The Ninth Challenge

The two teams gathered at the giant coconut tree and were waiting for Ansem to arrive. Suddenly the host dropped down between them from his place on one of the tree's branches. Ignoring their surprise at his sudden appearance, he said, "Hello teams, Destiny! Today's challenge is Destiny! Where you will Destiny! and Destiny! yourselves to Destiny! Hahahaha!"

Ummm, what?

"How come you're a little more…Destiny obsessed today?" Yuffie asked.

Ansem was bouncing around. "I dunno, maybe I had too much Destiny! flavored coffee this morning."

"Well, you'd better retain your sanity long enough to tell us what our damn challenge is." Larxene said.

"Okay, I'll try." Ansem said blowing his nose with a leaf of lettuce. Looking like it was a great effort, the man composed himself and began talking. "Today's challenge is a test of your navigational skizalls (skills for those of you out there who don't speak gangsta lingo). Each team will be dropped off at a random point on the island and will have to find their way back to this spot within 4 hours…Destiny! Destiny! Destiny! Destiny! Destiny! Destiny! Destiny! Destiny! Destiny!"

"Well, he's gone. Let's go." Axel said getting into their special helicopter of exciting colors.

The two teams were promptly taken to their starting points and shoved out of helicopters.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the island, Imogene woke up and climbed out of bed, smoothing her angry snowflake pajamas. She looked at her calender.

"Holy cricket! Today was a challenge day!" she exclaimed. There was a pause. "Oh well, They can handle without me. So I think I'll just watch Milo and Otis instead..." And the co-host wandered to the television room and plopped down on her couch, eating a blueberry waffel.

-With Team Warriors of Justice

"And the most wonderful thing about tiggers is that iiiii'm the only one!" Sora sang.

"Don't make eye contact - maybe he'll stop." Axel muttered to the rest of the team.

"Which way should we go?" Leon asked, looking around for ideas.
"Heck, I don't know! I provide the looks of this team - the rest of you provide the thinking power." Axel said running his hand through his hair.

"Yyyyeah." Leon said, "Anyway, does anyone have an actual plan?"

"Ooh! Ooh! I know!" Sora exclaimed raising a hand wildly. He grabbed a stick and knelt down, drawing something in the dirt. He pointed to a little circle and said, "That is where we are now-" He pointed to a little banana shape then said, "that is a banana tree," He pointed to a big happy face, "And that is the finish line!"

"Okay, now how do we get there?" Xemnas asked looking dubiously at the smiley face.

"We walk silly!" Sora grinned.

"I should have known that he would say something like that." Xemnas said rubbing his forehead in exasperation.

Riku sighed. "If only Sora had his meds - with them he was a n expert navigator."

Vexen stroked his chin in a very thought provoking manor and mulled, "I suppose this could give me the chance to experiment with my latest concoction."

"Your latest what now?" Axel asked the Chilly Academic curiously.

"Well, I've created a formula that might help Sora temporarily retain his normal self." Vexen answered.

"And if it doesn't?" Riku asked warily.

"I dunno. He'll implode or something." Vexen shrugged.

"Let's do it! What have we got to loose?!" Xemnas said as Vexen took a test tube out of his cloak pocket.

"Only my friend!" Riku half shouted indignantly.

"Like I said, what have we got to loose?" Xemnas repeated. He grabbed the tube out of Vexen's hand and uncorked it. Then, he reached for Sora and forced the formula into the boy's mouth. Surprised, Sora swallowed the stuff then pulled the tube out of his mouth.

"That stuff tasted like tofu…" He blinked, then looked around.

"What are we doing standing around here? We need to get going." He said seriously.

Riku gasped. "It worked!"

Vexen sighed. "It worked." (a certain someone was hoping for an unfortunate side effect. Say, imploding anyone?)

"So which way do we go?" Axel asked.

Sora looked around then pointed. "That way." And the set off in the direction Sora led them in.

"Exactly how long is your formula going to last?" Zexion asked Vexen as they walked.

"Hmm, considering the amount he took, the time of day and the fact that he had a cheeseburger for lunch, I'd say 3 hours." Vexen answered.

Zexion nodded and said, "Let's just hope we reach the coconut tree before the meds wear off."

-With team Dominators

Demyx was staring intently at Larxene and she wasn't happy about it.

"What are you staring at me for?!" She demanded. "Oh, have you been rendered speechless by my beauty? Or have you fallen head over heels in love with me?"

Demyx shuddered. "No, you have a uni-brow."

Larxene froze. So did everyone else. They all stared at her forehead, and just as Demyx said, there was a uni-brow.

Larxene screamed and pulled out her mini mirror. "Nooooo! Go away!" She yelped clawing at her reflection. Suddenly, her eyes glinted dangerously and she lunged, catching Kairi by the ankles.

"Aaah! What did I do?!" The red head exclaimed.

"You must have some tweezers on you somewhere and I want them!" Larxene said in a crazed voice. Kairi screamed as Larxene pulled her up (by the ankles) and shook her. Little nick-nacks began falling from the girl such as a fruit rollup, a magazine, a picture of Sora eating a grilled cheese sandwich, a five pound weight, and a mickey mouse plushie. Finally a pair of tweezers fell out and Larxene threw the girl aside and ran for them. With a triumphant shout, she held the tweezers up into the air and ran behind a tree to pluck her eyebrows.

"Hey guys! I say we leave her behind and hope she gets lost!" Xigbar said enthusiastically.

Yuffie and Kairi gasped. "No! We could never!"

"Aren't you tired of how she treats you?" Demyx asked. Cloud nodded.

"Well, um…" Yuffie murmured.

"You know that she'll just vote you off to get the prize for herself." Marluxia commented. Cloud nodded.

"But…" Kairi began looking down. Cloud nodded.

"Dude! What are you nodding for?" Xigbar asked the blonde man. Cloud nodded again. Then he realized that he had been asked a question.

"Uhm…50 steps north and take a right at the next parking lot." he answered.

"What?" Xigbar asked confused.

Larxene emerged, freshly plucked and looked at the rest of the team. "Well? What are you waiting for? Let's go!" She pointed east and set off. Little did she know, they were going in the complete opposite direction from the tree.

-With team Warriors of Justice

Sora's meds were beginning to wear off.

"This isn't good…" Axel muttered. They were currently about 30 minutes away from their destination.

Sora had been about to give his final direction when he suddenly saw something shiney and became distracted, so that all that they heard was, "Lef-"

"He must have been about to say left!" Xemnas said confidently as he began walking toward the left. The others followed him, dragging the now oblivious Keyblade Master.

But what they didn't know was that Sora was really going to say was, "Left we will not go - right it is."

-Back at the finish line, Ansem was watching a little pocket watch.

"3...2...1!!! Bing bing bing! The challenge is over!" Looking up to see the winner, he saw…a squirrel.

"Yay! You won the challenge squirrely!" He jumped toward the frightened squirrel and picked it up, swinging it by it's little arms. He stopped swinging the poor little mammal and murmured to himself, "Wait, a squirrel can't win a prize! That's just silly!" He dropped the squirrel and pulled a walkie talkie out of his pocket

"Destinylover1 to supersquad, come in." Out of the radio there was a reply.

"Supersquad here, what is it?"

"The little lambs need a pickup."

"Copy that sir, we'll get right on it."

-Two helicopter pickups later…

The two teams were gathered on the finish line.

"So who won the challenge?" Goofy asked. Wait, Goofy?

"What are you doing here Goofy?" Sora asked.

Goofy looked around and asked, "Who's Goofy? I don't see any Goofy." The dog creature picked up a leaf and held it in front of his face. "You don't see me…" he said hypnotically as he backed away towards the trees. Reaching them, he abandoned the leaf and ran away leaving everyone very confuzzled.

Ansem shrugged it off with a comical expression on his face, saying, "Disney characters - what are ya gonna do about em?" There was the sound of studio audience laughter in the background. "Anyway, since neither team made it back here within four hours, no one wins the challenge and both teams will go to tribal council."

"What?! That's not fair!" Yuffie complained.

Ansem glared at the ninja girl and said, "Donuts."

"Aaaaaaaahhh!!" Yuffie collapsed in a faint.

Ansem smirked. "That oughta teach her."

-Council Fire

"Alrighty, team Warriors of Justice is up first. Let the voting commence!" So the team finished their voting and sat down waiting for Ansem to tally the votes.

"So the final tally is Sora - 1, Axel - 1, Xemnas - 1, and Leon - 2." The group turned to gauge the man's reaction.

Leon shrugged. "Eh, I don't really care." And the trap door opened underneath him.

"Destiny bid his soul farewell. Now it's your turn, team Dominators."

The team members each cast their vote and returned to their seats. "I will now tally the votes." Ansem said gathering the slips of paper.

A certain few of team Dominator's members were sweating bullets. Everyone watched nervously as Ansem cleared his throat and said, "The results are in and they are: Yuffie - 1, Larxene - 6. Larxene, it looks like you're out."

"What?!" The Savage Nymph shrieked. She turned on the rest of her team. "How dare you vote me out? I have power over you! Power I say, power!" The trap door opened and saved team Dominators from a slow bloody death.

"S-she's finally gone…" Demyx muttered clutching his chest.

"Yahoo! She's gone!" Xigbar yelled jubilantly. Suddenly, a hand reached out from the trap door pit and Larxene struggled to raise herself out of it.

"You can't get rid of me that easily!" She screeched, straining to climb out. The entire team jumped back in shock and Demyx nearly wet himself. (not that kind of wet himself you funny bunnies! He almost fell into a large cauldron filled with pomegranate juice).

"Mail's here!" A man in a post office uniform ran into the middle of the clearing, unintentionally kicking Larxene's hand back into the hole. She fell with an evil sounding scream. (Which was quite an accomplishment - what in the world does an evil scream sound like anyway?)

The mail man held up a large sack and handed it over to Ansem who accepted it with a look of contained glee.

"What's in the sack?" Demyx asked.

"What sack? I see no sack!" Ansem said attempting to hide said sack behind his back.

"Um, anywho, can we get back to our camp? I'd like to get some rest." Riku sighed.

"Not quite, the fun's not done yet kitties." Ansem smiled. "As a little added surprise, team Dominators and Warriors of Justice will now be joining together to form one single team called Destiny's Ninjas."

There were a few surprised murmurs as whispered conversations were struck up.

"Yay! More friends!" Sora said happily.

"This means that challenges will now be performed by individuals instead of teams." The groups quieted themselves, realizing that now, more than ever, every single person around them was an enemy. "And now I will leave you amongst yourselves to decide which camp will become your new base." Ansem said stepping into the trapdoor.

"What the?! Did he just-" Vexen sputtered.

"Just kidding!" Ansem exclaimed popping out from behind a pillar and walking away into the night.

"How did he…never mind, I don't want to know." Riku decided folding his arms stubbornly.

So after a long heated debate about whether or not the chicken came before the egg, it was determined that team Dominator's camp would become the new camp Destiny's Ninjas. Team Warriors of Justice gathered their belongings from their old camp and followed team dominators to their new one.

What new challenges will our heroes - or zeroes - face next? Find out on the next episode of Pokemon! (insert pokemon theme song here).