Survivor - Emperors vs Knights
Chapter 25 - Day 20 & Day 21 Part 1
KoopalingFan here once again for more Survivor - Emperors vs Knights!
Since I pretty much don't have much to say here at all, since stuff was said in both author's notes last chapter in terms of what's going on, I guess I can talk more about "Survivor - Mexico" since we're already here. For those of you who don't know, the brain vs brawn vs beauty theme was actually done before in the actual Survivor show, Survivor - Cagayan and Survivor - Kaoh Rong. Unlike most people though, I actually prefer the latter but that's another topic.
So the theme will have three tribes, six players each, tribe colors will be blue (brain), red (brawn), and yellow (beauty), eighteen players in total, which means that there will be a couple less chapters than usual since it will have two less people. (Come to think of it, this story itself will probably have two less chapters than Kodai Island, so basically after this chapter, this story will be more than halfway done lol. Now I gotta change the chapter total on my profile.)
I will announce the first castaway on Saturday after we have our first member of the jury for this season, so let's get going here with Day 20 for this season.
Historyfan15: I gotta say you are correct with some of those predictions. Though I'm not going to say how many, so that means everyone shall continue guessing lol. But what I can say is that the first castaway reveal may or may not be any of the people you mentioned, so we'll see!
~KF
Bikutā
Night 19
It was the very first night where all thirteen castaways were together in the shelter, and Shovel Knight decided to share another one of his stories around the campfire, more specifically for the ones who never got to know beforehand, making him even more excited.
"And so, almost every time I slept by the campfire, I dreamed myself catching Shield Knight falling from the sky." He told the group. "...Well, I am not going to lie when I say that there were some close calls, but I've managed to catch her every single time."
"Always catch your teammate. ...Well, even if you didn't, at least it was a dream, anyway." replied Foxy, actually earning a couple laughs from the group.
Shovel Knight blinked at him in reaction. "...That would still be rather... difficult to think about."
"Meeting new people is quite interesting." The shovel wielder spoke. "I am always meeting new competitors to face back in my world, and now I get a similar vibe here. I have not shared interactions with Zelda, Shulk, and Shadow at the time, so I'm thinking to myself that it's best for them to get to know me while they can, and perhaps get to learn even more about some of the others that I am playing this game with a bit more."
"Alright, then." He moved on. "Who's next?"
Everyone waited for another to speak.
"...Luigi!" He then pointed. "You still haven't told us of one of your adventures with your brother, yet! How about sharing a small story with the rest of us while we're all sitting here like this?"
"...Oh, okay!" The plumber nodded with a smirk. "So, one time me and my brother were racing across the desert, when both of us noticed this thing riding in a cloud of some sort, throwing Spinies all over the place when we were trying to visit the ruler of the kingdom."
"...How was he riding in a cloud?" Shadow unsurprisingly declined sharing one of his own stories of what went on in his life in Mobius, yet hearing Luigi's story was quite eyebrow raising for him. "Is that even possible?"
"I live in the Mushroom World." Luigi replied. "Things are quite different where I'm from to say the least. He was throwing Spinies everywhere trying to hurt us. I almost lost my Fire Flower power up. But then I hit an item block, and next thing I knew, I had the power of a Propeller Mushroom. I propelled myself up in the air, spun down like a drill onto the Lakitu. And then... he said the strangest thing..."
"What was it?" Greninja cocked his head to the side out of curiosity.
"...When I got into the Lakitu's Cloud and zoomed up towards him, me and Mario both watched him got up and asked us if we wanted to go Go-Kart racing..."
...
No words, which exactly Luigi was expecting, anyway.
"...Weird, right?"
"Now curiosity is certainly getting the better of me." Marth spoke. "I really need to visit this Mushroom World of yours. I remember Peach explaining to me about what it was like back on the first day."
"...Oh yeah, I never even got to meet Peach..."
"Perhaps Propeller Mushrooms will allow the people of Hyrule an easier time traveling across the land." Zelda assumed. "They'd be pretty useful."
"Alright, so who else wants to take a turn?"
"Guess I'll go." Bonnie volunteered. "Let me tell guys what happened one time when me and the gang were performing."
As he talked as others listened in, Knuckles took advantage of the situation by motioning Shadow in an attempt to gain his attention. Luckily for him, Shadow was not lying down facing the opposite direction.
"Get up early tomorrow..."
"..." He raised an invisible eyebrow.
"We need to talk..."
"You will at the reunion." Roy told. "I need to get my hands on some of those power-ups myself. They sound quite interesting."
Bikutā
Day 20
The following morning, Shadow grumpily met Knuckles near the beach of the old Nago camp where the two were lucky enough to be the first two of the thirteen castaways to rise up early, largely thanks to Knuckles only getting an hour of sleep that night, purposefully staying awake for the sake of Shadow who he felt needed to rise up as early as the sun started to come up.
"...What is it that is so important?" He questioned with a groan. "You know I hate being bothered at this time. It's too early for this..."
"Sorry, but I figured what I'm about to tell you is more than important, here." Knuckles's head shake and tone of voice meant that it was only a half-hearted apology, not caring that much at all. "I had to nudge Foxy and get him up, too."
"Just get straight to the point..." An already impatient Shadow the Hedgehog folded his arms, not having the time to talk for more than a minute. "I'm going to try to get back to sleep and be the last one to wake up just because of this..."
"Look, just listen, okay?"
"Ugh..." Knuckles gradually rubbed his hand down his face. "Honestly, I've noticed that working with Shadow can be quite stressful, and this is an example as to why..."
"Okay, so I don't know if you or any of the emperors have found this out yet, but I figured that you need to know anyway just to help you out a little bit." He explained. "...It's Freddy..."
He cocked his head to his left. "...What do you mean?"
"He's the target..."
"Oh... Alright..." His eyes pointed at the ground.
"But it doesn't have to be that way." Knuckles shook his head rapidly. "Me, Foxy, and Bonnie have been talking yesterday, and Foxy actually wants to save Freddy because apparently he has grown close with him and wants to have an alliance just like me and you are having right now. He saved me in the Rouge vote, and Bonnie is his right hand man."
Now Shadow was fully awake. Perhaps to him the conversation with his fellow Mobian was worth more than just a single minute. "...Is that so?"
"The plan is to change the target to somebody else... not you of course." He said. "If we get the target to change to somebody else within the next two days, without being seen as total dictators about it, then it would work well for us in the long run. Foxy has even told me that Greninja is obviously close with Sheik, and they brought in Shovel Knight, who brought in Luigi. He, Bonnie, and myself are automatically at the bottom by default, since there's obviously gonna be a 5, 6, 7 in the Knights Alliance."
"...So who are you all gonna target if it's not going to be Freddy?"
"We're trying to figure that out. Somebody other than Freddy or Marth." He replied. "Bottom line is that Foxy said that what would work for all five of us is that we can all be in some Hidden Five Alliance or something. You're already in hot water with your own alliance, so this is the best option for you at this point, since for all you know, the other emperors could be talking behind your back to our alliance to vote you off just to save their own selves at any point..."
"...'Hidden Five Alliance?'"
"It's the only way you could make it further in this game, Shadow." He kept talking. "Look, I know that you haven't spoke one word to Foxy yet, but this would help all five of our games here. Here comes Foxy, now. I'll leave you with him while I get a fire started."
And so he left, and Foxy promptly became his replacement as he passed Knuckles on the way.
"...Hi..." Michaels spoke first.
"...Hi..."
"What'd he tell you?"
"...He just told me that you needed me in your alliance to save Freddy. How'd you find out that I was on the bottom of the emperors?"
"Knuckles told me yesterday during a conversation." He replied. "I mean, I am not just gonna be a goat and get dragged to fifth or sixth place, since Knuckles would be the first they'd get rid of if we all somehow make our way to the final seven. Same would be with you if you and the other emperors had the majority. I don't know where Freddy stands when it comes to the rest of your tribe, but since he's public enemy number one, it doesn't even matter if he was running the show over there."
"Does Freddy even know he's the target?"
"Not yet." He immediately shook. "We're gonna tell him later. Maybe you could even have a conversation with him about it. But I highly recommend you don't any of the other emperors for obvious reasons."
"I have no reason too." Shadow replied. "...Now that I'm thinking about it, I literally have no other option, since my name could be thrown out there at any given moment given my reputation with the other emperors, which was why I flipped on Mega and pulled in Knuckles the first place. I'm in."
"Knuckles working with Foxy and Bonnie is news to me." Shadow said. "I did not know that Foxy and Bonnie were against working with the other knights, nor did I know that Foxy was the reason to why Knuckles stayed over Rouge, since apparently it was between those two at one point before the swap. Now they want me and Freddy in their alliance in order to save Freddy. So maybe with that, Foxy has proven his loyalty to Knuckles by making sure he stayed. Though the thing is that me and Freddy haven't even talked much of an alliance even though we both knew we had to get rid of Ghirahim. However, I was already planning on working with Knuckles anyway. And so, perhaps this is our ticket deep into the game. I'm all over it."
"Glad to hear." Foxy shook Shadow's hand. "You got Knuckles, I got Freddy."
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"You had a conversation with Knuckles, yet?"
Roy shook no to Marth. "I haven't talked to him at all since we merged. ...What are you thinking, Zelda?"
He, Marth, and Zelda were all in the forest in the middle of a path, the youngest of the three noticing Zelda with a fist beneath her chin, giving a huge signal to Roy that something was going through her head.
"I'm trying to think of whose name should we write down other than the one that I have in mind." She answered. "We can't write down Knuckles, since that's who we're counting on. I see no reason to why we should write down Bonnie, Luigi, or Foxy. And as far as idols go, the two and only two possibilities of who owns it are either Shovel Knight or Sheik. I don't know for certain, but it's highly likely that Greninja is the one that doesn't have it. Not only that, but he and Sheik are a pair, which I discovered on Chatan, and Greninja is clearly the most physical of those three."
"So Greninja's our plan, then?"
"Pretty much." Zelda nodded. "If we all write down Greninja and if it actually works, that would break the game wide open, since at that point we would have six emperors and six knights. But this would only work is we make Shadow stays with us because even though none of us can trust him, we need him now, more than ever, and even Shadow knows that."
Speaking of the hedgehog, he just so happened to be right near him, not being afraid of whether or not the group of three heard his footsteps, though they did. And one by one, they all turned around.
"...Strategizing, I presume?" He asked.
...
"...?"
"...We need you." Roy broke the ice. "We think that the best thing to do for all of us is to vote six strong, plus Knuckles and vote out Greninja."
"Trusting Shadow is just like trusting a total stranger at this point." Roy stated. "The only reason to why it makes more sense to trust Shadow than not trust him at the moment is because he was one of us from day one, and not one of the knights. Whether he is even fond of us or not is irrelevant. He is not on the opposing team, so we have no other choice. Sure, we could just throw Shadow under the bus, but not only that is what I call the 'easy' way out, but that would also make things even worse for the rest of us. So it is important for Shadow to both stay and work with us so we can take out one of those knights, and in this case, it's Greninja."
"Not only do we need you," the Young Lion continued. "but we need Knuckles as well. Since he knows that he is on the bottom of the Knights Alliance, we think that he is the type of person that will flip on his fellow members on a dime despite the circumstances, especially after he made his move on Krystal yesterday."
"You heard?" Shadow popped an eyebrow.
"We've told the others what happened." Marth explained. "If Knuckles flips, that would be good for all of us. We will fight to get the majority. I refuse to just sit here until my time runs out."
Shadow rolled his eyes at Marth's determination.
"Just tell us what are the chances of Knuckles actually flipping and working with us?"
"...Well, perhaps his chances would increase is I talk to him a bit more of what I had in mind." Shadow replied.
"And that is?"
All eyes were on Shadow as he thought it over for a few seconds. "...That maybe if he flips, then perhaps someone else would also flip as well. One flip equals another after both alliances would have six members each. But if one other person would flip over to our side, that means that we would all have the majority."
"I was going to tell the other emperors that there have been people coming up to Knuckles and that they wanted to work with him because they were aware that he was on the bottom of the old Knights Tribe." Shadow revealed. "However, at that last second, I thought that it wouldn't have been the best idea, since if I told them that, that would be exposing Foxy and Bonnie. They will remember it, and worst case scenario, when one of them leaves the island, the others would throw what I said in our faces in front of everyone and then the entire Hidden Five alliance would be screwed. But I know I'm not going anywhere. However, I still have to fight for probably the only emperor I might trust long term at this point based on the relationships."
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"I just think that it would be a shame voting off one of those emperors revealing the tribal lines, that's all. They all are quite enjoyable to be around... at least Shadow's an interesting character I can say..."
"Yeah, I know what you're thinking." Greninja was with Shovel Knight and Luigi just by the trees near the beach where the other three knights minus Sheik just had their conversation the previous day. "I feel the same way. You can be best friends with people on the other team yet at the same time you gotta send them home. That's without a doubt the hardest part."
Just then, Foxy came by.
"'Sup?"
"Hello!" replied Shovel Knight with a wave from Luigi.
"The plan's the same?"
"Yep." nodded Greninja. "We basically gotta blindside Freddy, with him possibly having an idol in his pocket, while at the same time, pretending that we're sending Marth home, and so that we flush his idol so that we know that when he plays it, it'll take a load off of each of us."
"Who does Freddy want out?" Shovel Knight wondered.
"He didn't say." Foxy shook in reply. "However, he did tell me that he and Shadow had a conversation of what they were gonna do."
"What'd they say?" Greninja was curious.
"Alright, long story short,..." The red fox started. "Shadow wants to flip,... and Freddy wants to flip with him."
All three of the other knights that were around stood there in shock.
"...Seriously?" Shovel Knight blinked.
"W-Wait, what?" Luigi frowned in confusion.
"They both know that they are on the bottom of that alliance, especially Shadow." Foxy explained. "Freddy thinks he's on the bottom due to lack of major connections with other people."
"Clearly it's still Emperors vs Knights over here, and it's gonna come down to the tribal lines tonight." He said. "However, one thing is for certain, I know that Shadow wants to flip. Freddy on the other hand? I don't really know if he wants to flip at all, or he has plans on continuing to work with the other emperors, but since he's the target, it doesn't really matter. It's still going to be one of the other emperors tomorrow, so he pretty much has no other choice. I can't vote out one of my own now, because that's an obvious dumb move on my part for flipping too early. Freddy's in the minority of this new tribe, and so since we're sending an emperor home, Freddy helping us by voting off one of his own would be the only way out of this, especially since he's in such hot water right now. If Freddy goes home, that would be terrible to say the least..."
"I'm not saying that because he's the target, because that would mean that he knows that his name is being written down."
Greninja and Shovel Knight both nodded in understanding.
"And so he thinks that if he flips with Shadow, it increases his chances of making it far." He finished. "So basically, to him and Shadow, the theme of this season is dead to them."
"It's what emperors do best, I guess." Greninja thought out loud. "I mean if they're both wanna flip over to our side, we clearly can't say that it's a bad thing. Makes our lives easier."
"I'm shocked. Like, on a scale of on to ten, I'm at a hundred." Greninja spoke with a slight laugh. "Okay, so I expected Shadow to switch sides if not all of the emperors were on the same page. But Freddy? That just blew my mind. I didn't think he would have any reason to flip, but apparently he was thinking about his own game and what's best for him. And if he thinks he should flip, that changes a lot here."
"I still think there's a catch, though..." The Pokemon was actually a bit hesitant about it, though, much to Foxy's heart sinking a bit. "...For all we know he could be lying about it. I don't mean to say that Freddy's a liar, but look at the numbers here. You know that people could easily just say things just to play both sides? We're at the merge here, and Freddy could actually leak information over to his side and then they can know who we're putting votes on, and then here comes a successful idol play."
"...Dang..." Foxy stared down. "I gotta admit... You're actually right about that. Not gonna lie..."
"I told them my lie, and at first the three of them seemed to be completely on board with it, but then Greninja all of a sudden nearly shoots my idea down, but it's somehow... still surviving, I guess?" He tried his best to make a joke out of it. "Maybe that would make a lick of sense. But he's saying that based on the type of guy Freddy appears to be, Greninja told me that the emperors could very well be using Freddy to play double agent so that he can leak information to them on who's getting the votes, because we know one of them has an idol. I mean, freaking Greninja, man... That guy is smart... Wouldn't be surprised if his partner in crime thinks the same..."
"So what if Freddy is in fact telling the truth?" He questioned his tribe alliance. "And that still doesn't explain Shadow... He told me this morning that he's the reason to why Mega Man left..."
"...Woah..."
"Makes sense to me..." commented Luigi.
"...Well then,..." Greninja paused. "if that's the case then we would have to assume that they are flipping..."
"So, what exactly are we going to do about it?" asked Shovel Knight.
"...Let's put the both of them to a test of some sort..." He stated his idea. "Help me do math here. If Shadow and Freddy flip,... that means that we would have nine people here against four (Shulk, Roy, Zelda, and Marth). We get those two to vote for one of those four, which is our target, while at the same time, that would be enough for us to split the votes 5-4 between Freddy and the other person, depending on what happens at the immunity challenge, with most of them on that other person, and the other four votes onto Freddy just to make sure he's not lying. Because in the small chance that he is, one of the other emperors could play his idol on our target, but then when it's those emperors' four votes against our four votes, Freddy would actually be the one out of the game on the re-vote. ...Does all that make sense?"
"...Uh..." Luigi scratched his head being even more confused now. "I'm sorry, but math was the one subject I struggled with in grade school..."
That actually made the rest of them giggle along.
"Alright, let me explain it again."
"Alright, let me choose my words really carefully." Greninja took his time. "...I don't have enough fingers for this... There are seven knights and six emperors... We're trying to see if Freddy is telling the truth. So assuming he and Shadow actually join us to make nine against four, that is just enough room for us to split the vote 5-4. Five of us including Shadow and Freddy will write down whoever we want to go home (the four people who are out of the loop), while the other four put down Freddy just to test him and make sure. If there is an idol in play and if it is played on our new main target, he basically goes home after idoling himself out of the game since it would be a 4-4 tie. Otherwise, if he is really in with us, even if he doesn't have an idol, our target would go home. ...However, there is still one major problem..."
"Hold on a minute..." Foxy held a hand out. "There's still a major flaw in this... What if the emperors vote six strong against us and take one of us out?"
"That's what I was worrying about myself." Shovel Knight admitted. "We are putting ourselves in a rather risky situation here... Being blindsided is always somebody's worst fear, even though it happens all the time in a game like this..."
"You guys have a point..." Greninja had to agree. "Well, like Foxy said, Shadow already flipped on Mega, that's enough proof right there... But then again, he could be a flip-flopper and head back with the other emperors, and then one of us is on the jury..."
"...So, all of that and we're basically right back to square one over here?" Foxy cocked his head to his right.
Greninja sighed shaking his head. "Pretty much. ...Well, at least we have two options here: us seven voting together being the easy plan, or us nine splitting the votes being the much more complicated plan..."
"Well, bottom line is that all seven would have to come to some form of agreement of which plan would work for all of us..." Shovel Knight said. "I highly recommend that we all talk again about this, because clearly we have a little bit more to worry about here..."
"Ugh..." Foxy buried his head in his lap. "Clearly this is not going as easy as I thought it would..."
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Meanwhile, Sheik, Shulk, Knuckles, and Freddy all remained at the shelter, the three of them being involved in a conversation while Freddy simply laid back, finding nothing else to do at the time since there were no significant chores that needed to take care of. The shelter was already extended the day before.
Just then, Shadow came by, and Freddy lifted his head to see him staring right at his face.
"...Uh,... hello?"
"Have you heard anything?"
"...Next to nothing..." He talked, yet in some form of a whisper due to the fact that two knights were nearby. "Almost no one has been strategizing with me at all since we got here. I tried to pay it no mind, but it really is giving me some concern. Do you know what's going on?"
With a head turn for a few moments, Shadow faced Freddy back.
"It's you..."
Freddy Fazbear almost instantly widened his eyes. "...What?"
He nodded in confirmation.
"..."
"Don't ask me why." He then shook his head. "Now's not the time to get worked up here. ...Listen... There's still a chance that you will stay here. ...We need to work together. I've been involved in a pretty important conversation this morning..."
"Hearing your name being thrown out there is without a doubt the worst feeling in the world." Freddy's back was leaning against a rock. "And apparently, I'm the number one target on the board at the moment. I don't know why exactly, but it's just the fact that my name is being thrown worries me deeply. I don't wanna go home. But apparently, maybe there's a chance that I would live to see another day out here. And whatever I have to do to stay alive, I would do so without question. Hopefully I would be able to get this giant target off of myself. Maybe I should try to win immunity..."
Day 21
It was a bit cloudy the next day, yet at the same time, not a big enough sign of a storm occurring.
Nonetheless, the weather for Survivor was a different topic for another time. Out in the sand near a bunch of trees where twelve inclined balanced beams with small platforms near the end, with twelve different colored, thin empty wheels.
"Come on in, guys!"
Roy, Shulk, Greninja, Foxy, Luigi, Marth, Bonnie, Zelda, Sheik, Freddy, Shovel Knight, Shadow, and Knuckles all came through, two of the remaining castaways holding the tribal immunity idols as they all stood side by side in a line.
"Alright." Master Hand was ready. "You guys ready to get to your first individual immunity challenge?"
Big cheers and claps were heard from the crowd.
"First things first, I will take back tribal immunity." The master went over to take the immunity idols from Shovel Knight and Sheik, before placing them on the ground near a post that was covered in a checkered cloth. "Tribal immunity is no more, individual immunity is what you seek."
With that being said, he revealed the individual immunity necklace that appeared to be a wooden japanese, black fan, or a 'sensu', basically in the form of a necklace for Survivor.
"Sweet..." Greninja nodded as a few members of the Bikutā tribe clapped in reaction.
"I need one of those..." Bonnie blinked.
"Now, for today's challenge, you will be standing on a narrow beam while spinning a ball inside a circular, wooden trap. At regular intervals, you will then take steps forward inching yourselves farther down the beam where it will become more difficult. At any point if you fall or if the ball drops, you're out of the challenge. Last person standing wins immunity, safe from the vote."
"Sounds simple enough..." Shadow mumbled.
"With immunity, you can not be voted out of this game. Zero percent chance of you going home." The host of Survivor reminded them. "Losers, one of the other twelve of you will be vulnerable at Tribal Council where someone will be the eighth person voted out of Survivor, and will then become the first member of our jury. Take your spots and we'll get started."
The castaways were ready more than ever.
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Two rows each. Standing in the back row were Foxy, Knuckles, Luigi, Zelda, Freddy, Greninja, and Sheik. Yet not even a couple feet from them on their left were Marth, Roy, Shovel Knight, Bonnie, Shulk, and Shadow. So basically it almost looked as if it was one big row of thirteen people.
"Alright, here we go." The challenge was about to begin. "Everybody start spinning your ball..."
Making a few movements from side to side, the group of castaways begin spinning the balls around in their wheels either rapidly, or at a slightly slower speed.
"Everybody is spinning, and your first individual immunity challenge is officially on..."
No words were spoken whatsoever for concentration reasons.
"This challenge was done once before in Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers, and we're finally bringing it back. Pretty simple. All you gotta do is keep that ball rolling. Let nothing distract you."
...
"Let's make your first move."
"Already?" Luigi mumbled to no one in particular.
"You are going to put one foot on that beam..."
Thus, the castaways begin to make their transition slowly, but surely, depending on whether or not a few certain castaways decided to look down to make sure they knew what they were doing, while the rest kept their eyes on their balls, making them spin all the while.
"Now it's going to be a little more difficult..." Master Hand warned. "But it seems that everyone is doing good so far..."
...
"Let's make your next move."
Luigi sighed.
"Let's do it in little increments. You're gonna move even farther down the beam where one foot is going to be in the most narrow section..."
Unfortunately for Shovel Knight, he barely moved before his ball flew right out of his circle.
"..."
"Shovel Knight is our first casualty. Take your spot on the bench..."
"Oh well... It was fun while it lasted..."
"We're down to twelve..."
"...Woah!"
"And just like that, Marth Lowell fell off the balance beam... and right behind is Roy. Both of them can't hang in there anymore. Take your spots."
"We might as well take a nap." Roy commented making his way over with Marth. "This could go on for a while..."
"Last time this section was notoriously known for getting a lot of people."
Luigi included.
"Luigi had a hard time balancing and his ball slips out. Out of the challenge..."
"Whew..." The taller Mario brother wiped sweat from his head. "At least I wasn't the first one out..."
"We are down to nine people left in this challenge..."
There was some heavy concentration going on as the rest of the players were successfully able to fully make the transition on the beam, all of them being concentrated and confident as possible.
Yet for Shadow the Hedgehog, the ball managed to escape.
"Shadow out of the challenge..."
He cursed under his breath and dropped his wheel.
Right behind him, Knuckles struggled to keep his balance for a bit.
"..."
"...Knuckles with a nice recovery. Good save."
...
"The rest of you look very solid... Whatever your strategy is, it is working..."
Zelda, Greninja, Shulk, Sheik, and Bonnie all were moving their balls at a decent pace while Foxy, Knuckles, and Freddy all had their balls moving twice as fast.
Yet all of a sudden, Foxy began wobbling out of nowhere and he ended up losing control over his footing.
"Foxy out of the challenge..."
With no eye contact with anyone, he nimbly took his spot.
Elapsed Time: 10 Minutes...
"Freddy looking determined as ever..."
Bonnie looked determined as well, only less fortunate than the bear.
"Bonnie's ball drops. He's out... We are now down to seven and we've been here for more than ten minutes... Four knights, three emperors..."
"Ten minutes? I've barely made one..." Roy reminded himself with a shake of his head.
Knuckles wobbled a little bit once more.
"...Knuckles... safe again..."
Elapsed Time: 30 Minutes...
"Zelda, Shulk, Sheik, Knuckles, Freddy, and Greninja all fighting for immunity..."
Yet, due to being unable to keep the ball in the path that it was supposed to take, it ended up flying right out of someone's wheel.
"Freddy Fazbear is out of the challenge..."
Shovel Knight and Luigi stared.
"...Woah! ...Dang it..."
"Knuckles drops and loses his balance. Out of the challenge."
"Now here comes the hardest part..." Master Hand spoke again. "Both of your feet are now going to be on the most narrow part of the beam. I highly recommend you do it in little increments..."
The slowly began to inch down.
"...!"
"Shulk falls, can't make the transition. No immunity for him today..."
"Now it is just the ladies and Greninja."
"Wow..." Foxy joked about it. "The men did horrible..."
"...Huh? ...?"
"Greninja's ball slowed down a little too much. He's out. Now it is just Sheik and Zelda fighting for immunity."
Shadow could not have believed it, specifically how well Zelda was doing. Perhaps the balance beam was the one thing she was good at when it came to being physical.
And in spite of that, like Greninja's, her ball slipped as well.
"Zelda drops!"
"SHEIK WINS THE FIRST INDIVIDUAL IMMUNITY CHALLENGE!"
She happily hopped off with excitement as she shared an embraced with Zelda, who was still grinning more than ever.
"That was my best challenge, yet! Good job, Sheik!"
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"Sheik, come on over."
The rest of Bikutā gave her a round of applause as the ninja made her way over to Master Hand and turned around, the hand hooking the immunity necklace on her neck.
"Sheik wins the first individual immunity challenge. As for the rest of you, Tribal Council where someone will be the eight person voted out of this game where they will return to tribal later as the first member of the jury. Sheik, it will not be you. Congrats."
"Thank you, master."
"Well, I've always wondered if I can win an individual immunity." She said leaning against a tree. "So to win the first individual immunity challenge against twelve other people means a lot! Now I know I won't be going home. But for tonight, I think to increase the Knights Alliance's chances of winning challenges and to decrease the emperors' chances of playing an idol correctly, of course we're not just gonna send Zelda home just because she was top two in one challenge so far, knowing that she clearly isn't as strong in other areas. Shulk, however, is without a doubt the biggest remaining physical threat behind Freddy, and he went top four today. So if we end up believing Freddy, Shulk will be our backup plan as long as everyone sticks to it, unless we all decide to play it safe and vote seven strong and take out Freddy, who luckily didn't win immunity today."
Okay, so there you have it. Yet another upcoming complicated merge Tribal Council.
So if they're not going for the safer route here, hopefully Greninja explained the much more complicated option for this vote rather well, and it seems that their target has switched to Shulk if they end up believing Freddy that he's flipping (which Freddy by the way was never even asked to flip, but then Foxy said that he already has no other choice given the circumstances, planned ahead, and to increase the chances of the knights splitting vote, Foxy lied to his alliance saying that Freddy's flipping because he says he thinks he's on the bottom lol, so basically Freddy is now backed up into a corner here). But like Foxy said, if Freddy ends up leaving (even though he has an idol), it would hurt a lot of people. The entire Emperors Alliance and the Hidden Five Alliance, so pretty much everyone but Greninja, Sheik, Shovel Knight, and Luigi.
...Or it could just come down to tribal lines at Tribal Council, and unlike post-swap, it seems that it would be just a bit harder to keep Freddy this time, so Foxy better start praying to the Survivor Gods or something lol. Oh, and also, clearly we all know that Shadow wants to flip, but at this point Shadow is not even the top person to worry about at the moment lol. That's saying something.
Questions:
1. Which plan would actually work in the end?
2. Would anyone play their idols at Tribal Council?
3. What are the chances of a knight going home actually instead of an emperor? (I only put this because other than this one I only have two questions lol)
Vote for your top five players on my profile and we'll all see what happens on Saturday! ...Oh, by the way, congrats to Sheik fans for your fav for winning the first individual immunity challenge!
I encourage all fans of the Tribal Councils of Survivor to review.