(Hey guys! Quick author note. This chapter will be a short one, but this chapter will be the last chapter dedicated to Cream and Silver's ark. There will still be more of them both, so don't worry. Anyways, enjoy the story.)
Another day, another challenge. The contestants were awoken to complete the next challenge with Sonic's handy megaphone. "Alright, contestants. As you know, Storm has won the rejoin competition, which not only means he gets to have a second chance to compete, but that he is automatically safe for this challenge only," Sonic explained, knowing full heartily that everyone except Storm knew that. "However, Storm. You still can compete in this challenge in this challenge if you want to, and if you win, no one else will get to have immunity, so do you want to compete for today?" Sonic asked Storm. "Nah, I think I'll sleep in today," Storm declined Sonic's offer. "Very well then, for the other 5, Shadow will explain this challenge to you," Sonic said, taking a step back. "Do I really have to do this?" Shadow whispered to Sonic behind a tree. "Do it, or no ice cream for dessert tonight," Sonic demanded Shadow, who gave out a sigh, and launched out from behind the tree, dressed in a pirate costume and holding high a plastic sword.
"Yar har har, it be me, Capti' One Eye. I have buried me secret treasure on this very island. Find it, and ye be immune for ol' Sonic's game show," Shadow said in a pirate accent, waving his plastic sword in the air. "And how are we supposed to do that?" Wave asked with amusement. "I'll give ye all my secret treasure map, and ye have to find it by following the map," Shadow explained, who threw 5 maps in the air, and they all caught a map. "Now return me buried treasure, or ol' Sonic will have ye eliminated," Shadow demanded, and they rushed in random directions to try to find the treasure. "Can I take this off now?" Shadow asked Sonic. "For now, yes," Sonic said, and as soon as he said that, he tore everything off him. "Finally," Shadow muttered, and walked toward the beach to relax.
Cream was walking through the forest while observing the map. The only thing written down on the map was a mapped out drawing of the forest with a rock at the end. She had no idea why she had to go to this rock for…, whatever the treasure is, but all she knew was that to get it. "Hey, Cream," a voice said behind her, and she quickly turned around to find Silver. "Silver? How did you find me?" Cream asked Silver. "Well, we do have the same map after all," Silver told her with a chuckle. "Oh, right. Anyways, do you know where this rock is supposed to be?" Cream asked Silver. "Right there," Silver told her while pointing forwards, and she glanced in that direction, and saw a rock exactly the same as the map. "Oh," Cream muttered and approached the rock. The rock, very suddenly, started to light up. Mechanical legs sprung out from the bottom, and the "rock," started to stand up. "Ai has been activated. Hello contestants. You have found the first part of the Treasure Collecting Challenge. In order to continue, you must answer a riddle of mine. But your simple feeble minds would probably never comprehend my superior thinking," the robotic rock said with a…, slight cocky tone? Can robots even be cocky? I don't know. "Alright then, let's hear it," Silver told the robot.
"What is the one thing you need to become a pirate?" The robot riddled them, which made both Cream and Silver ponder. After several minutes of pure, random guessing, Silver finally thought of an answer. "Steal copyrighted stuff on the internet?" Silver answered, and the robot gave a…, chuckle…? "Haha, haha. Yes, that is the correct answer," the robot told them and handed each of them another map with a robotic arm. Silver opened the map, glanced at it for a couple of seconds, nodded, then told Cream where to go, and then left the area. Wave went right up to the robotic rock as soon as it deactivated. It activated once again. "Ai activated. Hello, contestant. I am a ro-," the robot was greeting Wave, but then Wave interrupted it. "Steal copyrighted stuff on the internet," Wave answered the riddle before he even said it. "How did you know the answer already?" The rock asked her. "I was stalking them in the bushes," Wave answered. "Oh, well, I have to give you this map, even if you cheated, so here," the robot told here, and handed here a map. "Aright, back on track now," Wave said to herself silently as she walked forwards while looking at the map.
Silver and Cream both arrived at the other side of the island to a beach, where a person was standing beside 5 canoes. "Use these canoes to swim over to that island over there," the person instructed, pointing to a faint outline of an island. "Then grab one of the shovels on the island and come back here. I'll give you the final map after that," the person finished, handing them both a canoe paddle. "Have you ever went canoeing or kayaking before?" Silver asked Cream while getting in his canoe. "Nope," Cream answered, also getting in.
They weren't doing that bad, actually. They managed to get half-way there before anyone else could get to canoes. "Hey, Silver?" Cream called Silver's name, and he turned to her. "What's up?" Silver asked. "I just wanna know, how do you manage to stay so positive without Blaze?" Cream asked Silver, who gave out a sigh. "It's hard, ya know. But I always think about how I'm doing this for us. I know she would do the same for me. But, I really do feel empty without her," Silver told to her, the only other sound they heard was the water splashing on the canoes. "It's just, you're always so happy. But me? I can't do that without some motivation with Tails, or any really," Cream told Silver. "Well, think of the positives. If you win, think how happy you and Tails will be. And hey, if you don't win, you guys still have each other. That's all you really need. It's not about winning, after all," Silver told to her, and she nodded. "You're right. This is a game show. We're meant to have fun," Cream agreed, but then they both heard furious rowing and water splashing.
"You hear that?" Silver asked, and Cream turned around, to see Wave rowing her paddles at inhumane speeds. "Um, Silver. Wave's approaching, and fast," Cream warned. "A wave? Where?" Silver asked, looking for the water kind of wave. "Not a wave, Wave the bird," Cream told him again and pointed at Wave. "Uh oh. Quickly, hold on to your canoe," Silver warned, and he raised his hands up in the air, as his and Cream's paddles started to glow and paddle furiously. Their canoes started to go even faster than Wave's.
Silver and Cream reached the island in a matter of seconds now, and both grabbed a shovel. "Alright, we got the shovels, now we gotta get back to the main island," Silver told Cream, who nodded, as they got in their canoes, and started to paddle back. They passed by Wave, who was exhausted from the paddling and seeing both Silver and Cream pass by her destroyed her confidence that she would get first. "Ugh, how could this get worse?" Wave asked herself, then turned to the right to see Espio passing her with ease. "Of course," Wave muttered to herself, and started to paddle again, but with less energy.
Silver and Cream returned to the island, where the instructor with the canoes handed them both the final map. "Find the X and win the challenge," the instructor instructed with still no enthusiasm. Both of them looked down on the map and saw that it was near the cabins. "The cabins!" Silver exclaimed. "Quickly, come on!" Silver told Cream and guided her back. When they reached there, however, they knew only one could win. "Silver," Cream called to Silver. "Yeah?" Silver replied. "I think you should win this, just to thank you for everything," Cream told him. "Are you sure? I mean, I thin-," "No, go ahead," Cream interrupted him, and Silver nodded. "As you wish," Silver said to her, and went up to the red x that wasn't there before, but that didn't matter to Silver. He dug through the x, and reached down, and held the treasure high. "And Silver wins this pirate challenge!" Sonic announced, confetti suddenly being shot everywhere. Espio suddenly came through the bushes, panting extremely hard. He looked up to see Silver with the treasure. "Oh come on," Espio muttered to himself. "Say…, where's Vector?" Sonic asked, and it cuts to Vector, stranded in the water. "I hate canoeing."
The camera cuts to the campfire, with everyone at the place. "Now, you already know how the elimination ceremony works, so I won't bore you and I'll just move straight on to the votes," Sonic said, and pulled out the flashcards. "Oh, and I won't forget about the prizes, which happen to be Christmas presents," Sonic cheered, pulling out Christmas presents. "Sonic, it's January," Wave pointed out. "Wow, way to kill the mood. Anyways, let's begin with the two immune people: Storm and Silver," Sonic began, tossing them both a Christmas present. Storm immediately opened it, only to find a cheap Mcdonalds happy meal toy. "Hey, this isn't a very good present!" Storm complained. "We were on a very tight budget," Sonic told the complaining Storm. "Next up, the only person who got zero votes is Cream," Sonic continued, throwing Cream a present, which she caught. "Vector received one vote, so he is safe," Sonic listed off, chucking a present at him too. "Wave, Espio, the votes have come in 3-2…, the person who received 2 votes is…," Sonic began to say, and both Wave and Espio got really nervous about going home. "Espio," Sonic finished. "H-how?!" Wave asked with a shocked tone. "I knew I wasn't going to get eliminated…," Espio said with a cocky tone.
"BUT…," Sonic suddenly said really loudly, catching everyone, even Espio, off guard. "Remember how Storm rejoined the game?" Sonic asked everyone, and everyone realized what was about to happen, and turned to Espio. "I-what, h-how is that even fair?!" Espio asked loudly to Sonic. "You got the 2nd most votes," Sonic answered. "Noooo! Not you too, Espio!" Vector cried out. "Shadow, or should I say, Captin One Eye, get them to the boat," Sonic joked to Shadow, who snarled at him. "Don't call me that," Shadow coldly told Sonic, not enjoying his humor, and took the both shocked and loudly complaining contestants to the boat. Everyone began to go back to the cabins, but Cream stopped Silver. "Thank you," Cream told him, who nodded. "Any time, Cream. Any time."