THE END! CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S HEREE! RAWR!
Heart-attack Dx
...story cancelled :( ...
Nah, I kid y'all! I hope you enjoy this super end!
FINALE (The End)
"Welcome back," said McHallyboo. "Previously, we had uncovered the Mole's acts of sabotage and everything he did throughout the entire game that thwarted the efforts of the other nine players. Yoshi Dino was indeed the great Mole, his actions going undetected by the others until almost the very end." The players applauded with high agreement.
"However," began McHallyboo, a small smile entering onto his face, "there were a large number of clues hidden throughout the story that would have hinted you towards Yoshi Dino as the Mole as well."
"The...story?" Wendy asked, flabbergasted. "What story?" McHallyboo waved his hand, shaking her sentence away.
"I think I caught one," Goombella said, trying her hardest to remember back. "You were reading a magazine with a strange title in Episode 2 during the Island Bash game, McHallyboo. Was that a clue?"
"I remember in Blooper's letter, there was a mention of a dinosaur somewhere," Rosalina recalled. "I'm certain of it." Yoshi closed his mouth before he could speak.
"Well, time to wait no more," said the host, facing the camera. "Let us see all of the hidden clues of Saboteur's Island!" The television turned on.
The Hidden Clues
There were many clues hidden throughout that would have helped you pinpoint the Mole of the game. Mixed in difficulty, many were out in the open, while a few were cleverly hidden unless scrutinized and examined closely. All of these would have hinted and lead you to the identity of the Mole. How many of these did you find?
Episode 1 Clues:
1) Digited Appearance
When the players skydived from the airplane in their first mission, the full number combination was 8645124096. This entire combination was uncovered in Chapter 4, when Boo found the slip of paper during Bag Savers.
However, this was not just a random assortment of numbers. If you examined the code carefully, you will see that it consisted of a special pattern: they are increasing powers of eight, to the first, second, third, and fourth powers: 8, 64, 512, 4096.
So what was the special significance of the number 8?
It was the number that linked to the identity of the Mole in various ways through the first episode. Yoshi was the 8th player introduced in the beginning of the game, has Journal Number 8, and in the game's first quiz on the crucial question "Who is the Mole?", Yoshi was the 8th player listed.
2) Sirena Beach
When the players arrive at their hotel for the first night, Yoshi is reading a brochure that displays a picture of Sirena Beach. When Yoshi complains why the group isn't going there, I state to him, "It's only the beginning Yoshi".
Indeed, it was only the beginning for Yoshi. The last location of the entire game would be at Sirena Beach, a location where Yoshi was guaranteed to reach in the final episode, but for only one possible condition: if he was the Mole.
Episode 2 Clues:
3) Pattern of Death
When the players during Island Bash arrive back to the hotel, they see me, McHallyboo, reading a fake magazine with the title, The Pattern of Death Will Be Broken.
This is a reference to the past stories written by author krisetchers, their plotlines involving deaths and patterns. Yoshi starred in two of krisetchers' other stories, The Next Death Will Come and Coming Forward. In both stories Yoshi was always the second character to die within the main group of characters.
Being the second episode in The Mole: Saboteur's Island, obviously someone would be eliminated second. Since Yoshi was the Mole, it would be impossible for him to be the next one to "die", or be executed in the story, because the Mole is never executed. Thus, the pattern of death, a.k.a. Yoshi dying second in a story, was automatically guaranteed to be broken.
4) The Island CD
When Rosalina and Wario are controlling the music of the Island Bash party, they spot the name of the song that's playing on a disc, called, "Drover's Foe". The players disregard it as a boring song.
However, if one were to anagram the song's name, they would see that "Drove's Foe" could be unscrambled into the phrase "FOOD SERVER". The player serving food at the party that night was the only waiter present, Yoshi.
Episode 3 Clues:
5) "Appeared Once Again"
In the intro of Episode 3, it says that the Mole "appeared once again before a victim". This could have been disregarded as metaphorical talk, but there was actually a literal meaning to it.
Look at the order that the names were entered in the first two executions of the game:
Execution 1: Wendy, Rosalina, Diddy, Vivian, Yoshi, Boo.
Execution 2: Goombella, Diddy, Wario, Bobbery, Yoshi, Rosalina.
Yoshi's name was entered right before Boo in the first execution, as well as right before Rosalina in the second execution. In the end, Yoshi did indeed "appear once again before a victim", in both their executions.
6) BLT Acronym
When the One-Two-Three BLT mission was explained to them, I said that B.L.T. could stand for many things. I stated that in this occasion, it would stand for Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato. But what else could B.L.T. stand for?
These letters coincidentally acronym the three final players from the first season of the Mole: Blooper, Luigi, and Toadette.
If we used this acronym key, then that means that the player in the Tomato leg of the race would also stand for Toadette, who was the Mole. Yoshi chose himself to be in the tomato leg of the race, landing himself in that symbolic spot of the letter T.
Episode 4:
7) Ticket Ride Label
When Luvbi and Yoshi were getting their second ticket ride during Race of the Rides, it had M.G.R. pasted on it. Yoshi declared that this stood for, "Merry-Go-Round", but this was incorrect.
The official name of the ride at Pinna Park is actually called the Yoshi-Go-Round, so why aren't the initials on the ticket instead Y.G.R? The changed M can be seen if you replace the word "Yoshi" with "Mole". Hence, the initials on the ticket are M.G.R, due to the fact that it instead stands for "Mole-Go-Round".
8) The "Sacrifice" Slip
During Relative Ride, when Goombella guessed wrong for Bobbery's loved one, Yoshi says out loud, "Now I have to sacrifice."
At first, this makes no sense. But later on in the game, it was revealed that the players with exemptions, Yoshi and Luvbi, could sacrifice their exemption cards in order to reunite loved ones together. Yoshi's sentence was a giveaway that he knew exactly what was going to occur later on in the mission.
9) The Green Carousel
On the Mole Saboteur Website, under the "Missions" tab, there is a picture of Pinna Park under Episode 4. If you look closely at the Yoshi-Go-Round in the photo, you will see that additional sprays of green were added upon it within the image. This color indication pointed as a hint towards Yoshi as the Mole.
Episode 5:
10) The Bullet-Order Names
The intro of Episode 5 had a revealing clue that not only revealed the identity of the Mole, but the rest of the players' fates as well. This line in the intro was given: "Six players continue this game like the bullets in a revolver, slowly firing one by one. But of course, one bullet is a dud, the one unable to leave this game by any means." The players were introduced at the beginning of Episode 5 in the following order below:
Luvbi
Wario
Vivian
Yoshi
Bobbery
Goombella
Look at the list. If indeed the players were being "fired one by one", then the first player to be executed would be Bobbery, followed by Goombella, then Luvbi, Wario, and then the winner Vivian, and in the end, only the Mole would remain, Yoshi. The order follows the list, and could have been seen by readers as the episodes were uploaded one by one. The players' order of execution was given away in the intro of Episode 5.
11) Joe Safari
The Pianta guide who guided Bobbery during their game of The Fungi Prediction was named Joe Safari. Not being his real name, the name "Safari" was more than just a randomly chosen surname. A game was released on the Super NES back in 1993 with Yoshi's name in it, called "Yoshi's Safari".
12) Picture Objectives Hidden Message
The picture objective messages that the players received in Snap to See held a hidden message. In the 1st picture objective, you had to look at the 1st word in the message. In the 2nd picture objective, you had to look at the 2nd word in the message. Following the pattern, you would get:
You make your way to an empty...
Go onwards and enter and find...
Yellow fungi sit on the east side...
It steams so hot, but what burns...
A lone Pianta is insignificant, but...
Snap the camera hunter, and make..
The first five words found spelled out the letters for the Mole's name, Y.O.S.H.I. In the 6th message, the letter M could be found, standing for Mole.
Episode 6 Clues:
13) The Sun Sign Constellation
The constellation on the map that the players had to find for the bottle game was told by the boatman to be "the first sun sign" of Isle Delfino's night sky. In Zodiac terminology, the first sun sign is Aries.
Yoshi's birthday is April 13, making his Zodiac sign none other than Aries.
14) Quiz Advantage Quote
After the players' mock quiz in Episode 5, the players realize how difficult and impossible the quiz actually was. When McHallyboo questions them, Yoshi says in response to this, "Even I failed the quiz".
This out-of-place line was an indicator that Yoshi, as the Mole, usually did well on the quizzes. In this case however, he was as clueless on the mock quiz as the other players were.
15) The Lifebuoy Message
The message on the buoy seen floating in the water at the end of Episode 6 had a strange message on it, which began with:
"We're all like the fingers of a sodeoka samurai's hand...at any second, one can be lost and into the sun's wind we disappear."
There is no such thing as a sodeoka samurai. If one were to online search the word however, they would find websites dedicated to a Japanese digital artist named Yoshi Sodeoka, hinting at the Mole's first name.
Episode 7 Clues:
16) The Hidden Kart
At the beginning of the Delfino Duels game, the players were assigned to split up into teams based on either a boxing glove or a cucumber. The players were confused in their meanings, and even more confusing was the fact that the players who had chosen the cucumber had games based on fruits, not vegetables. So what was the meaning of the cucumber?
The location the players were at, Delfino Plaza, was actually a separate race track created for the game Mario Kart DS. Yoshi as a character is a player in the game, and his second default kart that is unique to his character in the game is called the "Cucumber".
17) Edited DVD Audio
The players had spent a night watching Season 1's events of the Mole on a DVD in Noki Bay. In the footage, the players in Noki Bay heard McHallyboo's speech in the penultimate execution of Season 1. However, if you were to actually go back to that very moment in The Mole: Traitor Aboard when McHallyboo is speaking, you would have noticed differences between the two stories. That's because extra words were imputed and added into the DVD audio to make a clue. The words below in bold parenthesis are the words not found in the original audio, but was seen on the DVD in The Mole: Saboteur's Island.
"Early on in the game, you had all been nervous about being executed on the first few (yearning) rounds, but with (open) truth do I say that you've all lasted longer than the (six) others. So please commend yourselves, and if you are eliminated tonight (here), may you feel no shame in leaving, but rather (indecisive) pride for making it this far in the game."
The false words (Yearning, Open, Six, Here, Indecisive) spell out the Mole's name in initials: Yoshi.
Episode 9:
18) Interview Similarity
The intro of the final episode ends with this line:
And that third player? There's a heavy aura around him or her. Something that has been there since the very first episode.
That player is the Mole.
Listen to Yoshi's interview during that episode, when the players are asked one by one if they are the Mole.
"Yeah, I can be the Mole. But I'd be a cold-hearted person with a heavy aura around me, being there since the very first episode..."
His similar choice of words in connection to the intro were a clue to him being the Mole.
19) Chemical Compounds
One of the questions that was asked by McHallyboo in the game Casino Potluck had a question with the following choice answers: A: Dysprosium, B: Uranium, C: Nitrogen, D: Oxygen. If you were to get the chemical letter symbols for these four elements, you would end up with:
Dysprosium: D
Uranium: I
Nitrogen: N
Oxygen: O
The chemical symbols spell out Yoshi's last name, Dino.
20) Fated Combinations
A huge clue that would have revealed the fates of the last three players were in the combinations that unlocked the players' doors.
Vivian unlocked her door with the code 346679. If you reversed the order of these numbers, 976643 would be achieved. Using a telephone key pad, the word WINNER could be spelled using these numbers.
Wario's door combination was 35677. A scramble combination of those same numbers, 56737, is the word LOSER when deciphered the same way.
If Vivian is the winner, and Wario is the loser, then that only leaves one more role for Yoshi to end up as in the finale: the Mole.
-Picture Clues-
(suggestion: open the picture clues in another window to follow the answers along!)
The Mole: Saboteur Island Logo: The logo, though meant for just show, actually spells out the Mole's initials on the right side in a hidden, discreet manner. This is now accessible to see if you change the name of the title into "palmtreeyd". In fact, if you were to go to the last page of the Mole's journal in the final picture clue, you would see this section of the logo cropped off on the right, secretly indicating an importance in the right side of the logo's picture.
Island Bash Flier: The name of the picture is "lineconnection". If you look towards the bottom of the image, a small line is seen, connecting the phrase "no money" with the image of the boat dock. If one made a connection between these two elements, they would have related this to Yoshi's story in the game. Yoshi was the player who waited at the boat dock during the Island Bash advertising, and because of the lack of boats arriving, Yoshi indeed made no money during the mission.
Wiggler Mission Inspiration: Each of the Wiggler's circle segments has a letter standing for each player in the game. In the picture, in place of the sixth Wiggler segment is Mario's FLUDD, and in FLUDD's tank is the letter "M", standing for Mole. So at first glace, it would look like Wario's circle stands for Mole.
However, the clue was in the picture's title, "ccoordinate". The extra C was a clue, and if you looked at Mario's hand, an extra letter C is spotted that isn't in the original image. This signifies that the hand is important, but in what way? Through the hand's characteristic of 5 fingers. Counting 5 spots away from the FLUDD-taken space would bring you right to Yoshi's circle.
Execution Roulette (Screen): There were two clues to this image that pointed to the Mole. The first clue followed the picture's title, "fcancellag". This could be seen as the word "cancel" placed within the word "flag". The system of communication using flags, called semaphore, was the key. If you were to look up the key semaphore code for the word "cancel" and placed the flag arrangement pose over the Execution Wheel, the flags would notably hit the sections with Diddy and Yoshi's names on them. In other words, connecting the executed with the executor.
The second clue to this image was more straight-forward. Starting with Diddy's name, if you traveled to the next executed player in the game, Bobbery, you would have to travel four spaces clock-wise. If you decided to follow this pattern around the circle and eliminate every person that was landed on, Yoshi's name would be hit last. In other words, he would outlast the others.
5 Become 1 Scrapwork Paper: The scrapwork layout of the mission had X's hidden on the page in each game square. These X's marked the locations of where the cryptic poem lines within the 5 Become 1 mission were hidden. If put together, the poem said the following:
You think that being alone will make you ready?
Well, to do so is a win to deny
Hopefully these games did nothing but enlighten
Because it's five become one, not 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...0.
The picture's title, "xmarkstheend", hinted that the end of each of the lines were important. In fact, they spelled out a clue if looked at carefully. Look at the bolded ends of the poem: each last syllable or character was crucial in that when sounded and pronounced out loud, they would spell out the four letters of the Mole's last name: D, I, N, and O.
Map of Delfino Square: The answer to this clue was multi-stepped but rewarding in result. If you were to compare the image provided to an actual image of Delfino Square's map, you would see that the dock is different in that it is shaped in the letter, "W".
Look at the picture's title: "gameletter". If you were to replace the word "letter" with "w" in the title and change it to the new title, "letterw", a new image would appear with a different dock, shaped in another letter. Following this pattern, you would receive five different pictures, as well as 5 different letters, spelling the phrase "whois". Going to this final image would give you a large clue blatantly pointing out the identity of the Mole.
Under Construction: In this image, a screenshot of the game's final mission was displayed in a document. Following the image's name, "title", you would see that the title of the document in the image was "wordandtime". This was a clue to get the number of words in the document, "712", and the time displayed in the image, "9:29". If added together by individualizing the numbers in their assigned digit places, you would get three numbers (seen below):
9 2 9
7 1 2 =
equals 16 3 11
The numbers 16, 3, and 11 could have also been achieved in another way. They was also seen somewhere else on the page: in the tabs bar at the bottom in the screenshot, an AIM Instant Message could be spotted with someone named "sicktin3ilehvan". This was a fake user created by me, and instead, if studied closer, gave you the three crucial numbers that were needed: 16, 3, and 11.
Looking at the document in the image, if you looked at the 3rd, 11th, and 16th words within the document, you would be able to create the sentence, "Yoshi can't win". If Yoshi cannot win, then it is guaranteed that he is the Mole.
A Final Message (The Mole's Journal): Many clues hidden within the pages of the Mole's diary gave away the Mole. Dialogue within the entries also gave clues that eliminated the other two as the writers of the journal entries. Below are the most major/hidden ones.
Page 1: The Mole's hints about themself saying: Person? Yes. Saboteur? Duh. Brave? A little. Opponent? Friend. These words follow the same letter acronyms in Yoshi's intro bio of every episode.
PLAYER: Yoshi. Surname: Dino. Birthday: April 13. Occupation: Fruiterer/Waiter. The matching letters fall right into place.
Page 2 (accessed with the title "imrightbehindyou"): The Mole insults Diddy, stating that he "falls short of being a leader". However, in the next page, the Mole states that their partner in Bag Sinkers was "smart". In Wario's case, his partner in Bag Sinkers was Diddy. If the Mole was Wario, then it would not make sense for him to refer to Diddy in two completely distinct ways.
Page 3: The Mole states that they think someone was watching them in the Wiggler Cowardice challenge. Going back to when Yoshi jumped, someone is indeed described as watching and looking at Yoshi while he jumped in the game (later revealed to be Wario).
Page 5: The image of the coin has the caption, "Money is the root of all evil". This was an indicator that Wario, an obsesser of coins, would not openly say that line with honesty.
The last page held a clue with the line, "You want to know who I am? Just picture who I am." If you looked through the pictures throughout all of the Mole's journal entries in order, you could see that each image secretly has the image of a letter each, e.g. the first image of a parachute forms the letter Y. In the end, the pictures spell out the Mole's name.
-Dinosaur Clues-
Like last season with the various mushroom clues pointing to Toadette, the reoccurring theme this time around was dinosaurs, pointing to none other than Yoshi. Unlike last season however, these were more spottable and easier in difficulty to find. How many of these did you notice?
Episode 1: At the end of the third chapter in the author's note, krisetchers writes, "And watch for hidden clues! Like last season, there will be 65 million of them". The odd choice for the number wasn't random, but in fact chosen carefully. 65 million years ago is the widely-proposed time by paleontologists of when dinosaurs, due to an asteroid collision, went extinct.
Episode 2: In Blooper's letter, he says the line,"And as soon as you think you have victory, the losing side suddenly snatches you up like a velociraptor, having been preying on you from the very start of the game." Velociraptor is a species of dinosaur.
Episode 3: During the Cocomero Coretto game, a clue about the Mole is found in a sand dune, in none other than the one shaped in a dinosaur's footprint. In fact, the clue says, "The Mole's act is closer than you think". Indeed, the Mole's act, of stepping into sand, was very close to the players: they were standing right in it.
Episode 4: During the writing of Episode 4, the movie Jurassic Park was added to the list of favorite movies in McHallyboo's biography page, a movie with a dinosaur-based plotline.
Episode 5: The Mole gives us the hidden names of two dinosaurs in a single confessional, after the players finish the Snap to See game. He states: "My ankle's as sore as ever. The thing that makes the pain worth it? We kept Wario from his exemption. We didn't need to get a car and tour us." The two hidden dinosaur names, ankylosaurus and carnotaurus, can be seen respectively.
Episode 6: Before Execution 6, the host gathers everyone and asks them the locations of their previous executions. Yoshi answers the second location with the reply, ""The water house, hawkins." This answer was odd, but it served to point towards the name Waterhouse Hawkins. Hawkins was famously known for creating life-size models, his work known for being in the Crystal Palace Park in London. What was he famously known for making models of? Dinosaurs.
Episode 7: There were two parts in the episode that made up a dinosaur's name. When Luvbi is in the stealing portion of the Delfino Duels game, she spots a fruit stand that says "Ptero Fruits: 5 Coins". Later when the players are leaving to play in the DVD portion of the last mission, Wario sees the sign, "Dactyl Boating: 5 Coins" outside the hut. The connection with the price "5 coins" would have linked these two signs together, into the word, "Pterodactyl", a flying reptile dinosaur.
Episode 8: During the Casino Potluck mission, Yoshi easily wins a question, the answer to the question being Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most known dinosaur of all.
-"Final Destination" Clues-
These clues were given at the end of every chapter before an execution. With my past fanfic stories having the "Final Destination" movie series as inspiration, one would know that in the movie series, clues hinted to who was going to die next. In this case then, the clues would point to who would be the next player to be executed. Below are the meanings of each Final Destination clue.
MP1BULB- MP1 stood for the Nintendo game Mario Party 1, which had a minigame called "Running of the Bulb", consisting of players running away from various Boos. Boo was the first executed.
Flower-A-Slant-A- Using synonyms, the word "Flower" could be replaced by "Rose" and "Slant" for "Lean". The end result would be, "Rose-a-Lean-a", giving pronunciation of Rosalina's name.
CRANIUM- In that very episode, in the 1-2-3 BLT mission, Wendy's assignment was to retrieve a head of lettuce. Cranium, of course, is a bone structure in the head.
CIROT SI HERP- Backwards, the word "Prehistoric" would be made out. This would follow Darwin's theory of evolution consisting of prehistoric primates, pointing to Diddy.
| NO STARS | - This was a reference to Super Mario 64, in where the door to the first level, Bob-omb's Battlefield, required no stars to enter. This was the clue that pointed to Bobbery.
H 0, T 0, M B 3, R W 4- These were initials for the attack moves of Goombella in Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Old Door, as well as the number of "Flower Points" required for each attack. Headbonk required 0 FP, Tattle was 0 FP, Multi-Bonk required 3 FP, and Rally Wink required Goombella for 4 FP.
YTiOczCbgKPkw- The bold letters stood for the website Youtube. Putting the rest of the meaningless letters into the URL would have brought you to a video showing The Overthere in Super Paper Mario, pointing to Luvbi (Side note: because of so many comments from both me and other fanfic users on the video for this clue, the user amusingly disabled comments xD)
Outside Clues
These other hidden clues, located on other sites, would have pointed to the Mole's identity. Though these were more hidden, this list was collaborated all in honor of the Mole.
Facebook Pictures: There were various pictures on my profile that gave away the identity of the Mole. First, for a month on my Facebook, my profile picture was a photo of me holding a Yoshi plush doll. If you were to click on the photo, the stuffed Yoshi was seen tagged as the word "Spy". Second, about exactly a year ago, I posted a photo of me with a Yoshi imprinted on my shirt. The tag in the photo of the Yoshi in the photo was, "tmosi", standing for "The Mole of Saboteur's Island". Lastly, in one of my albums, a clear shot of Yoshi himself was uploaded as a photo. The caption is, "Yoshi! My faithful servant."
Phone Number: Also hidden on my Facebook profile was a telephone number found under my contacts: 096-744-3466. Since a phone number cannot begin with the letter zero or else it is invalid, this showed that the phone number was a fake. If deciphered with none other than a telephone key pad, you would be able to spell out the name 0YO-SHI-DINO.
Youtube Tags: Videos on Youtube held the execution videos for Episodes 1 and 3 of The Mole: Saboteur's Island. These videos were also the top result if "The Mole: Saboteur's Island" was searched into Google. Both videos had tags that secretly spelled out the Mole's name. For example, in the first Execution video, the video tags held the words, "yell open hop site invisible" These spelled out the Mole's name in initials.
The final clue of this story was in the intro of every episode (excluding the first one, which didn't have one). Last season, the first words in every intro gave away the identity of the Mole. This time, in honor of the second season, the second words gave away the Mole's identity. So going back, what was the second word of every intro?
Just two days ago the...
There is a second episode already...
In the events of just last...
The Mole's game narrows down...
And next, we find ourselves deeper...
Intelligent, spot on, and clever.
The sentence formed was, "Two is the Mole's next spot." So who was in the second spot in the next intro? The final episode intro began with the following:
"Wario. Yoshi. Vivian. Three players..."
Yoshi Dino, landing in the second spot, is the Mole.
The players were flabbergasted; some of them were highly impressed, while others displayed faces of pure discombobulation.
"Those clues were just awesome!" Goombella spoke out loud. "Seriously. I couldn't even get half of those! I'm so impressed."
"My head...spinning...too many clues," Wario groaned slightly. "How did all of these slip past my nose?"
"Well, you know Wario...they were called hidden clues," Boo pointed out, while the others laughed.
"That dinosaur clue," Rosalina said with satisfaction, and she playfully pushed Yoshi. The dinosaur giggled.
"Perhaps," began Luvbi, "we had gathered these clues subconsciously in our brains throughout the game. If this applied to Wario and Vivian, it would reason why they made it so far." Everyone pondered the interesting possibilities with flowing thoughts. McHallyboo faced Vivian.
"But of course, we know, none of these clues helped Vivian figure out the Mole and land her the spot as the winner of The Mole: Saboteur's Island," said McHallyboo. "Even if she did discover clues, it was all character and story analyzation that made her figure out and secure who the Mole was." When he said this, McHallyboo was strangely looking at the camera as well.
"Err, I must ask, why are you looking at the camera?" Bobbery inquired. McHallyboo only chuckled loudly.
"I really never thought I'd win," Vivian said, smiling at the ground. "I know I've said that so many times...in like the past hour! But it's just so amazing. It'll probably take a few weeks for me to finally get it into my head." Everyone around her smiled as well.
"I had a feeling you'd win, actually," the host admitted. Vivian laughed with disbelief.
"Really?" she asked. McHallyboo winked.
"I can sense hidden potential on many occasions," he replied truthfully.
"You totally deserve the winning spot, Vivian," Yoshi said. "Totally!"
"Yoshi, you deserve an award for being the most stealthy Mole," Diddy said, shaking his head. "I never really pinpointed you at all."
"Yeah! I mean, the mystery and surprise couldn't have been more great," Wendy said with agreement, then took a deep breath. "I feel this game changed me so much."
"Yoshi, how do you think you would have done as a regular contestant?" McHallyboo asked him, as everyone turned to the Mole with curious thought.
"Oh, umm," Yoshi said, scratching his head and laughing. "I think I know. I'd be so obsessed trying to figure out who the Mole is that I'd probably be taking notes every other second throughout the game in my journal. If I was a genuine player, I'd be so paranoid and stick out the players as a hopeless paranoid, writing down everything I could and can. So I wouldn't last long...at least not socially." The others seemed amused, picturing the scene with the saboteur.
"Boo, we know you had such a short run in the game," McHallyboo said, pointing towards the first executed player. "But what would you have done differently if you were to go back?"
"Oh," Boo replied, shrugging. "Maybe vote for Yoshi I think." The players all laughed at his line.
"But hah, in honesty, maybe personally talk to the players more, like interrogate them," said the player. "That way, I could have seen into their true character. I think my short-term coalition partner Wario did that. So kudos to him."
"Who else do you guys think could have made a great Mole?" McHallyboo asked them. The players immediately began pointing fingers at each other.
"Goombella," Rosalina said, smiling. "I think you could have done it." Goombella laughed, shaking her head.
"I'd spill the beans on Day 1," Goombella countered. "No way."
"I think Bobbery could have made a good Mole," said Luvbi, as everyone turned to the Bob-omb. "Your character of respect and wisdom would have disabled me from ever selecting you." Bobbery laughed jovially.
"Well, perhaps I would have been too much of a suspect," he replied.
"Darn, I'd make a terrible Mole," Diddy realized, as everyone laughed. "I think I was suspicious enough already."
"Yah, you'd be pretty terrible," Boo said, as the crowd laughed with Diddy's look.
"Yoshi, what would you give to another Mole for advice?" McHallyboo questioned curiously. The Mole of Season 2 thought for a second.
"I think I'd have to pass the same chain of wise words that I received from Toadette, the Mole before me," Yoshi decided. "I mean, you can completely keep a part of your genuine personality when you're the Mole. Of course, you have to change a lot of your outside character being a secret agent, but you never really have to change your true personality aspects." The players nodded with agreement at Yoshi's words.
"On my own, I would say...never get discouraged if someone's on your heels," Yoshi said. "Even if they're like dead-on onto you, you can still steer them away if you give it your best. Don't give up if someone is suspecting you! That's what a Mole has to always remember: to never give up." McHallyboo nodded this time.
"And as host, it was the greatest pleasure to host this amazing game," McHallyboo said, smiling grandly at the people before him. "You were indeed great players. I could not have asked for a greater cast to work with." The players clapped, cheering as well for the host's final words.
"Aww, is it really ending?" Diddy moaned. The host nodded with a smile.
"Sadly, I'm afraid so," McHallyboo replied.
"The finale is ending, and perhaps this show as well," Luvbi spoke, "but never the memories."
"And the fun," added Vivian, smiling.
"I agree," said Goombella. "I'm never forgetting any of this ever."
"It'd be hard to," Wario admitted, a laugh in his sentence. "Impossible."
The players clapped, and the finale was over. As the television and cameras finally turned off, they greeted each other individually warmly, hugging, laughing, but most of all, happy in each others' presence. A special bond was created that season that could never have been achieved or relived anywhere else. And at the very end of the day, happy and content, they all went to their homes. The grand vacation of deceit was finally over.
Vivian Shadens, the winner, went back home to her family and town to surprise them all as the prosperous winner of the game. With new-found courage and confidence, she was able to spend a large portion of her winnings towards opening her own art school. Now working as an inspiring teacher, she inspires students to reach that level of determination and confidence that she had obtained while playing the game.
Wario Garlimo, the runner-up, went back home, changed in priorities from his long run in the game. His lifestyle as an explorer changed as well: his explorations after the show rotated less on wealth and more solely for just recreational and entertainment purposes. Still remembering the events which occurred during the game, he continuously reflects back to the greatest adventure he ever had.
Yoshi Dino, the Mole, went home with the relaxing satisfaction of a job well done. He went back to not only his own home but back into the loving company of his wife Birdo. Still his jumpy and bubbly self, he tells people in his village the countless stories he collected from his adventures as the Mole, and even gained a bit of fame from his role as the sly saboteur. Never the less, Yoshi was finally able to let his guard down with the people and friends that he loved.
And for the others? They had the greatest of times playing the game, and thankfully, have no more stressful situations to face like the ones in the game they were forced to endure. They couldn't have agreed more with a better winner, Mole, and runner-up.
Most of all, they couldn't have wished for a better and more enthusiastic host to guide them through their game. Neither could McHallyboo.
And that is the end! After 3 and a half years, it is finally over! I'm in shock! :D
I must admit, there are probably 2 or 3 clues out there still hidden int he story which I completely skipped over. So maybe you guys will stumble upon them and find them for me ;)
THANK YOU everyone for this amazing second season of the Mole so possible! I am truly thankful!
Honestly, this season was never going to exist originally. I was planning to stop after the first season and never had a second one planned in my head. So all of this is pretty amazing and I'm happy it all happened.
And my thanks! I could not have done any of this without you readers and fans. You meant so much! But most of all, the reviewers! I love you all so much because you were the inspiration for this story :) I thank you very very much!
Possibly, there will be a final concluding chapter after this one. But tecnically, this is the end. SNIFF. SNIFF. Thank you everybody! :) May the Mole forever follow you.