I can't ignore that.
"Éclair, as the winner of the game, you win a plus one," the host said, and he took out a valuable green coin from his pocket that had never before been seen on the show. Eclair's hands grabbed the plus one preciously into her hands, as everyone watched.
Eclair: It was a gift of relief to be given that in this game. I would not let it be to waste.
"Oh…my." As he handed it to the thankful princess, everyone's eyes could not help but gleam with both jealousy and anticipation.
Zess: In the next minigame, I know that I'm not holding back to win that thing. I don't care if I have to battle someone to a pulp and mix them in a blender, I'm getting it!
"Well, I hope our next game…is less scary than having to plummet into water from mushrooms," Dry Bones said, his voice sounding both hopeful and not hopeful simultaneously.
"You will soon see," McHallyboo said, and a smile on his face made the players of Group 2 know that having a feeling of dread was an appropriate emotion.
"Ready?" The host raised his hand in the air. Tiny Kong, Zess, Dry Bones, and Piantissimo could only look at each other, then back at him.
"Let us...BEGIN!" Suddenly, with a flash, they were whisked, and the game they were about to play was about to become a reality for them.
They were whisked into Minigame 2's unknown land. The second party was about to start.
They were in another land.
"AH! We weren't even warned that we were transporting!" Dry Bones cried, his eyes trying to adjust to the new land around them. Even before the entire world around them could be determined, the first thing they noticed was a fiery red.
Tiny: I couldn't feel anything. The temperature was so hot. It was as if we were put somewhere that we weren't supposed to go.
"My eyes…" Tiny said, rubbing them and looking around her. The feeling of heat was sweltering, and she looked across from her, at Zess.
"Oh, boy." Her face was one of terrified excitement.
Zess: Could you compare it to an oven? Cause I sure could at that very moment! I felt like we were seconds away from being crisp. But...where exactly were we?
"This is not pleasant either," Piantissimo admitted, his voice full of dread as well. Below them, they stood on blocks, and each one was about to move away, leaving them to a fiery fate that gave all of them chills.
START! Came the voice that signified the start of their game, and the four players of the Mole were forced to play their game of Lava Tile Isle.
Any Mario Party 2 players? Lava Tile Isle? That game always gave me a sickly feeling : ] and hopefully the players feel the same as well!
This mission was a fun one, and Im happy that I was able to put it in such a setting such as Agent's Elevation. Almost ANYTHING can be created. And that is what McHallyboo did for the others ; ) oh, and think about it: McHallyboo is a Mario Party man himself.
Ah, to see your wonderful reviews after Bowser Jr's execution!
fredthemontymole: Haha, a mid-afternoon review! I am happy to hear that : ] AH YES. About Snifit's occupation coming from Mario Party 2's Spaceland board map is actually the very truth! Good eye! He was indeed a police officer on patrol in that little world, and now, that is him in real life, in this very game itself. And is it not cool that the players actually ARE right now in the world of Mario Party? Anyways, your suspicions had good points that I took in, and I applaud those too much.
Perianth: Thank you yourself for the formal message reply! : ] haha, sorry for lazying it out last time. Your comment about Bowser Jr leaving with dignitity: yes! I'm glad you saw that. Because I wanted both him and Flurrie to leave on good notes. Though they did not make it far into the Mole's world, they still left their marks in some way. Hopefully the next executed can do that too? x)
Moley Koopa: Ah, I believe Piantissimo is one of those guys who your feelings about them just change! I did that on purpose. I'm not even sure how I feel about him himself. I hate him one second and like him the other D: Isn't that shocking, knowing Im the author? Your predictions on executions, much interesting indeed! And your final statement about not taking the card...I guess that makes you a sir of noble values : ]
sixthsense6: Ah, being friends with the Mole: what a danger it can be! But we know Bowser Jr. isn't it, heh. Isn't it a scary thing? When in the game of The Mole, it's almost human nature to being mutual and happy connections with people. And that...could be your downfall.
FireKai: Wow...respect and bow down to your honest answer to the "Bowser Jr Temptation Offer" question! Yes yes, it is hard to admit that you would actually do it yourself...but guess what FireKai? I probably would have done it myself if I was in the game. : ) Hehe, such guilt, but you said in spot-on: the game is not a popularity game. And as bad as that fact is, it's also a gift in a game like "The Mole". You dont need friends to win (though in the end, I would like to make true friends with the players at the finale xD just to make sure I don't hold forever-lasting grudges with people lol)
book-reader233: Such interesting view points! Your theories were much appreciated in reading and opened my eyes : ] I really enjoy reading people's opinions and lists of suspects. They make me giddy, sometimes happy, sometimes frightened, and just insighted to know how each player plays off to peoples' eyes. Anyways! To know and be reminded that Flurrie was your 2nd suspect makes me kind of happy! xD ugh, how for me to say that, but what I'm saying is: I'm happy she was a suspect before she was eliminated first from the game. I feel like that gives a player an honor, if they were at least slightly suspicious heh. Anyways, thank you for your review!
PJCanada : About Bowser Jr. redeeming himself, and you saying he "left for the better"...SNIFF! MY FEELS! Haha, I'm glad you think that. In a way, I do too o.O I almost made it seem like it was his time to leave, now that I look back at it heh. Ah, it is a pleasure to hear your words, in your last review! And that...you'll tell more people about my story?! -dies of flattery- Ah, I look more forward to your future reviews, good sir! xD
Shilo Burbans: AHHHH where have you been? It is good to see you, "young one" hehe. How's life? Summer? Why do you tease me with saying, "I found a clue, but it reveals too much?" JUST TELL IT! I would punch you, but I miss you too much and Im happy to see you : ] Also, I love your phrase of "I'll be keeping an eye out for..." because yep, that's what I do whenever I watch the show of the Mole in real life, lol. Anyways, glad to see youuuu!
The Smart One 64: I could write an ESSAY for your superbastic review of awesomistic words. But I won't do that. I WILL give you a very long reply instead though! Damn...those suspicion listings about each player got me more and more excited/terrified/open-eyed than ever. I take those with happy glee and I can pretty much SEE from your point of view on your suspicions. I'm in your body now, looking at who the Mole is...
The truth is, you found very good points and clues in your review (why was I not surprised when I saw a huge listing of clues? You're quite experted in them :D) Yes yus, there are many clues scattered in the story, and I wont say if any of the ones you found were legit or not. BUT. It was a pleasure seeing your clue-hunting again! I missed ya! Thanks for coming back for the end of the episode hehe, it made me happy seeing yo name again. Oh...and that thing about McHallyboo...I answered it at the end of Chapter 4! Gosh -slap- haha, but I'll say it at the end of this page. To make official to everyone. Oh by the way, I owe you a reply to your PM heh. The PM of "WHY ARE YOU STALKING DEM POOR MOLE PLAYERS IN REAL LIFE?"
All right, I just wanted to establish this answer formally, since it's probably asked by many of you in your minds xP. THE ORIGINS OF MCHALLYBOO'S NAME AND WHY IT IS SPELLED DIFFERENTLY FROM THE REAL 'MCBALLYHOO'! (from the end of Chapter 4)
So being quite not as intelligent in my first series, I did not bother looking up more on the host's name spelling, and went ahead with claiming him as "McHallyboo". Then I realized that not only was his name McBallyboo, the MC part was a completely different name title. So! I just kept with "McHallyboo", because of two reasons. Reason 1: I was already within Episode 2 of my season when I realized this error. And second: at this point. I consider McHallyboo as a DIFFERENT dimension of the actual Mc Ballyhoo. Except this character dedicates his time to hosting awesome Mole games. So he's like, a virtual dimension of the 'McHallyboo'"
If that did not make sense to you...I don't blame you. I don't know what else will xD
Anyways, that was a long but very well-worth "after-chapter" length of replies and answers. I actuallty love writing them!
Anyways, watch out for the next part of Episode 3! Just how will the players fare?! Who will be bet on? And just what next minigames will be in store? And perhaps a video surprise to come with it too.