Chapter 2! I'm so excited for this story. I have such wonderful things planned for this. Maybe I should stop with this A/N and get to the story... I appreciate all of my readers... If I have any. Oh and BOLD PRINT will represent a use of the confessionals.
"ATTENTION CAMPERS!" Zekrom blared loudly through the megaphone he was holding "Come to the center of the camp for your team names and your first challenge!"
All of the campers walked out of their rooms clearly irritated with the way Zekrom got their attention.
"Really, Douchebag!?" Skarmory angirly yelled. "Was coming to get us too much for your little brain?"
"I'm really glad we upped our rating to PG-13," Zekrom began "Now I can do this." Zekrom flicked Skarmory off.
Skarmory was clearly extremely angry, but she chose to bite her tongue. Only so Zekrom could spit out what he had to say.
"Now that that's taken care of. We can disperse you all into teams." Zekrom said whilst clapping his hands in a hasty manner.
Reshiram walked over wearing a coach's hat with a whistle around his neck. He blew with all his might into the whistle. The campers all knowingly lined up in front of him waiting to be split up into teams.
"Okay there will be two teams, as you all know. The teams will be called the Powerful Palkias and the Dangerous Dialgas." Reshiram explained. "Axew, Persian, Jellicent, Ducklett, Sableye, Jigglypuff, Jynx, Ponyta, Cubone, Teddiursa, Poochyena, Beautifly, Lampent, Hippowdon, Lotad, Tyranitar, Machoke, and Nosepass. Stand to my left." Reshiram asked harshly. They did as they were told.
"And Masquerain, Xatu, Gallade, Makuhita, Cubchoo, Roggenrola, Kingdra, Arbok, Flaafy, Squirtle, Heracross, Pachirisu, Skarmory, Lucario, Sawsbuck, Togekiss, Glaceon, and Roserade. Stand to my right" Zekrom said politely.
The contestants walked over to stand where they were asked to stand.
"Before I forget... over here is the room we will be using the confessionals. Feel free to dish out every secret or feeling you may have here"
"I hate Zekrom with a passion." Skarmory started. "But I guess I have to listen to him. He is the host..."
"Somehow I have a feeling anything any of us says here won't be so secret" Xatu said thoughtfully.
"Okay, now that the teams are set up. The first team called will be the Powerful Palkias and the second team will be the Dangerous Dialgas. Now it is time for the first challenge. Follow me to the large cliff over there." Zekrom pointed over to a mountain with a large flat top.
The contestants looked over, well except for Cubchoo, who for some reason chose to look in the other direction. Roggenrola sighed and turned him around. Teddiursa trembled with fear, Tyranitar looked at it with a smirk, this was nothing to him. Cubone laughed at it. He was used to doing things like this back at home.
"What do you think we're going to have to do?" Ducklett asked
"Oh, it shouldn't be to hard" Sableye responded
"I wouldn't be so sure" Glaceon added noticing the checkpoints going up the mountain.
"How very right you are Glaceon" Zekrom said. "For your first challenge you must race to the top of this floating or flying. You must climb up the mountain. As you all can see there are checkpoints spread along the moantain. The first 16 of you that reach the first checkpoint will be allowed to continue. The first eight to reach the second checkpoint will continue to move towards the top of the mountain." Zekrom continued "Only four of you will be allowed to reach the third checkpoint. After that two of you will advance to the final checkpoint. At that point the first pokemon to reach the top of the mountain will win this challenge for their team and be awarded with immunity"
Everyone smiled upon hearing this. EVERYONE wanted to be immune from elimination. Noone wants to be the first one to go home. All the campers lined up at the bottom of the mountain. Except for Nosepass.. The other pokemon took off towards the top of the mountain.
"You gave up already?" Zekrom asked staring at Nosepass
"I don't have limbs" Nosepass said staring back at Zekrom.
"That's just too bad, you're pretty unlucky in this moment" Zekrom replied while looking back up at the mountain. He noticed that Tyranitar, Machoke and Sableye were leading the pack. That wasn't much of a surprise seeing as they were the most physically strong. Lucario was using the spikes on the back of hand to scale the mountain. Axew and Pachirisu were right behind him. Flaafy and Persian were neck and neck, staring at each other. Roggenrola, Kingdra, and Jynx were behind them going strong.
"Hey Roggenrola, you are sooo strong. I wish I was as strong as you are" Jynx said with a flirtatous smile.
Roggenrola looked over at her and gave her a huge smile. "Oh, you mean these guns?":he said while flexing. He clearly didn't think of the consequences as he began sliding down the cliff. Jynx gave a mean laugh. Maybe her feminine wiles could take out the competition.
"Dude... you don't think much do you?" Zekrom asked. He genuinely admired Jynx's strategy.
"Shut up." Roggenrola said clearly angry.
Everyone continued scurrying up the cliff. Sableye took the lead and Teddiursa and Ponyta were bringing up the rear.
Sableye reached the first checkmark claiming first place. Machoke claimed second. Tyranitar managed to get third.
"Three of the Palkias have reached the first checkmark. Dialgas need to step it up, if you want to win of course." Zekrom said
"Come on team you can do it!" Roggenrola exclaimed showing his team support.
Gallade put on a last burst of speed claiming fourth while Lucario claimed fifth. Pachirisu claimed sixth. Persian and Flaafy made it up the checkmark at the same time claiming seventh and eight respectively.
"Only eight more spots remain at the first checkmark." Zekrom commented.
Xatu made it to the checkmark, getting ninth place. Jynx claimed tenth. Axew managed eleventh while Kingdra claimed twelfth. Squirtle pulled himself up to take thirteenth place. Only three spots remained and there were still eighteen competitors trying to get those spots. Cubone managed to get up to and nab fourteenth. Lotad got fifteenth and Skarmory grabbed the final spot.
"All of the spots have been claimed. will the rest of you please slide down the cliff and support your teams!" Zekrom yelled.
"I'm surprised, but there is an even number of competitors from both teams remaining." Reshiram pointed out.
"I don't believe you." Zekrom started "Palkias can you raise your hand really quickly"
Persian, Sableye, Cubone, Tyranitar, Machoke, Axew, Jynx. and Lotad raised their hands.
"1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8" Wow. There is no advantage for either side, the playing fields are even. "Good luck contestants, start climbing!" Zekrom shouted.
They took off. Persian immediately went out ahead of the pack with Sableye following closely. Jynx was climbing up next to Squirtle.
"Squirt-" Jynx started.
"Nope, stop talking to me, I saw how you got Roggenrola out, I'm not falling for it!" Squirtle said as he got ahead of Jynx.
Jynx let out a scream and Xatu let go attempting to cover his ears.
"I HATE, HATE, HATE being denied!" Jynx exclaimed.
"I seriously regret letting go of the cliff. I wanted to win this challenge." Xatu explained
Tyranitar was getting tired but he was keeping close behind Jynx. Skarmory kept climbing. Machoke was on her tail. Gallade and Lucario were rushing to stay in the top 8. Lotad was trying her hardest to climb. Axew was behind her. Cubone was pushing his hardest. Pachirisu was still going. Kingdra went ahead and slid down realizing she had no chance of winning anymore.
"Awww, that's no fair you jerk." Zekrom said disappointed that someone gave up.
Flaafy kept trying even though she was pulling up the rear.
"I knew I had absolutely nooo chance of winning, but what fun is that." Flaafy said "My parents always told me to like never, ever, ever give up. Like ever."
Jynx somehow managed to get first place. Squirtle claimed second. Sableye nabbed third and Tyranitar claimed fourth. Persian got fifth. Skarmory and Gallade climbed up at the same time to catch sixth and seventh respectively. Machoke took the final spot in the top eight.
"Lucario, Lotad, Axew, Cubone, Pachirsu, and Flaafy" Zekrom began, "You all had a great showing but alas, it wasn't good enough."
"You're kind of a jerk." Flaafy said.
"Oh well, that's what I get paid for." Zekrom said in a snippy way.
"Can we get along with this challenge?" Axew said trying to get this over with. He was excited to see one of his teammates pull this off. They had an advantage. The Palkias had five members and the Dialgas only had three.
"Okay Mr. Impatient. I guess we can get this show on the road." Zekrom said with a bit of anger in his voice.
The remaining eight contestants took their marks at the beggining of the next leg. Reshiram blew his whistle and they started. Gallade took a quick lead with Persian following closely.
"I needed to find a way to take him out of the competition." Persian started. "He was a huge threat and I knew it."
Persian managed to get ahead of Gallade and stepped on his hand.
"OUCH! Galade exclaimed. "Watch where you're going!" He said as he pulled his hand back. "Oh crap!" He tried to grab the cliff but failed and fell down the mountain hitting Jynx on his way. They both fell.
"That she devil purposely cost me the challenge." Gallade said "I'm going to destroy her. If it's the last thing I do."
Persian remained at the top of the pack with Squirtle and Machoke coming directly behind her. Skarmory was behind them. Sableye was behind her, with Tyranitar pulling in the rear.
"You all are close to the end, there are only four spots. Two of you will be disappointed." Zekrom stated.
Persian claimed first place with Squirtle taking second. Machoke came in third. Sableye managed to pull ahead of Skarmory at the last minute to claim the final spot.
"Skarmory and Tyranitar. Come on down. You lost." Zekrom said relieved Skarmory couldn't win.
"Whatever. Squirtle you got this!" Skarmory yelled. "Don't let me down."
"We'll see, he's the only one left on your team." Persian said with an evil smile.
"Because you cheated!" Gallade said angrily
"There were no rules against it, sorry." Persian said clearly faking empathy.
"She's right dude, sorry" Zekrom said sheepishly. "Anyways let's continue with this challenge there are only four of you left."
The remaining four campers lined up and prepared to start.
"Psst" Persian was trying to get Machoke's attention. Machoke looked over at her. "Let me win this one" she whispered..
"Why should I?" Machoke asked.
"It will take less energy from you. And I won't vote you off, IF we don't manage to win" Persian explained.
"Okay. I think I'll take that risk" Machoke said as Reshiram blew the whistle.
Persian took an early lead. Squirtle followed her, with Sableye behind him. He noticed Machoke moving rather slowly, but decided not to say anything about it. Machoke was slowly making his way up the mountain he thought if he let Persian take the victory there would be no problem. However he noticed that Squirlte was beginning to pull ahead. He had to figure out a way to stop him from getting there. However he moved so slow to begin that he couldn't stop him. As the race continued. Squirtle grabbed first place and Persian grabbed second. Sableye and Machoke slid down as they lost the race.
"The final two contestants are Persian and Squirtle?" Zekrom asked. "Persian I understand, but Squirtle. Dude,I didn't expect you."
"It's fine dude, don't sweat it" Squirtle said in his mellow voice. "I like surprising people"
"You're going DOWN, turtle boy." Persian said passionately.
"Squirtle you better win this!" Skarmory shouted
"I believe in you" Roserade yelled
"Come on, Squirtle!" Togekiss exclaimed.
"Persian, you can do it" Machoke said
"Yeah, you're a strong girl, he's only a first evolution, you got this in the bag!" Tyranitar yelled.
"Win it for the team" Beautifly said.
The final two lined up at the final checkmark.
"You're going down" Persian said
"I guess we'll see dudette!" Squirtle exclaimed. "Good luck!"
Reshiram blew his whistle. The two pokemon took off. They were almost neck and neck. No one had a clear advantage. The two kept going.
"Watch Out, Squirtle!" Gallade shouted "Don't let her cheat you."
Persian silently cursed. Squirtle moved over when Gallade said something. He had ruined her plan now she just had to win fair and square.
"I HATE Gallade." Persian scoffed "He completely ruined my strategy."
"I had to look out for my teammate," Gallade said "After all, I didn't want to lose" He said with a smirk.
Squirtle and Persian were switching between being in first place. Squirtle would be in first place, then Persian would be in first place. There was only a few more feet to go. Persian was currently in the lead but Squirtle was quickly catching up to her. Persian believed she had the victory in the bag until Squirtle took a quick leap up and reached the top first.
"NOOOO!" Persain screamed, "I thought I had this one!"
"That's what you get for being so overconfident, dudette" Squirtle said mellowly before sliding down the cliff.
"Well Squirtle, you managed to surprise me by winning. Powerful Palkias you have to meet me at the center of camp. You all have to chose one contestant to send home." Zekrom explained.
"Machoke" Persian said.
"Yeah?" he responded.
"Who are you voting for tonight?" Persian asked.
"Me, Tyranitar, and Cubone already decided we're voting for Nosepass" Machoke began "He didn't even try to compete today."
"I'm voting with you all" Persian said. "I completely agree, he could've tried to do the challenge." Persian said.
"Exactly" Machoke said
"Palkias, please come to the center of camp." Zekrom said through his megaphone.
As all of the Palkias filed to the center of camp, Zekrom began to speak.
"Palkias, you lost today's challenge and now you have to choose one contestant to vote off of the island. These are poffins" he lifted a plate filled with colorful food blocks. "If you recieve one of these, you are safe, if you do not recieve a poffin tonight, you must walk down the dock and board your boat. You must leave the island, for good." he finished
"I'm voting for Nosepass" Cubone said "He didn't do anything today"
"Nosepass" Machoke said
"Persian" Sableye stated "She is the reason we lost the challenge today"
"Definitely have to go with Persian!" Makuhita yelled
"If I call your name please come grab your poffin" Zekrom said
"Sableye!" he said
"Clearly" Sableye commented.
"Machoke, Jynx, Tyranitar" Zekrom called out.
"Cubone, Axew, Ponyta, Lotad"
"Of course I was going to get my poffin." Cubone said with his smirk.
"O-oh gee th-thanks" Ponyta said coming up to get her poffin.
"Teddiursa, Axew, and Hippowdon" Zekrom called out giving them their poffins.
"Lampent, Ducklett, Beautifly" Zekrom stated.
"Of course" Beautifly said
"Oh thanks for not voting for me guys." Ducklett said sweetly.
"I only have three poffins left and there are four of you left."
Persian was upset, Jigglypuff who was usually positive looked pretty scared. Jellicent was trembling with fear. Nosepass just shrugged.
"Jigglypuff and Jellicent" Zekrom said "Come get your poffins."
Jigglypuff and Jellicent walked up to get their poffins.
"I only have one more poffin" Zekrom said solemnly "Will it go to Nosepass, or to Persian?" "Persian, you lost your team the challnege. To SQUIRTLE!" Zekrom continued "But Nosepass, you didn't even try to compete today."
"I literally don't have arms or legs.." Nosepass said
"Oh well." Zekrom began, "The final poffin goes to..."
Persian looked angry, Nosepass looked like he honestly didn't care.
"Persian!" Persian's face light up. She went to grab her poffin.
"Oh, you all voted for me?" Nosepass said nonchalantly "Whatever."
"Well I guess I got voted off tonight, but oh well. I didn't really care enough to be here. Who do I want to win? Do I have to say someone? I guess Axew because I don't feel like thinking of anyone... Uh bye I guess."
As Nosepass was heading towards the dock. Persian called Machoke, Tyranitar, and Cubone over.
"What's Up?" Tyranitar asked
"Did you notice that we got out who we wanted to?" Persian asked
"Yeah...?" Cubone asked curiously.
"I think we should create an alliance, I know I can carry us to the top 4." Persian said
"I'm definitely down." Machoke said "I know we can make our way to the top"
"Sure, why not?" Cubone said with a shrug.
"Tyranitar? Are you joining us?" Persian asked.
"Yes, I think we can wipe the competition away." Tyranitar said.
First Elimionation is done! I didn't really care much for Nosepass... he was kind of funny with he snide comments but I digress. The next chapter will up in a few days. Leave me a review.