A/N Okay it has been a long time to write this, I have been nursing health issues, broken leg, general business with work and several personal depression issues that do not need to be bothered explaining. Problem with that sorry, but it is not my problem; writing to me is mostly leisure I don't have to write to please people. Any way enjoy or not let's get this show on the road.
Belize gets up from his bed and stretches, he then gets ready to go to the little office room he was setup in the other day, he went in and opened the drawer he was sitting at pulling up a couple of the files of the confirmed competitors he smiled when he saw a couple, he then took a look at a couple more that he set aside to be a co-host.
'Fuck which one should I get as a co-host?' Belize then figured he would play a game of dice to pick between the one that would be the co-host, he grabbed a die and tossed it, the die rolled around a bit bounced four times before finally showing signs of stopping, Belize then said out loud and without looking. "Even I take the one on the left, Odd I take the one on the right." Belize then listened for the die to stop rolling and once the silence came he looked at it and saw it was… Even.
Belize shrugged, "Fuck I knew they had great potential, but I guess luck just wasn't on their side." Belize then sighed, "Whatever I need to get this thing moving, we have a short amount of time until we have to be on air." Belize grabbed the die and the folders and labeled the one that he 'picked' as the co-host and got set to inform them.
Belize smiled as he was getting ready for a small travel time, he hasn't been on a plane in several years and he almost forgot how fun it was taking off and the night lights over some major cities he quickly pulled out his phone and made a call, before they had an electronic ban so the waves wouldn't interfere with the planes machinery.
Once the plane landed in a small airport, Belize was shocked there seemed to be no one around, he turned to look at the place and saw that it was on fire once everyone was off the plane. Belize shrugged and then walked down to luggage pick-up and he grabbed his suitcase and saw a black squirrel with a chauffeur hat on and a sign with his name on it written fancily.
Belize walked over to the squirrel, "Luggage sir?" the squirrel held out his hand for Belize to give him the suitcase, but Belize pulled a set of handcuffs from his tail and hand cuffed the suitcase to his hand. "Only me and the Co-host can handle this, you are not either so you are not getting it." The squirrel nodded and pulled his hand back.
"Very well Sir, come this way, we have the location of the interviews set up and everyone will be there shortly." Belize followed the chauffeur to a limousine sitting outside the airport. Belize looked around and found a mini-fridge was in the middle of the seats he opened it up and saw Blue Barb Splitz, Red Barron Ale, and Seidfil's finest. Belize smiled with delight as he grabbed a bottle of Blue Barb Splitz.
"Well they at least know how to manage a show that's for damn sure." Belize said out loud, the chauffeur opened the black tint window between the driver and passengers of the limousines and said "That sir, is why they have deemed themselves the management… They have asked that you give me anything that have, but the suitcase… so I can ensure that there is no bugs in the uniforms, clothes, or electronic devices you own."
Belize sighed, "Okay I hate clothes, no point in them too much, plus the freedom of feeling the magnificent breeze makes it worthwhile to not have it restricted, so the only thing I have to give you is my planner, but I know for sure it can't be bugged."
The Chauffeur held his hand back somehow still maintaining excellent driving with a single hand on the wheel, Belize sighed, "Fine you want the planner, one minute." Belize then set an encryption file save on the planner and put everything he didn't want The Management to see in. Once he ensured that there was nothing incriminating there he handed the device to the Chauffeur.
"Thank you sir, and don't worry they only want to make sure the device itself is clear, not look at any files or planned things on it." Belize was just sitting starring nearly dumbstruck at to how the Chauffeur knew he encrypted files without ever laying eyes on the device or even on him. The Chauffeur put the planner into a device and let it process it, once it was done, the planner popped out and the Chauffeur handed the device back to Belize.
"All done sir, sorry if it interfered in anything you were in the middle of." the tinted window went back up and Belize was sitting in the backseat in silence trying to comprehend what just happened to him, once he felt the limo stop he re-composed himself and got ready for the next set of out side interviews. Belize steps out of the limo and saw he was standing in front of a quite remarkable hotel for a small outskirt city.
"Are you sure this is the place?" The Chauffeur didn't say anything just walked up to the door and opened it for Belize, Belize sighed and walked in, thinking to himself 'Well these people are pulling all out with what ever they are wanting for this show.' Belize then stopped at the hotel desk. "Ah Mister Belize, quite a pleasure you made it, we been told ahead of time to book your room for the interviews, here's your key card and it is on the sixth floor." A black cat with a yellow mark over his left eye that looked like a lightning bolt said.
Belize was looking at the key card and read the room number on it, he then smiled and waved to the desk operator and then made his way to the elevator a couple hundred feet away. Belize pressed the button the door opened up and there was a purple lemur sitting in a chair next to the elevator buttons. He looked up and saw Belize. "Sorry sir, just been a bit slow lately." He then glared at Belize a little when he saw the suitcase handcuffed to his wrist.
"And I am going to assume that it was your doing." Belize shrugged, "One, if I did this I would have picked a more personal place to do something, Two, outside of what I am doing which is just hosting a show, I am not setting anything up, except some of the competitors for falls once we have it set what fifteen competitors there is." Belize then reached into his tail and pulled out a small box embedded with rubies and blue diamonds.
The Lemur pulled away from Belize thinking he was about to attack him with something, Belize just looks at the lemur a bit confused, "What, I just needed to get this flash-drive to get some information off a computer and store it in my own personal encryption file." Belize then held his hand up to show a small bar flash-drive.
The Lemur sighed in relief and then tried to calm himself down, thinking he didn't want someone that has connections to shutdown a moderately active part of a hotel for something. "What-ever here's your floor, have fun or what not with the show." The elevator slowed down to a stop and the door opens up, Belize then puts the box back in his tail and held his hand out to shake the hand of the Lemur.
"I don't have all day." Belize said, the Lemur hesitantly reached out and grabbed Belize's hand and Belize used his other hand and covered the Lemur's and pulled him in close, "Do not mention anything about this flash-drive am I clear?" Belize released the Lemur's hand and the lemur looked in it and saw a wad of money. The operator shook his head shaking the thoughts of showing he was being bribed and said. "What are you talking about sir?"
Belize smiled as he got off the elevator and started to walk to his room that The Management has set up for him, there was a key card reader next to the door and Belize sighed as he put the card in, he waited for the light to turn green and then pulled it out, he then opened the door and looked around.
"So lets see what shit hole they decide to put their employees in…" Belize froze as the furniture was a white and sparkling shiny white, everything looked to be in perfect order and nothing seemed to be out of place. Belize dropped the case almost forgetting he had it handcuffed to his wrist.
"Holy shit, who ever the hell these people are, they sure do know how to make sure that their employees are well cared for." Belize then heard a knock at the door, he opened it, a lime green skunk wearing a wait staff uniform that the hotel had walked into the room with a lid covered plate.
Belize could slightly smell what was inside the lid, but he didn't really care much for lobster, no matter how fine it was cooked, he hated it a bit, before the skunk could open the lid Belize stopped her. "I am sorry, I do not like broiled, boiled, steamed, fried, spit-roasted, or regular roasted Lobster."
The skunk smiled and moved her hand away from the lid, "Alright sir, is there anything specific you would like? Since you are helping this hotel quite a bit just being here, the Chef has decided to take any order you want and make it."
Belize looked around and started to think to himself what he wanted, he then figured he was in the mood for. "Well I would like a Pizza Royale 007 eighteen inch diameter minus the lobster ingredient but double the Venison medallions and extra edible twenty-four carat gold flakes, with a dessert side of a Golden Opulence Sundae, but no cherries."
The skunk looked at him confused a bit as to why he is going all out on the food, she was a bit worried to tell him that they don't have everything in stock to make those dishes. "I- umm- uh…" Belize looked at here, "Oh don't worry that's saved up for once I am done filming the show… I am quite shocked they never mentioned the name of it yet, I guess they want to surprise me and get my reaction as a blooper to a D.V.D or something."
Belize laughed a little and then smiled, "That should give your chef enough time to get everything, but for now some La Madeline au Truffles will do fine, I am pretty sure that you have it in stock here." The Skunk relaxed a bit, "Okay… Will that be all?" Belize thought for a moment and smiled, "Yes…" Belize wrote down a number on a piece of paper and handed it to the skunk.
"If your chef cant get the supplies to easily, tell him to call this number and ask for what he needs." Belize then sat down on the couch and felt the cloud softness of the couch almost in a dream like state shut his eyes and got a little lost in his imagination. Belize heard the door shut and opened his eyes to see the room was empty. He smiled got up from the couch. "Finally some little alone time, Belize walked over to a desk sitting next to the wall and saw they had a wi-fi hotspot for the hotel, Belize smiled.
'They could not have made this any easier.' Belize then reached into his tail and pulled out a laptop and sat it down on the desk, he then proceeded to fast type the password and logged into the laptop. Once he connected with the wi-fi of the hotel, he proceeded to plug in the flash-drive, he then opened up a few programs and utilities. Belize then smiled as he watched the IP address change around a few times, he knew when it did that he was ready to set the IP location to anyone or anything within eight hundred yards.
Belize just selected one at random and saw it was password protected, Belize sighed and clicked on the program and let it hit through the password like it was nothing, after Belize made sure he was in and nothing was triggered he then proceeded to openly hack into the hotel's system to figure out who it was that set up all this, he wanted to know at least some link to who The Management is.
Belize triggered a few alarms, but was not scared, he knew that he was patched in under the identity of someone else so it did not matter to him, he found the file that had members of the hotel, or the names of everyone who booked anything in person or over the phone, or even electronically requested something, he copied everything down and encrypted it into his flash-drive.
Before it was done he heard a knock at the door. "Shit, shit, shit…" Belize said to himself under his breath, he quickly hid the laptop out of site and slicked his fur like he was busy grooming himself, but was fighting a stubborn part. Belize opened the door trying to fight down a stubborn lock of fur that was intent on not going with the look.
A yellow leopard walked in, she didn't look like she was a hotel staff member. Belize looked at her a little confused, but then remembered this was his sleeping quarters, but also the interview room for the rest of the competitors. Belize sighed and sat down in a chair and pulled out his notepad from his tail. "Okay I guess I am ready." He then remembered something, he opened the suitcase handcuffed to his wrist and looked who he had selected as a co-host.
"Oh never mind, we are not doing the interview." The leopard looked at Belize a little confused. "Are you sure? I mean I came all the way here from my foster family and after I was given a phone call that you were still taking in applicants to be competitors I figured why not fly out here to at least try and get in." the leopard started to pout a little, but Belize just smiled.
"Oh calm down, you're already in the show as a guaranteed to be in." The leopard then looked at Belize shocked and surprised. "You mean it? I didn't even do an interview and I am on the show awesome." The leopard smiled and jumped from the seat in joy, Belize just busted out laughing. The leopard stopped dancing and was looking as Belize was almost falling out of his seat.
"What is so funny?" The leopard said putting her hands on her hip, Belize slowed down his laugher and handed her the profile paper she filled in to get notified of the interview, she saw the side note, Co-Host of the show. She dropped the file and started to cry a little. Belize stopped laughing when he noticed this.
"What is wrong…" He looked down at the profile to make sure he had her name right." Jenna?" Jenna looked up at Belize tears slowly filling her eyes, "I wanted to be on the show, not a host." She then sulked her head down and tried to cover her face with her hands. Belize sighed and grasped her shoulders.
"Look as co-host you get more spotlight then the competitors, you also get to live partial luxury while the competitors don't get as luxurious things." Jenna looked up and smiled, "So I still get awards of some kind?" Belize shrugged, "Well I think the host award carries down to the co-host, but if not I can get you something, just about anything you want if it doesn't apply to you as well." Jenna started to ponder the idea and asked Belize "What is the award for hosts?" Belize smiled, just a six week vacation any where in the world you want, all expenses paid so you basically get to live in a random place of the world for about two months and not have to pay a penny for it."
Jenna jumped up and grabbed Belize in a hug. "So I can live in Spain for the time period get anything I want there for free?" Belize nodded, Jenna jumped up and down still holding Belize. She finally released him and Belize sat down on the couch to get rid of the slight dizziness Jenna has caused. "Okay, you are the co-host, but you do what I say when I tell you, and for one challenge or another you get to have your own say on them, if you want." Jenna didn't say anything just put her hands in a pyramid and smiled like she was plotting something sinister.
Belize shrugged and started to think to himself, 'is the file done yet?' he then heard another knock at the door, Belize jumped. "Shit, Jenna calm down and act like you just finished an interview… if you blab you are the co-host I will go with my secondary choice… is that clear?" Jenna calmed down and recomposed herself. "Crystal." Belize smiled "Good, as far as anyone in the competition will know you are just a competitor until I do the announcement to add entertainment to the show to stir a few things up."
Jenna smiled, "I like the deviousness, Belize and I am really glad you chose me to be the co-host." Jenna then covered her excitement and opened the door. "Sorry for the delay, we were just doing the interview." Jenna then walked away, Belize looked at who was standing at the door and saw it was a black fox with red fur on her head some on her stomach and then tip of her tail, and blue eyes.
"Hello and welcome, come in have a seat, and we shall get started with the interview." Belize said smiling and welcoming, the fox smiled and walked in. "This is actually quite a wonderful place to do an interview." The fox said as she looked around the place. Belize nodded, "Well yeah I guess…" There was another knock at the door. Belize tried not to let it bother him, but he knew it was probably the lime green skunk with his truffles.
Belize opened the door and smiled he was correct, the lime green skunk saw the fox in the room and started to blush a little, "Oh I am terribly sorry sir, I didn't know I was interrupting something." Belize smirked a little, "Don't worry its fine we aren't doing what you are thinking." Belize then reached in his tail and pulled out a wallet, he then handed the skunk a little generous tip.
"You don't have to do this sir. The truffles are on the house." Belize smiled, "Oh this is not for that, this is for you to sort of be a security slash secretary of sorts and skip work for the time being." The skunk shook her head, "I am sorry I cant do that, if I don't work they will fire me as I have been having several problems lately and I cant miss work any more for a while."
Belize sighed, "Okay tell the manager I want to have a little chat with him, if he fires you for not doing anything, I am pretty sure I can clear things up pretty fast." The skunk nodded, "Okay so what do you want me to do?" Belize looked around for a moment. "If someone you know that does not work for the hotel come up, tell them to sit out in the hall until I am ready to let them in, that's all you have to do, and its not going to be much, just three or four people. Once they are seated in the hall you can get back to working at the hotel."
The skunk smiled and nodded, "I guess that shouldn't be a problem then." She then shut the door and sat outside waited for any other interviewers to come. Belize went inside and set the tray of truffles on an endtable. "Sorry about that, I wasn't expecting interviews for another hour or two." The fox looked down a little upset, "Oh I am so sorry, do you need me to come back at another time?" Belize shook his head, "Nah its okay, I just wished I was notifi…" before he could finish his sentence his phone alerted him to a message. Belize pulled it up and read the message.
Sorry about the interviews earlier then planned, some timing plans for the show changed, and we have already informed the other interviewers of that, some have decided to revoke their applications… However we got a couple already picked by us so you just have one more interview and then we are set for you to come by to the little shooting scene and we can get you full suited and ready for the show.
Best Regards, The Management.
Belize turned the phone off, "Okay so there was my notification that the interviews moved up earlier… Whatever I guess I can eat a couple of these waiting for another interviewer and while interviewing, might also give some out." He grabbed one from the tray, "Would you like one?" The fox looked at him a little confused, "Umm what exactly is it?" Belize smiled a La Madeline au Truffle rare chocolate delicacy pretty penny for just one." The fox shook her head, "I am sorry, I don't want one then, but thank you." Belize sighed and took a bite of the truffle and then walked over to the couch.
"Okay so let's see here…" Belize opened the profile and read her name, "Tiff, says here that you are somewhat skilled with hiking and swimming." Tiff tried to think of a way to confirm it, but she figures to be humble and deny being that skilled in the two recreational activities.
"Okay I just have a couple questions and we can move on, doesn't that sound fun?" Tiff shrugged, Belize just smiled, "Well then, One of your friends or 'teammate'" Belize did hand quote gesture with saying teammate. "Was hanging over a cliff and the prize for the day was dangling over the cliff and you could only save one of them… Which one would you save?" Tiff looked around trying to imagine it and after a second of hesitation she came out with her answer.
"I would save the teammate, or friend. I don't care about the prize, I like friends a bit more then a material possession." Belize wrote down her answer and a couple other little notes and then looked at her again, "Okay How would you feel if you didn't make it onto the show at all?" Tiff looked down and upset, "Well I guess I would be a little sad, but I have friends to hang out with so it wouldn't be too bad if I don't make it on."
Belize wrote down more things and smirked a little, he then figured to ask something completely random just to see the response of the fox, "If the Gorganoids attacked the fortress from the west, would you set up your archers in the towers to the North West and South-west, or send them on the walls around the fortress with a couple reconnaissance agents in the towers?"
Tiff shrugged, "I guess the reconnaissance as it would build up a better defense if they can get the information relayed fast enough." Belize looked at Tiff a little shocked she didn't get confused, or even hear exactly what he said, but she came up with an answer that he would. "Okay we are done here." Belize said a little dumbstruck, but knew he had to get ready for another interview.
Tiff walked out and saw a white dog with blue and pink spots with purple eyes. "Hey there Spots, I think hes a little busy at the moment, but he said he should interview you a little later." Tiff then gave the dog a quick hug and went to the elevator. Belize walked outside, and saw Spots sitting there.
"Oh the last interviewee, okay miss, you can go back to your hotel duties, just remember if your boss fires you because of this I want to talk to him." The skunk smiled, "Yes sir, enjoy the television show." Belize walked over to Spots, "Okay I have three files left for today, but two backed out and I did have five planned for tomorrow, but they too backed out, so you're the last interview… Are you ready?"
Spots smiled, "Oh yes of course I am ready." Belize motioned for Spots to come into the room, Spots walked in and saw Belize sitting on the couch, "Okay before we begin, I want to offer you some tru… Oh wait never mind." Spots looked at Belize a bit confused. "What is a tru…?" Belize shook his head, "Oh nothing I forget dogs are allergic mostly to them, so just forget I offered."
Spots shrugged, trying to put that sentence in the back of her mind, but it was still slipping to the front every now and again. "Okay so let me see which one you are…" Belize looked at the labeled tags and the descriptions of the competitors and found it.
"Okay Miss Spot bef…" Before Belize could continue Spots stopped him, "Umm sorry to interrupt you, but the name is Spots, with an s at the end."
Belize sighed, "Okay then Spots…" Belize paused for a second trying to remember where he was. "Oh right, before we get on with the interview I am going to do a quick study of your profile, is that fine with you?" Spots nodded and leaned back in the chair realizing it could rock back and forth. Spots figured she would entertain herself rocking in the chair until Belize was done.
Belize finished reading the profile, "So you like too…" He looked over and saw that Spots was having a lot of fun with the chair, he then wrote down on the notepad a few things, "Well that's an obvious yeah you like to play games, and with things." Spots stopped rocking when she noticed Belize was writing down something.
"Oh no did I do something I wasn't supposed to? I am so sorry I didn't mean to do it, I was just trying to have a little fun." Belize didn't look up at all still writing things down, Spots then slammed her head against the soft cushion of the chair, Belize saw this after he finished writing. "Don't worry this is just my personal notes on everyone that has been interviewed." Spots looked up at Belize, "Really?" Belize nodded, "Shockingly you are the only one that's acting somewhat like themselves and since I know the personality that is not in hiding under a façade, I actually didn't have to write as much as I did a lot of others. " Belize laughed a little.
Spots started to wag her tail happily. "Oh that is so good, when can I be famous?" Belize snickered a little, "Well one, you have not done the interview yet, two I don't even know if you will be on the show yet, so don't go around saying your in." Spots tail then drooped and she started to look upset. "Awe, but I want to be on the show, what can I do to make it?"
Belize looked around and sighed, "Look I will see what I can do, but I am not going to make any guarantees is that understood?" Belize said Spots smiled and nodded, "Good now lets get on with the questions." Belize looked at her and figured since she is more of the having a good time type, she isn't all that interested in competing, she is just joining for the fun, but if she somehow wins, she's fine with it, if not, she is fine with whatever happens.
"You get lost in a forest, what do you have on you that you brought? It can only be one item." Spots looked around, "Well obviously my lucky ball, I never leave home without it." Belize wrote down the answer and figured to write down about the ball in case he wants to stir up some fun later.
Belize then looked at Spots again, "Okay next question, if you met a crush on the show would you try to follow what other people tell you that they do to get dates or crushes, or would you show them your true self?" Spots looked around a little trying to think what her answer should be, she smiled and said, "Well I would do a couple of the things people suggest first, if they are fun, but when around my crush… I will never be anything, but my true self, which even if its following someone else's advice, if its something that is fun, I am being my true self."
Belize nodded and figured to ask a random thing again and see if she will respond like the other one. "Okay and the final question… If the unicorn council of Zibnock svrena decides to use your room as a sanctum to execute orders and decrees how do you get rid of them without angering them and losing abilities that they have given you?"
Spots looked around a little confused, Belize smiled that he probably stumped her, but then he sees her looking confident. "Well that's easy… it really depends if they have given you the powers themselves, or because of someone more powerful, if it was themselves, then you could help them find another sanctum that would be better suited for them, but if its with a higher power, then you can go to it or them and ask them to get the unicorn council to no longer use your room as a sanctum."
Belize sat on the couch completely dumbstruck that two people he knows nothing about answered two completely random questions he made off the top of his head just to see a reaction they would do, but then give logical responses like they were real answers to the questions. Belize was lost in his mind trying to unravel how it was possible. Spots waved her hand in front of Belize's face trying to get his attention, but nothing worked, she sighed and walked to the door, she noticed the chocolate truffles sitting on the end-table.
"Oh that's what he was talking about at the start, well I guess I will just take one, he did offer it earlier." Spots grabbed one of the truffles and took a bite, "MMM that is some good truffles." Spots then walked out of the room and down the hall to head home and wait for the call of where to meet if she gets on the show.
After several hours Belize finally came to and saw that he was alone in the room, he then looked at a clock and it said it was near midnight, Belize went over to his laptop pulled it out of hiding and saw the file was done copying all the files, he then quickly unplugged the laptop and the flash-drive and put them both away, he then rubbed his head from thinking too much how the two interviewers answered his last question.
He shrugged and said to himself. "No don't think about it, you got a long couple days ahead of you, you just need to get some sleep and get prepared to be the host of the show that will do everything in his power to make the ratings rocket." Belize then smiled as he laid down on the bed and shut his eye. "Just a couple more days… Then the fun begins."
A/N Okay yeah, I am sorry I cut the three down to two chapters of interviews, and yes the random questions are just that, I might edit a couple things out depending on the OC owners reaction to this, I do not know them, but they are a friend of a friendly acquaintance so we will see if it will be edited. Next chapter will be worked on and with a busy schedule I won't have much time to work on any story so might be a week or two until the next chapter comes out… about a month if this needs editing.
Belize: You should have checked with the owner before setting them to OOC….
I didn't much, I did ask two serious questions that were kind of based on personalities and the last one I just figured a bit of humor since this was only a few interviews. Also the story lied… No one recanted sending in applications, I just don't feel like writing more interviews, and not enough OC's were submitted so much of the OC's you will be seeing (aside from mine) lets just say 3-5 of them are someone else's (sorry it's a late night writing and I need sleep so not counting) Jenna is mine, though… and the non interviewed are my personal friend OC's that they figured half assed to do so aside from basic appearances I have full control of whim and them not care what it does. So yeah the 15 have been chosen, by my girlfriend.
Any way I am going to sleep and yeah should have the next chapter out in a couple weeks.