A\N I don't know about you, but I'm ecstatic about the next six chapters! Each one a different regions choice of activity. They will go in generation order. This is one of my favorite parts of the whole story that I'v been thinking about. There is a reason for everything in my story and no matter how stupid it seems ex. They all get kidnapped. Seems a bit extreme right? It will all make sense, so don't worry. Anyway, I thought I should let the dex holders have fun before I turn them against each other and everything goes down. Enjoy! Oh and sorry for the 5 month wait.
2 hours after the tournament.
Blue's POV
"Come on guys! We need to think of something!" Red said to the whole assembly of Kanto natives. We were holding a secret meeting in the park. Red was able to smoothe talk the Biology teacher, Erika who was in charge of both the park and the curfew coincidentally. To be honest, I thought the people from the Sevii Isles should get their own day, but at least I get to work with Green, Yellow, and Red.
"We could have a spa day because of Mt. Ember." Topaz suggested.
Red frowned. "What would all the guys do?"
"They could be the people that wait on the girls!" A member of the DRG spoke up.
"How about no." Green shot down the idea before it could take root. There were a couple of mumbles, but no one wanted to argue with Green.
"What is unique to Kanto that we could use as an idea?" I thought out loud.
"Mt. Silver?" Someone said.
"No Sinnoh has Mt. Cornett. And Joto has a claim on it, too."
"I got it!" Red exclaimed, "Greem, remember the race that I won when I got that Snorelax?"
"Yeah, what about it"
"We could do something similar." Red finished somewhat lamely.
Then an idea struck me.
"We could make it a scavenger hunt with groups of 3-4! The groups have to be from the same region though."
"That's kinda racist." Somebody said.
He got a few chuckels, but almost everyone liked my idea.
"Who's gunna make the clues?" Green inquired.
"We'll have the teachers make riddles. The clue will tell where there next teacher will be!" I said thinking fast.
Everyone seemed delighted with this idea. That is besides Topaz, but I don't really count her as a person. She's more of a dog. The female kind. We spent the next couple of hours hammering out the rough edges of my idea.
"That's still too many people running around."
"We need some elimination!"
"How about if they get the clue wrong?"
"But then not enough people will be left."
"The first person to get that question wrong will be eliminated. That way the person in the lead is always one step from losing as well!"
"But what if they want to walk away instead of answering?" That question was asked by Yellow.
"How about it being the same as getting it wrong but not being the first one?"
Ideas and problems and solutions came in at astounding speed. Green was the designated scribe because if his impeccable handwriting.
"Alright! This is what I have so far!" Green called. He put his notes on the Smart Board.
-Scavenger hunt race
-clue tells the location
-each location has a teacher
-each teacher has their own riddle
-First person to get the riddle wrong is eliminated
-2nd+ person not to get it wrong isn't eliminated but they can't guess again and they don't have the next clue.
-Clues can be shared amung different groups.
-the only way for a group who got the question wrong/walked away but wasn't eliminated is to get a different clue from someone ahead of them.
"Any questions?" Green asked.
"What the Hell does that last one mean?" Someone asked.
"So say you are in first place and you don't know the answer to a question so you walk away. You are not eleminated, just stuck. You are not allowed to guess that riddle anymore because you walked away. However, you know the question, and you have time to figure out the answer. If you help someone else along the way in exchange for them to give you the next clue it helps both of you." Green said. "Any other questions?"
Everyone was silent.
"Good!" Red cheered. We have a lot to do.
To be honest, I don't remember a lot of that night. We visited a lot of teacher, wrote/practiced speeches, and worked until I was exhausted.
- Wait, how did I end up in my bed that night? Oh well. Not that important.
The Kanto people were scrambling around putting last minut touches on certain things and everything was chaotic. Even though we organized everything all we knew is which teachers had clues. We had no idea what the questions or answer's were. Finally at 10 it was time to start. Red was the designated leader with Green as co and they were doing a pretty good job explaining the rules and how it worked. Group sign ups were due by 11. Alll the Kanto groups were already signed up so I wasn't doing a whole lot.
Suddenly Green came up and said, "I just got the directions to our first clue. I texted Yellow and Red to meet us there. We officially begin at 11 but the rules don't state where you have to be when it begins."
"What did you make that loop-hole just for us? That's so sweet." I said in a mocking tone.
"Tch pesky women."
"Just lead the way!"
Green led us to the little greenhouse Erica insisted the school build. We reached it just in time. The bell on the watch tower clacked 11 times signaling the race to start.
Red and Yellow were waiting for us with Red's Talonflame out of his pokeball.
-poke transportation. Good idea.
I released myBraviery and Green followed suit with his Charziard. We walked in to find Erica watering some plants. Green cleared his throat and she turned around.
"Wow ya'll got here fast. Well here' the clue:
My flowers look so beautiful and flat,
they could be part of a wallpaper.
My flowers come in all colors and
my tall, sturdy greenery are part
of many perennial gardens.
Take as much time as you need."
Red and Green exchanged utterly confused looks and even I had to agree. I knew nothing about botany. We all looked at Yellow.
"Well there are more plant species than any other living thing, but I think I got this. Obviously it's a flower that has green leaves. The interesting word in there is wallpaper and use of tall and sturdy. Flowered aren't known for being any of those thing unless it's meaning something else."
I was completely confused and I could tell Red was, too. Green, however, seemed to be following her train of thought well enough.
Yellow continued, "also I don't know of many flowers that come in EVERY color."
"Well it's alluding to wallpaper. That's the key. Wallpaper comes in every color and the tall and sturdy means the wall behind it. Is there any flower that has something to do with walls or wallpaper."
Yellow thought for a moment then finally said, "there's a flower called a Wallflower but that's all I can think of."
"Well that's better than any of my guesses. Any objections?" Red asked. "Good. Yellow do the honors."
"Miss Erika. It's a wall flower."
"Indeed it is Yellow. Very good. There are only a handful of students who could have gotten that correct. The next riddle belongs to Blain who is in the staff lounge. Good luck."
We ran to our arial transports and Yellow got on Red's Talonflame. We flew to the staff house and went in to find Blaine.
He was on the first floor watching a TV show about the process of Celebii's time travel abilities.
"Hi !," I Greeted him, "Ms. Erika gave us this paper to show you that we earned the next riddle."
"Well then I hope you are ready. Here it is: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an inmovable object.
"I got this! I know the answer!" I practically scremed.
"Before we decide the answer we need to discuss it first," Green said calmly. "So Blue what do you think it is?"
I made my best scowl and in my best batman expression I said "I'm Batman." The others just looked at me like I was stupid.
"Really?" asked Green "that was your brilliant answer?"
"Yep" I said confidently.
"Well lucky for this team I actually have a real answer for this. If the force is in fact unstopable and the object inmovable then there would be an unlimited transfer of energy so the force doesn't stop and the object doesn't move. The force would hit off the object and loop back around like wind hitting a brick wall."
Given everyone else's expressions I could see they were just as lost as I was.
"Well if it makes sense to you Green, I'm on bored." Red said, finally breaking the silence.
"Me, too." Yellow chimed in.
"I still think, I'm Batman is correct." I mumbled, but no one was paying attention
Green told our answer to Mr. Blaine and for some reason he accpted it.
We went on all day like that figuring out riddles. Some were easy like "what's black,white, and read all over" others were jokes like "what did one lion say to the other? Simba you must Mufasa!" Othere were really freaking hard like "Who lives in a Pineapple under the sea?" It wasn't til later that everything changed.
It was almost evening and we only had a couple more riddles left to go when Whitney hit us with a question harder than her Miltanks Rollout.
"ALBERT EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE
There are no tricks, just pure logic
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
We all just kinda stood there for awhile before we started discussing
"Anyone have a clue what it means?" I asked. I was hoping for Green to give another long sciencey lecture and answer it but to no avail. We were force to walk out of there without the slip of paper. Luckily we weren't disqualified just stuck.
"Well know what?" I asked.
"Hmmmm I guess we have to find a group that is also stuck and help them out." Green said thoughtfully.
"GGGGOOOOOOOLLLLLLLDDDDDD WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ABOUT!" Crys' voice could be heard clear across the school.
"We better check it out for Gold's sake." Red said.
"Don't forget Crys' we don't want her charged with murder." I countered.
We ran to where Gold and Crys were. Gold was being repeatedly kicked in the face by the blue haired girl.
"YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL IDIOT." she was about to hit him in the throat when Green and Red were able to grab her just in time. Gold was still on the ground more than a little bloodied up. There was a guy with silver eyes and red hair with them as well. He seemed pretty pissed at gold as well.
"Calm down Crys just talk it out. What happened?" A certain calm blond girl said in a reassuring tone.
"Well I was about to answer the last question to the whole damn hunt when this MORON yells out 'I'm Batman!' Which is not Victoria's Secret. Seriously what kinda question is that! Morty is such a pervert."
"Wait you almost won?" I asked, stunned.
"Of course, I have a 210 IQ." She asked a little confused by our impressed looks.
"Well we are stuck. Care to help. We can help you out, too."
"I'll help you but we are out. Remember we were in first place. What's the riddle?" I handed her the pice of paper Green took notes on. "Ok. Give me 5 minutes."
-5 minutes later-
"Ok the answer is...
A/N Do you really think I'd just give out the answer? That really is a riddle Einstein made in the 19th century. It took me 1 hour to work it without paper from midnight-1. I did however use my iPad notepad. Well comment what you think it is. Also sorry for the batman reference that kept popping up. I watched batman begins right before I finished up the chapter.
zBomb signing out!
Peace!
