The Mole Chap 3: Well Now, the Third Task
A/N: Don't own WWE or Mole
Jericho woke them up early in the morning. This time however, they were allowed to eat breakfast.
"I wonder who the mole could be," Maria said while scooping up another spoon of cereal into her mouth.
Maria ate Cocoa Puffs, Ashley ate Frosted Flakes, Trish ate Fruit Loops, Mickie ate Fruity Pebbles, Lita ate Golden Grams, Edge ate Captain Crunch, Shawn ate Cornflakes, John ate Cheerios, and Triple H ate Cookie Crisp. After breakfast they met with Jericho to go over the next task.
"Okay, the two tasks for today will take place at the same time," he watched the group exchange looks. This meant that they might not be able to keep an eye on the mole today.
"First I need the three people who think they have good eyes. I also need the three people who are good leaders and the three people who are good followers."
"I don't know about the rest of these losers, but I am one to lead the pack. If anyone wants my spot we can fight for it!" Triple H beckoned the other players to say otherwise.
Trish gave Hunter a look, "There are three spots for the leadership position. Since I am the locker room leader for the divas, I will be a leader as well."
"Count me in as the last leader," a man said as Triple H groaned. John Cena walked in between Trish and Hunter and were taken to a different room.
"Lita and I refuse to follow either of those three wannabe leaders. We have good eyes so we will join that group, no further comments," Edge said as he and Lita walked out of the room. Shawn leaned down to Ashley and softly told her, "Go with them. Your leg is still broken. This task wouldn't be good for you to do. Earn us more money by using your good eyes to keep that pair in line."
Ashley used her crutches to follow, sending Mickie a glare. This left Shawn, Mickie, and Maria as the followers. In the room with the good leaders, Jericho informed them what their task would exactly be.
"I would have to say how unsurprised I am to see the three of you here. All of you have the potential to be great leaders but in the last task, only one of you got to be the leader. That leader, was you Trish. This time however the three of you will have nothing to do with each other. Each one of you will get another player, one of the followers, to guide. What the three of you will have to do is guide your follower to get one of the wrestling belts at the end of the maze. They will greatly rely on each one of you so you must give them good directions. Inside the maze there will be two...lets say obstacles that will chase and try to stop your follower from getting the belt. I will now let you go to your positions overlooking the maze. Trish, you will lead Mickie. Triple H will lead Shawn. Cena, you've got Maria." Jericho knew this task was going to get interesting.
"I get to follow Trish. I'm like the luckiest person in the world!" Mickie jumped up and down after hearing that they would follow the three leaders.
"Hold on Mickie, there will be two wrestlers in there that will try to prevent you from getting out with the titles. They will try to capture you and if they succeed your team will not put in money," Jericho watched the other two followers carefully to see their reaction.
"John gets to be my leader. I know we can do this!" Maria smiled happily.
"What is this?! Triple H is my leader! I should be leader! You want to know what I have to say about this Jericho? I have two words for you...!"
"Well I have to get you three started," Jericho stated as he led them to the labyrinth. He got the three in position and then left to the other group.
"Okay, group with good eyes, here is your task. See these three watches? All you have to do is figure out which one is the real one. If you are able to do that, I will put in fifty thousand dollars." Jericho placed three priceless watches carefully down. Edge, Lita, and Ashley studied it for a while.
"This is ridiculous! All three watches are probably all the same!" Edge was raving again.
"We can do this." Ashley turned them over to look at the back of the watches. However, they still looked the same.
"Edge, this is a museum. How about we take the watches out of the room and to one of the scientists?" Ashley and Edge both looked at Lita.
"I think that's the first good idea you've had in this game," Ashley said as Lita glared at her. Each player grabbed a watch and left the room.
The other players were doing their task. Shawn, Maria, and Mickie ran into the labyrinth and were separated.
"Okay Michaels, take the next right and go down that path," Triple H spoke to him from the headset they were both wearing. Shawn took the right and ended up in a dead end.
"Hunter, no more games. This is for the money! Lead me down another dead end and we'll see what happens to you once I get out of here," Shawn ran the other way not knowing that someone was watching him.
John Cena repeated his directions again to Maria. She then started walking.
"No Maria, the other way is left. Okay lets try this again." He looked away for a moment then heard her cry out.
Mickie was hopping through the maze following each one of Trish's directions. Suddenly she heard a female shout out.
"Trish, what's going on up there? Can you see?" Mickie looked around cautiously.
Trish looked next to her to see John Cena looking down at the maze in shock. He was rapidly giving Maria directions to run as fast as she could. She looked over to Hunter and saw that he was directing Shawn in Maria's direction.
"John, what's happening over there?"
John gave her a dark look, not directed at her but at what was down in that labyrinth.
"There's trouble down there and it's after my girl." John looked back down into the maze and muttered, "Those darn TNA double-cross losers! Trish don't look, it's not going to be pretty girl."
Trish couldn't resist the urge and looked down at the maze. Her eyes widened and she looked on in disbelief.
"It can't be..."
Back with the good eyes group, they had just returned to the room with the three watches. The scientist was able to tell them which one was the genuine watch. Jericho was waiting for them.
"Have you figured out the real one?" Jericho gave them a look.
"Yes assclown, this one is the real one." Edge held up one of the watches and watched as Jericho nodded.
"That is correct, assclown. However, you received a penalty for taking the watches out of the room. You were supposed to figure out which one was real not anybody else. For that half of your earnings have been lost." Jericho only allowed 25,000 dollars into the pot leaving 26,000 dollars in the pot.
"Who's idea was it again to take them out of the room," Ashley glared at Lita again.
Edge defended his girlfriend, "You didn't disagree with her though."
"Lets just be happy we added some money into the pot," Lita sighed.
"If only the mole would keep their grubby hands off the money," Ashley walked out of the room.
Trish's eyes were watery. It couldn't be him. It had to be a figment of her imagination, but Hunter and John could see him too.
"Christian..." Trish could hear Mickie asking for directions but she was in shock. Christian had his own headset and could hack into any one of their frequencies. He looked up to Trish and smiled. Shawn was racing in the maze hoping that Hunter was leading him in the right direction. He saw Maria and Christian and stood between the two people.
"Back off whiner!" Shawn yelled over to Christian. He made his way over to Maria but saw her eyes widen. Out of nowhere Rhyno gored him to the ground. Shawn lied there not moving. Suddenly over the headset Mickie's words were clear as day, "Trish, are you still there? I've found the WWE Women's Title. Help me get out of here!"
Trish came back to reality and gave Mickie directions leading her towards the exit. Christian and Rhyno gave each other a look.
"Rhyno, get the other girl." Christian then talked into his headset, "Trish, don't think your friend can escape that easily."
Rhyno ran towards the exit while Christian approached Maria.
"John! Help me!" She cried out on her headset. John grabbed the rail in front of him and tightened his grasp around it, "Maria, I can't. I can't help you down there." 'The only thing I could do for her is give her directions but Christian would catch up with her.'
Christian took off her headset and smashed it to pieces.
"Now I'll give you a twenty second head start. After that, you're mine."
Maria took off deeper into the maze. Triple H and John Cena could only grind their teeth and curse the two TNA stars' names. Trish ran down to the exit to the maze and met Mickie there. Mickie gave Trish a suffocating hug. Trish pulled the other diva off of her and then helped Mickie to her feet.
"Don't ever do that again, Mickie!" Trish and Mickie went back up to the lookout.
"Michaels, wake up!" Triple H kept trying to get his teammate up.
"John..." Trish walked up to Mickie, took off the girl's headset, and gave it to the rapper. "Take this headset and go in after Maria. It's obvious the game is over since she cannot get a belt now and Shawn is out. I'll guide you now."
John leaped over the rail and jumped down into the maze. He soon found Shawn and shook him awake.
"HBK, we have to find Maria. She's still in here with Christian and I think now Rhyno after her."
Christian heard that John was in the labyrinth and found Rhyno to help him. Maria was found by the other two players and with Trish's help they escaped the maze. Jericho met them back at the lookout.
"Congratulations, because one of you got a belt and escaped, you have managed to add in 15,250 dollars. There will be a penalty for John's visit into the labyrinth. You lost two hundred and fifty dollars. Now lets go meet the others."
Lita was looking away from her angry group while Shawn looked embarrassed from being taken down so easily. It was shown how much was now in the pot. $41, 000 was the total amount they had saved in the pot.
"In Group A, only Mickie James found a title and exited the labyrinth earning her team 15,250 dollars. They were penalized because one leader entered the labyrinth. In Group B, they managed to find the real watch but were penalized for taking the three watches out of the room. They put in 25,000 dollars. Now each one of you will do your confessionals."
"I feel it was a shame to be taken out by Rhyno in the labyrinth task. Was Hunter playing when he led me right into those dead ends or was he wasting time so Rhyno and Christian could find us sooner?" Shawn's confessional ended.
"I'm glad Mickie and I managed to put some money into the pot. I wonder what happened to cause Lita's group a penalty?" Trish's confessional ended.
"I don't like Christian. He made me feel so vulnerable. John came to my rescue, thank you John. I find suspicious that HBK was taken out so fast. How could that have happened?" Maria's confessional ended.
"I couldn't believe how much trouble I had giving directions to Maria. She kept going the opposite direction I told her. What surprised me is how Trish had me go down causing us a penalty." John's confessional ended.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that I was the one to think to get help from a professional. If it wasn't for me we wouldn't have any money added from our team into the pot. We would have had a one in three shot of getting it right and we had no clue which one was real." Lita's confessional ended.
"I got a title out. Some scary dude in a black wrestling attire. From it I found out his name was Rhyno and he wanted to spear me. I never want to get in the ring with that guy again. I'm angry at Trish. How could she space out on me? I had to find the title by myself." Mickie's confessional ended.
"I'm sick of this. The mole keeps taking our money away. That means there will be less money for me when I win this. Lita really ticked me off today wasting the money. I have good eyes and could have found the real one." Edge's confessional ended.
"I don't blame Shawn for going down easily. Rhyno and Christian are quite the force. I blame Trish and Cena for not being able to give good directions." Triple H's confessional ended.
"I'm glad I didn't pick to be a follower. There would be no way I'd survive that one. However, I was stuck with Edge and Lita. I think one of them could be the mole. Just which one could it be?" Ashley's confessional ended.
"Both teams could not fully complete their tasks. I got to sabotage one team. So far I have been very successful in costing the team money. There must be a few people who thinks the mole is me so I will have to be more careful in the future. Let the next person go home empty handed."
Jericho led them into the test taking room and had each person sat in one of the chairs. There had been no exemptions today so any one of these players could be sent home tonight. Now for the questions.
'Which group was the mole in?'
'Did the mole cost their group a penalty?'
'Did the mole run into either Christian or Rhyno?'
'Did the mole find a title?'
'What did the mole eat for breakfast?'
'Did the mole go into the labyrinth?'
'Did the mole go into the museum?'
'Did the mole feel pain in any way?'
'What is the mole's gender?'
'Who is the mole?'
After the answers were turned in they turned to the result screen. As each named passed and turned green, Ashley's name turned red.
"Ashley, you are the mole's third victim. You must immediately leave the premises." Jericho led Ashley back into her hotel room and watched her pack her belongings.
"I played a good game, I'm a little bit disappointed but I just hope Lita doesn't win it. I'll see everyone back on WWE TV." Ashley got into a limo and was driven off.
"Now there are eight players left. Seven of them are in for the money and one is in for the sabotaging. Tomorrow starts another day."