The end of Episode 4 is here! Twists and drama are revealed as the game loses one more.

Episode 4 (Final Part)

Vivian panicked at the site of the low-value number that glowed red, changing with each passing number. The final decision was on her, as Professor Frankly stood with no sign of motion on the monitor. Closing her eyes she pressed the red button, then faced McHallyboo with a nervous smile.

"Okay, I said no," Vivian said, teeth clenched. "I don't think he would ride it, just because he's so old and is a professor."

"The final five-thousand coins depends on this," McHallyboo reminded her, "as well as the news of the final reunion."

"Goombella put her trust into me," Vivian said cheerlessly, "so if I get this wrong, I don't think she'll ever think that again." She was led out, as McHallyboo walked to the gate for the final time, Goombella following close behind him and waiting for the last answer of their game.

"Vivian is just trustworthy, despite what everyone thinks about her," Goombella said to McHallyboo. "I mean, I don't think anyone suspects her as the Mole, but they think she's an inexperienced player and everyone thinks they'll beat her." They stood by the gate, the clock drifting to 4PM as an early sunset was drifting into the sky.

"Well, here's the final result," McHallyboo said. "If Vivian guessed correctly, then you will reunite with Professor Frankly."

"Oh, I hope," Goombella said, looking at the gate. Feeling the tension from everyone around her across the beach, she waited, seconds passing as the sky seemed to change color in a pessimistic way. Goombella waited, face appearing less hopeful and turning more into a worried look.

"Goombella?" came a voice from the gate. Goombella hopped at the sight of her professor.

"Oh, I knew it!" Goombella said with a high level of happiness, running up to him with a smile.

"Why, if it isn't my star student, off on another adventure," Professor Frankly commented, then to Goombella's delight added, "and making me even more proud of what she's doing. Whatever crazy thing it is." At his appearance, the final pot winnings for the game were confirmed. The mission appeared complete for the day.

Goombella: Yes, yes, I knew it. I knew I could count on Vivian. And we just ended this mission with a blast, so it was worth it.

Frankly: Money based on whether I would ride a roller coaster or not! This world is getting more corrupt when it comes to betting.

As both student and teacher met at the beach, all players were reunited, most of them as well reunited with someone by their side of importance and comfort. McHallyboo came to their spot, looking somewhat pleased and having a look on his face that told everyone that there was something else he was going to mention, that would twist the status' of some of the present players. But none the less, he was there to give the final results.

"After the guesses and buttons of this game, twists and turns, and joys and anguishes that occurred, your mission ends with the winnings of ten thousand coins. Well done!" The applause that appeared was magnified, due to the occupancy of people being much greater and nearly doubled.

"I've heard enough money awards for a life time," Birdo couldn't help saying, as the others around her laughed.

"Most of you have been reunited due to this game, but unfortunately, Wario and Bobbery, your loved ones were not retrieved." Both players were seemingly out of place among the crowd, as they only looked with disappointed looks at the host.

Bobbery: Couldn't believe a game could be so harsh. The shame that also followed for being alone was just far too great as well. I caused one of the downfalls, but I as well didn't deserve one too.

Wario: I was just going to give a knuckle sandwich to McHallyboo for saying that line again. He was basically pointing out the obvious for no reason, maybe to just make me more mad at him than I already was.

"But in this game we always give chances, don't we?" the host said, and though the players strongly disagreed with the statement he just said, they were definitely pulled at a level of attention for the next part of their game. McHallyboo pointed to the boat across the beach, the one where the six rounds of their previous mission had taken place in.

"Both Flavio and Waluigi are in that boat," McHallyboo explained. "They can be saved, but the ticket for one of them to come off before the boat leaves is an exemption card." Almost immediately, all eyes turned to Luvbi and Yoshi, who both looked at McHallyboo incredulously.

"The boat is scheduled to leave back to the Mushroom Kingdom in about...two minutes, more or less," the host said. "Luvbi and Yoshi, it's up to you. But remember: once you sacrifice your exemption card, you're eligible for the execution tonight. You're throwing away all security. The only people to be at discussion here are Luvbi, Yoshi, Bobbery, and Wario." The guests, new to the format of the game, were taken back by its intensity. With unsure minds, they could only watch as the final part of the game was soon to be settled.

"Great," Wario said with disapproval. "Only two guys for persuasion. Now what am I supposed to say?" He looked at the two players who were holding the all-important cards in their hands.

"Well," said Luvbi, hesitant and looking at the players around her. "You don't have to say anything." Wario stepped up almost instantly to the two of them, his face glowering as he took his steps.

"Okay, two minutes," Wario said, his voice sounding more irate than anything. "You take this offer or I'll knock you all up!"

"Easy, Wario," Bobbery spoke calmly, then with a whisper said, "In times like this, we don't take the aggressive side." He turned to Yoshi.

"Lad, you'd be willing to take an exemption for a better cause, right?" Bobbery said with a smile. Yoshi remained silent.

"It's a simple, single night," Luvbi stated, holding the exemption card tightly in her own hand. "You've survived seven without someone of comfort. What has changed?"

"The fact that you all get to see your loved ones!" Wario said in a vehement voice. "You're making this harder than it is, so just give the cards!" Luvbi shook her head, still strong, but Yoshi looked down at the ground, still silent to himself and everyone around him.

"Just face it," Wario said, his eyes getting heavier with anger, focusing more on Yoshi. "How can you be so full of evil? How can you sleep tonight knowing what you did?" Some of the players present took Wario's statement strongly, disturbed at the true intensity the game was taking.

"Yoshi, can you?" Wario repeated, his voice almost at the level of a yell in question form. "Can you sleep tonight if you don't give in your exemption? Will you be able to sleep tonight, knowing the pain you're going to cause us all?" Yoshi shook his head, to Wario's satisfaction.

"You're a wimp regardless," Wario added, looking him in the eyes. "But you're more of a wimp if you can't give your card away."

"O...okay," Yoshi said insecurely, looking back at Wario. "I'm sorry. I'll give my card." He walked over to McHallyboo and handed him his card.

"I don't need it," the host said, then pointed to the boat in the distance, "but they do." As Yoshi trudged his way to the boat, some noticed the hurt expression on his face. Luvbi, a little shocked herself at Wario's words, continued to stand where she was, not bothering to take the same action.

"Your punches may succeed, but words can always be dodged," Luvbi spoke to Wario, her mood appearing strong. "You can't hurt me with vulgar words like you just displayed."

Diddy: Dang, Wario just totally guilted Yoshi. He may appear big-minded, but I never knew he could coerce that strongly and speak so rough to somebody like that.

"Surely it doesn't affect us as much," Bobbery spoke, trying to get his point across to Luvbi, "but imagine being in our place. Your father, unable to see you, but with a possibility to see you in less than a few seconds." Luvbi's mouth opened slightly as her eyes met with her own father, who moved his head in a slight nod. Flavio stepped out of the boat and spotted Bobbery right away.

"Well, it's him all right!" Bobbery explained, standing tall as the entrepreneur walked towards Bobbery with a grin and a royal-like gait. Luvbi sighed, and swiftly turned around to walk towards the boat too, as everyone cheered. Or at least, almost everybody.

Goombella: I didn't think Wario deserved anything after seeing his method of forcing people to do things. I would have thought that Luvbi or Yoshi especially deserved to keep an exemption, more than Wario deserved to see Waluigi.

Bobbery: Wario took unneeded words, and I even displayed myself how taking the passive side and showing people politely was the proper way to go.

"Wha, you scared me!" Waluigi said, walking up to Wario as they gave each other a brotherly handshake. "I thought I came here all for nothing."

"Well, lighten up, you helped my place in the game even more," Wario couldn't help adding, as Luvbi turned to him with disgust.

"Oh, Flavio," Goombella realized, laughing as she went to greet him. "I predicted earlier that you were going to ride the roller coaster...oh, how dumb of me." Everyone laughed, as Flavio gave out a sheepish grin. McHallyboo looked at the sky, then back at the players.

"Well, players," the host spoke up, "let's get a bigger boat, shall we?"

The fact that they were eating at Durian Café for almost the fiftieth time didn't bore the players at all. Seven unfamiliar guests sat at the table that vitalized the game, as each player could chat comfortably for once and not worry about anything around them. Diddy, however, was clearly obsessed, writing in his journal from underneath.

"Diddy!" Dixie said with exasperation, snapping his journal shut. "Why do you have to keep on writing in your diary? We're eating food."

"It's not exactly a diary," Diddy whispered, "It's a journal. I'm tracking everything I remember. Sabotage, that ear piece chaos, and all that good stuff. And I'm focused right now." Dixie raised an eyebrow at him before sighing, turning to her own meal.

"All right," she said, grabbing a banana, then teasingly whacking Diddy in the head with the yellow fruit.

"Yoshi, your journal is important," Birdo said quietly, standing it up against her plate. "We didn't have one in Season 1. You can use this one to a big advantage."

"So what should I start writing?" Yoshi said, flipping through the pages to show Birdo his plethora of scribbles.

"People's reactions," Birdo instructed. "You know someone's different. So while everyone else has similar reactions, one of them will be acting different. Remember, you're at an advantage here. I'm your help." Yoshi nodded, a thankful smile on his face.

"Well, excuse me Vivian," Beldam spoke to her sister, "but you still haven't told me what this game is all about." She herself wasn't finding the food of Delfino Plaza to be favorable, her plate only having a few pieces of poached fish. Her sister however was clearly accustomed, having been at the same location for over a week.

"Oh sis, it's all about-"

"Someone's a saboteur, is that correct?" Professor Frankly spoke up. "Then according to my calculations, these seven have been fighting effortlessly to unmask this double agent. However, that's an overstatement. The real value of genuine and legitimate players is simply six, is it not Goombella?" Goombella laughed, nudging her professor and rolling her eyes.

"Father, this game doesn't have any trustworthy people," Luvbi whispered, turning to him first and then at every other person sitting at the table. "It's unnerving." She shook her head, reminding herself of the very fact by saying it out loud.

"Well, yes, I must agree," her father pointed out, pointing towards Wario's guest besides him. "His image is like he's plotting an evil scheme-"

"No, not currently, but the players themselves," Luvbi corrected. "What should I do when I'm aware that no one else is trustworthy?" The king shook his head slightly at her.

"Keep a keen eye, because there's at least one other trustworthy person in this game," he advised. "You just can't see them yet.." Luvbi nodded, and while turning back to her food, secretly smiled to herself. She went back to eating her crab cake.

"Why wasn't FLAVIO on this show?" the explorer besides Bobber exclaimed. "This succulent food, and all its ocean goodness...I'd like a glass of salt water to wash this all!"

"Eww," commented Goombella, as Bobbery only gave out a jovial laugh. Goombella turned to McHallyboo besides her.

"So, mister host," she said teasingly, "Any more missions that will scare us?"

"Yeah, like what you did just a few hours back?" Waluigi remembered, then nudged his brother and said, "This host is just more sadistic than I am, isn't he?"

"Known that since Day 1," Wario said, simultaneously staring at the host with angry eyes.

"Unfortunately, it appears there are no more missions for this episode," McHallyboo told them all. "But it's nice to see a few new faces around here after a while. Just brightens up my day. Or rather, night."

"Just coming here to Isle Delfino brightened up my day," Diddy's girlfriend said, stretching out her arms. "And seeing my boyfriend of course." Luvbi looked outside at the night sky, reminding her of the usual routine of the game and a certain aspect of it.

"The execution isn't tonight, is it?" Luvbi said with alarm. As McHallyboo shook his head, everyone sighed.

"Well, I believe our time of festivities ends tonight," Bobbery announced, holding up his glass. "Today was stressful, but we ended the day free of worry, didn't we? A toast to our most superior moment of relaxation!" Everyone agreed and shouted out, glass rims reunited, just as each player had done with their loved one throughout the course of the day. Half of them were leaving tonight, but the moment was treasured.

Vivian: Just seeing everyone with family made me so happy! I'm sure everyone was letting go of the game and just enjoying the moment together.

Luvbi: Well, my exemption simply vanished. I'm sure Waluigi didn't enjoy the celebration as much as the others did. In cases like these, my morals are mixed.

There was a full day's length before the next execution. The fact that their luggage was settled back in Ricco Harbor was forgotten by the players, as they took a final trip back to the industrialized port, Delfino Plaza no longer serving as their home for the game.

Each player woke up to a feeling of dragging dread, knowing that tonight they had a possibility of heading home in almost the same fashion as their loved ones had the previous night. With no mission for the remainder of the day the players found time to discuss deeply, focusing on what was happening in the game and what had happened as well. Diddy, Yoshi, and Goombella were inside the first house of Ricco Harbor's edge, the three of them in a single room.

"Why are we here instead of roaming outside?" Goombella said, taking a glance at the sun-shined sea outside the window and a slow-paced crane moving around.

"Because in here, we're completely confidential," Yoshi said, grinning and turning to Diddy.

"Yeah, what he said," Diddy agreed. "We're here to talk secret and to keep it a secret."

Yoshi: The episode pretty much took the entirety of yesterday, so today was our collecting day, to reflect on everything that happened in the past twenty-four hours.

"Bobbery seems happier now," Yoshi told the others. "Either because of last night's happy dinner, or-"

"He knew that he completely sabotaged and butchered Episode 4," Diddy finished. Yoshi pointed to him excitedly.

"You read my mind!" he exclaimed, only for Diddy to hush him and look around cautiously.

"Hey, just because we're in a room doesn't mean we're completely sound proof," Diddy whispered, as the three of them turned to the door. Goombella shook her head.

"Did anyone find it weird out Wario just kept blaming me yesterday?" she decided to say. "Like, even though I kept on denying it, he was really strong about it."

"Yeah, his words are strong," Yoshi said bitterly.

"Maybe he thinks you're the Mole," Diddy said to Goombella. "Maybe he wanted you to confess and break loose your thoughts. But I know you're not the Mole, Goombella."

"Thanks," Goombella said gratefully. Yoshi's eyes averted from Goombella' direction to his journal, at his most recent page:

Suspects for Episode 4:

Goombella and Bobbery

"Nah, I don't think you're the Mole either, Goombella," Yoshi said also, as Goombella smiled with relief.

"What I think is...the Mole probably likes blaming other people," Goombella said to them, thinking. "Maybe Wario was trying to switch the blame to someone else, and decided to pick me. Guys...maybe he was the one who tampered with the ear piece."

"Oh come on, you're calling the king of micro-games the Mole," Diddy said, giving her a ridiculing look.

"Well, it's possible," Goombella said, voice sounding tired. She sat down, eyes focused more on the carpeting than anything. Yoshi took out his journal and went over it, scanning each piece of info and keeping it away from Goombella. Diddy stood up and looked out the window, at first shielding his eyes at the level of light, but then spotting three other players outside. Little to any of their knowledge, they were engaged in a Mole-filled conversation as well.

"Well, Goombella could be the Mole," Vivian said, her voice sounding unsure. "But...like, she picked me as trustworthy in that mission. I just thought that was weird."

"And maybe she predicted you would lose the round, Vivian," Bobbery considered, looking up at the yellow house and barely missing Diddy's existence from the second floor window. "You know, someone like her could play the best role as saboteur, in my opinion."

"I agree," Wario butted in. "And come on, the ear piece incident wasn't an accident. Whoever thinks it was an accident is out of their mind. Goombella is the only possible person who could have done it." He looked around, then back at the hotel door, scratching his head with mystification.

"Where's Luvbi anyway?" Wario asked, appearing perplexed.

"She's in her room," Vivian informed them. "She had a deck of cards is all I know. And...well, she told me that she didn't want to be anywhere near you." As she said that sentence, she kept her eyes on none other than Wario.

"What?" Wario said, surprised himself. "All because of me?"

"Wario, your words against Yoshi were not liked by me in the smallest amount," Bobbery said sternly. "You don't force words like that, even within a game." Wario looked at the elderly player with a hint of regret, though still not truly seeing his own fault.

"Hey, but exactly," Wario argued, arguing his point. "It was a game. You all took my words way too seriously. I just wanted to see Waluigi and they weren't letting me."

"They did deserve their exemptions though," Vivian said with opinion.

"Well," Wario said, stepping away from the other two momentarily, "I'm writing their names down. They're two suspects I'm not letting go off." Journal in hand, he went against the wall and wrote down two names directly into his journal: Goombella and Luvbi.

"Oh dear," Vivian said quietly with realization. "My journal is practically…empty." Bobbery slipped his journal open that was in his possession, discreetly so the others didn't realize that he was reminding himself of his latest journal conundrum. Reading it carefully, he nodded:

Main Sabotage:

Ear Piece. Potential Suspects: D G W V

"Well, I need to complete some of my own journal entries, before I forget about them," he said to his two teammates, then turned to the window of the hotel once again, catching a movement in the corner of his eye. It wasn't Diddy this time, but Luvbi, who swiftly turned away from the window and returned to the solace in her room.

The lone player had a deck of cards in her possession, a few of the cards laid out on the carpet in a baffling fashion that only she could understand. On her left, the four kings lay face up along with a single ace. She looked at them hard, then picked the five cards up into her hand and shuffled them elegantly, her eyes closed at the same time.

"It's one of them," she said silently. Then, after her action of shuffling her short pile, took one card off from the top. Turning over slowly, it was exposed to be the ace card. Luvbi looked surprised, but then smiled, turning to see her open journal besides her and what she had written in it that morning:

Plans of Today:

1. Test Possibilities

2. Unnerve enemies

The Mole was tired.

The sky was as dark as it was the previous night, but the table they were eating at was a whole level gloomier. There was no longer the liveliness of last night but the quiet eating of the usual players as they ate within one of the Ricco Harbor houses. The other sound that was being heard was the constant paper flipping of their journals, as info was being collected for their upcoming quiz.

"This calamari is so raw," Goombella said, disgusted. Bobbery picked one for himself and was attempting to chew the rubbery seafood, but finally shook his head and spit it out.

"Well, Ricco Harbor," Bobbery pointed out, looking at the fisherman-esque dishes around the table. "What more can you expect?"

"Where's the fruit?" Yoshi said, voice disappointed. "We always have fruit somewhere."

"This dinner lacks of greens as well," Luvbi noticed, searching the table. "I'd really enjoy a seaweed salad if we're stuck in a place this."

"Wow, you guys are more worried about the food on the table than the execution tonight?" Diddy exclaimed, his plate nearly empty of seafood. "I guess I'm the only one who deserves to go through to the next round. Episode 5, and so on."

"Me too," Wario said, siding with Diddy as well as grabbing an entire fish head from the middle of the table, which apparently nobody else favored. "I mean, I'm as focused as anything and I guess I'm making it to the final round. With Diddy, and the Mole."

"I apologize for tonight's dinner," said McHallyboo, "and I apologize for...this." He took out a piece of soaked paper from his pocket, careful to prevent it from tearing. The ink on it still visible and legible, all players got a closer look at the message from none other than the Mole, wherever McHallyboo had achieved it from:

I'm tired...tired to do anything proper today. My body must ache.

Tired of all of you...you think you got me. But I secretly get back at you. Hope tonight's a disappointment.

-Moley-oley

"Moley-oley...hmm, does that mean anything?" Vivian repeated. The players looked harder at the piece of paper, as McHallyboo continued to eat his food.

"Tonight, it'll be up to you to decide who's trustworthy, and who's not," the host told them. "You'll all be taking the fourth quiz...soon." As the Mole looked at his or her own paper in the middle of the dinner table, the players' stomachs turned, not only at the looks of their leftover food but at the news that McHallyboo excitedly announced to them so many times that day.

The laptop was situated in a single room, in a house that none of the players had occupied as a sleeping quarter the night before. Led into the house closest to the entrance of Ricco Harbor one by one, they took their ten-question quiz about the Mole, separately.

1. What gender is the Mole?

-Male

-Female

The Mole chuckled to themself, answering the first question with ease.

2. What was the Mole's role in Race of the Rides?

-A Rider

-A Roamer

Luvbi: So Diddy keeps on assigning roles to people, even up to this episode. He's made it so accustomed to us that we overlooked it. Maybe that was his plan, to keep everyone thinking it's simply just something normal.

Wario: Even though I mostly focused on Goombella during the Race of the Rides game, I just had to add Vivian to my list of suspects. I mean, she could barely talk during her roller coaster round. That was the most suspicious thing that struck out to me.

3. How many times did the Mole ride the roller coaster during the first mission?

-Once

-Twice

-Three times

-None

Vivian: When Bobbery rode the roller coaster, he had a large amount of time to answer his questions. But he rushed through them, only got one correct, and had to spend the remainder of the ride question-less. With all the ear piece chaos, I'm sure we overlooked small stuff like him.

Goombella: Wario had the ear piece directly in his pocket when he handed it to me. If Wario's the Mole, then I'm the only one who knows that.

4. During the first part of Relative Ride, was the Mole able to see their loved one?

-Yes

-No

Luvbi: Both Bobbery and Goombella had to do two rounds during Relative Ride, but failed a round each. Putting myself into the Mole's position, I would have done the same thing, shifting innocence by saving one person but at the same time costing money.

5. The Mole's loved one had what relation to them?

-Girlfriend/Wife

-Professor

-Shipmate

-Sibling

-Parent

Bobbery: Birdo being Yoshi's loved one, would that be allowed? She was a player on our very first season and probably knew all the secrets to this game, giving some illegal tips to Yoshi during her stay. I would have banned her from coming.

6. Has the Mole every obtained an exemption so far?

-Yes, and used

-Yes, but taken/given away

-No

Yoshi: I don't suspect Luvbi, but the thing that I noticed is that she's been grabbing all the exemptions in this game. Maybe she's trying to keep the game fair by preventing genuine players from getting them. If she's the Mole, they serve no use to her.

7. How many times was the Mole brought into the Relative Guessing Boat?

-Once

-Twice

-None

Diddy: I've rarely seen Vivian using journal. Does she even know what it's used for? Or maybe she's the Mole and doesn't need to take notes. Possibilities, possibilities.

8. Which house of Ricco Harbor is the Mole currently sleeping in?

-The Yellow House

-The Blue House

Diddy: I thought Goombella was crazy for thinking Wario could be the Mole, but I mean, he would be a perfect choice. If I was a producer on this show I'd definitely pick him to be the Mole. But for some reason, I just doubt it.

9. The Mole's loved one reached the roller coaster dock in what order during Relative Ride?

-First

-Second

-Third

-Fourth

-Fifth

-Sixth

-Never

Bobbery: This game is tense, and is going to become more tense as the Mole's intelligence grows in this game. The longer they're here, the more they've become adapted, and by becoming adapted, they know the players even more. We're entering another level of threat.

10. Who is the Mole?

-Diddy

-Luvbi

-Yoshi

-Vivian

-Wario

-Goombella

-Bobbery

Directly across from Ricco Harbor's main entrance was a short building of multi-structure: having three gates, it appeared as if three small-sized storage buildings were wedged together into one. The middle gate was raised open as the players entered into the dark quarters.

"Come, take your seat," McHallyboo said, as if he was preparing something for all of them. The players took this routine as regular as they were each seated, their chairs slightly farther away from each other than normal. In front of them all was a television. Besides each seat and hooked to the television laid a hand trigger.

"What's going on?" Yoshi asked, looking at the slime that covered the floor like a penetrable carpeting.

"This is the slaughter house," McHallyboo told them all, as each player looked at him with realized horror. "It's cleaned every night, and the smell is long refreshed due to health restrictions. An appropriate place for your last mission of this episode, isn't it?" The players turned to McHallyboo in shock, the twist of their episode about to be announced.

"You said there weren't anymore missions!" Diddy shouted out to the host . McHallyboo smiled, knowing that his sentence at last night's dinner was taken out of context.

"What are we going to do?" Luvbi said, sighing and knowing that their game was already in motion.

"This mission is called Execution Roulette," the host announced, as the television flicked on. This time, something else was displayed on the monitor besides the usual green thumbprint: a green circle divided evenly into seven sections had each of their names in it, a piece of the circle holding a name each respectively. The title of their mission was displayed clear at the top of the screen in red text.

"Now, this is how the game works," McHallyboo began, his voice more serious. "One by one, a name will be selected among the circle pieces. That person will then face the execution screen, and will have their fate determined. But, before they're up to the actual screen, three chosen players can choose to save them." The players listened even closer.

"If the player about to face the execution screen is saved, they are skipped over and exempt from execution for tonight," the host continued, as the players immediately looked at each other hurriedly, though with anxious confusion.

"Exempted?" Bobbery said with a scoff.

"Every player who is selected to be saved from tonight's execution will add 3,000 coins to the pot, as well as each person who is not chosen by the circle at all. However, it will be to the decision of just three players to save them, chosen at random as well. If a person is not chosen to be saved, they will be fated to face the execution screen. You can earn the full 21,000 coins tonight by not allowing an execution tonight, or lose it through your own selfishness to save another. Let the games begin."

Every one of them watched the monitor to see a shade of red on the screen, rotating wildly within the circle and going over every one of their names, as the players could only watch anxiously at the first selected victim. When it was done moving, only one area of the green circle was the color of red: Goombella's.

"What?" she said with confusion, as three names appeared towards the side of the circle: Luvbi, Wario, Vivian. A number 20 as well flashed to the other side of the circle, counting down. All eyes turned to Goombella.

"Guys," Goombella said, turning to see the other three whose names were on the screen. "Guys, you can save me. The triggers!." All players turned to the triggers which existed by all of the seats, cords scattered everywhere and all leading towards the monitor.

"I'm always helping the team," Goombella said, her eyes filled with worry.

"More like sabotaging whenever you can," Wario snorted, watching the time to tick to 15. "We shouldn't even be playing a game like this."

"But this is a mission!" Goombella pointed out to him. "If you don't save me, then you're sabotaging this very second. Three thousand coins are at risk."

"You think money is in relevance?" Luvbi spoke to her. "Not right now. I want to play this fair."

"We can play this fair!" Goombella said with realization. "We can all be saved tonight! And then earn 21,000 extra coins for us all!"

"I want to play fair too!" Wario explained to her. "And by that, no one is being saved tonight. That's my final word." Vivian looked hesitantly at the trigger on the floor besides her, then back at Goombella, whose face displayed a look of panic. The timer continued to shrink.

"You deserve to be saved," Vivian said out loud, confidently picking up the trigger on the floor besides her and pressing down on it. "You trusted me, and now I trust you." At that instant, everything to the sides of the green circle vanished, and to Goombella's relief, her piece within the circle as well. As she looked at Vivian with a wholehearted smile of thanks, the red shade went crazy once again. Finally, it stopped, Wario's piece in the color of red.

"Oh, you're joking me," Wario muttered, as three names flashed along with the twenty-second timer: Yoshi, Vivian, Goombella.

"Oh, look now," Goombella said, a satisfied look on her face. Wario glared at her, then looked back at the screen, then to the selected other players sitting in the chairs besides him.

"Well, we're aiming for everyone to be saved, right?" Wario decided to speak up, giving a false smile to Vivian whose trigger was back on the ground. "Good job Vivian in the first round! Now just press the button again."

"Hold it," Goombella spoke quickly, turning to Wario fully. "You didn't want to save me like, two seconds ago. Now what?"

"I said I'm keeping it fair!" Wario explained to her, as Vivian looked hesitantly at her own trigger. "Since you were saved, we should all be saved!"

"No, don't save him!" Yoshi spoke out loud, as all eyes turned to him. "He verbally attacked me! He's just going to do it to you next!"

"Wha? No!" Wario exclaimed. "That was all part of the game!"

"No it wasn't," Yoshi said bitterly. "The way you play this game is getting worse and worse. Out of all people, you don't deserve to be saved at all."

"You're the biggest liar here," Wario groaned, as the timer ticked to a new number: 5.

"Vivian!" Wario growled at her.

"No, don't!"

"I…" Vivian said, as the timer expired. At the sight of the number zero, everything on the screen vanished, leaving only the usual green thumbprint background to be displayed on the monitor.

"It's all your fault!" Wario shouted, as McHallyboo turned to the keyboard next to him, typing in the fated player's name.

"My fault?" Diddy said, sitting back in his chair, thankful that his name was not mentioned even once. "Don't blame me. I'm just sitting here and watching the drama unfold."

W-A-R-I-O

"If I'm executed, then you're all put to shame," Wario said, glaring at all three of them. "Every one of you."

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GREEN

As Wario gave a look of shock and relief, the circle appeared once again, the red shade spinning and spinning with just five pieces of the circle remaining. Once it fell flat, only one of the pieces remained the color of red: Yoshi's.

"No!" Yoshi gasped, seeing his own name selected. As the timer started its count down, three other names appeared immediately: Diddy, Luvbi, and Bobbery.

"Please, guys," Yoshi begged, turning towards his three fate determiners. "Don't do this to me!"

"I'm…staying neutral again," Luvbi said with certainty. "I cannot justly tilt this game. This game is just unjust itself. Yoshi, my apologies."

"Diddy!" Yoshi said, turning to the monkey. "I'll help you! Just save me and I will, I promise!"

"Yosh, I mean, you did good," Diddy said to him. "But anything to make me survive, Yoshi. Don't take this wrong, you know?" As Yoshi gave him a look of disbelief, the timer ticked to 10.

"But I'm your friend, right?" Yoshi said, becoming more panicked as the timer got closer to ending. "I don't deserve this at all! Please don't let me face execution!"

"Yoshi, when blaming Wario for his vulgar actions the other day," Bobbery pointed out to him, his voice almost in a scolding manner, "you did just the same back. I believe you both deserve equal, I daresay, punishment." Yoshi hung his head as the timer ticked down, numbers headed towards zero.

"But what you did do was sacrifice for a good reason," Bobbery added, reaching for his trigger. "And no good deed goes unpunished. I guess you have been punished enough, haven't you?"

As Bobbery pressed down on the button, Yoshi let out an overpowered sigh as his piece dropped out of the circle. With only four names left, the red shade spun more and more, this time, landing on its fourth piece. Luvbi's piece was now red, as she was next to face judgment.

"No," Luvbi whispered, looking at the names that appeared on the monitor as well as her own: Wario, Goombella, and Diddy.

"Obviously I'm not at a good position," Luvbi said, rolling her eyes as she watched the timer tick down. "But I beseech you: show mercy."

"Oh, give me a break," Wario said to her immediately. "You even said yourself that this method of saving people was unjust."

"Of course I did," she replied. Diddy laughed, holding his own trigger in his hand for fun, watching the time tick by on the monitor in front of them all.

"So basically you screwed yourself over," Diddy laughed, as Luvbi shot him a look that showed resentment. "Now it's your turn, and because you're not trustworthy enough, no one's gonna choose you!"

"Oh, you're talking about yourself as well, aren't you?" Luvbi shot back. "What goes around comes around." Diddy looked back at the circle on the screen and shrugged, letting his trigger drop to the floor.

"Luvbi…," Goombella decided to speak. As she shook her head, Luvbi faced the monitor with full attention, the circle disappearing and instead displaying nothing but the green thumbprint. McHallyboo turned to the keyboard and began entering her name in.

"Let this be decided," Luvbi said, her voice directed to everyone around her, including the host. He pressed the enter button.

L-U-V-B-I

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The roulette started spinning once again as Luvbi's face displayed a look of half reassurance and half surprise. Rotating on the remaining pieces left in the circle, it spun further and further as the red color went over each of the three remaining pieces.

"Please not me," Vivian said audibly. It stopped on Diddy's.

"Me, finally," Diddy said to himself, then faced to see the names that appeared besides the circle: Bobbery, Yoshi, and Wario.

Diddy: I was really hoping for Goombella's name to appear, but dang. Now I needed to persuade these three.

"None of you have anything to lose," Diddy said in his chair, looking at Wario and Yoshi.

"Pfft," Wario said with a shake of his head. "I haven't saved anyone up to this point, and after Goombella ruined up the first round, I'm not bothering to save anyone anymore."

"I didn't ruin anything!" Goombella argued. "You, Wario, just like blaming people." Wario's faced displayed a slight second of worry at her sentence.

"Diddy, you didn't save me," Yoshi said quietly, looking down at the slime-covered ground. "So I can't save you. I'm…sorry." As Bobbery shook his head too, the timer read 5.

"Vivian and I can't just battle each other," Bobbery said, finding the possibility immoral for the game. "If you survive though, then…I guess it must be so." As the timer expired, McHallyboo entered Diddy's name in the screen.

D-I-D-D-Y

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RED

The television shut off completely. Most of the players were left stunned but relieved from all the ended tension, but it had come at a cost. A player was eliminated.

"Episode 4 is over," McHallyboo announced. "You earned 12,000 coins from this mission. Diddy, come with me." Shaking his head and still keeping the same face, the executed player stood up hastily and went to follow McHallyboo, out of the building, and away from all the filth it held inside.

"That was rough," Diddy said, shaking his head. "Totally unfair." He didn't appear completely upset though as he followed McHallyboo towards their hotel rooms, towards his packed baggage which signified his end game.

"Well, I guess the final surprise got you, didn't it?" the host said, smiling. Diddy shrugged, then managed to let out a laugh.

"You got me again, McHallyboo," the executed player stated. "You're trickier than that darn Mole, I tell you."

"Wow," Goombella said, still in a bit of shock as they all seemed to stare at the blank television screen. The mission had taken a toll on all of them.

Goombella: There went my plan and my coalition. It completely sucked to a huge level.

"I feel like I killed somebody," Yoshi spoke up, still looking at the ground.

"Like, I feel bad," Vivian said to the others. "What if Diddy was actually one of the highest scorers? We all got exempted and he didn't deserve that at all." The gate open, the night sky filled up the slaughterhouse with light, as more of the hideous slime was made visible to them all.

"Well, I guess there's nothing we could have done," Wario said, feeling sorry himself. "Diddy was just left to be fated."

"I think we all played good," Diddy said to the host, grinning. "Me especially, right McHallyboo?" The host laughed and nodded slightly, agreeing entirely to his statement.

"Diddy was a fine lad, from the every beginning," Bobbery said a nod, "and that's no stretch. He really was a great player from the start."

"Everything he did…well, he bought so much drama," Luvbi said, as everyone agreed with amusement, "but it was needed to keep us alive."

(flashback Diddy when deciding the roles for Race of the Rides:"And if anyone has the guts to disagree with me, then tell me." (all players roll their eyes at him)

"I thought he actually could have been the Mole on the first day," Goombella remembered with a smile. "I guess I was able to trust him more and more."

(flashbacks of Diddy sitting keenly within the airplane of their first mission, and of being chased by Wendy on the beach during the second mission of the game)

As the boat appeared at the harbor, Diddy and the host waved at it.

"Well, I'm going to miss this of course," Diddy told McHallyboo, then looking to see the rest of the players from within the slaughterhouse.

"The games, the excitement…" The host handed something to Diddy, something that was of high importance to him as Diddy grabbed it with realization: his journal.

"You have your diary, don't you?" said McHallyboo, as Diddy smiled again. Feeling the sadness get to him, Diddy boarded upon the boat quickly as the door slid closed, McHallyboo once again forced to watch another player depart from the game, and all of the adventures it held.

Episode four was over.

A victim faces execution, and in a rather execution-y way as well!

So what does next episode store? And what exactly did the Mole's sea-soaked message mean at dinner?

The website is updated. Only six remain! The Mole is slowly being unmasked as they continue to disappear. But just which player could it be?

Stay tuned like always, and thank you all! Please drop in to review as well =)