Okay! Now most of you may be wondering where I had gone. I would have been wondering the same thing about myself. Perhaps I had gone to Europe, or Asia, or even to another world. Maybe I travelled to another parallel universe in my spare time, where I finally got to live out my own long-awaited Mole fantasies in reality :D (which I must say would have been very needless, since I already have the maximum happiness of my Mole life right here, heh).
But no, I was just home, being a procrastinating self... T_T But hopefully your memory isn't as bad as mine, and that where we had left off isn't too blurry for anyone.
But if so, let us be reminded by none other than our loyal remaining contestants! Introducing…the final six!
Goombella: ...okay, umm, where are we exactly?
Luvbi: My memory draws blank.
Yoshi: ...I think we might be back in the game.
Bobbery: My rotten fish nuggets, could it really be?
Vivian: Wow! It's been a while.
Luvbi: I'd say. It has been quite a while.
Wario: A while?! We went undocumented for five whole months for crying out loud!
Yoshi: Almost just like the actual hiatus delay during Season 2 of the Mole US! But not as long.
Bobbery: I would say though that a significant amount of time had passed.
Goombella: Just to be precise and on record, five months didn't pass. More like four and...a dominant fraction.
Vivian: Well, to us it didn't seem that long. I hardly remember time passing.
Yoshi: But where did we leave off anyway?
McHallyboo: As you can see---
All: WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?
McHallyboo: Heh, I'm the host of course! I come from anywhere and everywhere, remember? Anyways, as you can see, it has been a while.
Luvbi: Thanks for reiterating that.
McHallyboo: But let me give you all a brief summary. Episode 5 had started, and only six remained in the game. The players began the fifth round of adventure with an intense game of Snap to See. After a bit of usual drama, they were rewarded at night with a relaxation at Pianta Village's hot springs, finally settling down...but not for long. I barged them all with a surprise mission where they had to identify which journal entry page belonged to which player, among several pages and journals I held in my hand.
Luvbi: And just when we were sure we had the money in the bag...
McHallyboo: Dun dun dun! The final entry journal page was blank! And that's where the cliffhanger began!
Wario: Usually cliffhangers don't last over a period of several months, ya know.
McHallyboo: Oh pfft, of course they do! Otherwise we wouldn't call them cliffhangers at all.
All: ...
McHallyboo: Anyways, did you hear about my newest automobile extravaganza over the April vacation---
All: JUST GO!
McHallyboo: Okay.
Episode 5 (Part 4)
"The answer goes to anybody," McHallyboo stated, holding the final journal entry page in his hand. "Anybody, but the writer him or herself, of course." The blank page just stared back at the players, as they all recognized the final act in their game that had just put their money winnings at a greater and ridiculous risk: the writer wrote nothing. But Luvbi laughed, as everyone turned to her.
"What's so funny?" Wario spoke up. "You know something?"
"Actually, I do," Luvbi said. After sighing, she turned to look at the players around her, who looked back at her with befuddled looks. Then she turned to the host.
"It's a simple process of elimination that I took track of," she explained. "The first journal entry was confirmed to be Goombella's. After making my error on the second journal entry, I was then determined that one was Bobbery's. Yoshi was the writer of the third entry, if it wasn't Wario. Then Wario wrote the fourth one, writing two names in his entry that weren't his. And I was the writer of the last entry." Finally, she looked at the lone player sitting besides her.
"So this journal entry is Vivian's. Final answer" Everyone looked at Luvbi with a slight level of amazement, who in reply merely had a definite look on her face.
"Hmm, I'll be darned," Bobbery said with a clear of his throat. McHallyboo raised his eyebrow, and instead of dropping the journal in his hands onto the ground, simply twirled it in his fingers once, then twice.
"Well, that just earned you an extra 20,000 coins as a group," the host announced. "Job well done!"
"Twenty big ones!" Goombella said with a satisfied grin, as Wario slowly clapped as well.
"I was dying not to tell you that I wrote that journal entry," Vivian said turning to Luvbi besides her, as they both laughed.
"Well, you just have to use your mind," Luvbi said, still looking straight at McHallyboo.
TOTAL POT VALUE
134,000 COINS
"We made more money in this three-minute mission than we did during our snapshot shenanigans!" Bobbery said, shaking of his head. "Realization of priorities to me."
"Or maybe just potential," Yoshi said. "This was a more mental mission, so I guess we're more smart than physically strong."
Bobbery: Every mission so far has required some kind of intellectual work. The ones that are best, for someone like me of course are the missions that completely void anything physical. I'm an old man running on stored fuel, so as this game goes, I have to be on par with the people around me.
"I apologize for breaking your moment of peace," the host said, tipping his hat to the players and gathering the journals on the floor on his way out.
"Hey, don't mention it!" Wario called out after him. "Twenty thousand coins and you've got us all as relaxed as possible!" He jumped back into the sauna pool, as everyone gave a small cheer for the very unusually relaxing night.
The players found their sleeping quarters on the bamboo platforms, which were scattered in no particular sense of arrangement around the village, mostly uncomfortable. Each of them given nothing else but a pillow, the moon's air in the night gave them a cooled-off and satisfying feeling before going to bed. But when they were awakened, the sun shone more brightly than ever before in Isle Delfino. Remembering that they were located at the highest point in Isle Delfino, the players also remembered their events from yesterday.
Vivian: I was happy that Luvbi got those twenty thousand coins at the last second. Approaching the game's second half, we really needed it. After all, Luvbi was the cause of a lot of the lost money during Snap to See, so I guess she redeemed herself.
Luvbi: It's basically the dead center of the game now, entering into the other half of the game. After this episode, there will be five people remaining. I have to be one of them. I won't allow myself to fall.
Goombella: I realized in the journal entries last night that no one suspected me, and though I was a little disappointed, I can now grasp what my true place in this game is. I don't think I'm going to play a suspect anymore. I'm just going to play a player.
"Wow, my ears hurt," Yoshi realized, waking up from the lowest bamboo platform among a stack. "How high are we?"
"Location wise?" Bobbery questioned. "Why, we're on an enormous tree! And high above highs. But it's no worse than being on an airplane."
"Rosalina would have loved this location," Vivian said, reflecting on the disappointing fact that certain players were cut short from their current place.
"Hey McHallyboo, you didn't give us our journals back from last night!" Wario remembered, approaching the host as he made his way to the entrance of the village. "Maybe you need more responsibility so we don't fail this game. My mind doesn't work like a sponge, you know."
"Well, one night without a journal wouldn't kill you," the host spoke reasonably, but Wario just scowled in reply at the host.
"Wait, umm, where exactly did you come from?" Goombella questioned the host, her face as confused as ever knowing that McHallyboo wasn't around since the end of yesterday's second mission.
"Oh, took a helicopter," the host explained. "Back to Delfino Plaza for the night."
"Trying to keep up your consecutive record of 5-star hotel sleeps, I suppose," Luvbi murmured to herself, just loud enough for the others to hear her.
"What was that?" McHallyboo piped up.
"Oh, I just had a nice sleep yesterday, that's all," Luvbi replied. "You know, it resembled bamboo tatami flooring."
"More like the wooden flooring of a pig's pen," Bobbery said, sounding a bit disgruntled.
"Hah, well," the host said, "I didn't go back to Isle Delfino just for a night's good rest. I came back with a few things, back at the entrance. But as of now, I'd like you to meet..." A Pianta wearing the outfit of a safari enthusiast stepped out, having blended before as a simple resident of the village. Instead of the traditional leaf-assembled skirt, he had on a pair of khaki shorts, and instead of the mini-tree that sprouted above him, a pith helmet was placed directly upon his head.
"My name is Joe Safari!" he announced, hands at his hips and standing proudly. "And I will give one of you, just one of you, an exclusive tour around this village."
"All right, sounds good," Goombella said with a false smile, obviously suspicious.
"Who wants to be it?" the tour guide asked, putting his hand in the air. "First call is first and only serve to take this exclusive tour. Under my guidance of course."
"Meh, I already saw the village yesterday," Wario pointed out. "Under my OWN guidance."
"This guy doesn't give me well thoughts," Luvbi whispered to Yoshi, the two of them having agreed with the same fact moments before.
Goombella: I don't know who was going to take the offer. We were all just standing, wondering whether this might be an exemption offer or not. I was sure though it was going to be something along the opposite.
"Umm," Vivian said quietly, slowly lifting her hand in the air.
"Well, an offer's an offer, and I'm not one to refuse," said Bobbery with heavy enthusiastically, as Vivian quickly put her hand down. The Pianta grinned and motioned for Bobbery to step forwards.
"You, sir, will be under my expertise!" Joe said proudly. "I will be bringing you to places in this village you've never imagined possibly going! But first, we need hiking boots!"
As the two of them proceeded to get ready, the other five players, along with their scheming host, turned around and made their way to the true entrance of Pianta Village. To greet them would be an array of contents, contents which would also make them wonder in all of humanity what their next mission was going to be.
"Oh, I could only guess McHallyboo," Goombella said with a voice of repulsion. The players came across a table, five plates upon it. Each plate though had its own unique pile of items, stacked and readily presentable to the players. Besides each plate was also a fork, shining out to them all before they were even able to finish crossing the bridge.
"This game is called...The Fungi Prediction," McHallyboo announced.
Luvbi: Definitely one of the least pleasing sights one could witness. The forks pushed it just over.
"Various fungi litter near the depths of Pianta Village," informed McHallyboo. "Adventurous Piantas dangle down hundreds of feet just to get a taste of these exotic flavors, and to hopefully collect a batch of mushrooms for their own culinary enjoyment. As you can see, each plate on this table holds a pile of these distinct mushrooms." Indeed, each plate held its own kind of mushroom, all different in shape, size, and strongly and unfortunately enough, odor. Vivian held her nose and took the biggest of steps back, as did Luvbi. Wario simply scrunched his nose, while Yoshi stared curiously.
"While Bobbery goes on his little tour, we'll be having our secret cameras recording his every move," McHallyboo explained, giving their attention to the delivered screen monitor that was hoisted upon another table.
"We've rigged the tour so that they'll be different circumstances Bobbery must face," the host continued. "As he begins to approach one of them, you must predict, as a whole, what he would do. If you're correct with your guess, then we move on. But if you're wrong...here is where the forks come into play."
The players' attention turned to the food table again, at the several plates holding their own unique kind of mushroom. One kind of mushroom was long with a bulbous cap and white stem, another was the color of orange and had a cap so big it was basically its full image, the third had purple spots that covered its entire body, the fourth was merely a pink tiny mushroom no bigger than a coin, and the final one was a black mushroom, so raw-appearing that tiny pieces of mycelia threads could be seen sprouting from its bottom.
"I am NOT choosing that black-colored one," Goombella said with a shake of her head.
"With every wrong guess, two of you will be selected to eat a mushroom within an allotted time," McHallyboo explained. "If you refuse or fail to eat it within thirty seconds, you will be out. For every one of you who is still remaining after all five rounds, 5,000 coins will be added to the pot, making this mission worth the amount of 25,000 coins."
"Are you going to assign it or are we choosing our mushroom plates?" Wario asked.
"You will each pick your own plate, and you'll be eating from that," McHallyboo explained. "These mushroom range through basic tastes of the human tongue. Speaking which, one of these mushrooms are sweet, one is sour-flavored, one is as salty as heck, one is bitter, and one of these little suckers are spicy. So, go grab your plate! But, you can't touch the mushrooms." The players leaned forwards and got their better look at each meal.
Vivian: I was definitely hoping not to get the spicy one. Getting the sweet one would be nice though.
"The black ones....eck," Goombella said. "I'm going for the pretty ones." She grabbed the plate with the orange-capped mushrooms.
"I guess someone must do this one," Yoshi decided, grabbing the plate of black mushrooms and eyeing them closely.
"The purples one looks poisonous," Vivian said cautiously, seeing Wario grab the plate full of them. Vivian took the plate with white-stemmed mushrooms, as Luvbi took the last plate of miniature pink ones.
"Where's your plate, McHallyboo?" Luvbi said with a small smile.
"Oh, these mushrooms are my favorite delicacies," he said with a smile. "They'd be no challenge for me. Hopefully you guys will agree too. Now let's see our first circumstance!"
The monitor flicked on. Where the camera within the village was located, the players had no idea. But all that was displayed on the screen were three boxes, adjacent to each other and on a portion of the land that didn't cross any of the paths within the village. The players stared carefully at it, their attention finally being pulled off the odd fungi before them.
"In soon time, Bobbery and our guide will be approaching these boxes," the host said to them. "Now, the guide will be stepping over these boxes. It is your job to predict whether Bobbery will follow his lead: will he go over the boxes as well, or step to avoid them? You have about twenty-five seconds to decide." The players turned to each other as the camera feed continued.
"Okay, well, we have to choose an answer as a whole," Goombella explained. "So let's take a vote."
"How about we just go with the right answer?" Wario argued. "Come on. It's common sense."
"Well, define what 'common sense' is," Luvbi said, rolling her eyes. "Is it common sense for him to follow or avoid?"
"I would say it's common to avoid the boxes," Yoshi spoke. "Why lift a leg when you can just walk instead?"
"But maybe he'll just follow," Vivian thought.
"It might be a bit awkward for him to step such a distance aside and avoid the boxes," Luvbi analyzed, going up to the screen monitor herself. "How wide is this box barrier anyway?" The five of them stared more at the screen.
"Each one is like, three feet long," Goombella estimated. "Suggestions?"
"I'd say avoid, just cause Bobbery is who he is," Wario explained.
"Why?" Goombella questioned.
"He's barely tall enough to even climb one of those boxes, let alone step over one!" Vivian giggled.
"Well, it's only a...four and a half step to the side," Luvbi reconsidered. "It'd probably be an involuntary move."
"I agree," Yoshi said with a nod, and when Vivian nodded too, Goombella turned to McHallyboo.
"We predict that he'll avoid the boxes," she said, as McHallyboo checked off the paper in his clipboard. The players waited, and saw two figures emerge from the very bottom of the screen monitor.
"The Piantas are always constructing!" the tour guide said, pointing at one of the multi-platformed bamboo structures in the area. "Now, though, they are in a period of relaxation. But at least their minds are still working up possible new innovations to advance this town."
"I must say though, I can see their brains working at light speed," Bobbery said. "Good creatures."
"Why thank you," said Joe, giving no more words as they both approached the row of boxes covering the green patch of land. A quarter of a foot behind the tour guide, Bobbery saw him step nonchalantly over the middle box that was in their way. Bobbery did just the same.
"Doh!" said Yoshi, as everyone's shoulders dropped with disappointment.
"Well, that's only one wrong," Vivian said optimistically.
"Pooey, Bobbery's eyes weren't even looking forwards," Luvbi commented. "Bobbery had might as well tripped over the boxes than actually go over them. Unpredictable in my opinion."
"Well, regardless, we were wrong," Wario said, his voice grumbling at the same time.
"I'm afraid Bobbery did not avoid the boxes," McHallyboo stated. "That means that two of you will have to eat your fungi. We'll be going by table arrangements, so...Goombella and Wario, you will be eating first, on my count." The two of them faced the food before them uneasily.
"Oh gosh," Goombella said, taking one of the orange-capped mushroom up. Wario did too, not looking pleased as he grabbed his fork and shoved it into the pile of purple-spotted mushrooms.
Goombella: I gave my mushroom a sniff before eating it. It smelled like an orange, so that probably compelled me to go forth.
"Thirty seconds...now!" Both players immediately put their assigned fungi into their mouths. Goombella's face immediately turned to a scrunched one, as Wario's eyes shot wide open with a volatile taste in his mouth.
"This one tastes like it was dipped in sea water!" Wario exclaimed, much to the disgust of the others around him. Goombella shook her head, managing to chew her own mushroom.
"This is ten times worse than a lemon," she said, her lips pursed. As McHallyboo counted down silently, both players were done before twenty seconds were up. They both relaxed back, still not relieved.
"Give me water, now," groaned Wario, who was immediately given a cup. The entire time, Luvbi and Vivian's faces were twisted into looks of horror. Even Yoshi looked somewhat uneasy.
"Well, no one is out!" McHallyboo confirmed. "Yet. Let's see how well your stomachs will handle the rest of this game. On to Round 2." The camera immediately switched its point of view, to a part of the path that ended in an intersection. Most of them recognized it as the pathway leading up to the hot springs, as McHallyboo turned back to the players.
"In soon time, the tour guide will turn in the direction of right and say, 'This way to the hot springs," explained McHallyboo. "But in fact, the hot springs is to the left, and he will be bringing Bobbery the wrong way. Will Bobbery speak up and correct him, or hold his ground and silence?" The players pondered for a second.
"Mmkay, another vote," Goombella said.
"What!" Wario shouted out immediately.
"What?" Goombella replied, frowning.
"We voted last time, and where did that get us?" Wario pointed out. "Nowhere! N-O-W-H---"
"Well, it's not really voting!" argued Goombella, and then found herself stumbling over her own words. "Well, technically it is."
"I would probably correct him," Vivian said, pertaining to the monitor.
"But the question is, what would Bobbery do?" Luvbi reminded. "It is of course beneficial to look into our own minds, but that fails to be the point of this game. We have to look into the mind of him, and only him."
Goombella: Luvbi definitely has the psychology behind these games. She knows the right things to think about during missions. Her mind is set like my mind.
"Bobbery is respected," Yoshi spoke up. "And if you're respected, then you probably respect others too, right?"
"Respect?" Goombella asked. "How's that relevant?"
"He'd probably respect the tour guide and not correct him," Yoshi said, shrugging. "I don't know."
"Okay, well, are we voting?" Wario said immediately, as Goombella shot him a look of disbelief.
"Well, one vote for each," Luvbi recognized, looking at both Vivian and Yoshi. "I would think he would hold his ground. He doesn't stand as interruptive."
"I think he'd correct him!" Wario voted, making the score a tie.
"I'd say hold his ground," Goombella said, eradicating the tie vote.
Wario: Out of all possible methods, voting is the worst one. Goombella was just dying to go against anything I voted for. I saw her grudge slowly forming against me during this game, so the votes were basically biased!
"We think Bobbery will hold his ground and not correct the tour guide," Goombella said, facing McHallyboo.
"We?" scoffed Wario, turning directly besides him to look at Goombella. "You mean you think so."
"Oh, just be quiet," Goombella said to him. "No one's psychic." In seconds to follow, both tour guide and Bobbery came into picture.
"The springs make a great, great place," said Joe, "when you need to relax. They sedate the nervous system and stimulate the defenses of the body. That's why you get such a light and heavy feeling at the same time." He then faced right.
"This way, to the hot springs!" As soon as he let out his statement, Bobbery gave a perplexed stare towards the opposite direction.
"I hate to intrude on the process of your tour, but aren't the hot springs...that way?" He pointed towards the possible opposite route.
"By all means, where is my brain?" the tour guide exclaimed, giving a light laugh along with Bobbery as they both turned around.
"Oh no..." Vivian said with dismay, looking at the plate in front of her.
"I knew he wasn't dumb enough to just walk in the wrong direction!" Wario said, voice in irritation. "I guess voting failed again."
"Well, voting is what revolves this world," Luvbi pointed out.
"I'm never much for politics," Yoshi said glumly.
"So what method are we doing now, huh?" Goombella said with exasperation.
Goombella: Even when Wario happens to be right in some situations, which is a rare occasion, he still gloats and it doesn't make him any better. I'd rather be a wrong, cultured person that a correct unliked one.
"Well, since so much unneeded fuss is coming from this, I suppose we'll find another way to...choose," Luvbi said carefully.
"But before we start another round, I'm afraid two more participants will have to feast," the host said. "Since your guess was wrong, Yoshi and Vivian, the two of you will have to devour one of your mushrooms each." While Yoshi used his hand to pick up the black mushroom before him, Vivian cautiously stuck her fork into one.
"I'm not ready at all," Vivian admitted. "Like, is it sour, or sweet, or spicy?"
"Well," Yoshi gulped, "One must take risks to move on." He stuck the mushroom into his mouth.
"Hold it, no eating yet!" McHallyboo said, nearly jumping his whole body onto the table. Yoshi sputtered the mushroom out back onto his plate, much to Vivian's squeal of disgust.
"It's sweet!" Yoshi said, choking from McHallyboo's sudden outburst.
"I didn't start the timer yet," the host stated. "And now I'll have to disqualify you."
"What!" came the voices of all five of them, including Yoshi.
"Well, you began feasting before I even started the timer, and gave away the distinct flavor of one of the mushrooms," McHallyboo explained reasonably. "I'm sorry, but you're out of the game." Yoshi's face was flabbergasted.
"Well, that's embarrassing," Luvbi said in an annoyed voice.
"But you said nothing about that in the rules!" Yoshi spoke out, sounding more mad than embarrassed.
"I stated that you had to eat a mushroom within an allotted time," the host said with memory. "And you did not. You did it within a negative time zone."
"Not…not fair," Yoshi muttered.
"So my mushroom is not sweet?" Vivian said in a voice of dread. Luvbi looked at her, then at the mushroom.
"But it's still edible," Luvbi said truthfully.
"Thirty seconds...now!" Vivian took the white-stalked mushroom and after a few seconds, took the tiniest of a bite. She froze, not bothering to chew what was in her mouth. Instead, she opened her mouth and spat it back onto her plate, much like her partner had done.
"It's...bitter!" she said, her face repulsed.
"Is this like the biggest joke or what, McHallyboo?" Wario said, controlling his sudden and erupting outrage.
Wario: This was turning as bad as our first mission. If it wasn't for our win last night at the steaming water pool, I would have been tearing my hair out and stuffing it into McHallyboo's face.
"Two down in one round?!" he continued. "Even Goombella was able to do something."
"Wow, you can just be QUIET!" Goombella snapped. "I can do more things with my head than you'll ever be able to regret." Luvbi let out a small chuckle.
"That was the most awful thing I've ever tasted," Vivian groaned, grabbing a received glass of water.
"I believe both of you are out now," McHallyboo announced, facing Vivian and Yoshi. "That's ten thousand coins down right there. But fifteen to remain. Let's carry it on." Appearing on the screen yet again was Bobbery and his tour guide. Not having made too much of a travel since last time, the tour guide was explaining something to Bobbery as they both stood at the edge of the hot pool. In the distance, tiny specks were dancing in the air, barely visible due to the television's poor contrast with the sun.
"Not too distant in the future, the tour guide will be bringing Bobbery to take a look at those bees," McHallyboo explained. "He will urge Bobbery to step up and give the bee hive a tap. So will Bobbery step forth to do so or not?"
"Umm, isn't that a bit dangerous?" Goombella said. "That bee hive dangles two feet from the edge of the village. There's no way Bobbery would say yes."
"If Bobbery does volunteer though, Mr. Safari will cancel his action," McHallyboo decided to add. "In other words, either way, Bobbery will be pulled away. The question lies on Bobbery's amount of bravery and whether he'd actually say yes."
"Can we still talk?" Vivian inquired, "even if we're out?"
"Yes, even if you're out," said the host.
"All right, let's vote," Yoshi said.
"Voting gets us nowhere!" Wario complained.
"So what are we gonna do?" Goombella said testily. "Let one person decide?"
"Actually, I'd go with that proposal very well," Luvbi spoke up, standing up in her seat.
"Hey, who said that you're going to choose for us?" Wario said, his eyes narrowing at her.
"Oh, both you and Goombella are fussing an unusually awful lot today, so none of you will be doing it," Luvbi pointed out, "and besides, I showed my analytic skills last night when I concluded last night's mission. So I'll be deciding now."
"Trying to pull a Diddy, eh?" Wario said.
"I'm trying to get us to work again a team again," Luvbi stated with emphasis.
"By deciding on your own?" Wario scoffed. "All right! You're making perfect sense!"
"Luvbi, just go," Goombella said. "We still hold a chance even if you guess wrong." Luvbi looked at the screen, her time ticking away as the tour guide turned around from where he was standing to face the hive, then Bobbery as well. Luvbi faced McHallyboo.
"I do not think Bobbery will attempt to touch the hive," Luvbi guessed.
"You may have noticed that there was a hive at the entrance of the village," said Joe. "Bees plant their homes anywhere and everywhere. They just need enough humidity, and in a spot like this one, they probably receive more than enough." The hive before them was located at the base of one of the immense trees that sprouted from the village's terrain, and dangled just feet above from the ground.
"Would you like to give the hive a touch?" the tour guide asked Bobbery suddenly, much to the player's surprise.
"Me?" Bobbery almost sputtered. "Well I---"
"Oh, don't be uncertain," the tour guide said. "Go forth!"
"Well, I'd hate to provoke anything..." Bobbery said carefully, both of his eyes concentrated heavily on the hive.
"Come on!"
"No, I'd rather not."
"You sure?"
"Nature is delightful," Bobbery said with a little grin, but then he shook his head. "But I think my presence to the bees would be a vexation. I've survived stings, but..." He unwillingly looked more into the distance ahead of him, past the bee hive and into the very rim of the black shadows that made up the pit that existed below Pianta Village.
"I haven't gone somewhere that no one else had ever gone before." With a shrug, Joe just turned around to face the rest of the village, and so did Bobbery.
"Well," Luvbi said with relief, "I guessed correctly."
"So no one eats a mushroom?" Vivian asked.
"You're meal free," confirmed McHallyboo. "Congratulations on your third round, but in reminder, we have two more to deliver. This time, if you fail this fourth round, then Wario and Luvbi will be fated to eat."
"I'm yet to try my mushroom," Luvbi said distastefully. The TV switched its view, and another camera within the village was activated. The players were able to tell that it was the West side of Pianta Village being displayed, due to the tall grass that littered the left side of the screen. But the grass wasn't the only thing seen littering the area. An inch to the right of the path that lead down the side of the village was a lone can, empty, the brand "Chuckola Cola" clearly spotted on its front.
"Our test subject will walk down this path with his tour guide," McHallyboo told them, "and they will pass a discarded can on the ground. The question is, will Bobbery pick up the can?" A majority of the players turned again to Luvbi.
"Me again?" Luvbi said in a surprised tone.
"Well...I guess so," Goombella said, having no other method of decision in her mind. Luvbi turned to the others, a look of unusual certainty on her face.
"Not too many people are environmental friendly nowadays," Luvbi began, "but I think Bobbery will pick up the soda can. That's my assumption."
"I'd say so too," Yoshi agreed. "Out of all of us, Bobbery would be the one most likely to pick up litter."
"You have time to think," McHallyboo said, looking at the time on his watch.
"But we'll submit the answer now," said Luvbi. ""We think that Bobbery will pick up the can on the ground." With that, the five of them waited less than a minute for Bobbery to emerge from the screen's top.
"Did you know that our village is basically surrounded by a crater in a mountain?" said Joe, as both he and Bobbery walked down the village's West path. "Though the components are entirely different, you could almost compare our appearance to that of Corona Mountain."
"That place is real?" Bobbery stated, his voice in both question form and sounding intrigued. "I mean, I've heard the tales but never imagined it...lava at one's base of a mountain. It's rather remarkable!"
"Why, of course it is!" Joe said with a chuckle. "What else do you think that large rupture of planet surface is behind Delfino Plaza?" Bobbery nodded.
"I would assume though that the area isn't available to the public," Bobbery commented, picturing the image in his head. His foot nearly touching the can of soda, he took one extra step forwards and was completely passed it. Bobbery continued on, the trash on the ground untouched and still behind him.
"Oh, well, I guess my credibility is void now," Luvbi said, throwing her hands to the side in an attempt to look blameless.
"Whoa!" Wario said, still in shock from Bobbery's action. "He left it? How could he just leave that trash on the ground? Out of all people too."
"Maybe it's human nature to leave garbage as it is," Yoshi considered.
"But he's not human," Wario snorted.
Goombella: We were all expecting Bobbery to pick up the trash on the side of the path. So when he didn't, it didn't just affect our game, but surprised all of us.
"Well, I guess someone has to eat," Goombella, hiding her thankfulness that it wasn't for her to be feasting that round.
"That wrong guess of Bobbery's action results in a mushroom for both Wario and Luvbi," McHallyboo said.
"Good luck," Vivian said helplessly, still holding her glass in her hand.
Wario grabbed his fork hurriedly with a snarl, as Luvbi grabbed hers reluctantly for the first time. Before her was her plate, on it having mushrooms being the smallest size of all out of all five dishes, and pink-colored as well. Wario stared yet again at one of his purple-spotted mushrooms.
"Ready?" McHallyboo began. Both players nodded.
"Thirty seconds...now!" While Wario had a sense of familiarity with his mushroom, Luvbi immediately decided to eat hers as well, with no previous knowledge of its taste. Her eyes immediately watered.
Luvbi: I remember McHallyboo going over the fact that the plates would range the basic tastes of the tongue. As soon as I realized that the only mushroom we hadn't come across yet was the spicy one, the flavor had already hit me.
Bobbery is being stalked and Luvbi is hit with a terrible sense! Ever tried a habanero pepper before? Those little devils are spicy as heckers, ahehe.
So I delayed and failed in a way. I can promise you all though that until this story is finished, there will never be a gap like that again. But now that school is entering its final chapter and the SAT's are now the business of a negative century, my updates will be much more frequently now! Hopefully I'll be able to finish this adventure before summer even ends (or possibly begin?)
I just wanted to give my thank you's to all those who are still reading, but with more love, to my reviewers x] You have my love and I won't hide it! And if you don't get this chapter update, then hopefully you'll intercept the update for Episode 5's conclusion.
Speaking which, a player vanishes next chapter! An execution round will finally hit us again, and the number will get smaller. Oh, and due to there only being six players remaining, choosing your top three suspects is basically getting half of the gang, heh x) But what are reviews for? Choose as many suspects as you want in your lists and do your sleuthing!
Who will go next chapter? Here is your next Final Destination clue:
| NO STARS |
And no mercy either for the Mole's next victim! Stay tuned for the next update!