Hi!

*dodges bullet*

OH SHNIKES, the heck was that for! --- oh. I see. I understand your actions. I'm sorry for the delay. Ergh, where's my award for least consistent author? I oughta have it by now, lol.

Anyways, enjoy as the adventure continues on! The roller coaster riding goes on as well, and of course, the actions of the Mole. Enjoy!

Episode 4 (Part 2)

The ride continued on, Bobbery now adjusted to the violent jerking motions that the car offered with every minuscule turn. As the roller coaster continued, the remaining four who were docked with the host could only watch and listen as they battled against the unknown time limit of two of their teammates, who at that moment were traversing from ride to ride amidst the park.

"Bobbery, who was the last player to step off the boat in the very beginning of the game?" was McHallyboo's second question.

"I would swear…Wendy, was it?" Bobbery said, furrowing his eyebrows in his attempt to remember. Vivian clenched her teeth with worry, knowing the incorrect value of his answer.

Bobbery: The ride mutilated your thoughts. And to make it more terrible, the host was delivering questions from the very first episode that you couldn't even care a Mole's turd for. Ridiculous.

"Wow, he answered through the second loop!" Goombella pointed out, as they all saw the car invert and then continue with its straight path.

"Yeah, but the answer's not even right," Wario said, looking unimpressed. "So I wouldn't call that anything spectacular at all!"

"Sorry Bobbery, that is wrong," confirmed McHallyboo in reference to Bobbery's answer. Goombella gave a look of dissent towards Wario, then faced back to the roller coaster as the host got ready for Bobbery's last question.

"How many rides must Luvbi and Yoshi ride on before they can come here and claim their exemptions?" McHallyboo spoke out.

"Hmmm, five," Bobbery answered immediately. Also immediately, Diddy delivered a face palm to himself.

"No, it's four!" Diddy said out loud, particular to no one. "The Noki Shells, the Yoshi-go-Around, those ships, and the Ferris wheel! That makes four! We're losing!"

"Riddance!" Bobbery shouted, both in reply to Diddy and the ride itself he was riding. "What about that wading pool?"

"Technically that is not considered an attraction," McHallyboo confirmed. "Diddy is right." The car of the roller coaster made its way to above the ocean water, where Bobbery took a large breath of below, taking in the brief scent.

"Say, does he always have to smell the sea water at every opportunity on this vacation?" Wario asked, annoyed. "He's always does that and it creeps me out."

Diddy: Bobbery just answered those questions way too fast on the roller coaster, and was pretty much halfway through when he finished all three. He could have used more time and easily gotten at least one more question right. He only got one in total.

Questions Obtained: 5/15

"Oh, okay," Vivian said, getting up to her feet. "I have to go now. I've prepared myself so much while Bobbery was going." The other four players looked at her, nodding with hidden uncertainty.

"Well, I wanted to go last anyway," Wario said, shrugging uncaringly.

"Last, huh?" Diddy inquired. "So you think there's a hidden exemption in choosing to go last in the order?" Wario gave him a puzzled look.

"What? No!" Wario said back to him, as they all watched Vivian get into the coaster car. "No need to get so nosy, you monkey. And all for no reason."

"I do everything for a reason," Diddy said, as they all began to cheer for Vivian and their possibilities for a higher chance of survival. "No matter how bad they make me look, it's always for the better."

"Sure, all right," Wario huffed. "I'll keep that in mind when you're executed." He narrowed his eyes heavier at the player besides him.

The two exemption players immediately hurried off of their first attraction as it came to a stop, rushing over to the gate that emitted their next ticket to ride.

M.G.R.

"The Merry-Go-Around, favorite ride at last!" Yoshi said, turning to the attraction that consisted of painted replicas of his known species. Luvbi let out a chuckle and followed him.

"Well, then the game here says, 'One in hatching, another takes a hero's place,'" Luvbi read, looking over the ticket's message at the bottom of the paper.

"So one in hatching," Yoshi said, pointing to the other option of riding aboard the carousel: an egg-shaped seating.

"Well, these certain missions we have to perform on each ride aren't exactly difficult. They're just wordy and tricky." Knowing the answer, she walked over to the half-egg compartment among the Yoshi figures and climbed aboard, then sat down properly.

"And then I would be riding one of myself, just like Mario would," Yoshi figured, climbing aboard a pink-colored Yoshi and buckling himself in. "Okay, let's start this ride!"

"So I suppose you're going to color yourself orange and act as your own mount?" Luvbi laughed, facing him. Yoshi faced back to her, confound at her statement.

"Oh, never mind," Luvbi said, sitting back down as the carousel started its slow fifteen rotations.

Vivian: I was just so nervous as the car climbed up the first hill. I was shaking in my car, because the lap bar wasn't even tight. I was sure I was going to fall out!

"Well, she has nothing to worry about," Bobbery commented, as her car lifted higher. "She took time to tighten her lap bar as heavily as possible."

"Yeah, but...ohhh," Goombella groaned, showing concern in her voice. "Even I got chills on the ride, and I'm more used to these wild things. Vivian might faint."

"You're over exaggerating," Wario snickered, as Vivian approached the top of the hill, a second away from the largest drop of the entire ride. "She'll be all right. Look, she's still alive."

"Yeah, but you have nothing to judge, seeing that you hadn't even ridden it yet," Diddy said reasonably to Wario. "Plus, we all have to go anyway. It's the rules." The coaster car tilted, approaching its final horizontal foot of track as Vivian grabbed onto her lap bar as tightly as possible.

"Vivian, can you hear me?" McHallyboo asked, holding the walkie-talkie up to his mouth and waiting for a reply back. All he could hear in reply was a scream, as the other four looked over in the distance at Vivian dropping down in her car, through the first drop of the track until it swerved up at the bottom. She was still screaming, her arms visibly wrapped around the bar that secured her in place and kept her from falling out.

"Yes!" she managed to shout out, burying her head as low as possible in her arms. Goombella laughed, watching the frightened player as the other three males could only hope for Vivian's success in her questions.

"Okay, question one!" said McHallyboo. "Rosalina's occupation was what?" The coaster went into its first loop, as the other four looked on.

"Err, is she answering?" Goombella asked, baffled. Bobbery peered closer, seeing Vivian's face in a look of stunned feeling as the car went on.

"She's kinda frozen in her own fear," Bobbery said flatly. "An unfamiliar one too." Diddy moaned out loud, then faced the car, ready to shout.

"Come on Vivian!" he shouted towards her from afar, not knowing that his voice was inaudible to her. "This is for five hundred thousand coins!" He kicked the air besides him in a vicious manner.

"You stupid monkey, you're scaring her!" Wario shouted. "She can hear you on McHallyboo's device!"

"Scaring her?" Diddy shot back. "Well, at least I don't scare people with my looks already, like you do!" Goombella couldn't help but laugh, then covered her mouth quickly as Wario shot a livid look at her.

"I'm human," Wario said, not offended and almost boastfully. "And you're kinda delayed. Hah!"

"I'm sorry!" they heard Vivian say from McHallyboo's microphone. "Was it...flight attendant?"

"Yes, correct!" shouted the host, pulling out his next card. "Enjoying the ride so far?"

"No!" Vivian screamed back.

Wario: Vivian was doing a really bad job, and might be the Mole. She wasn't even attempting those questions. The ride was designed for kiddies and she was acting more scared than she should.

"Look at me!" Yoshi said, leaning off from his carousel mount and reaching out to Luvbi. Luvbi let out a chuckle, then looked out towards the roller coaster. Vivian was amidst her roller coaster answering as they made their final carousel rotation.

"Well, I guess our job isn't at all too bad," Luvbi considered, "though it is degrading."

"No way! It's kinda fun," Yoshi objected. "Would you rather be on a carousel or a roller coaster?"

"Well, roller coaster honestly," Luvbi said. Yoshi frowned, then looked at the roller coaster too.

"Well, it seems fun but...exemption or no exemption?" Yoshi added, winking. Luvbi laughed, nodding to herself as she sat back down in her carousel compartment.

"On second though, I'm happy Wario volunteered me for this role," Luvbi said, smiling with exhaustion as the merry-go-around completed yet another round.

"Look, I'm flying!" Yoshi added, flapping his tongue like an oar. Luvbi laughed, groaning as she realized that the carousel picked up speed momentarily. At the sudden sound of gears stopping, she let out a slight cry as the ride suddenly halted, sending her down onto the floor of the egg compartment she was sitting in. Yoshi fell off his stand completely, grabbing onto the head of his mount as he fell down, falling to the carousel flooring. Luvbi hopped out and ran over to his position in alarm.

"Yoshi!" she cried. Yoshi lifted his arm up, pointing blindly at the direction of where the gate was.

"Get the next ticket...please," he begged, gasping. Luvbi did so, sighing in disbelief and amusement.

Exemption Rides: 2/4

It had been a full twenty seconds after McHallyboo had delivered his second question to Vivian of: How many letters were in the first names of all three executed players combined?

"Well, at this rate she won't be able to even be asked a third question," Bobbery noticed. "Maybe not even answer the second."

"Oh, I knew she would ruin this game one way or another!" Wario said, his statement showing a level of rudeness.

"Oh, come on Vivian," Goombella said to herself. "Get the question right, just for our sake." Vivian from aboard the coaster car lifted her head, ready with her answer, as the car approached dangerously close back to the dock.

"Is it...sixteen?" she shouted. The players all seemed to lean in with anticipation.

"Yes!" shouted McHallyboo, as the players cheered. Diddy, however, seemed unmoved.

"Hey, but she totally delayed the last question!" he pointed out. "So it's like, we're cheering for her failure!"

"Oh, you're just jealous," Goombella said uncaringly, as Vivian finally approached back to the deck, and to the others. Shaken, she stepped out, then shook her head.

"Well, you certainly look beat," Goombella told her, as the two of them laughed.

Questions Obtained: 7/15

"It was just so, scary...sorry I didn't do so well," Vivian said, sitting down to regain her mind. "I'll do better next time."

"If the other two don't win exemptions by then, that is," Bobbery said, then faced Wario, who remained motionless where he was standing. The roller coaster car was empty.

"Wario, commence!" he ordered. The obese human snapped back, realizing his turn on the ride as he strapped himself in, then was sent off to his lap of answering questions.

Goombella: Just all of us switching so suddenly on the roller coaster...I was almost having a vision of the ride breaking down and crashing, and one of us falling off to your deaths. That would have been horrible for the viewers at home though. Or maybe exciting for our new generation.

"I'll be able to hear you scream like a girl from here!" Diddy shouted after him, as his car began to ascend further. Wario faced backwards, sticking his tongue out towards the player behind him, then facing back to his impending drop.

As he approached the ride climax for his first time, he let out a yell, one that was nothing more than just a shout of arrogance.

"Hah, he thinks he's so brave," Goombella commented, "but two girls already rode the coaster before him."

"Can you hear me?" McHallyboo said to him.

"Crystal clear!" Wario shouted, then yelling louder as his car dropped the full eighty-eight feet of the track. McHallyboo got his first question card out.

"Wario, how many durians were hanging above the table the first time we dined at the Durian Cafe?"

"That's easy!" Wario shouted back. "Three!" McHallyboo nodded, and the players shared a sense of surprise with each other.

"Heh, one answer," Diddy stated to them, as McHallyboo asked his second question.

"At what time did the party start in Episode 2's Island Bash mission?"

"Three P.M. sharp," Wario said out loud, as he ended his first loop of the roller coaster. The other players were astounded, Diddy's mouth open with more surprise than the others.

"Well, I guess he's not as dull as we...thought?" Goombella said, smiling at their unexpected success as they're question count was rising with every correct answer.

"Last question!" McHallyboo said, as Wario approached his second loop of the roller coaster, "And it is, what food did the executed player during the BLT game have to retrieve?"

"Bah, that's easy," Wario and Diddy said simultaneously, Wario from aboard the roller coaster and Diddy, trying not to act impressed from the boarding dock of the ride. "Lettuce." The ride came to an end, Wario having enjoyed a majority of the ride question-free. He stepped out and faced the others.

"Well, I guess THAT shows I'm really playing for the team," he said, stepping away back to his place.

Questions Obtained: 10/15

"Oh, it's my turn again," Goombell a realized, as she and Wario made a hasty seat switch.

"Oh yah, the ear piece," Wario said, suddenly taking it from his pocket and giving it to her. "Good luck."

"Players, you are at ten questions," McHallyboo informed them, as Goombella's car went up its track. "You can finish this in just two more riders. Your success is closing in." The four of them kept their hopes up, all of them spotting Yoshi and Luvbi as they climbed their way up the steps that led to the entrance of Pinna' Park's third attraction.

"Oh, this is the ride," Luvbi said, looking forward unwillingly. The ride consisted of two swinging ships which at that moment were amidst its final rotation, the outside of each of the two boats having a layer of fine wood that gave an extra coating over it's steel structure, creating them to appear as perfect pirate ship models, ones such that you would find in the ocean carrying a ship of rouges. In this case, a significant number of enjoying tourists and riders rode the ships that rocked back and forth, slowly, slowly, then into a full three-hundred and sixty degree spin.

"All right, this one should be the most fun so far!" Yoshi commented, the ship swinging only a mere few fee away from his face.

"I...don't think 'fun' would be the most proper term for me," said Luvbi. As the ride came to a steady stop and the passengers on board exited, two more riders boarded from the other side of the ship and sat down beside each other as the lap bar was put over their bodies. Yoshi looked down at the ticket they had received just minutes before from the front gate: V.S. On the bottom, the phrase, and their third mission was spotted:

When the ride reaches stop, the attendant must be in knowledge of twenty structures of music

"Okay, so let's do this," Yoshi said, keeping their ticket secure in place. "Think of instruments while we're riding. Let's do this, Luvbi! Get pumped!"

"Yeah, while I'm screaming my head off and going upside-down, I suppose?" Luvbi winced. "I've never been a fan of these swinging ship rides anyway. And are they even constructed to invert?" At that second, the ride attendant had begun the ride, as the ship the two players were riding begun its slow momentum, back and forth above the small pool below.

Luvbi: Even from the very first swing of that ride I felt that despicable falling feeling, and needless to say I did not like it at all. Yes, I fly, but I don't descend at high speeds like in an amusement park ride with heavy drops.

Yoshi: I was scared to sit next to Luvbi at first. Even before the ride started she looked like she was gonna throw up all over the ship.

The lifting ride compartment with Goombella had reached up to the highest point of its tracks. And before she dropped, the host did his usual ear piece check dialogue on her, as he had done with every passenger that had ridden before her on their first round. But unfortunately and peculiarly this time, an error was encountered.

"Goombella, can you hear me?" the host talked in his usual voice. The players couldn't see the confused look on Goombella's face as all she heard were faint, fuzzy words from McHallyboo, being emitted from her ear piece.

"Wha...what, McHallyboo?" she repeated quickly.

"Can you hear me?" the host questioned.

"Okay, there's something really weird with the ear piece," she explained back. From the platform, the others heard her voice clearly, and immediately, their hopeful looks turned into ones of confusion as well.

"Hold it, something's wrong with her ear piece?" Wario said, his eyes struck with perplexity. "What is she talking about! Stop the ride!" Goombella plummeted down the track, holding the ear piece closer to her head as McHallyboo gave the first question of their second round.

"First question is, how much money in total could the team in total have won in Episode 1?"

"McHallyboo...McHallyboo, I can't hear you like at all," Goombella told him, trying to maintain her focus as she went through the first loop of the ride. "Can you repeat the question?"

"Hold on, why isn't it working?" Wario asked out loud.

"Okay, something's not normal with it," Diddy concluded. Bobbery stepped closer to the speaker device in McHalyboo's hand, scrutinizing it with confused eyes as well.

"Is she okay?" Vivian asked, looking at McHallyboo's device as well, where the host spoke his words.

"Okay, I still can't hear you!" Goombella repeated, a few seconds after McHallyboo had again repeated the first question of her round. As her car reached the horizontal circle of the track, her first question still remained unanswered.

Goombella: The ear piece was just flat out buzzed up. I even tried taking it off and shaking it, and I was even scared to drop it while on the roller coaster but nothing would work! Something had happened to it.

A painful three minutes followed after the initial confusion of the ear piece error, which then still continued as Goombella reached back onto the ride platform, the ear piece off her head as she took off her lap bar. Immediately, she ran up and showed it to the four other players.

"Okay, something happened to it!" Goombella said, shaking her head with confusion. "Like, just as we started this round, the ear piece started to buzz up."

"So like, the producers did something with it?" Vivian wondered. The other three all jumped onto the ear piece that Goombella was holding, almost at once.

"But it was perfectly okay when it was on my head!" Wario pointed out, giving a look at Goombella that hinted of suspicion.

"Okay, well, you had it before me," Goombella asked him. "Did it work?"

"Well, it was a little fuzzy when I first received it," Wario considered, still looking heavily at the ear piece. "Was it faulty in the first place?"

Bobbery: If the device was faulty, then it would be the game's fault. It can't just malfunction on purpose and guarantee exemptions for Yoshi and Luvbi. Nothing on McHallyboo's device seemed out of place or suspicious, nor did it seem like he rigged something.

"Oh come on, it doesn't just die like that!" Diddy pointed out, crossing his arms. "We just lost an entire round of three potential answers."

"Well, I'm pretty sure this stuff doesn't just happen," Goombella added, looking distraught along with the others from the fact that Diddy had stated. An entire round of question answering was lost with valuable time, as Diddy immediately went to board the ride once again, ear piece in hand. In the distance at that moment, Yoshi and Luvbi had gotten off their third ride, in the midst of completing their third mission that would guarantee them closer to safety.

"Ten instruments?" was the question that the ride attendant inquired as the two players got off their attraction.

"Violin, drums, trumpet, tuba, saxophone, oboe...harmonica, clarinet, fruit, I mean flute..." Yoshi began, listing and giving out nine out of their twenty needed replies.

"Well, harp," Luvbi added, looking cautiously at Diddy above who was ascending in his roller coaster car and casting a shadow directly across the path behind them. "Yoshi, we're running out of time."

"Cymbols, tamberine, french horn, err, bagpipes...guitar is also an intrument," continued Yoshi. "That's fifteen, right?" The right attendant nodded, still blocking their way to exit the steps of the pirate ships ride.

"Xylophone...trombone, an organ is an instrument, a kazoo is another...err, bell?" Yoshi said, trying to finish off all twenty.

"A bell is not an instrument," said the attendant.

"Drats," Yoshi said, looking at Luvbi. "Organ, kazoo, umm, guitar---"

"How about a whistle?" Luvbi thought. "Wouldn't that be a variant of a church organ?"

"Well....yes ma'am, we'll accept that," said the attendant, using his pen to mark their ticket and stepping aside, letting the two players go onwards to the gate.

Exemption Rides: 3/4

Nearly slamming into the wall, Yoshi pushed the button as their final ticket was emitted.

F.W.

Have not two, but three.

"We'll figure this mission meaning later," Luvbi said immediately. "We have to go to our final ride." The two of them ran off with enthusiasm, laughing at their new level of success, and a quick one indeed.

"We have to hurry," Yoshi said, as they both looked behind them to see Diddy descend on his first drop.

"Oh dear, I realized that we didn't mention piano at all when we were naming instruments," Luvbi said, slapping her own forehead as they both laughed.

"A whistle is an instrument," Yoshi said, tilting his head. "I learn new things every day."

Almost at the end of their journey, they walked up the inclined path of little angle that led to their final ride, a path that seemed of no difficulty at all to run up, but at their moment in the game seemed like an arduous hike, especially with the addition that they had traversed the entire amusement park back and forth, finally reaching the end and their final ride. Both of them groaned however when they came across an obstruction that they hadn't encountered before on any of their three previous missions: a line of Nokis and Piantas.

"Ah, shoot," Yoshi said, his heart dropping, along with their certain hopes of winning their free items of security to the next episode.

Diddy finished his round, as he stepped off the car of the coaster, obviously irate and doing a bad job keeping in his anger.

"It did, not, work!" he shouted, as soon as he stepped onto the platform floor, ear piece clutched in his hand.

"Well, our time is short, isn't it?" Bobbery said in a voice not as panicked or angry. "But that doesn't give our chances up. Let's win this game. Who's with me?" Nobody replied back with strength.

"With a broken ear piece?" Diddy retorted. Bobbery simply grabbed the object from Diddy and wasted no time starting the ride again, travelling upwards in the roller coaster track. All five players were in contemplation on what had happened to their only ear piece, a crucial object of their mission that now served more importance to them than ever before. Or at least, assumedly all five were in heavy wondering.

"So, I guess our game has been screwed up," Wario said, hanging his head and apparently not following the drift of Bobbery's optimism. "And this is just all great. We were even getting close to winning."

"Bobbery, can you hear me?" McHallyboo called out. There was no reply from the player.

"Okay, someone did something," Goombella stated. "Whether it was the Mole or maybe just the producer's fault, or, you know. In fact, I don't know at all."

"Guys, I really think it was the Mole," Vivian said out loud. "We were getting close to winning this game and an ear piece doesn't just break itself."

Diddy: So just saying that it was the Mole, I mean, why did they have to choose this mission? Why the mission where two other players could potentially get exemptions? It just made me so mad.

Goombella: Whoever did it knew they did it. This was definitely going into my journal as the most suspicious act so far in this entire game. This was so not getting ignored for as long as I'm playing.

Luvbi studied each Ferris wheel compartment of the ride that towered in front of them. Almost resembling an octopus, each gondola was extended by a branch of purple metal, spinning at a rate that gave the two players a spark of hope that perhaps each round of the ferris wheel was shorter than they thought.

"There are eight passenger gondolas," Luvbi calculated. "And there are sixteen people in front of us. Though on thought, I would assume that people would be riding together, lessening our time. We got this, or at least I hope."

"Riding together," Yoshi repeated, his eyes lightening up. He took out the fourth ticket they had just received and looked at their message printed at the bottom.

"Look," he said, showing the paper to Luvbi too. "Our mission says at the bottom 'Have not two, but three'. Maybe we're not supposed to ride alone with just two people, but have another person with us. That makes three people.

"So we're supposed to grab a player from the roller coaster and have them ride with us?" Luvbi asked, perplexed.

"Or maybe just a random person," Yoshi considered. They both turned ahead to see a lone Noki, old and wearing a brimmed hat along with a beard that extended past his navel. He looked in no relation to the two adult Piantas ahead of him, who were holding hands and making gestures to each other that indicated they were a couple.

"Okay, so just ask him to ride with us?" Luvbi said carefully.

"Yah, I guess." They both exchanged glances, as Luvbi stepped forwards and gave a small tap on the shoulder of the person in line in front of them. The elderly man turned around, sputtering at the same time and facing the two players of ambition.

"What is this going on!" he exclaimed, as Luvbi was taken back with a face that indicated she was averse to inviting him. Yoshi stepped forwards with a greeting smile on his face.

"Sir, we're just wondering if you wouldn't mind riding with us on the Ferris wheel," Yoshi informed him, still with a grin. "My friend and I have ridden this very ride SO many times before, but I'm afraid it's gotten so boring riding alone. We would love to have some company this time around though."

"You gentle lad, of course!" he replied, as both Yoshi and Luvbi eagerly stepped up to join him. "You know, you remind me of my grandson. He just hated doing things alone. He was always trying out new stuff!"

"Oh yes, me too!" Yoshi said, leaving and forcing Luvbi to listen to both the continuous whizzing of the roller coaster above and the pointless conversation that was taking place right besides her.

"Another three minutes wasted!" Diddy said, his anger at its max peak since the start of the entire episode. Bobbery gave him a glare as he stepped off the coaster car he was in.

"And this is none of our fault but the fault of the Mole!" Bobbery replied vehemently, giving the ear piece another good look before handing it to Vivian. "I won't be taking blame for an act of sabotage as degrading as this." Vivian turned to the roller coaster, still not exactly looking forward to her second round.

Vivian: With all the commotion going on, I just wasn't in the mood to go again at all.

"Maybe we don't even have to go," Vivian spoke up. "I don't even want to ride again, and the ear piece is broken." Goombella shook her head, giving Vivian a slight nudge towards the waiting car. Diddy seemed like he was giving up, sitting on the floor of the platform and not liking Vivian's words at all.

"Come on, we can't give up," Goombella said to her. "I don't know what happened to it but we got to try!"

"Yah, what if the ear piece comes up and starts working again!" Wario considered to her. "Then you'd be in serious trouble, sabotaging for us all."

Vivian looked at Goombella, and then walked straight to the seat of the roller coaster car buckled herself in, as the roller coaster sent off. And at the very top of the ride where the host would make his usual meaningful hearing check to the riding player, the other four could only hope that Vivian would give a reply of confirmation as McHallyboo spoke the line. They waited hopefully.

"Vivian, can you hear me?" the host asked. The lack of reply caused the other players to drop down in hope, most of them not holding any at all at that moment. With a single malfunction, their game was assumed over.

"Yes....McHallyboo, I can hear you!" came the voice of Vivian. "I just heard you!"

"Holy banana!" Diddy said, standing up from his position and being the first one to run up to McHallyboo's spot. "Vivian, really?"

"Yes, clearly!" she replied. The other three players had faces of both relief and ecstasy as Vivian made her first drop, her scream still being heard as loud as her time on the initial round.

"Vivian, Question 1!" McHallyboo spoke, louder than usual. "What was the full name of the player from Season 1 who made a cameo in the game Bag Savers?"

"His name was Blooper Inke!" Vivian screamed, going through her loop on the coaster.

"Oh bless me, I had the feeling hope for us wasn't over," Bobbery said with a pleased grin. Diddy nodded, as they all faced Vivian with new hope.

"Okay Vivian, next one," McHallyboo spoke out. "How many bags did Goombella and Bobbery fail to save while playing the second mission?" Vivian took a little while to hesitate, but her answer was wrong.

"Two?" she said.

"Incorrect," McHallyboo replied. The other players winced a little, but all anxious to reach their fifteen questions as fast as possible.

"Come on, Vivian," Goombella spoke into McHallyboo's device. "Just calm down and think each question."

"Okay," was her reply, as McHallyboo delivered her final question towards her.

"The value of the watermelon with the crucial exemption was worth how much?" said the host. Having been at the mission herself, Vivian closed her eyes, something not incredibly intelligent to do on a disorienting ride but something that helped her think, and remember.

"Four...thousand coins?" she spoke out, as her ride was nearing its final section.

"Correct!" The four players were filled with more excitement than ever as their question count was raised significantly, or at least for a round after so many absences. At twelve, they only needed three more in order to secure their safety, and their money.

Questions Obtained: 12/15

"It works!" Vivian cried to them, as she exited onto the ride platform. "It made a static sound, and then I could hear McHallyboo clearly."

"All right, well, we have to know who did this," Wario spoke up sharply, "cause this is way too suspicious for us to ignore!" Though greatly relieved, the others too were all still wondering the source of the ear piece's malfunction, and what had caused it. But more importantly, who had caused it.

"Well, our prime suspect is Goombella," Wario said out loud with a voice of certainty.

"Umm, no it wasn't!" she replied in a sure voice. "Okay, I wouldn't be stupid enough to make the ear piece break on the round I was riding the roller coaster. If I was the Mole, I'd be a stupid Mole. Wario, you had the ear piece before I rode it."

"So, you're saying I malfunctioned the ear piece before you went?" Wario laughed, rolling his eyes as well. "You're just blaming people now for no reason."

"There must have been a way you did something to it," Goombella said, still thinking.

"Enough," Bobbery said, speaking to everyone in particular. "We don't have to discuss this right now, especially in the midst of twenty thousand coins."

"What if the Mole hides evidence right now?" Wario thought, almost in a yell, "and I'll be riding next! This is just the worst spot to be riding at this moment!" Diddy sighed, then dug his hands into his pockets and inverted them, displaying them to all around him.

"Okay, everyone empty out your pockets," Diddy said, half-jokingly but at the same time in a sense of seriousness. "Whoever has a screwdriver is the Mole, right? Or with a fishy object in their pockets."

"I don't have time for ANY of this," Wario said, getting heated up. "I'm riding, and I'm going to get those three final questions for you all!"

"I'm afraid there's no need," said the voice of the person behind them, taking them all by surprise. Luvbi walked up to their spot, giving a half smile to the other five players as well as to the host himself. Behind her was Yoshi, smiling as well and holding all four marked tickets in his hand that secured their exemptions.

Exemption Rides: 4/4

The race of the rides was over.

Diddy: I hate the Mole for choosing THIS mission to sabotage. Now two more people have exemptions, and then we also lost the twenty thousand coins. If I'm executed this episode then someone is never going to be forgiven.

Vivian: I'm just happy that I was able to do my part in the game. Riding that roller coaster twice in one day was such a huge success, and even though we didn't win any money that game, I felt like a winner.

Goombella: The whole ear piece mystery is just killing me, and I'm just going to think about it a lot for the rest of the day. I know I didn't do it. And I know someone else tampered with it. Someone is responsible and that person is still in this game.

Wario: I can't believe the culprit who messed up the ear piece isn't taking any blame! I'm telling you...someone's a liar here, and I'm going to get to the bottom of this, as much as it'll kill me in the process.

Luvbi: I need to rely on someone truthful to give me the information I missed during the roller coaster part of the mission. But none the less, I am quite happy with my exemption. It's a relief once again in this game, a game rarely consisting of any relief at all.

Yoshi: I keep on hearing the phrase "malfunctioned ear piece" and I'm still not certain what it's all about. Something fishy was going on in the other game so I gotta learn all about that.

Bobbery: Personally, the malfunctioned ear piece is the greatest sabotage yet. But even before that, there were suspicious actions. Vivian failed to answer questions quickly enough on her first round. Diddy caused a few fights, bringing up some unneeded tensions. Wario caused a commotion that was long enough to distract us until Luvbi and Yoshi arrived. If there was no commotion, then we could have gotten those last three questions in time. There goes a value of 20,000 coins.

Needless to say, the Mole had done their significant part in sabotaging that very mission. But whether or not they would decide to sabotage the next mission didn't matter. What did matter were the contents of their next game and the people involved, taking place at the location where the seven players had met at the conclusion of their first game, and where two people were granted objects of immortality, or at least until Episode 5. McHallyboo had given them an hour of relaxation around the park until they were sent back to their boat, but not off to Delfino Plaza. And though disappointed that their relaxation was ephemeral, things were about to get more tense as McHallyboo stood in front of them all. The players were seated in front of him, at the only table within one of the two boats that bobbed at the edge of the island of attractions.

"So, I suppose you guys enjoyed your first game, but even more the free time you received directly afterwards around the park," the host assumed. "Luvbi and Yoshi, you hold exemptions. They will bring you to the next episode." He handed each player a card of green color, both of them taking it with care and gratefulness.

Goombella: The thing I really noticed was that a boat, looking almost exactly identical of ours, was right there besides ours when we came back to the beach. All the producers came with us on our boat, so the second boat's existence made me really think that something was up.

"Because you failed to stop them, the pot gains no money and remains at seventy-seven thousand coins," McHallyboo told them. "Which is still good, don't get me wrong. It's just, you should have tried harder."

"Yeah, if only the Mole didn't do their little wimpy act with the ear piece," Wario snarled.

"No worries," McHallyboo informed them, "because though we're already into Episode 4, more episodes still remain, meaning more missions! And with more episodes also comes more executions for you all." The players looked at each other.

"As we came back to the beach, some of you might have noticed that another boat arrived here at Pinna Park," McHallyboo said, introducing the next mission. "All those passengers entered into the park while you were relaxing. You know them all. They are your loved ones, who arrived here this very morning." All seven players turned to McHallyboo in a second of disbelief, their feelings varied with jolts of happiness.

"Wait, who?" Diddy spoke up loud. "Is Dixie here? I wanna see her right now!"

"Oh my," said Vivian, unsure of who would be visiting her. The other players displayed their similar feelings, though still focusing on McHallyboo.

"As you know, it wasn't so easy in Season 1," McHallyboo informed them, as they all felt dismay in his words. "And this time around it won't be any easier, I'm afraid. The mission is quite simple though. Each one of your loved ones is being taken on a tour around the park to every ride. To see your loved one, a prediction must be made on whether or not they would ride the roller coaster if they were brought up to it. If the prediction is correct, you earn money, as well as gain access to spending tonight with them."

"And, if the prediction is wrong, then…?" Wario asked, the others already knowing the answer.

"They'll be shipped back," the host said flatly. "You will miss out completely with a reunion. But the question is, who do you trust? Because the prediction won't be made by you. It has to be made by another player of your choice." As the players looked at each other from around the table, some of their eyes met, their faces telling each other without a single word that the trust between the two of them was scarce, nearly at the level of non-existence.

So who can you trust really? Well if anyone, at least not McHallyboo, hehe.

A kudos to GoldenArcher96 for creating an execution program of more resemblance to Season 1! I can't even comprehend how to create a program like that in the first place at all, so very impressive and thank you ^.^

I apologize for the late update. A lot happened in my life. In fact, I found a new person, and you know, there had been a lot of drama and less time on the computer than normal, due to some actions of other people. But overall, everything is happiness and settled for the most part =)

But all besides that, the website is updated, and all up to date! The Mole is still at large, and six players are still fighting to win. Who's the one stopping the game with their yells of sabotage? Who is the Mole?

The episode's end takes a turn towards US Season 5, involving a stealing of one of my personal favorite missions, hehe. Stay tuned!