The Mole Chap 2: The Hard Second Task
A/N: Don't own WWE, Mole, or anything else. This story will have ten chapters in it all together. Nine of them have tasks while the last one will be the reunion of the players.
The next morning the group woke up and headed down to the lobby. Nine of them were tired and didn't know what to expect for the day. Chris Jericho greeted them wide awake and ready to get the tasks going.
"As you all can see, one of you isn't here this morning. This is because during the night, that person was kidnaped. Your task will be to rescue the person and return here. Now I need you guys to pick the three people that are not afraid of heights, three that have good direction, and three that don't get seasick. All three groups must save Mickie James."
"I'm definitely not afraid of heights, so I'll go with that one," Rob Van Dam looked at the group to see who else would volunteer for the category.
"I guess I'll join Rob. I do like heights." Ashley stood next to RVD. The highflyer one of a kind superstar looked directly at someone. That person looked down before quietly speaking, "Being with the Hardy Boys gave me no fear of heights. I'll join the group." Lita joined them.
John Cena thought he had a good direction with the WWE, "Yo, you need someone in the good direction group. I'll be your man."
"I get seasick so I'll join John Cena," Maria announced sliding her arm around John's arm.
"I'll join the direction group, but I get to be leader," Edge demanded of his two partners.
"But I'll be right next to you being your right side man. I'm your second-in-command then," John said frowning.
"I guess I'm with the ones who don't get seasick then," Trish looked at Triple H and Shawn. They lashed out at each other.
"I'm captain."
"No I'm captain."
"Screw you Helmsley."
"Sorry, but Bret told me what that's like so I'll pass."
"Shut up both of you or else I'm leaving the group," Trish screamed out. Chris Jericho cleared his voice to get the attention of the group.
"Okay now the three leaders Edge, RVD, and..." Chris paused not knowing who the last leader was.
"Me," Trish said glaring at the two other guys. "Since you both don't want to see the other as the leader."
"Okay Edge, RVD, and Trish. Edge, your group will use a car to find the place where Mickie is being held. Rob Van Dam, your group gets to ride in a helicopter. Trish, your group must travel by boat to the location. This task is worth 45,000 dollars. Each team that makes it to save Mickie in the hour given, you will put in 15,000 dollars. Inside each transportation option, there's a map, cell phone, and two hundred dollars. Your time begins now...!"
Edge, Cena, and Maria jumped into the car and sped off. Trish, Hunter, and Shawn tried to get the boat started but it took a while before it could start. Rob, Lita, and Ashley jumped into the helicopter and went high in the air.
Trish's team
"Can't you get this thing moving, captain?" Triple H asked venomously.
"I'm sorry but I don't know anything about boats," Trish barked at Hunter.
"Not to interrupt, but how about pressing the big red button?" Shawn was about to touch it when Hunter grabbed his arm.
"How do we know that won't make the ship explode or something? It won't go because that only happens in the movies."
Trish pressed the button and Hunter gave her a look, "Hey what choice did we have anyway?"
Triple H sighed and sat down while Trish steered the ship. Shawn climbed up to the lookout spot.
Edge's team
John Cena turned the radio to a different station and that got Edge pissed off.
"What do you think you're doing?" Edge turned the station back.
"I'm putting some real music on." John went for the radio again but his hand was swatted away.
"Excuse me but I'm driving and I just happen to like that station," Edge growled at Cena. Maria sat in the back looking out the window.
Rob's team
Rob, Ashley, and Lita were halfway there. Out of all three transportation methods, the helicopter had to be the fastest.
"I should have been on Edge's team. He's going to need me with him," Lita sulked.
"Well I wish I was on Trish's team so I don't have to deal with a crybaby like you Lita," Ashley yelled out loud.
Another cat fight was very likely to take place. RVD should have tried to prevent it but he was too busy on the phone trying to call the other groups.
"...yeah that's right. We are almost to the location. How about you? Wow, you guys are so far behind it's not even funny. No, I'm not going to even try to contact Edge. Hey, if you want to do it then it's fine with me Trish, but I don't want anything to do with him. I know we are in this game together but I still think Edge is the mole and..." Rob paused when he heard a giant splash. He looked towards his teammates and only saw a disheveled Lita. He went up to her and shook her hard.
"Lita, where's Ashley? What happened to Ashley?"
The fiery redhead narrowed her eyes, "That witch was starting with me so we got into a fight and she fell out of the helicopter and into the water."
Rob ran to the pilot and told him the situation. They went back and saw Ashley's head barely above the water. The pilot lowered the rope ladder with Rob on it. RVD saw Ashley go completely underwater. The rope ladder was only halfway there so he let go and did a Five Star Frog Splash into the water. He dived deep down and pulled the diva search winner to the surface. He grabbed onto the bottom rung of the ladder and they were slowly pulled up.
"Ashley, how are you?"
"My leg, I think I broke it when I fell out and landed in the ocean." She watched Van Dam make a makeshift brace for her leg. Then he called Trish to let her know what happened.
Edge's team
Edge was getting bored of driving and needed a break. Maria was getting a little whiny in the back.
"I'm hungry!" She wailed. John Cena remembered he didn't have breakfast and chimed in, "We should get something to eat." Edge sent him a frustrated look, "Not you too. We have to make it to Mickie James' location so we can earn more money."
"But man, we are starving and you could use a five minute break." Cena did have a point. Edge felt his stomach grumbling and finally gave in. They went to a fast food joint and John volunteered to run in and order since the drive-thru line was long and moving slowly. Ten minutes went by and Cena hadn't come out. Five more minutes later and Cena came rushing out with the food.
"There were too many customers and they got the order wrong two times!" John went on and on about the joint.
"We have to get going." Edge's face was serious. "Lita and Ashley were fighting and one of them got hurt."
Edge sped away while on the boat he called Trish back.
Trish's team
"You did what? Get fast food during the task? I don't believe it. Now that you mentioned it, I am hungry since all of us skipped breakfast." Trish was interrupted, "Hey Trish if you're hungry then lets fish for a little while. If the other group gets to eat then why shouldn't we?"
Trish looked up at Shawn and scolded him, "Fishing takes a long time and a lot of patience. If we're hungry then we won't have patience. Then after catching nothing then we won't have the time to finish the task."
"Hey look what I caught!" Trish and Shawn looked over to Triple H and saw that he had caught a giant fish. They fought over the fish but it then got away. Trish, Shawn, and Hunter decided to go fishing after that. RVD's group was the first group to reach the place where Mickie was held. She was happy to see them.
"Robby, Ash, Li, I'm so incredibly happy to see the three of you. I know the other two groups won't make it so I guess we don't get that much money."
"How do you know that? I bet you're the mole," Lita spat at Mickie.
Two hours later everybody was back in the lobby.
"I'm very disappointed in the lot of you. Not only does Ashley suffer a broken leg but two of the three groups couldn't make it to Mickie's location on time. Out of 45,000 dollars, you only managed to put it 15,000 dollars. Your next task is bidding. You must bid on three correct answers on the next quiz. The highest bidder gets it and the money is taken away from the pot. The second highest bidder gets something as well. Each of you will go in and bid on it. You get five minutes before we start to convince the others how to bid."
Jericho left the room leaving the players to talk.
"I think I should win the three answers," Edge spoke up. "It would be best for the team so if I bid a low number and win then we won't have to worry about anything."
"That's not cool. I think we should all bid zero so no money is taken from the pot," Rob glared at Edge.
"Three answers would sure be helpful," Trish said.
"The mole would want to put in a high number. We shouldn't have to bid anything if we paid attention to the mole's actions," Triple H did have a point.
"I agree with Trips on this. Someone is going home anyway so why waste the money? What's three measly answers going to do." John Cena waited for someone to contradict him.
"Three answers could keep one of us from going home, idiot!" Mickie didn't want to go home tonight and was firm on her answer.
"Then what should we bid," Maria asked the others.
"If you are even going to bid something, bid low honey." Shawn answered her question even though he wasn't sure how high he was going to bid.
"I can bid as high as I want and no one can stop me," Lita taunted the others.
"That's mighty selfish of you. I'd expect that from the mole though." Ashley limped closer to Trish. "I know my idol won't bet that high though."
Each person took their turn and cast their bid. Jericho met up with them at the end.
"Okay I will reveal who bid which amount. You had up to 29,000 dollars in the pot to wager." Chris listed off the amounts with the name.
"Ashley, 12,000."
"Trish, 20,000."
"Mickie, 5,000."
"Maria, 27,000."
"Rob, 0."
"Lita, 0."
"Edge, 28,000."
"John, 15,000."
"Triple H, 26,000."
"Shawn, 500."
"Your winner is Edge. He earns the three answers on his next quiz but at a very high price. Edge has managed to take 28,000 dollars out of the pot leaving one thousand dollars left. Since Maria came in second place she gets an exemption. I will now leave you until later tonight when you take your quizzes." Chris smiled and left the room leaving the ten players to talk again.
"I bid the most but Maria gets the exemption?! I can't believe it." Edge stormed around the room.
"I didn't put that much. I put less like Shawn told me. I don't know how it could have gotten so high." Maria gave Shawn a clueless look.
"I believe you. I put much higher then five hundred dollars but my bid was different too." Shawn didn't know how his answer could have been changed unless the mole sabotaged the bids.
"My bid was fine." Triple H said with Cena, Trish, Mickie, Rob, and Ashley agreeing with him.
"My bid was tampered with. I didn't bid zero." Lita frowned. Edge looked at his girlfriend and could have sworn to see a smirk on her face before it turned back into a frown.
"Well lets go downstairs and start the quiz," Triple H could sense the tension in the room
They sat in the room glaring at each other since neither of them knew what happened with the bids.
"Looks like nobody's in the mood to chat with each other tonight so lets get on with the confessionals first then the quiz." Chris Jericho watched as one by one their did their confessionals.
"Today sucked. Not only was my team the only one to get to Mickie, but then the money we did earn was wasted by Edge and the others in the stupid bid. The mole played a good game today and I think I know who she is," said Rob Van Dam.
"Our boat didn't start today and I know why she caused the stall to happen," said Shawn Michaels.
"First he did something stupid in the rescue task then he wastes the money? He has to be the mole!" Trish said into the camera.
"This isn't fair. First my group takes so long to pull over for food, I've almost starved to death. Then we didn't make it to save Mickie on time. Finally Edge is glaring at me. However I know who the mole is and he won't get away with it." Maria said wagging her finger.
"Today was awful. The only good thing was that we got some food in our stomachs. I know who the mole is and she's not going to be able to hid that much longer," John said.
"Today was fun. Sure we lost money but I loved the thrill," Lita said.
"Nobody could save me, except Rob's team. I knew nobody cared about me and now it's time to get revenge," Mickie said evilly.
"I know I'm not going home tonight and nobody can take that from me," Edge said.
"I think each one of us did what we had to do to stay in this game and I don't blame anyone, but will people stop taking money away from my pot?!" Triple H said.
"That witch broke my leg today. She probably sees me as a threat and she'll get payback by going home!" Ashley growled.
"I am the mole and I made sure we would lose everything today."
Then the group sat together in the room and took the quiz.
'What group was the mole in for the first task?'
'Was he mole leader of their group?'
'Did the mole use the plane, boat, or the car?'
'Did the mole leave the thing they were traveling by?'
'Did the mole want to get something to eat in the first game?'
'How much money did the mole bid in the second task?'
'Did the mole bid above or below ten thousand dollars?'
'Was the mole able to bid today?'
'What gender is the mole?'
'Who is the mole?'
The group relaxed as Jericho spoke.
"Lets see who will be going home tonight."
The names came up and when it got to Rob Van Dam, it turned red.
"I'm sorry assclown, well not really since I hate you, but you are leaving the game tonight. Adios!"
Rob grabbed his stuff while sending a glare towards Jericho.
"I guess the mole outsmarted me. I hope Ashley does well in the game and I guess I'll see the rest of them when we all get back to the WWE." Rob waved to his teammates and left.
"Well get some rest because tomorrow the fun begins again." Jericho waited until the players left the room before pulling Triple H back in. "Yikes, one thousand dollars?! That's such a low amount."
Triple H glared at him, "I'm not your mole Jericho. The mole did what it had to do to. We are all going to do what we have to do to win."