FINALE (Part 2)
"Hello everyone, and welcome back to the finale of The Mole: Saboteur's Island! A few minutes ago, we discovered that Vivian was the winner of this game, winning the prize of 288,000 coins. Wario was the final executed player of this game, and Yoshi, after going so many days hiding in secret, was finally uncovered as the Mole."
"More like weeks," Yoshi piped up. The three finalists were now sitting down in their own individual, comfortable and placed among their supportive peers and gamemates.
"Who here is completely, out-of-their-mind, shocked about Yoshi being the Mole?" McHallyboo asked the group. A number of people raised their hands.
"I am," Wendy blurted, facing everyone. "Like, when Yoshi walked out of that door, I didn't believe it. Not one bit." Rosalina raised her hand.
"I always thought Yoshi was so innocent," Rosalina said, "and for a mission, I spent a whole night with him on an island. Never did I suspect him to end up being the Mole." Rosalina smiled at Yoshi, who smiled back.
"How does it feel to finally be uncovered, Yoshi?" the host asked him.
"Oh wow," Yoshi replied, scratching his head. "I'm actually pretty floored, just for the fact that I've vowed to never reveal myself. And now here I am."
"Well, you broke that vow pretty well then," Diddy said, as everyone laughed.
"It's happy to know how much easier things are, well, right here now compared to before," Yoshi said. "Cause many times throughout the game, I actually had to think about what I was going to say. It ruined a bit of my feelings. So I'm too relieved." McHallyboo nodded.
"Mr. Runner-up," said McHallyboo, amusing everyone while Wario shook his head at his new name. "When did you first suspect Yoshi as the Mole?"
"Well," began Wario, trying to remember. "I honestly think it was the second episode. Was it?" He let out a laugh, trying to remember.
"It was definitely early on, I'm sure of that." Some of the players looked surprised at his statement.
"In fact, the reason Wario made it so far into the game was because he was one of the very first people to ever suspect Yoshi as the Mole," McHallyboo announced, as the surprise of the other players grew even more. "Let us see the journey of Wario: the final victim." Everyone turned to the television eagerly, especially Wario, as it flicked on.
WARIO'S JOURNEY
The game began with ten players. Getting off the boat in the beginning, Wario's mind was nowhere in the mode for game-playing in comparison to his nine opponents. Viewing the game not as seriously as the others, his first goal in the game was to find his center balance of relaxation, taking priority over his other goal of discovering who the Mole was.
Wario: I just wanted to take it easy in the beginning. But I couldn't! I couldn't relax and talk to anyone, because I wouldn't know if they were the Mole or not.
This lead Wario to form the first coalition of the game. Choosing Boo as a partner, their secret alliance was formed.
Flashback Boo: "So, coalition or what?" (Wario grins, easily accepting the offer)
Boo: The Mole would never sabotage like that in the first episode, so I knew for certain that I could trust Wario. Let's see how far I go.
But the pair did not last long. When Boo was executed, Wario panicked. Realizing the importance of the game from his dedicated coalition partner's disappearance, he snapped to reality and had a new view on the game.
Wario: Boo really propelled me to play this game to my best. There he was, trying his hardest in the game, only to be executed in the first episode, while here I was, not taking the game seriously. You couldn't relax in this world. I finally knew that if I didn't act soon enough, I would be executed as well.
Feeling put off and discouraged over his failed partnership, Wario vowed to work in silence, his strategy becoming one of working alone from that point on. But before he made that vow, Wario turned to a person in Episode 2 for a last, possible chance at a coalition: Yoshi. Little did he know, he almost brought himself into a coalition with the Mole.
Wario: I didn't call it a coalition, but I wanted to be near Yoshi for one reason.
Wario took the collapsed table at the Island Bash party as his first objective for detective work. It was the perfect piece of evidence to work on. Knowing that Yoshi was the only witness to the table's collapse, he began questioning the Mole, completely clueless that it was actually Yoshi himself that made the table fall.
Flashback Wario: (to Yoshi) "Any memory of someone who was wandering around the food tables before the table fell?" (Yoshi looks to the sky, pretending to remember)
Yoshi: I'd also want Wario to know too, that I made the table fall, so that'd he'd stop stalking me, err, obsessively following me with curiosity.
Wario kept his distance away from the other players. Before the second execution, he completely secluded himself from the others and kept his opinions to himself. At that point, he remembered Yoshi's suspicious actions during Air Combination, the very first mission of the game.
Wario: He completely said those numbers wrong. Maybe it's his character. Or maybe it's more. Or maybe...Yoshi was the one in the first place who actually made that table fall in the Island Bash mission. He could be it.
Keeping his thoughts together into the 3rd episode and clearly suspicious about Yoshi, Wario volunteered to go onto Yoshi's team for the One-Two-Three BLT challenge, taking the chance as an opportunity to study him more.
(flashback of Wario raising his hand willingly, to volunteer for the BLT mission)
But this was a bad plan. He was unaware that the Mole was informed by producers just which people were suspecting him at what time. Seeing this as the perfect opportunity, Yoshi turned the tables towards his own favor, doing everything he could to turn Wario away from him, one of the only players who truly suspected him. At the end of the BLT mission, he pretended to be a genuine player who wanted money to go into the team pot.
Flashback Yoshi: "Wario, no! We worked hard too. Please don't just take the exemption and ignore us. Do it for all of us!" (Wario turns to look at him, a little surprised)
Wario's suspicions over Yoshi weren't helped either during the Wiggler Cowardice challenge, where he saw Yoshi win the maximum amount of money for his team by jumping out of the Wiggler's way, adding 5,000 coins to the team pot.
(as the others cheer for Yoshi's success, Wario only stands and stares at Yoshi, a look of discontentment displayed on his face)
In Episode 4, Wario tried to shake Yoshi a bit. He tried to guilt-rid him, seeing if his want over the exemption for that episode from the Race of the Rides mission was truly strong. However, his other teammates perceived this act as genuine harshness, viewing Wario as a brutal, rough player from then on.
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. That was unneeded.
Goombella: I didn't think Wario deserved anything after seeing his method of forcing people to do things.
Wario's unintentional sabotages through many missions of the game led Goombella, Vivian, and Luvbi to suspect him as the Mole. However, he continued on, keeping his eyes only on Yoshi, becoming even more convinced he was the Mole after his acts in Snap to See and The Fungi Prediction. At the end of Episode 5, his strategy to work in solitude became noticeable to the other players, stirring suspicions.
Goombella: He didn't talk with ANYONE the entire day before Execution 5. I tried talking to him, and he simply ignored me. I barely even saw him in Pianta Village that day.
Vivian: It's either Wario, or Yoshi...I'm so torn between my choices.
Going into the final four of the game, Wario was fully set on Yoshi as his suspect. He also suspected that his only opponents left, Luvbi and Vivian, were working together, but he wasn't phased over this fact at all.
Wario: They're in a coalition. I'm in solitude. One of these strategies will succeed.
In fact, his biggest concern was losing to Luvbi, the player he thought was his strongest and biggest opponent.
Wario: If anyone might cause my fall in this game...it might be Luvbi. We all know she's tricky, cunning, and can beat anyone in intelligence. So if I can get past her at least, I'm definitely aimed for the victory.
But he was wrong. With Luvbi gone, Vivian was in the final round of the game. Wario realized he had underestimated Vivian when he discovered one thing: she was his biggest opponent the entire time. Her skills were overshadowed among everyone else's actions throughout the game, and went unnoticed by Wario until the final round.
Wario: Well..maybe beating Luvbi wasn't my only worry. Going into this final episode...is Vivian really stronger than all of us?
Wario tried rattling Vivian, making wrong moves in the 3 Questions game. But it was too late to change Vivian's mind.
(flashback of the end of Round 1, where Wario and Yoshi failed to find Vivian)
In the Hotel mission, Wario said a line to Vivian, hinting not only at their acknowledgment that they knew the final battle was between the two of them, but that Vivian herself had a strong chance at winning the game over him.
Flashback Wario: "Good job. If this whole thing is correct (the hotel mission answer)...then maybe I have to reconsider some things about the end of this game." (Vivian looks puzzled at Wario's line, but later understands)
Both were set on Yoshi for the final quiz, but in the end, it was Wario who succumbed to the game's final round.
(Wario looks over at Vivian on the island, after he finishes his quiz, only to see that she is already finished)
EXECUTED
However, his game did not go lost or undefeated. Wario kept his feelings hidden, and though he appeared as the character of grumpiness and disinterest in the game, he did let out his hidden passion for the game at some points.
Flashback Wario: (before Execution 6) "All right, this game has been annoying, but, I like it a lot. In fact, I may in fact love it. And yes, I used the word 'love'." (Everyone else smiles with surprise)
The player, who everyone thought was only set on winning the money in the beginning, actually came to the game in the first place for the experience of a journey. And it was a journey well played.
Wario: I said I came here for the money, and that was probably a lie. There's something about this adventure that was irreplaceable, and I won't forget it. And yes, I'll probably never admit to anyone else, how much of an adventure I had and how much fun I had. This game has been tiresome, of course, but at the same time, awesome.
Everyone clapped loudly for the runner-up, as Wario laughed and tipped his cap at the same time. The television turned off.
"So Wario, did you just not feel like playing in the beginning, or did you secretly want to win the whole time since the start?" McHallyboo asked him.
"Hmm, well, the game just sounded too confusing," Wario said, shaking his head, "so after hearing those instructions on that tape in the beginning, I just wanted to run away." Everyone chuckled.
"But yeah," Wario said, turning to Boo. "This guy really helped me see the game. So with that, I'm glad to have made that coalition with him." Boo nodded, grateful.
"Glad to know I helped, even though I didn't last long," Boo said, chuckling a bit himself.
"This game was something great, and it's like you read my mind," said Wario, looking at the television. "I had no idea what was in store. I didn't really come here for the money...well, the thought was appealing." He laughed. "But I wanted something that was an adventure, and this was it." Everyone nodded, smiling at the runner up's true intention.
"Wendy, you thought Wario was the Mole when you got executed," McHallyboo said, pointing to her. "What made you think that?" Wendy thought for a second.
"I think it's cause he was acting really suspicious, especially during the BLT challenge," she said. "And on top of that, I thought it was a good cover up, trying to act tough and all. So that's why I thought it was Wario."
"Heh, tough," Wario said. "I tried sometimes to be tough, but failed on occasion."
"On the final quiz," announced McHallyboo. "Wario, you had a score of..." Everyone waited in soft silence.
"Thirteen questions out of twenty."
"Not bad," said Wario, nodding, a little impressed at his score, which he thought was going to be a result much less. "Not bad."
"And now we continue! Now Luvbi, you played a very interesting game," said McHallyboo, as the players all turned to her.
"Oh, well, that's questionable," she replied. "But I did make some moves that even I myself thought about in wonder or questioned."
"And through almost the entire game, you had a coalition with the game's ultimate winner, Vivian," McHallyboo said, then looked at the camera. "Little did people know, this coalition was stronger than any other coalition in the game, and also helped Vivian reach her final spot in victory. But first..."
"Oh dear," said Luvbi, covering her face a bit. "Did you do a documentary on my life in this game as well?" Everyone else laughed and smiled.
"Well, we think you deserve your spotlight," McHallyboo said, grinning. The television flicked on.
LUVBI'S JOURNEY
Since the beginning of the game, Luvbi stuck out as the most suspicious player on the island. Her actions throughout the first episode brought her to the attention of the others immediately.
(flashback of Luvbi choosing Journal #3 at the lunch table, on the game's first day)
Boo: HOW did she know that Journal Number 3 would be granted the role in tomorrow's mission? That's cheating.
By choosing the lucky journal on the game's first day at lunch, to sinking Diddy's bag for an exemption in Bag Savers, she displayed a number of ruthless and suspicious acts that caught the attention of everyone else in just the very first episode.
Diddy: She...sank, my, bag. Un. For. Givable. No one does that in a game. Shake my head, Luvbi.
She also made a few enemies too, though they were short-lasted.
Wendy: UNG! I can't stand her. Someone get rid of her now and get her out of this game. Please.
Wendy laughed out loud in her seat, along with the other players. She looked at Luvbi.
"Okay, that confession was out of desperation," Wendy said, shaking her head. "Sorry."
"No harm," Luvbi said, smiling as well.
However, it was a coalition with Vivian that went unnoticed by the others for most of the game. Even as early as Episode 2, Luvbi and Vivian were shown having a tight bond, helping each other throughout the games.
(flashback of Luvbi winking at Vivian during the pre-Island Bash mission, urging her to speak on) Vivian: "If you…want to have a good time then just come to the party!" (Vivian smiles back at her with relief)
Unbeknownst to the others, they formed a coalition amidst the party during Episode 2.
Flashback Luvbi: "I trust you entirely. I just ask for us to share our suspicions with each other. No lies. Just honest opinion."
Flashback Vivian: "Okay. I'm not sure if I'll be good at this, but I'll try my best. I'm happy to trust someone so early in the game."
Luvbi also discovered her keen ability to deceive others. After Episode 2, she discovered that the sole cause for Rosalina's early downfall was the fact that Rosalina had suspected Luvbi since the beginning of the game. Rosalina went for Luvbi on Quiz #2, executing her.
EXECUTED
Rosalina: (post-execution) I can't believe Luvbi was a genuine player. I felt so sure, but in the end, I was completely mistaken off track. I guess she'll be fooling a lot more people from now on.
And Rosalina was right. Luvbi used her suspicious demeanor to her own advantage, toying with it to deceive the others.
Luvbi: I needed to get rid of my biggest enemies...I wasn't worried about the Mole in person. The people I were most frightened of were those I knew weren't the Mole.
Earlier in the game, Yoshi was actually one of Luvbi's potential suspects. But on the top of her lists were Bobbery and Wario.
(flashback of Luvbi looking suspiciously at Bobbery because of the missing dictionary during Cocomero Correto, which one of the producers secretly stole on the last round)
Luvbi fought to eliminate two opponents she believed could jeopardize her game: Diddy and Goombella. Before Episode 4's execution, Luvbi tried to influence Diddy's thoughts on who the Mole was, deciding to share her false suspicions on Vivian with him. But unknown to her, Diddy's suspect at that time was in fact Vivian. In the end, this only enforced Diddy's suspicions onto the wrong path.
Diddy: (secret confession) So Luvbi tells me she suspects Vivian too. Perfect. Maybe if she makes it past this around with me also, I'll know that I'm in the right direction.
Diddy was executed that night, during the game of Execution Roulette.
EXECUTED
Though this may have looked unfair, fate played its right role that night. Because unknown to anybody that night, including Diddy himself, Diddy WAS in fact meant to be the Mole's next victim in Episode 4, had the execution been a normal one. In return, this meant that Luvbi had successfully steered Diddy away from the Mole.
Luvbi: All of a sudden, I realized I was knocking everyone off. One by one.
In Episode 5, Luvbi began to take action to eliminate her biggest enemy: Goombella. In that episode, she did all she could to rattle Goombella. Her plan this time was to do everything she could to make Goombella believe she was the Mole.
Luvbi: I needed to bring Goombella down. She was the most intelligent one here. If I do the right things in this game, I could trick her and bring her off the right path.
Luvbi started her strategy of eliminating Goombella in Snap to See. Being in the perfect role as Goombella's message-deliverer during that game, almost all of Luvbi's mistakes in that mission ended up being deliberate. She sabotaged on almost three different occasions during that game, from not reading a Picture Objective clue completely to giving an incorrect suggestion on a photograph goal.
Flashback Goombella: "Luvbi, you said that we needed four Piantas!" (Luvbi holds her smile in)
The plan was working. But what perked Goombella the most was Luvbi's suspicious action during the Fungi Prediction, where Luvbi barely reacted to her pepper's spiciness at all.
Flashback Goombella: "Don't you want a glass of water?"
Flashback Luvbi: "Why? The taste would go away anyway." (As Luvbi looks reaction-less, Goombella eyes the plate of mushrooms suspiciously)
Luvbi did all the things she could do to throw Goombella off. In this case, Goombella believed that Luvbi had previously trained for the mission, being secretly accustomed to the so-called "spicy" pepper. Goombella even vented out her suspicions to the others.
Flashback Goombella: ""Your mouth just doesn't lose spiciness as soon as you devour the food. Luvbi is getting even more suspicious, thing after thing. And they never end." (Bobbery and Yoshi just continue looking at her, shrugging and contemplating)
After Bobbery's execution at the end of Episode 5, Luvbi continued her charades as the Mole. In the end, Goombella finally succumbed, the final strike of Luvbi, coming from her action in Cash it or Sink It. In that game, Luvbi had successfully beat the mission by stealing the metal pot from the island, sinking the boat and taking away Goombella's exemption. To Goombella, this was the final Mole act that made her vote almost completely for Luvbi. She was executed.
EXECUTED
In the final four, Luvbi was now determined that the Mole was Yoshi, having voted questions on him more than any other player on the past three quizzes. In fact, Luvbi steered her coalition partner, Vivian, away from thinking Wario was the Mole, just in time to save her.
Vivian: Now that I look back, it makes so much more sense that Yoshi is the Mole, over Wario. I was saved by Luvbi. If it wasn't for her, I think I might have lost the game already. I'm so thankful.
Luvbi knew from the beginning that her coalition parter, who was also her opponent, was a strong one. Before the end of the penultimate episode, where Luvbi met her fate, the two of them shared one of their last heart-warming conversations that brought new light, not only into the game they were playing, but into their friendship as well.
Flashback Luvbi: "No. You made it here on your own and that's the reason why you are here. I know you're not the Mole, and I'm sure the reason you're here today is because you've been your intelligent self." (Vivian smiles, happy and grateful)
And that night, Luvbi met her end.
EXECUTED
But Luvbi left a mark in the game, having been one of the most unique, strategic, and clever players of the entire game. Though she had her controversial moments, she had her many other moments of pure smartness and character that always managed to surprise and impress the other players around her, to no end. No doubt, Luvbi was the person who was always meant for a game like this.
Flashback Luvbi: (at the end of her execution, smiling at the camera) "Good luck...and you know who you are."
The players clapped, as Luvbi, for perhaps the first time in the entire game, looked back with a humble but pleased feeling.
"I really didn't even know all that information about my own self," Luvbi said honestly.
"Now that we know the truth, Goombella, did you know that you were being personally victimized by Luvbi through the end of the game?" Both Goombella and Luvbi laughed at this phrase.
"Well, I wouldn't call it personally victimizing," Goombella said, shaking her head. "But at times, I knew I was falling right into her trap. In the sixth episode, you only had like so many people to choose from. And, well, I guess I chose Luvbi."
"Your strategy was almost the opposite of Luvbi's, in a way," said McHallyboo. "In the latter half of the game."
"It really was!" Goombella said, remembering. "I remember saying, since Episode 5, that I was no longer trying to pretend to be the Mole. I was just playing the game to my best. I guess my brain was being overworked so much."
"Rosalina, what made you suspect Luvbi as the Mole so early?" McHallyboo questioned, turning to the second executed victim.
"Hmm, well..." Rosalina said, regretful but smiling. "It's definitely my fault for picking so surely and early. But I was Luvbi's roommate in the first episode, and she was acting as if she was trying to turn me away from suspecting her, when I brought up that durian incident with the journals.
"Which is STILL suspicious," Boo said, shaking his head as people laughed.
"So I thought it was her from then on," finished Rosalina. "And her overall demeanor was very hidden and questionable."
"Diddy, how do you feel now, knowing that you were always meant to be executed anyway in Execution Roulette?" McHallyboo asked, as the players all laughed, surprised all over again. Diddy chuckled and shook his head.
"Well, first of all, the other players could have saved me," he said, giving everyone else a false, stare of evil. "But I guess it was fate. Nothing else, really. Except now I won't even think anymore, 'What if the execution was normal?' So I guess there's no more guilt."
"Say, the two players we saved from that game were Vivian and Yoshi," Bobbery said, as everyone made a sound of realization. "Perhaps this might contribute to the fact that they're both the final two."
"Illogical, but interesting," Goombella said reasonably. "More like a foreshadow in a novel-story sense."
"I guess luck AND fate played their roles throughout this game," McHallyboo said whole-heartedly. "Luvbi, any final words of your journey played?" Luvbi thought.
"Well, I hope that no one feels any ill feelings towards me for my method of playing," Luvbi said out loud, "and I'm happy to have made an insignificant enemy, as well as a friend, of Wendy Koopa."
"We were SO fre-nemies," Wendy said with a grin. "But no hard feelings at all, anymore. I swear."
"Oh, and your Old English seemed to have disappeared gradually throughout the game," Bobbery pointed out to Luvbi. Everyone chuckled with realization.
"Yes, well, the reason holds naturalness," Luvbi reasoned. "Being surrounded by all of you for such a lengthy duration of time, it was inevitable. It will probably come back after a month or so." Bobbery looked skeptical at her explanation.
"When we come back, we will uncover the journeys of two more important players," said McHallyboo. "The winner, Vivian, and of course, the Mole." Vivian smiled, while Yoshi folded his arms.
"Technically, we all know that Yoshi was never a player," Boo couldn't help but say. Everyone agreed, nodding.
The journey of Wario Garlimo given! Along with the journey of one of the most questionable and strategic players of the game, Luvbi Nimbis. Great games played, no? And hopefully some mysteries were solved as well with their explanations.
But next up, the story of the winner, Vivian Shadens, is given! How did she play, and what led her to victory? And then Yoshi's game and tactics from the very start to the end are revealed. The finale continues more.
;] Stay tuned for Part 3!