ANIMOLE: THE SABOTAGES
O.K, so you are shocked that the mole is Yolei. So how the heck did she do it? Well, read on gentle viewers, read on…
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(Animole briefing – a shot of the creator Chromus, in his office in West Bromwich, going through his mole listings…)
Skuld: The first major choice was who to be for the mole, and at the beginning, Chromus had three people that he had shortlisted for the mole. Akari, Naoko…and his eventual choice, Yolei.
Chromus: I always knew my mole was going to be a girl, and with my choice of 8, I dismissed the two pokemon girls immediately, Shampoo also went out of the question. Chiharu was gradually eliminated and then Rika. Which meant I had a choice of three…
(Chromus for a long time had considered Akari as the mole…but then…)
Chromus: It was too difficult to see Akari as a mole, mainly because of her athletic credentials. Although her clutziness is legendary, Akari would have to work real hard to convince people she was a mole if she made too many 'bonehead mistakes' so to speak.
(Soon after…Chromus eliminated Naoko, but this time for a more practical reason.)
Chromus: Naoko was eliminated simply because of the fact that a CCS girl had already been the mole. Naoko I believe would have made an excellent mole, with her smarts and she'd probably love doing something like this. But it seemed a bit too obvious…
Skuld: Chromus finally decided on Yolei, and negotations began. As soon as Yolei was asked to be the mole, she was excited.
(Shot of Yolei outside her shop)
Yolei: When I got the chance to be the mole, I jumped at the chance, it was something interesting and gave me a chance to try and be the bad guy for once. It was going to be fun!
Skuld: When Ken and Cody were also added to the roster, it made things more interesting for Yolei.
Yolei: As soon as I saw the roster, it was going to be doubly interesting. It meant I had to fool two people who were close to me, and knew most of my habits. It was tough, but I feel it worked.
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EPISODE 1
Skuld: Yolei was as excited as anyone by meeting new people and wanting to make friends with them. Akari and Haley were two people she would get close to during the game, and Yolei certainly didn't regret that part of the game.
Yolei: When I made the pact with Haley, that was part strategy and part, 'I want to be with you cuz I like you' …although it did cause problems later of course…
Skuld: When the first challenge came about, it was a case of laying low and watch what happens with everyone else. However…Chromus and Yolei had planned something in advance for the first challenge, which Yolei couldn't resist to try and sabotage…
Yolei: The first challenge, a few things happened. First, when Haley took the GPS, Shampoo tried to take control…I felt this was a good chance to delay time…
Shampoo: Give Shampoo time…
Naoko: We need as much time as we can get, Shampoo, give it back to Haley!
Kensuke: Geez, let's help out here…
Yolei: I'm with you…
(Yolei and Kensuke along with Haley manage to finally get Shampoo to let go of the GPS and they continue, at a slightly faster pace.)
Akari: How much time have we got?
Yolei: Well, we've delayed about 15 minutes, but we've got managed to get a hold of a map of the Duelist Kingdom.
Skuld: The second thing was the bug attack. Ahead of the group along with Haley, Kensuke and Akari, Yolei pulled a surprise out of her hat…
Yolei: The bug was a special system which Chromus and I had come up with since his purchase of Duelist Kingdom. Whilst we were resting, I hit a switch in my hand and it caused the crew all sorts of problems…
(All of a sudden, a second wind seems to have been caught as a giant bee seems to have come out…)
Haitani: Holy…
Touji: …crap!
Skuld: That wasted more time…and could have been a problem if you figured out that the bee had to have been activated by something on the Duelist Kingdom…only someone with tech experience…like Haley, Kensuke…or Yolei. Fortunately, no-one suspected a thing.
Yolei: The final bit was another tech thing, when I first took control with Haley and Kensuke with the GPS, I took it at one point and made a slightly alteration when we went to the mountain.
Skuld: The alteration affected the timer, meaning the team didn't know how much they had left, and made the last team up the mountain panic slightly.
Chiriko: How much time have we got?
Haley: I don't know…I think this weather is stopping the GPS signal…
Cody: That's not good.
Skuld: This was helped by Haley suggesting the weather was the problem.
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Yolei: The second challenge was very difficult for me to sabotage so I didn't really…although Kyosuke was so cute…
Skuld: Ahem…anyway, she didn't really sabotage, but the fact that Ken didn't go with Kyosuke put plenty of suspicion on him, and she also confronted Cody and Ken on their failures…
Yolei: Cody, Ken?
Cody: Duplica's right, it was too hard for me.
Yolei: Maybe you Cody, but Ken? Naoko, Chiharu and I did that with ease, but you?
Ken: I'm sorry, but dealing with a guy like that just made my blood crawl. I couldn't go through it.
Skuld: Yolei didn't have a tough job in the third sabotage either…mainly she genuinelly didn't have a chance in it!
Yolei: I didn't need to sabotage the soccer leg, as Jessie destroyed me half the time on the wing anyway! (chuckles)
Yolei: O.K, what do I…huh?
(The ball has been taken by Gurtland who runs at the defence. Kris is open with Tanya sprinting fast. Jessie, from 35 yards decides to take a shot, which leaves Duplica stranded as the shot is REALLY hard and powerful…fortunately over the bar.)
Chromus: The first days of Animole were a decent one for our Mole, however, she was warned with a bit of tech skills of her own…
Yolei: They gave me a microphone and a reciever and I planted it every time the confessions and suspicions were read out. I was nervous that Akari suspected me early, but Chromus told me it was fine and said the answers were so spread out that it's more early assumptions than mole evidence.
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EPISODE 2
Skuld: The mole had been quiet mostly…so in this episode, she started it with a blatant sabotage.
Yolei: The sabotage in the iron ore challenge was one of those 'it may or may not work' depending on how the other team did. However, I had to try…
Ken: I never suspected Yolei even during that challenge, because I thought she was just angry at Shampoo…it shows that a true personality can work into being a mole…
Yolei: What was that Ken?
Ken: Erm…nothing…
Shampoo: Aiyah! Found one! (grabs a 3 pound ore and smiles) This too true easy…
(Her attitude makes Yolei a bit mad…like devil Yukino mad…)
Yolei: That little…oh, such a cocky little…
(As Haley returns, Chiharu grabs the last three pounds of her lot as Yolei stomps her way and picks up the remaining lot, 4 pounds left…)
Duplica: Er Yolei, we don't need that mu…
Yolei: If she thinks she is all big britches…
(Yolei dumps her lot on the scale, and despite going over the limit, that's O.K…teams X and Y have done it. Now, it's up to team Z…)
Skuld: Yolei did her job…and so did Team Z by not getting enough ore, which meant that the ore they could have got spare was nul and void because of Yolei's movement. However, she was actually even less suspected after various mistakes from Rika, Giselle, Duplica and Chiriko would have also cost them the challenge even if they hadn't lost…
Chromus: The Bandit challenge was one that could be easy to sabotage or difficult depending on where Yolei was and who she was with. Now, she was on Team Tamago, which was good news because she could have helped get them lost…the bad news…was that she was teamed with Haley, a navigator.
(Indeed, plan A was foiled when Haley teamed up with Yolei, so a plan B was needed.)
Yolei: I had to improvise with that challenge, and found it difficult to sabotage especially with Giselle glaring at me. So in the end, I didn't bother and hoped that others would make mistakes.
(Yolei decided to go with the challenge…sometimes a mole's best offense is to make yourself play the game and not look suspicious. Again, she decided to see if she can put any blame onto others, especially Haley, who she felt seemed to know everything in the smart car, as she put it. A mole remember, knows everything.)
Yolei: The river challenge was again, one I really just stood by the sidelines, it was helped by the choices for the teams I will admit.
(The first part was the groups and trying to memorise which to get. Of course, it ended up just grabbing what was needed…but Yolei's memory was good and had an ace up her sleeve.)
Yolei: First, I paired with Ken and Duplica, and secondly was that Ken always seemed to hold the rope too tight, making it difficult for Duplica to move too far into the water.
(Indeed, Duplica flopped in that challenge, and Yolei herself took over.)
Yolei: When I took over, I grabbed one and failed one, and I grabbed a mini-pinball game which was useless and missed the mobile phone, to call our families. It was simple enough…although that water was freezing!!!
Chromus: The second episode was a decent one for our mole, with one good sabotage which was forgotten admist many of the mistakes made. Akari was still on course to win, although Giselle had started to suspect her and got her highest score in episode 2.
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EPISODE 3
Yolei: I knew that the Spiral Mountain challenge would be more difficult, so I think a bit of familiar territory would help, and any sabotages would be fine…because I was with the two people who probably suspected me the least…Ken and Cody.
Skuld: Not exactly accurate…but anyway, in Puppetmon's playhouse, Yolei did the old delay time strategy to put pressure on Cody and Ken…
(Back at the room of magic, Yolei thanks Hikari number one and heads back to base. With just over 20 minutes gone, they are currently just over time if they want 20 minutes each. Cody is ready next to go into the blue door as Yolei bursts in, tags Cody and collapses into Ken's arms. As Yolei explains to Ken what happened (and then wishing she explained to Cody before he left), let's see what happens with Naoko and company…)
Yolei: I also didn't tell Cody about the old 'light' clues and he delayed more time.
Skuld: In the other challenge she was in, Yolei didn't have much to do as Rika pretty much sabotaged the thing herself. However, Yolei did do something…
Yolei: With the communications, my tech skills came into play, as it was something that only myself and Haley had experience with, so I had to be careful. Fortunately, Haitani damaged it…making my job easier…
Yolei: Almost Ken…Rome wasn't built in a day you know…
Haley: O.K, that should do it…
(They listen in, but the communication is poor, with feedback still ringing in their ears…)
Haitani: Oh dear…
Giselle: Hey, it was your fault…
Skuld: Yolei didn't put in a wire which made the communication, and to top it all off, suggested that it was Haley's fault in her quiz…
Yolei: Haley had communication problems yet that's his job. We missed vital points of a challenge even though Rika screwed up anyway. Small things like that can lead to the big picture, which is why Haley is my main suspect…
Skuld: Yolei was right…the smaller things do lead to the big picture…
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EPISODE 4
Chromus: The first challenge was pretty much luck in, so Yolei's task was to simply go with the odds and fail to catch two out of three.
Skuld: Which she did.
Yolei: Slips twice in catching the slippery black tuna that comes her way.
Yolei: I was helped that the real fish was dropped by Chiriko anyway.
Skuld: On the quiz challenge, Yolei knew beforehand that she was going to get Ken's, and got them all correct of course, to avoid looking suspicious. However, it was also a good way to sabotage…
Yolei: The picker didn't know whose had been picked, and even though I was last, it was an on the spot thinking so Haitani, the person who was picking, couldn't figure out that Ken was remaining, panicked, and got it wrong. Mole's strategy is 80% mental and 20% physical.
Skuld: Indeed…it was Haitani, not Yolei, who got the blame. The mole…knows all the answers.
Yukino: Well Haitani, not bad…but very bad. I'd like to ask, did you think about it when you made that last guess? If you had been listening, you would have realised that Ken was the only person left and did you think that Yolei wouldn't know a bit more than 5 things about her fellow digidestined and slightly more…
Haitani: (scratches his head) Ummm….
Skuld: Whilst Yolei had been indirectly and slyly sabotaging, the next challenge involved two big sabotages, which in the end, backfired.
Yolei: My strategy was to lose no matter what. I had hoped I'd be put up against either Mina or Ami, the better players, however, I got Usagi.
Yolei vs. Usagi – Using her bishounen combo, Yolei pretty much domninates the first round with the same move, a running sword slash with Tenchi. However, Usagi is getting better and beats Tenchi with Tux. Tamahome is in and Yolei sticks to close range combat, but using Tux's cane, and Yolei's inability to block, Usagi takes the second round. As Mononoke, it's a case of who can press the punch button faster with sword vs. cane. Yolei wins and she celebrates…before forgetting that Usagi still has one character, Pretty Sammy who uses her long range attacks to beat Yolei. MOLE 1 – USAGI 1
Yolei: I purposely didn't block in one round, allowing Usagi to get the advantage. However, when Ken and Akari both won, I knew I could be in trouble.
Skuld: However, Yolei wasn't done yet…
Yolei: When it came to a second chance…my best hope was of course hoping Duplica would lose…and I had to convince the group to risk the money…which I did.
Shampoo: So, do we trust ditto-girl or not?
Chiriko: I think we can.
Akari: Do we want to risk losing any more money, I mean, what if Giselle is right?
Rika: As much as I hate to admit it, I think she's right. I think we should pl…
Yolei: I think we should go for it.
(The guys and girls look at Yolei…)
Cody: Um, Yolei, why?
Yolei: Face it guys, we've done nothing but lose recently. Let's at least give us a second chance, we haven't had much of those.
Akari: Yolei?
Ken: (smiles) If Yolei thinks so, then I don't mind.
Giselle: Well I do!
Chiriko: Guys, guys, guys…let's do this democratically. All those who think we should stick with nothing vote.
(Giselle, Rika, Shampoo, Haitani and Kensuke raise their hands)
Chiriko: All who think Duplica should play?
(Naoko, Ken, Yolei, Cody (reluctantly), Akari and Haley raise their hands. Chiriko smiles and raises his.)
Chiriko: 7-5. Motion passes.
Giselle: You're going to regret this…
Skuld: However, it was Yolei that regretted it after Duplica's win…but up till that point, Yolei had been doing a good job as a mole.
Yolei: It was also at this point that I paired up with Haley, to try and make it look like I was playing the game properly, and trying to find the mole…
(This of course, led to Haley rightly suspecting Yolei of more, but that's for another story…)
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EPISODE 5
Skuld: Episode 5 however began something of an ambition for the mole, as something happened in the game, which made the mole focus on one particular person…
Yolei: What happened the night before obviously had some affect on Chiriko, and the way his face was that morning really seemed to want me to make sure Giselle was sent home and fast…
Chromus: Ignoring revenge for adorable bishounen for the time being, the Cluedo Challenge meant that Yolei had to be inconspicious. The first thing that Yolei had to do was to join the actors, which she did…and she waited till the last minute, before Akari took things into her own hands...
Akari: You're smarter…
Yolei: ..but are you any actor?
(Akari thinks for a bit…and then sighs)
Akari: No, I'm just a slug…
Yolei: (sweatdrops) Akari…
Akari: O.K, I'll be on the detectives…but don't say I didn't warn you…
Yolei: Was that the right choice?
Skuld: Yolei's sabotage was simply to convince people that she was the killer. It was designed to fool the guests to losing their money…
Akari: O.K, I've been thinking of the evidence and I'm going to ask Miss Scarlet a simple question. The parasol…what did you do with it?
Yolei: (chuckles) You mean did I smash Felicia's head with it? No I didn't. I chucked the thing outside the house where that cat-girls car was.
Skuld: Unfortunately…she failed. And it certainly meant that one person was now on her case…
(Shot of Duplica now in an interview…)
Duplica: I did think Yolei was the mole at that point…as an actress, I could see if someone was trying too hard to make their point.
(Indeed, Yolei was in trouble at this point. Duplica scored the highest that week…and worse, Cody had been eliminated…not Giselle. However, it wouldn't be the first time where a contestant's strong points would lead them to mole…that fact would lead to Rika's victory.)
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EPISODE 6
Chromus: After driving a hard bargain with Descendant of the Dragon…(fumbles pockets)…we arranged for episode 6 to be taking place at the Moon Kingdom, and allowed plenty of mole hijinks.
Yolei: The Moon Kingdom was a lot of fun to say the least…
Skuld: Before they headed off, Yolei had to do another sabotage, this time on the space age training.
Yolei: Like with the soccer, it wasn't hard to sabotage because I genuinelly struggled…although I had another motive. It helped when Chiriko refused to even attempt it, which allowed my plan to eliminate Giselle to set in motion.
Skuld: Indeed…after Cody going, Yolei focused on hoping that Giselle would get eliminated, and would use Rika and Chiriko to her advantage after…
Chromus: After arriving on the moon, their first challenge was to find the place, and Yolei was instrumental in sabotage, even though it failed.
Naoko: Let's have a look…
(Sadly, Ken and Naoko seem to waste a few minutes in just looking at it. Finally, Yolei has it to her head…)
Yolei: Geez you guys! (Yolei takes the map off Ken)
Ken: Hey Yolei…
Yolei: If we don't get anywhere, we're doomed anyway, so let's just go!
Ken: Yes ma'am…
Skuld: Yolei got the map, and both Naoko and Ken looked more suspicious. Yolei then proceeded to getting them lost…
Yolei: Dammit! Where the heck is that tribe?
Skuld: …unfortunately, Haley sorted everything out…although it did make him look suspicious for not coming out earlier to speak. And on the other side, Giselle had no idea of what was going on with her, making her focus on Chiriko more, compared to the others as Kensuke, Duplica, Rika and Chiriko all had at least an inclining of Yolei's possibility of the mole…
(They're were plenty of clues here as well, including the second link clue, but that's for the next chapter…)
Yolei: As for the dinner party, there was so much confusion it was impossible NOT to sabotage it.
(The first one immediately brings problems, as arguments between the two Natsuki girls between Haley and Haitani. The younger one eventually puts them into saying it's Haitani, or Onizuka in this case.)
Skuld: If you'd have been doing your homework, this should have made Akari and Yolei as the girls…and the younger one being Yolei.
GUESS 8 – "Anything for those two lovely ladies…" Again, they think it's one of the perverts, as Haley in particular thinks that the third time is the charm as they go for Onizuka/Haitani. HOWEVER, once again it's wrong, and Yolei shrinks when they found out it was Tristan/Ken.
Skuld: Yolei even got one wrong on Ken…weird, when you consider that she got a perfect 10 on the test on Ken.
Yolei: That was some nice sabotaging.
Skuld: And thanks to Rika and Chiriko's confronting, Giselle's mind was so confused, she got booted…and harmony returned to the trib…I mean the group.
Yolei: Yes, I'm the mole…but I wanted to have a good time. And at least for the moment, it was one.
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EPISODE 7
Yolei: The train challenge wasn't really up to me, as Ken and Akari had the decision to make…so on my side, I simply had to delay as much as possible.
Skuld: Which she did. Yolei didn't get one correct answer of the Newtype challenge. In order, Naoko, Haitani, Kensuke, Rika and Haley got them right. It helped when others made such obvious mistakes and acted a lot more suspicious.
Yolei: The next challenge was same as the last, I simply had to delay as much as possible…
Skuld: Teaming with Ken, Yolei knew it would be hard to delay with someone who knew her very well. So she made her delaying look like tiredness…
Yolei: We should be back by the hour then…and if I can't make it, can you carry me back please?
(later on…)
Yolei: Now can you please carry me back, my legs are killing me…
Ken: How many times have we trekked round the Digiworld pray tell me?
Yolei: Good point…I can still complain about it though…
Ken: Sure.
(And it was also the point where Yolei would help start Ken's elimination…)
Yolei: WE'RE HERE!
(Yolei and Ken are coming up and Yukino smiles and gets the photos, as Yolei collapses…much to Ken's dismay…into Haley's arms…)
Skuld: Yolei was fortunate that two of the bigger suspects Akari and Duplica actually got lost, and made them much more suspicious…but her master stroke came into play in the last challenge.
Yolei: (chuckles) I was everywhere in that challenge!
Chromus: In the disguise challenge, Yolei did a number of things which she sabotaged, but made her look innocent compared to some of the others. For example, costing the team with the money for the voice disrupter…
Yolei: I think no, it's not that bad. It's worth it for 1,000. Duplica I think will be fine, but I think we won't any chances…
Chromus: She had cut slits into Chiriko's dress…
Akane: Hey there, you've got cuts in your chest clothing…
Chiriko: Huh? (sees and gulps) Um…how did that happen?
Akane: Are you O.K, do you want me to fix them?
Chiriko: (red) Um…n-n-n-no, that's already madam…
Akane: Ah, a polite young lady, I can see that…no more than 13 I'd guess…
Skuld: Chiriko didn't do it, it was one the girls. However, Yolei's piece de resistance came at the end.
Yolei: I managed to cajole Duplica into revealing I was with her, simply by speaking…
Ken: (interrupting) Shouting…
Yolei: Hey, you aren't supposed to rain on my parade!
Skuld: Erm…what she means was as Duplica was near breaking point, Yolei broke it.
Yolei: Grrrr…either she's the mole or she's an idiot!
Ken: Calm down, Yolei, calm…oh never mind…
Nuriko: There has been a few disturbances here…those guys with glasses have been making disturbances…
Yolei: (pissed beyond belief) I'M NOT A GUY!
Nuriko: (sweatdrops) You weren't supposed to hear that…
(Yolei swinging a chair as Ken in vain tries to stop her)
Yolei: I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I CAN AND CAN'T HEAR!
Duplica: YOLEI, STOP!
Skuld: The fact that Yolei did hear it made it obvious she was listening…and waiting for something to exploit. The best part however was that Chiriko and Duplica came into suspicion, include Haitani's votes…which cast him to the graveyard.
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EPISODE 8
Yolei: The Butterfree challenge was a nice simple one. Just miss it.
(Yolei, seems a bit distracted up there as she waits…and waits…and waits again for the perfect shot. Her aim is true…but her target is not as the Butterfree were waving around for too long for Yolei to get a true shot. +2, -2)
Skuld: Yolei made it look like she was concentrating, but in fact, she was waiting for the best chance to miss without it looking too suspicious.
Yolei: As a tech wiz, I was able to learn various things which helped me deter people from seeing me as the mole…as well as help in either sabotaging or not looking too suspicious.
Chromus: One of the things we've discussed is a reciever which in interviews and quizzes, Yolei would be able to listen to people's thoughts, and whether they suspected her. (This of course, led to Haley's advantage) Another trick we did was her hiding a microphone in her ear…and we'd report to her on the results of various challenges.
Skuld: For example, the cliff jump.
Yolei: I waited until the end, and got results via radio control on how they did. If they had gone under the limit, I'd sabotage it somehow. However, they had already passed by the time it got to me, so to avoid suspicion, I jumped 40ft.
(Yolei doesn't know, but the challenge has been completed already. Still…)
Yolei: I'll do 40ft, because I'm confident I can do it.
Skuld: Ironically…she DID know the challenge had been completed.
Yolei: The final challenge, the scottish march…made me use what I knew that Haley and Ken were having problems, and I'd use their awkwardness to my advantage.
Skuld: Which she did…tied at 1-1, this time she was given the green light to sabotage. Along with the problems and tension, Yolei helped matters with messing up a turn.
Haley: (turn right when his baton goes left and the Puchuu's turn left…and Haley NEARLY crashes into Yolei) Oh no…
Yolei: The fact that Ken's mind was on Haley more than the game helped my job easier…
(Fortunately he recovers in time and continues, but misses a flag. Ken's distracted by Haley's movements and also misses a flag. As for Yolei herself, he struggles getting the flags out slightly, but has the most so far with 3, Haley has 2 as does Ken.)
Yolei: In the end, I simply went slower and dragged along until the time ran out.
Chromus: Yolei was getting into her groove, and another victim…gomen Naoko-chan…left the game.
Naoko: If I known I was a choice of being the mole, I would have taken it like a shot!
Yolei: Sorry Naoko!
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EPISODE 9
Yolei: The boot camp I was genuinely dreading…
Skuld: The boot camp challenges brought more strains on the team, and also concluded the Ken/Haley problems as well. But first…
Yolei: The first game was suggested that I drop early…not first if possible…and put more pressure on the others to do well.
(Finally, a second soldier is shot down. And it's…)
Yolei: Dammit!
Surge: Did we give you permission to curse?
Yolei: (gritting teeth) Sorry sir…
Skuld: However, she was seen as suspicious mainly because someone like Rika outlasted her.
Yolei: The big challenge was the cross-country, and it was another shake up between Haley and Ken…and you'd think that I'd be happy with two cute boys fighting over me!
(Ken goes down and grabs it, Haley helps him with it. As they move, Haley trips.)
Yolei: Get up guys!
Ken: Hey, I didn't fall…
Yolei: Any comment I seemed to make seemed to agitate Ken into ready to explode against Haley. And it worked because it delayed enough time for us to lose the challenge.
Skuld: Yolei also almost made it a double whammy when she almost delayed the team by wondering if the van group had picked up their body on their way…
(The team finally get their persona to the red cross, Ken and Haley a fair bit tired, despite Chiriko's help. And they have to do this 4 times…or 3, as Yolei makes a point…)
Yolei: Did any of us tell them to get the body near the jeep?
(No-one mentions it…)
Yolei: Damn…do we have to get it?
Yolei: (chuckling) Unfortunately…a THIRD cute boy came into the equation.
Chiriko: Don't worry Yolei, I don't think those guys are stupid.
Yolei: Stupid no. Mole…maybe?
Chiriko: I suggest we leave it to them and hope for the best…
Yolei: But…
(However, Yolei is powerless against Chiriko's cute smile. ^_^)
Yolei: Dammit, you're just too cute! (Cue facefaulting) Oh well…let's hope for the best.
Skuld: Finally, the inevitable confrontation happened…and Yolei made herself look good by trying to stop it.
Ken: Oh, don't tell me that was an accident as well!
Haley: B-but it was….and you fell as well…
Ken: That was only because you fell first and I had to suffer the weight!
Haley: (near tears) B…but…
Ken: Jeez, I'm not falling for your act, get your butt together and start working as hard at this as you are in trying to get myself and Yolei split up!
(Suddenly, Haley's expression changes. It's unusual on the boy's face…but it's not surprising.)
(He's pissed.)
Haley: How…many…times…have I got to tell you? WE'RE FRIENDS, I'M IN LOVE WITH RURI, IT'S IN YOUR HEAD, etc, etc, ETC!
(Ken is a bit taken back, which is the opening which Yolei quickly enters to stop this…although she's a tad embarrassed.)
Yolei: Normally, I start arguments not stop them, but you two idiots better not stop here because we've got a challenge to win! So get your butts in gear and carry this damn thing otherwise I'll castrate the two of you right here!
Yolei: Dissension, mistrust, anger…I loved it all!
Skuld: Eventually, her fail safe ended when Ken…100% sure of Haley being the mole…was gone.
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EPISODE 10
Yolei: Episode 10 had a lot of things happening…Akari getting eliminated, Kensuke winning a free pass…and Rika winning the game.
Skuld: Indeed, the first challenge was where Rika won it. Like Duplica earlier with the acting challenge, Rika found herself in her element. Unlike the ditto-girl however, as soon as this challenge happened, she stuck with her choice no matter what.
Rika: I had gone with Ken for quite a while, which probably meant I got a number of the Digimon question right and remained in the game. But that all changed when he went…and the piano challenge happened.
Skuld: The challenge was for Yolei to try and get the team to get it wrong and let their team leader (Rika) to agree. However, notice Rika is silent.
Rika: I knew which was which as soon as I heard them and I just waited for the mole to slip up…
Skuld: …which she did.
Yolei: Look…I think it's the third one…it's seemed like something only a professional would play, and that woman was the most professional of the four.
Kensuke: I guess…you do have a point.
Duplica: I'm still unsure…Yolei's is right, that woman seemed the most professional and that did seem the hardest…but then again, number 2 was the easiest in my opinion…
Kensuke: And do you think a young girl can play a complicated classical composition?
Yolei: And what about a cute boy over there? Can he?
Skuld: Yolei was the most vocal about picking the third one…which was wrong. It was designed to kill time and confuse the group…and it did…except for Rika.
Rika: It made me look suspicious as well.
Skuld: It did…but it was where she won the game as well.
Yolei: The next challenge, the dance challenge, was again to mess up, but to try and make it look like my partners fault rather than my own.
Skuld: She glomps Haley early, leading to him making him nervous and embarrassed. Yolei however in the dance made a number of mistakes…
(At various points, Haley (who is taking the lead) seems to go too fast for Yolei to follow through. Yolei is trying hard, but Haley's mistakes force her to try and make up….)
Yolei: I deliberately slowed down and as Haley took the lead, it made him look suspicious. I think that was one of my trademark mole techniques. Screw up and let the other sucker take the fall. (Yolei lets an evil laugh)
Skuld: The final challenge however was a mole masterstroke.
Yolei: I took a number or risks…one could have been making me injured when I went in the way of a catnip bomb…
Yolei: How the heck…
(A cat nip bomb explodes near her…which makes Nuku go all drowzy…)
Yolei: I expected Nuku to attack me…not kiss me!
Yolei is busy coughing badly from the smoke/cat nip bomb…and it isn't helped when Nuku glomps her under the influence of cat-nip…)
Nuku: Miaow! (licks her on the cheek)
Yolei: GROSS!
(Eimi turns their attention to them to blast them…)
Yolei: NOOOO!!!!
Yolei: At that point, I needed to get out of the way…screw the sabotage…
Skuld: Yolei's fear overrided her sabotage…but then, a lucky break.
Yolei: I thought my only hope is Kensuke…but I didn't see that happen. Until I saw Rika, Chiriko and Duplica stuck together…I got an idea.
(Haley gets a boost from Akari as Haley clings on. He manages to climb onto the platform as Duplica calls over Rika and Chiriko…)
(…which brings all three into the line of fire of Eimi.)
Duplica: Crap.
(Eimi fires…just as Yolei and Duplica knock Rika and Chiriko out of the way
respectively.)
Yolei: Owww…you guys all right?
Rika: I think so…(slightly twiches)…
Chiriko: Rika?!
Rika: I think a piece of debris caught me on the leg…
Skuld: In fact, Yolei, when diving to 'save' her, caught her with a nail file on the ankle. This injury led to Kensuke getting Rika out of there, giving him the free pass and losing the challenge.
Yolei: Hey, moles need luck…and improvisation helps as well!
(Yoloei had also succeeded in eliminating one of the people suspecting her early on, Akari…and her demise would also lead to Duplica's elimination…because unbeknownest to each other, Duplica thought that Akari had gone with Yolei most of the time…but in the last episode, she went for Rika! This meant hesitation on Duplica's part and would lead to her being eliminated a few episodes later.)
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EPISODE 11
Yolei: Another easy sabotage for me, all I had to do…was fail. And considering I was given the cooking challenge (chuckles) that wasn't too hard.
Kasumi: Congratulations Fuka!
Yolei: WHAT?!!
Kasumi: Well, Fuka's dish was simply more creative, and fun to make! I mean, from the Kansai region she has picked up a few things…
Skuld: Yolei simply made sure her dish wasn't as creative as Fuka's. Her one problem was that Yolei had the weakest out of the three who could cook, and she still failed, compared to Haley, who understandably failed, and Rika, who understandably won.
Yolei: My failsafe though was in Siberia anyway, and they were put under an eye more than I was…at least until they were eliminated of course.
Skuld: Yolei's next act of sabotage however was a lot more subtle.
Yolei: Knowing that the more time on the exercise bike, the longer and more tiresome the challenge would be, I put the pedal to the metal!
(Yolei goes next, and she seems to do even better than Duplica on the exercise bike. Despite appearances, Yolei is physically able thanks to trekking around the Digital World. She also gets a spot of reading…Marmalade Boy for our love-based heroine…^_^ x2)
Skuld: Yolei actually does the best on the bike…suggesting that she increased the time of the challenge…and it worked because the time Menchi did drop…
Kensuke: O.K, my turn.
Duplica: Sure…
(As she moves…Hyatt wakes up.)
Hyatt: Oh my…
(The lever drops and Menchi falls. Duplica and Kensuke both try to go for it, but neither are on the pad. And in any case, they both miss the mutt…and the legend is true…it's DEFINITELY cats that land on their feet….)
Kensuke: Crap…damn and blast…
Skuld: …they were too tired to react.
Yolei: I was proud of that one.
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EPISODE 12
Skuld: Again, Yolei goes last and using the control amplifiers, she's able to find out the scores of the teams. Again, after finding out the team passed anyway, she answered her questions correctly to avoid suspicion.
Yolei: That episode was quite difficult for me to sabotage, because of all the quizzes, so instead of trying to, I decided to play the game…but add little bits of sabotage in between.
CORRECT: £200
Yolei: Bank! (£200 in it)
Q: (to Yolei) Who was the 5th person to be eliminated?
Yolei: (thinks…and sadly sighs) It was Cody.
Skuld: Yolei answered questions that she was expected to answer and banked money early, knowing that all of the remaining five were quite intelligent so she decided not to risk going too far.
Yolei: I got chose for the Millionaire game, and I did try to sabotage the game at one point, so I wasted a lifeline on an early question…
Q: Which complaint is also the title of a film by Alfred Hitchcock?
A: Influenza B: Rubella C: Vertigo D: Kleptomania
(Yolei pauses…)
Yolei: I think I'll ask…no, I'll phone a friend.
Urd: You not up on Hitchcock?
Yolei: Hey, I'm Japanese…more of a Miyazaki fan.
Urd: Figures…who's the friend?
Yolei: I'll go with Duplica. She's an actress.
Duplica: That's your reason?!
Yolei: And on a Battle Athletes question, I suggested the wrong answer, and used 'Ask the Audience' to see if they took the bait. Unforunately…
Q: In Battle Athletes, which of these four didn't qualify for University Satellite?
A: Akari B: Ayla C: Jessie D: Tanya
Yolei: Hold it…remember this from somewhere…damn, on tip of my tongue. Akari definitely did…and she said Jessie as well…but I can't remember. I think Tanya…but not 100% sure. Can I ask the audience?
Urd: You may. Chiriko, Duplica, Haley, Rika, write down what you think is the correct answer…now!
(The four begin scribbling, some slower than others.)
Urd: Answers now please.
(Chiriko – TANYA)
(Duplica – AYLA)
(Haley – AYLA)
(Rika – AYLA)
Urd: A 75% chance there Yolei dear. So what's it to be?
Yolei: Ayla…that surprised me…I can't remember anything about her…I'll guess…I'll trust them.
Urd: Answer?
Yolei: B, Ayla.
(Flashes…)
Urd: You are absolutely…(smiles)…correct.
(Yolei cheers and £1,500 in the bank.)
Yolei: …they got it correct and I had to go along with it to avoid suspicion.
(This would also lead to another clue to read about in the next chapter…)
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EPISODE 13
Yolei: I directly sabotaged the suitcase game, and said to people in the cars about my hesitancy about using a free pass as a direct excuse.
Skuld: A good bit of sabotage by our mole this time…
(Yolei sighs and slowly reveals her card. 'FREE PASS'.)
Yukino: (slowly) Free pass.
(Chiriko is surprised, as is Haley.)
Yukino: Rika-dear?
(Rika reveals a blank card, i.e. nothing.)
Yukino: Nothing. Which is exactly what you guys have because of Chiriko and Yolei having the same card. Rika gets nothing as that was what her card said…which means that Haley?
Haley: Yes?
Yukino: You're the only real winner with 3 free answers in the next quiz. But for now we've got another challenge to head to, so get prepared.
(As Yukino leaves, Yolei explains…)
Yolei: I can explain guys…
Haley: Go on.
Yolei: I just felt that it coming so end to the game that I felt it would be unfair if any of us won a free pass to the final. I want this to be the best man or woman to win this. If that makes me untrustworthy, fine.
Chiriko: (nods) I kinda felt that as well. I think the free pass was the hardest one to choose.
Skuld: A perfect excuse for a perfect sabotage. However, she also knew that people would be on to her, so a bit of confusion was in order…
Yolei: After the last challenge, I decided that for the next one, I'd confuse people by hitting the target. I genuinelly wanted to try and hit it in the helicopter challenge, and I did. The team won, but it did the proper job, confusing them.
(It did…and would lead to Chiriko's elimination.)
(Yolei returns to the task in hand…and despite her initial nervousness, seems to get ready. Yolei like the others waits for it to go straight…)
Yolei: Here goes…
(Yolei adjusts her glasses and throws her shot. And it's…)
Yolei: Yatta!
(…good. CHALLENGE COMPLETED…)
Skuld: A direct sabotage, a direct victory…so for the final challenge, it was back to Little Miss Subtle.
Yolei: I did plenty of little things inside the Blair Witch Game, first of all, I talked a lot and occasionally delayed the timer…
Yolei: (smiles) Chiriko, that's your cue…
Haley: Yolei, timer…
Yolei: Oh right. (Reverses it as Haley marks down another 2 and a half minutes.)
Yolei: …the same happened when I put Chiriko and Rika together…although that was super cute!
Skuld: And she also nearly lost the challenge by getting Rika to call out…
Yolei: Oh the kamis!
Haley: Geez…what the…
(It seems too much for Rika…)
Rika: I can't take this! (calls) Oh My…
Skuld: In the end, Yolei's delaying, plus mistakes from everyone else in the tent, contributed to the mole's sabotage and failure.
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EPISODE 14
Yolei: The final episode, so let's go out with a bang.
Skuld: Yolei's strategy was to get to the end, and whether she was by herself or not, she was going to get struck. Luckily, both Rika and Haley had already been hit, so it was an easy job of losing the game.
Yolei: I missed an easy shot off Faye as well so she could finish me off…
(Faye fires from swooping close to Yolei. It somehow misses…making her back now in clear view. Yolei fires…)
(…and misses.)
Yolei: Damn it!
(Yolei tries to break for it whilst Faye is regrouping, but she is now wide open. When Yolei realises this, she heads for an asteroid part…but Faye makes no mistakes a second time.)
Yolei: The final game was a bit dangerous, but Chromus said that nothing would get out of hand…I guess all that beefed up security helped…
Skuld: Despite the nature, Yolei still had a game to sabotage. Against Nakago, she wastes magic off his shield…
Yolei: O.K, let's try this…
(Yolei casts a lightning spell…which dispels against Nakago's ki shield)
Nakago: Hmph…hardly worth my notice…
Skuld: …and then focuses on curing, losing a lot of magic…and making her a quick target for Nakago.
Nakago: Fools…(he fires…at Yolei!)
(Yolei, totally unprepared for the blast, gets hit full front. And her HP goes down to 0. Nakago's is currently around half left, as Yolei 'dies')
Nakago: I am the general of the Kutou army. You think I don't know about tactics? Of course, I also figured your teamwork would come into play. I focused on one person, and when you came to protect her, the other was an easy target. Now, you two are next.
Skuld: Without a healer, Haley and Rika didn't have a chance.
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So now you've seen how Yolei sabotaged the game. However, what about the clues? There was a massive amount throughout, and the next chapter will explain them all…including how the four link clues led to Yolei and NOT Rika.
So read on!