Previously on Nintendo Survivor,
The contestants arrived on the island coming from their respective video game series: the Mario saga, the Legend of Zelda, and the StarFox games. But, there was another surprise as they arrived on the beach, as the characters from a popular third-party game series and anime arrived. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata joined the contestants. After the tribes divided to form Energia Roja and Velocidad Azul, it was time to get down to business. The first immunity challenge commenced immediately, and it almost looked like Energia Roja was beating Velocidad Azul. However, things turned ugly for Energia Roja when they realized that Fox's map skills lacked. Ultimately, Velocidad Azul won, and Energia Roja was sent to tribal council. At Energia Roja, alliances quickly began to form, with Fox attempting to get Naruto's and Sakura's votes. He also needed Zelda's vote, but when she turned away, Fox did all that he could to get Zelda's vote, sacrificing Naruto's and Sakura's votes to the Mario alliance. Fox McCloud was voted out in a 5-3 vote. Fifteen are left, who will become the Sole Survivor?
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ENERGIA ROJA'S RETURN
As Energia Roja returned to their camp, five people returned happy to know that they were in control of the game. The other two returned knowing that their hopes of remaining in this game just withered, died, and were buried in a black coffin. Zelda and Slippy looked at each other. They smiled an utterly sad smile, looked away, and followed their future tormentors back into their camp.
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DAY 4: Mud for Chocolate? You Decide.
Velocidad Azul lined up their tribe members on their mats for the reward challenge. In front of them was a giant, slimy, and very brown mud puddle.
"Hi, guys." greeted Ray.
Most of the tribe members said hello back.
"We will now bring in the new Energia Roja." As if on cue, Energia Roja began to walk in and take their place on their mat. "Fox McCloud: voted out at the last tribal Council."
Krystal and Falco gaped and stared. Without knowing what just happened, Ray began to explain the rules.
"On my go, four of you will run to roll giant balls into your tribe's basket. There are four for each tribe, and each have nine symbols on them. Once all of the balls are up there, three of you will have to roll them around to create a word. Once that word is created and I check it, two of you will attach the five ropes that appear on the wood to the balls, while one climbs down the ladder and releases the wood
from under the balls. The balls will splash to the ground, which will release a giant flame thrower. Once that flame appears, you win the reward challenge. Want to know what you are playing for?"
At that point, everyone said yes. Ray walked over to a table covered with a blanket. He unraveled it to reveal a basket filled to the brim with Dove, Lindt, Hershey's, and every brand of chocolate treat you could imagine. The tribes drooled and ogled at the sight.
In a confessional, Peach said what she thought of the reward. "It all looked so sweet and just waiting to be eaten."
Finally, the challenge was ready to begin. But Ray had another move he had to make before it began, "Velocidad Azul, you have one extra member. Who is sitting out?"
Navi piped up. "I will."
For Energia Roja, the rollers were Mario, Naruto, Daisy, and Slippy, while the assemblers were Sakura, Zelda, and Peach. For Velocidad Azul, the rollers were Link, Falco, Krystal, and Sasuke. The assemblers were Midna, Luigi, and Hinata.
Without any hesitation, Ray began. "GO!"
Mario and Naruto began to roll separate balls into their tribe's giant basket. Daisy and Slippy helped until they realized that Velocidad Azul was seriously in the lead. Quickly, Mario told them to stall their balls from getting in the basket. Daisy ran over to Sasuke and grabbed him by the neck. Amazingly, she slammed him into the mud, stalling Velocidad Azul as Krystal struggled with her ball without Sasuke's help. Slippy was faring less well, in an attempt to push on Link and Falco's ball in the opposite direction. At that point, Mario, Naruto, and Link and Falco got a ball in, making the score 2-1 in Energia Roja's favor. Quickly, the tables turned, as Sasuke threw Daisy over, shoving her into the mud. He got up, and quickly made his way over to the final ball, as Krystal got hers in. The score was 2-2. Daisy ran off, and pursued the final ball for Energia Roja. Slippy gave up too, and headed over to help Daisy. Link and Falco got their second ball in. 2-3, Velocidad Azul. Link, Falco, and Krystal headed to help Sasuke, but instead he shoved them off, telling them all to get Slippy, as he knew Daisy would struggle under the weight of the ball. All three of them gave Slippy a heck of a beating, and Daisy struggled. But, Mario and Link got a ball in, 3-3, and went to help Daisy. It was a new race, who could get the ball in first? And it was…
Energia Roja.
But, to compensate, Sasuke wasn't too far behind. Just a couple of inches.
Sakura, Zelda, and Peach quickly began to pull up the basket. But a new frenzy began below, as the three Velocidad Azul members went to help Sasuke, the four Energia Roja members went to hinder him. A brawl ensued, and Sasuke finally got it in. But by then it was too late.
Peach had figured it out.
"FOOD! THE WORD IS FOOD!" She cried. The girls frantically switched things around revealing the word. They attached the words, Sakura climbed down the ladder to release the door under the balls, and finally…
A flame appeared. It shot upwards to celebrate their victory.
"ENERGIA ROJA WINS REWARD!"
The tribe cheered as their efforts were rewarded. Although plenty were covered in mud, they all knew that mud was going to be replaced with sweet chocolate.
"Congratulations, guys. Nice job. As for Velocidad Azul, I have nothing for you."
As Energia Roja began their march of victory back to camp, Velocidad Azul sauntered away.
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DAY 5: Sweet Treats and Immunity Dreams
Energia Roja quickly took advantage of the new reward that they had received.
"When we got those chocolates, I felt as if the atmosphere sort of changed around camp. Many people started to get a little hyper, but I felt as if we needed a mood change after that tribal council." recalled Zelda.
Indeed, what she told was true. For once, alliances began to get along as Slippy enjoyed a game of catch with a coconut with the members of the Mario alliance.
"We all had just a little more energy after the reward challenge. Just a little, of course." reminded Naruto. Yeah, Naruto, tell that to the guy who fell on his butt trying to climb the highest tree in camp.
Still, there was a little tension in camp as Zelda and Slippy remembered their fallen comrade, Fox.
"It is absolutely important that we win this next immunity challenge." told Slippy. "Otherwise, I'm on the chopping block."
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DAY 6: Damsels in Distress
Energia Roja and Velocidad Azul lined up on their mats at the immunity challenge.
"All-right, Midna. Hand it over." Ray commanded, signaling for her to give up the immunity idol from the first immunity challenge."
"Do I have to?" Despite her innocence, Ray nodded his head, and she sadly gave it to him.
"Immunity is back up for grabs. With that being said, let's get to today's immunity challenge. Three of you will be encased inside a glass box and placed underwater with puzzle pieces. One at a time, the other four will swim out to a very large board with two large holes in it, one for each tribe. Underneath the board are colored keys. Grab a key; unlock one of the locks placed on the box, and swim back to shore. The next person will then go out. Once all four locks have been unlocked, nobody can be on the board anymore and the glass box will shoot out from the water through the hole. The three remaining in the box will open the latch, and go to a table placed on the board where they will complete their puzzle. Once the puzzle has been completed, place a flag found underneath the table in a holster. This will signal the others to swim out to the board. The first team to have solved the puzzle and have all seven members standing on the board wins immunity."
The tribe members nodded in agreement.
"One more thing. Velocidad Azul, you have one extra member, you cannot sit out the same member in back to back challenges, and so Navi has to participate. Who is sitting out?"
"I will, Ray." Hinata raised her hand.
"Okay, Hinata is sitting out. I'll give you a minute to designate who is doing what."
The challenge began in five minutes, after the glass boxes had been placed under the water. Inside the glass box for Velocidad Azul was Navi, Midna, and Krystal. Inside the glass box for Energia Roja was Peach, Daisy, and Zelda.
Ray didn't even hesitate. "GO!"
Mario and Link, being the role models for their tribe, went out first. Link swam out with amazing speed, but Mario wasn't too far behind. After all, both had spent time swimming in their games. Link made it to the board first. Getting out of the water, he ran to a hole and dived. Mario, also getting up on the board, dived after him. They were looking for keys, but Link hadn't stopped to catch his breath, so he needed to get up several times. Meanwhile, Mario calmly searched. Finally, he found one. He grabbed it, and made his way over to the glass box. Link, finally under the water, had also found a key. Unfortunately, Mario was in need of air, and needed to get to the hole. Meanwhile, Link was conserving his energy by not panicking, and trying to find the right lock. While he did this, he looked at Zelda from the other box.
"Zelda…" He didn't realize it, but he had fumbled with the right lock. It clicked, and one lock was released. But he didn't care. "Zelda…"
"LINK!" Link was jarred back into reality when Midna's and Navi's voice rose in unison from inside the box. Mario was already working on his lock, and Link swam to the hole.
"Link is the first one out!" Ray observed, as Link got out of the water and swam back to shore. Sasuke prepared for his turn as Mario got out of his hole and was swimming back to shore.
Link got on the beach. Sasuke ran out to shore, and Naruto did too for Energia Roja as Mario got back. Both of them had fought before, but both hadn't raced as far as Ray and the producers were concerned. As they swam, it seemed as if it was becoming an alarming tie, both making their way to the board with alarming precision. But finally and very unexpectedly, Sasuke veered to the left in front of Naruto's course. A kick of water splashed in Naruto's face, and he stopped to cough it up. Quickly, Sasuke took this opportunity to quicken his pace. Naruto noticed this, and stopped coughing to continue. But Sasuke was already on the board and he ran to the hole to find his key. As Sasuke dived in, Naruto got up on the board to dive in the hole. Sasuke, underwater, had found his key, and was playing with the locks. Naruto was still searching. Finally, Naruto also found his. He didn't take much time, and got his lock on the first try. But he was running out of air. A hole was directly above him, but he noticed Sasuke. He was thinking and he was getting it. Naruto didn't waste time. He swam over and pushed him away, and swam up through Velocidad Azul's hole. Sasuke, angered, put his key in the correct lock, clicked it, and swam up. He spotted Naruto, and like a football player, he tackled Naruto to the ground and ran off. Naruto got up and groped for the water. Sasuke made it to shore, picking up a lead as Naruto slowly swam back, recovering from injuries from Sasuke's tackle. Falco was next up for Velocidad Azul.
Naruto made it back. Sakura took the time to look at his injuries, and asked Slippy to take her turn for her.
"You idiot. What did you do to him underwater that made him tackle you?"
"Well… I sort of pushed him away while he was trying to work on his locks."
"What?! We had a substantial lead!"
"I know. I feel like an idiot."
"Whatever. You're safe, anyway. Slippy and Zelda, I can't say the same for."
"So who are we letting go?"
"Slippy."
"And why?"
"He isn't trustworthy. Look at how he was so eager to turn on his alliance with Zelda and play with us yesterday. He may be a good addition to our alliance, but what happens at the merge? Does he turn his back on us and join whatever alliances Velocidad Azul has to offer? He has to go home."
At that moment, Falco returned as Luigi set out. Slippy was still in the ocean.
"Time for you to get ready." noted Naruto, staring at Slippy in the ocean.
"Time for me to make up your mistake."
"You wish. My bet is that we're going to Tribal Council tonight."
"Don't be that hard on yourself. It's only our second challenge. It's when we start losing extremely that we have to worry about eating ourselves."
"Cannibalism?"
"Heh. You're so stupid, it's cute."
With that, Sakura left to chase after Luigi for that fourth and final key.
"Did I do well?" asked Slippy.
"Yeah… I guess…" but Naruto was at a loss for words, thinking about a lot of things. Sakura, Velocidad Azul, his fatal mistake, his mind was a blur.
Meanwhile, back in the ocean, both Sakura and Luigi were searching. True, Luigi had made it there first, but his skinny body couldn't hold much air, and he was constantly coming up, giving Sakura time to search. Finally, Luigi found it.
Sakura found it too, only she didn't find the key. She found Luigi discovering his. Quickly forgetting, she swam over and kicked him in the back. She then resumed her search as Luigi made another desperate climb to the surface for air. Luigi then came back down and grabbed his key as Sakura continued her frenzied search. She finally found hers about ten seconds after Luigi found his. As they put key in lock, the boxes shot up, blocking the holes. Luigi looked up, and proceeded to panic. Sakura also was finding it harder to breathe. Finally, Luigi seemed to lose all consciousness. Quickly, Sakura grabbed him and made her way to waters where the board wasn't blocking the surface.
"Almost… there…" Sakura was losing it… losing consciousness… and finally…
Air.
Luigi began to take deep gulps of air, as Sakura abandoned him for shore. Luigi continued to breathe, then reminding himself that this was a challenge, made his way to shore also.
Meanwhile, up on the board, the non-speedy ladies of the two tribes were finding their puzzles difficult. While Navi, Midna and Krystal could decipher languages, their puzzle was a mysterious picture. Also, Peach, Daisy and Zelda were just finding the pieces uncooperative. Zelda looked back to the beach, where her lover and enemy stood.
"Link…" Her lover stared back. It was as if the two people knew…
"ZELDA!" Like Link, she was jarred back into reality, this time, by Daisy's voice. They continued to work on the puzzle, checking constantly to make sure the others were in an equal or less than equal predicament as them.
Unfortunately, it came time where Navi had finally found the answer. Telling Midna and Krystal the placement of the puzzle pieces, they finally had solved it. Krystal grabbed the flag and excitedly placed it on the tribe's flag holster. The tribe had gotten the signal, now they made their way. Peach, Daisy and Zelda only panicked and quickened their paces in futility, as the tribe was beginning to seep up onto the boards.
They tried, they frantically tried, but it was too late.
All four other members of Velocidad Azul were on the board.
"VELOCIDAD AZUL WINS!' shouted Ray, as if it wasn't already obvious enough. Hinata jumped for joy at the beach, while the other members celebrated their victory on the board.
Peach and Daisy made no attempt to hide their disappointment. But Zelda wasn't thinking of the challenge, and somehow, neither was Link.
"Link…"
"Zelda…"
"Velocidad Azul, congratulations, you have won immunity again." He turned to face the beach. "Energia Roja, I will see you at tribal council."
Naruto and Sakura were at the beach with Mario and Slippy. Naruto began to walk towards Sakura.
"Let me guess what you are going to say. 'I told you so?'"
"Hey, I did. Still Slippy?"
"Still Slippy."
Little did they know that Slippy had overheard.
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PREPARATION FOR TRIBAL COUNCIL
At Energia Roja, things were tense. The Mario alliance was having a meeting in the river to decide who was going.
"Naruto and I were thinking Slippy." explained Sakura.
"Why Slippy? He seems like a good addition to our alliance." asked a bewildered Mario. As far as he was concerned, Zelda was going.
"But we ousted his former friend, Fox. If we bring him to the merge, he'll betray us to get our revenge."
"I see." said Mario. "…I guess it makes no difference. Either way, they both are going before the merge if we keep this losing streak up."
"Losing streak? You say that like we've been planning this, Mario." said Peach, examining her future husband like a decision she had to make.
"I'm not. Right now I'm in a negative sort of mood. By the way, Naruto, are you okay? You took quite a beating there."
"Don't worry, that's just Sasuke for you. Besides, Sakura fixed me up good."
"Another couple in the jungle?" said an excited Daisy.
"EW! NO WAY!" The pair had screamed in disgust at each other.
"Well, Slippy's going. But you're certainly not." Peach seduced Mario and the pair did a very unlikely thing to be doing in negative times such as this.
They kissed. And it lasted a while… a long while… a really long while…
Naruto and Sakura looked horrified. Daisy smiled.
"Well, I'll just leave you two lovebirds alone." said a happy Daisy as she trotted out of the waters. Naruto and Sakura followed behind.
As they were kissing, someone approached.
"Can I talk to you two for a second?"
Meanwhile, back at camp, the other pair was assembling wood for their shelter. It wasn't per se, sheltering them as adequately as they would have liked. A worried Zelda approached.
"Hi."
Sakura turned around. "Oh hi, Zelda!"
"Hello. I just wanted to know… is it me tonight?"
"No! Listen, we may be in control of this game, and sure, you may have been distracted during the challenge, but you're much more trustworthy than that frog."
Zelda smiled. "Thank you, Sakura."
"Don't mention it! Any time!"
She turned and walked away. But as Sakura bent down, another figure was approaching.
"Sakura, could we talk for a minute?"
The Mario alliance was having yet another meeting. Apparently, there was going to be a change of plans.
"So Slippy isn't going after all?" asked Sakura.
"Sakura, look at Zelda. She is madly in love with Link. She makes it to the merge, and that alliance will be a force to be reckoned with." Mario's and Peach's talk with Slippy had probably changed his mind.
She nodded. "I see you were convinced by his tales of woe and sorrow." She put her hand on her forehead, as if to mock him.
"Very funny, Sakura. I promise you, though, he'll be gone at the next tribal council, okay?"
Sakura stared at him, contemplated the decision, then made it.
"Okay."
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THE SECOND TRIBAL COUNCIL – ENERGIA ROJA
The tribe of Energia Roja, again, took their walk in to tribal council. They sat in the stools.
"So, Energia Roja is at their second tribal council." Ray stared at the contestants. "Peach, I had certainly hoped the chocolate might have at least raised your energy in time for the challenge."
"Well, Ray, you know… carbohydrates?" Peach shrugged. It was no use; they really had no excuse considering their reward.
Ray continued. "Naruto, you took a really hard fall there in the challenge. What happened under there?"
"I took a risky maneuver, and it didn't really pay off. It only resulted in a lot of pain." He laughed. "I wouldn't be surprised if my alliance has just been trying to pull one over on me, and is really voting me out."
At this point, Sakura laughed and put an arm around her ninja classmate. Ray asked why.
"He knows that's not going to happen, Ray."
Ray then pressed Sakura for more information. "So who is going home?"
"I guess we will see."
"I guess we will. Okay, everyone, it's time to vote. Mario, you're up."
Here were some of the votes.
Mario voted for Zelda. "Slippy, you are gone after this. Gone."
Sakura voted for Zelda. "I am so sorry. So very, very sorry."
Zelda voted for Slippy. "I didn't want to. But you know I have no choice."
After Slippy's vote, Ray got up. "I'll go tally the votes."
After some moments, Ray got back with a jar. "Once the votes are read, the decision is final. Person voted out will be asked to leave the Tribal Council area immediately." With that, he took off the lid of the jar and began to read.
"First vote: Slippy."
Slippy nodded at Zelda. Zelda quietly mouthed the word 'sorry' to him.
"Second vote: Zelda." Zelda turned to Slippy, but he shrugged. It wasn't his vote.
It was then that Zelda felt an unsettling feeling in her gut.
"Third vote: Zelda."
"Fourth vote: Zelda."
Zelda turned to the Mario alliance, but they didn't look back. They didn't care.
"The second person voted out of Nintendo Survivor: Mystic Ruins is Zelda. That's four votes, which is enough."
Zelda looked at the Mario alliance. Four of them looked back with no mercy in their glares. Only Sakura looked back with an apologetic look.
Zelda accepted it and grabbed her torch. She brought it to Ray.
"Zelda, the tribe has spoken." Ray, with no hesitation, snuffed her torch. "It's time for you to go."
Zelda turned back. "Bye, guys. Have fun." Not even one wave back as she headed into the unknowns of the forest.
Only one thought ringed in her head as she left.
"Link…"
Zelda's Final Words:
"I learned a very valuable lesson today, and I guess that is that you can't rely on anyone's word. So, I guess this is the end, and I had fun. There's really nothing more to say, but I hope Link wins. Navi, Midna, good luck, and I want to thank everyone for the time I had on this show. Love all of you, bye!
Voting History:
Votes for Zelda: Mario, Peach, Daisy, Slippy, Naruto, Sakura
Votes for Slippy: Zelda