Yay! The Real Obstacle Course is finally happening! BTW, it's a 8000+ this time! I need it put this in two parts or it'll be longer...whatever.

Also, Ruby fans, or anyone for that matter, Ruby will be a bit OOC right now.

I don't own anything.

"Welcome! Whoa, what the-" I managed to say before putting my hands on my mouth and nose (before putting my hand off my mouth to breath). "What the heck is that smell?"

Everyone pointed at Gold. "His fault."

"I did not!" Gold said, despite being the source of the foul stench. "It was Sapphire!"

"Whoever did it, what happened?" I said, gagging and the smell. It seems I can still smell with my mouth. Eew.

"It was a prank while we're playing truth or dare." Red replied. "Which makes it Blue's fault!" I said with the 'Aha!' tone. "Why me?" Blue said with a clothespin on her nose. "Because the only one who's ever going to suggest and enforce a truth or dare game resulting in utter failure is you!" I said, using my free hand to point at Blue at the end. Blue looked at me in a certain way. "I'm ashamed that you're my friend! Traitor!"

"Likewise." I commented before turning my attention to a passed out Crystal. "Darn! We can't KO Gold!" I said. "Why do we need that?" Gold asked. "Because it's the only way to make you not feel anything in such a short time." I answered. "What does that-oof!" Gold got KOed by Silver. He didn't use anything to hold his nose closed, but he isn't reacting to the smell at all…

"Whatever happened last night, you better get rid of it! And what happened to Crystal?!"

"Uh, she got knocked out-" Ruby said. "I know, but how?" I interrupted. "By some sort of knock out gas." Emerald said. "Hold on, why on earth did you guys have knock out gas or anything that results in weird outcomes!" I questioned. "Why are we yelling?" Yellow asked Red. "I guess it's because we're so surprised." Blue answered for Red.

"Someone wake up Crystal and get the smell off! We won't be able to do the obstacle course at this rate!" I said. "Actually, I'll prefer this than the obstacle course." Green said. "You're not even participating!" I said. "Red's not participating too, right?" Blue said. "Well, yeah, since Silver got the answer wrong on purpose but if he wants, he can partner up with Sapph." I said, being distracted. "But that's not the point! It's either the obstacle course or having to taste more food samples from people who's even worse than Red, Gold, Sapphire, Emerald, and Ruby!"

Blue immediately shook Crystal furiously (it being helpful is a whole 'nother story though). "Wake up Crystal!" Blue demanded. "You have to wake up and do the obstacle course, my tongue depends on it!"

"Me too." Yellow commented in the background, pointing to herself.

Green watched a few staff members (with clothespin on their noses) carrying a big crate full of packages of food. "Why do you still bring food?" Green asked me. "Because part of the obstacle course requires food."

After Crystal woke up ("I feel sick…") and Gold got carried to the garbage truck whose road is going to that place where they tear up the trash and stuff (don't worry, I timed it so Gold will wake up soon enough to live), we entered the warehouse, back to its obstacle set. I gave each participating team a gigantic die. Blue teamed up with Sapphire for the meantime since Gold is not here, but when they win, it's meant for all three of them. Also, due to a slight accident, each pair is going to have one die. "Okay, everyone remember the rules and stuff?" I said. They nodded. "I think…" Yellow said. "Don't worry, I'm pretty sure it's self explanatory. Roll the die whenever you're ready." I said.

Silver left to practice and Green sat in a sun lit area to read a book.

I sat at a chair with a small table next to it. A radio and a notebook as well as a few snacks rest on the table. A staff member came up and sat next to me using an unused crate. "So, what's after this?" she asked. I shrugged, opening a bag a chips. "I suppose I pick another event from the randomizer hat and go on from there. I was thinking of doing a random event before doing a reviewer's request and then do a short story of sorts." I handed her a chip. "Want one?"

Crystal, Sapphire, and Ruby rolled (tossed) the die. Crystal and Emerald landed a three, Sapphire and Blue a four, and Ruby and Yellow a five. The pairs are then surrounded in a bright light. The bright light brought the pairs inside of each of them to the square depending on what they rolled. The light disappeared and the pairs on found on the third, fourth and fifth square respectively. Crystal blinked. "What just happened?"

"You were transported!" I called out before the square the pairs are on glowed. The next moment, they were teleported again.

With Blue and Sapphire

Blue and Sapphire blinked. They looked around at the new 'inner dimension'. In front of them are two long columns of tables with various dishes of food on top. It sort of looked like what you'll see in grand feast at a castle or something. A set of the same thing is on the right side of the room, in which Crystal and Emerald appeared at. The pairs stared at each other. "Why are you here?" Emerald said. "I was about to ask the same thing." Blue said, crossing her arms.

"Uh, testing, testing!" a voice boomed out. The dexholders jumped at the sudden loud volume. "Who was that?" Emerald said. "I will be the instructor in this inner dimension!" the voice boomed. "By the way, the volume's broken on high, so my voice may seem a bit loud!"

"It's loud enough." Sapphire said with her hands covering her ears. "Who are you?" Crystal shouted out, thinking for a moment of how stupid it is to be talking to what seems like thin air. "I am Harold! Actually, I'm just a staff member for the Crystal and Emmy's pair and will be directing each of their trials!"

"My name is EMERALD!" Emerald said in a loud, angry voice. "Oh, IS THAT RIGHT? HAHA, SORRY 'BOUT THAT, RALDEN! I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BAD WITH NAMES!" Harold laughed, his voice louder than before. Emerald slapped his hand on to his face while the others covered their ears. "That's wan heck of a voice ya got there!" Sapphire said.

"HAHA! Don't worry! Your instructor is much quieter! In fact-" Harold's voice stopped, as if he's contemplating. "Ah, YOU'LL SEE FOR YOURSELF!"

"Can we just get on with the game already?" Blue said. "Sure! This is a food fight trial! Both of you will be running between the tables in front of you, and will be using the food set on the table to hit the opposing team! Also, the winning team will be able to continue forward, but since this is the first event, instead of being out of the game, you'll be moved back by one square! Simple? Begin!" Harold said without any answers.

It took a few second for the pairs to process everything before hastily running and get the first dish to throw.

With Yellow and Ruby

Yellow and Ruby blinked. They looked around at the sudden scenery and realized that they are in some sort of dojo in a long room, where the other end is so far away, they can't see it. Ruby noticed a few lines in the wall and wondered what they are. "Hello, contestants." A voice in a low voice said behind them. The two jumped and turned around. A person in a typical ninja outfit, where only the eyes and hands are showing, appeared before them. He's kneeling on the tatami mats, with one hand and one foot resting on the mat. Yellow squeaked in surprise. "Who are you?"

"My name does not concern you two, as I will only observe and instruct you in this area only." The ninja said. "Okay…" Ruby said. "What are we suppose to do?"

"You will be completing this event by going to other side of this room in one piece." The ninja said before disappearing. Yellow and Ruby made a surprised noise before hearing a whirring sound. They looked at each other in question and then turned to look at the room before them.

Suddenly, the room became alive with a bunch of traps where not only are there ninja traps, but traps you usually see in pyramids and death sentencing traps.

Ruby noted that traps are as follows:

First they have to dodge multiple huge, swinging blades, then several columns where they randomly spit out a flamethrower with no pattern whatsoever, be in top, bottom, or middle. After that, they'll have to dodge shurikens that's rapidly thrown from one wall to the other. After that…well…Ruby couldn't see that far.

Yellow and Ruby gulped before turning to each other in a 'we're screwed' look.

In the food fight area

Crystal managed to dodge a chocolate cake thrown by Sapphire then jumped over a fried rice dish by Blue. After five minutes into the game, Blue got hit drastically by noodles, a cupcake, bits of lettuce, tomatoes, and curry (this is due to Crystal's extreme accuracy with her feet) and Sapphire got hit on the head by spaghetti from Emerald. Crystal got hit by Sapphire with macaroni and cheese on her arm and Blue managed to hit Crystal on the back with pizza by slowing down. Emerald was able to dodge most things by being right next to the table. "I guess being short as its advantages!" Emerald said.

Sapphire tried to aim for Emerald by somehow making sure the food hits just over the table, but her strength is too strong, so Blue tried to get Emerald but ended up falling too short. They eventually decided to just get Crystal.

Emerald grabbed a random dish quickly before ducking back to avoid a flying dish of pancakes. He threw it randomly without looking (the table was blocking the view) and heard a splat and a "Eew!" by Blue. It seems that Emerald threw sloppy joe's and it landed on Blue's head, some sliding down to her face. "When do we win?" Crystal asked Harold. "I believe who ever reaches the finish line with less food on them, wins!" Harold said.

"This isn't fair! Crystal's great at this!" Blue complained. "I'm worse in accuracy with my hands you know!" Crystal yelled back. She stopped using her feet when it keeps slowing her down. The goal was to reach the finish line with your partner, otherwise it won't count.

"Take that!" Sapphire said as she threw a large plate of ravioli at Crystal. Crystal couldn't dodge it and it landed right into her…face…

"Oops! My bad!" Sapphire said as Crystal stopped running to wipe off the ravioli in her face. "Did it hit your eye?"

"Luckily, no!" Crystal managed to call out. The others stopped running for either the reasons A: You can't win without your partner or B: It's best to wait for the easy target to get more points while trying to get Emerald.

Blue and Sapphire tried to get Emerald with nearby dishes and Emerald tried to dodge it since he went out of his safety area to get a better aim. Emerald jumped and dodged the dishes before grabbing a dish and came back down. Then he jumped and threw the dish while getting hit on the face with a pie. Emerald's dish missed and ended up retreating next to the table to wipe his face off.

"Can we please refrain from hitting each other faces?" Emerald said. "It was an accident!" Sapphire said. "But we'll try to not hit your faces." Blue added.

Crystal, who managed to get most of the stuff off, got a plate with sandwiches and ran. She threw the sandwiches which missed since her aim faltered when she had to dodge a plate of cookies. "This is a complete waste of food!" Crystal said. "Actually!" Harold said. "These are all expired food from local supermarkets, and we're able to get them for free!"

Emerald, who wanted to taste the pie, stopped just before the piece went to his mouth. He made a face. "EEW!"

"I suggest to NOT eat them! HAHAHA!"

"Eew!" Blue said, stopping whatever she doing and wiping off the food that stuck to her (which did nothing). "I have rotten food on me and I didn't even know?!"

"There's no stench." Crystal said, sniffing at a plate she was about to throw. "Yes! For convience purposes, we added a super deodorant machine in this room!" Harold bellowed. "Now I have to wash my hair extra long!" Blue complained. "You have to wash your hair anyways!" Emerald commented before getting a bowl full of strawberries.

"Can we just get finished with this and move on?" Sapphire said. "Agree." Crystal nodded before throwing her plate. Sapphire did too and it landed on both girls on the chest. Crystal shook her head. "I hate this."

In the 'Outer' Dimension

I watched both of the trials with a CRT TV that's divided into four sections. The bottom ones are blank since one section I didn't need and Crystal and Emerald are lumped with Blue and Sapphire. Harold, who is in another room (the warehouse have various rooms, okay?), kept talking in the microphone with the volume high since it was actually broken. He's looking at a small TV where he'll be watching the two pairs compete.

The ninja guy who I don't know who he is (I hired him from a random dojo) watched Yellow and Ruby in silence from a part of the ceiling where it's dark.

"It seems that Yellow and Ruby somehow managed to pass the gigantic blades." I noted. The staff member next to me nodded. "Does it still count if they just jumped to one blade to another?" she asked, noting how the two jumped on the poles holding the blade and jumped to the next pole when the timing is right. I nodded. "I'm still surprised Ruby didn't complain much about his clothes."

I turned on the radio to a random station. "And now we'll be having DJ Mary sing a song!"

Back to Ruby and Yellow

Ruby and Yellow continued to clutch at the pole holding the last blade. They were afraid that if they were to jump at the wrong time, they'll get toasted (and possibly turned to ashes) by the flamethrower.

"See any pattern?" Yellow asked Ruby as they rocked back and forth. "Nope." Ruby answered. Yellow watched the first column. Top, bottom, middle, bottom, middle, middle, top, middle, bottom, top, bottom, top, top…there really wasn't any pattern. Or if it is, it was going to be a long time before they loop again. "We'll just have to wing it." Ruby said. "What does that mea-whoaahh!" Yellow said before get pulled by Ruby and jumping off the blade (did I mention that they were high up?) and landing right next to a column.

Yellow, who landed on one side of her leg ("Oof! Ouch!") noticed that the hole at the bottom (aka right next to her face) started to glow reddish. She realized that a flamethrower is going to come out and panicked. "Ruby! The column-whoa!" Yellow got dragged by Ruby as he ran to the next column, ducking his head as the top column blew out flames.

He dragged him and Yellow between the column and the next one so they'll be safe for the time being. "You okay?" Ruby asked Yellow. "Sorry for dragging you." He let go of Yellow and Yellow got up, brushing some debris (of rocks) off. "It's okay." Yellow breathed a sigh of relief. "At least we're still alive."

Ruby touched the next column they'll need to dodge and reeled back at the intense heat. "Well, now I know not to touch the column after it breathes fire."

"I'm surprised you're capable of well…doing all that." Yellow said. Ruby sighed. "People just don't give me enough credit. Besides," Ruby looked at his somewhat dirty outfit. "I'll complain later."

Outside of the Inner Dimension

"He's so cool!" the staff member next to me squealed like a fan girl. I sweatdropped. "Looks like his fan members in his fan club is increasing too." Another staff member commented, looking a small machine in his hand. "What?" I asked. He showed me the machine which has a chibi face of each male dexholder at the bottom with a bar in the color respective to each guy at various heights above the chibi faces on the screen. Apparently, the higher the bar is, the more fans they have. Red and Green are the highest and is at a close match, with Emerald at the least popular and Gold-

"Gold is third popular-est?!" I said in surprise. Ruby, who is currently fifth, is catching up to Silver, who is currently fourth. Actually, scratch that, he's the same as Silver. Maybe a bit more, if the screen's more accurate. "Well, apparently most fans like Gold's nature." The staff member said. "They're nuts!" I said. "And where you get this weird machine?"

"At the local weirdo store."

I mad face at the dumb name.

I turned back to the other staff member and noticed that she held a metallic red card with her name and something called a 'member number' with a chibi face of Ruby on it. "I signed up for the fan club!" The staff member said. "Already!" I commented in surprise.

"Actually, I signed up for the Blue fan club." The staff member owning the weird machine held up a blue card. "…" I sweatdropped at the staff member, speechless at the stupidity of things.

The Food Fight Trial Continues!

Currently, Crystal and Emerald got hit 20 times total, while Blue and Sapphire has 25 hits total. "Okay, keep this up and we might win!" Crystal told Emerald after dodging a series of dishes. Sapphire used both hands and flung various dishes at a rapid pace. "Nice going, Sapph!" Blue praised the jungle girl before ducking from a plate of chocolate cookies Emerald had thrown.

"Wait, time out!" Crystal said, making the timeout motion. "What?" Sapphire asked, in a pose of throwing a plate of crossaints. The pairs made a pact to have a timeout only for something important or asking how far they are in the race. "How far are we in completing this race?"

"You guys are about halfway done!" Harold answered. Apparently, he's very lenient with the whole timeout thing.

The pairs groaned. "I'm tired!" Blue said, complaining. Emerald panted a bit. "Can we just forfeit?"

"C'mon Blue! It's just a little food!" Sapphire said, wanting to put Ruby in his place. "Expired food." Blue protested.

In any case, they continued the race.

With Ruby and Yellow, after Somehow Dodging the Columns

Yellow panted after running past those columns and patted her head where a few bits of hair got singed. Ruby sighed and knelt down on the ground. "At least we get a-eep!" Yellow dodged just in time to just barely dodge a flying shuriken.

I was thisclose to having my nose get chopped off!

"At least there's a gap between the two sections to take a break huh?" Ruby said to a frozen-in-shock-Yellow with a careless smile on his face. "H-how c-c-can y-you b-be-" Yellow stopped talking to dodge another stray shuriken.

"How are we supposed to past this?" Yellow said, noticing the rapidly flying shurikens in front of her. "By the time we set one foot, we'll be slashed to pieces!"

"Hmm…" Ruby thought for a bit. Then he laid back on the ground, closing his eyes. "Nah, too lazy."

Yellow stared at him in surprise at the both the lack of doing anything and the lack of complaining about the clothes. "Th-then…we're just going to be stuck here?!" Yellow said in a loud voice. Ruby opened one eye. "I suppose." Then he closed his eye again. Yellow's eye twitched before focusing her attention to the flying shurikens. Okay, how to dodge them…

...

…

That's impossible!

"Ruby, you idiot…" Yellow said under her breath as she start to cry a little.

Back with the Outer Dimension

"I hate Ruby!" said the staff member next to me. "How do I unsign up for this stupid fan club?"

"Um…tell the president of this so called 'fan club'?" I suggested. She simply tore the card in half. I shrugged. "Or do that."

"His popularity is going down too." The staff member owning the machine said. "How? We didn't air it…" I looked at the other staff members, who also held various cards of different colors/shine. "Half of the staff people here are part of some sort of fan club." The staff member explained. I sweatdropped. "No kidding."

"By the way," I said, looking around. "What happened to Red?"

"Hm? Oh, he went somewhere to train, I think." A staff member said. I sighed. "I'm surrounded by train-aholics and fans."

Mc Walnolds! I'm lovin' it!

"That's a strange name for a Mc Donald spin off." I noted at the commercial.

In the Food Fight Area

"I can see the finish line!" Sapphire said as the two teams ran. "Yes!" Emerald jumped in the air before running again. "Who's winning?" Blue said. "Crystal and Emily's team!" Harold said. "The name's Emerald!" Emerald yelled back. "That's not even a boy's name!"

Blue managed to hit a distracted Emerald with a dish with a steak on it. Emerald, who didn't have the table as protection anymore (it didn't really help the pair in terms of attacking), got hit on the side of his head. "Urgh! The sauce better not be in my ear!" Emerald told Blue. "My bad!" Blue called out while Sapphire prepared to throw a salad bowl at Crystal.

"Take that!"

"Missed me!"

"Dammit!"

"Expired food…" Blue said as a few drops of dressing fell on her hair when she dodged a Cesar salad Emerald threw. "Does that count as a hit?" Emerald asked Harold. "NOPE! Sorry!" Harold said.

Sapphire managed to hit Crystal with a bowl of soup and got a double hit since it also hit Emerald. "Great! Now I'm soaked with rotten stuff!" Emerald said. "Beats getting a rotten egg on your dress!" Blue said. Oh yeah, that did smell bad for a while… the others thought to themselves.

The Ninja Room!

Yellow stared at the flying shuriken view for what seems like hours. "How are we going to get past this with no protection?" she kept asking out loud. "Ruby!" Yellow turned to her 'tall' junior. "Stop being lazy!"

Ruby, who is still laying on the ground, open his eyes. "I'm not."

"Then what are you doing right now?" Yellow questioned. "Thinking." Ruby replied. "Thinking?" Yellow said in a bit of a surprised tone. "Thinking about what?"

"Something."

"…and that something is…?"

"Stuff."

"…will it be connected with how to get past the shurikens?"

"…I guess…"

Yellow wondered what happened with Ruby, since his attitude is a bit weird. Yellow looked around at the safe gap they had between the columns and shurikens. There was really nothing so intresting. The tatami mats cover the floor, the walls are well…just walls…the ceiling…is just there…it was really boring to look around in 30 seconds.

Hold on, is a tatami mat supposed to be all the thin and long? Yellow thought as she noticed that the two tatami mats where the gap is different than the other tatami mats.

Suddenly, Ruby shot up and was about to say something but before he could, the tatami mats opened up like gates revealing a hole in the floor. They stayed groundless for a second, before rapidly falling down into the hole of darkness…

"Aah!" Yellow screamed in surprise. Ruby, who maintained a crossed legged sitting position, commented, "Looks like we have to go to another floor." Or something like that.

"R-Ruby!" Yellow said frantically (…no pun intended). "There (I think)! There's something there!" Yellow pointed below and Ruby looked down. At first, it looked like dots, but upon looking at it closer, it wasn't dots, it was the point of spikes.

"SPIKES?!" Yellow and Ruby both said in surprised/horror.

Food Fight, the Last Part!

"Yes!" both the pairs said as they reached the finish line. "Huh?" they looked at each other. "We finished first." Crystal said. "No, we did." Blue corrected her. "Nuh uh, we did." Emerald said. "We finished first." Sapphire insisted.

Silence.

"Don't tell me we have to do a tiebreaker 'cause I am not going through that race again" Blue said. "ACTUALLY!" Harold said and then there was a large squeaking noise caused by the microphone. "Sorry! Sorry, 'bout that! You both win!"

"We what?"

"Since you both finished first, you both win!" Harold said. "Wait, let me get this straight." Crystal said. "We had to endure a week's work of exercise while dealing with rotten, expired food on our clothes and hair, and smelling that horrid stench from that rotten egg, just to have us still in the game with no change whatsoever?!" Blue finished Crystal's sentence.

"Well, not really but…" Crystal was about to say otherwise but then they were suddenly teleported in a large bathroom with nothing else but a shower. "Where are we?" Emerald looked at the new place. "You guys will be wiping away all that stuff and continue playing!" Harold said before signing off. "Wait, I wasn't finished!" Blue said. "Yes! Finally, I can take out the foul stuff out of my head!" Emerald cheered. "I suppose that means we can't change." Crystal said.

"Why's that?" Sapphire said, already about to take her clothes off. Crystal hastily stopped her. "Well, for one thing, we don't have extra clothes, and for another, Emerald's a boy."

"So?"

Crystal and Blue just shook their head.

"Argh!" Emerald said when he put the water on too cold and too strong.

In the Outer Dimension

In sales today!

"Finally! The commercial's over!" I said as I yawned a bit. Suddenly, the doors to the warehouse slammed open with a panting, bruised Gold. "Talk about a grand entrance." I said. "ANI! WHAT THE HELL?!" Gold yelled, stomping towards me.

I sweatdropped as Gold got in my face and continue to yell his anger out. "Oh, he's back." A staff member commented. "I'm surprised he got back here." Another said. "Talk about a new low, Ani!" Gold finished after five minutes. "I'm sorry…" I said. "You're not really sorry, are you?" Gold said with a deadpan voice. "Yep." I replied back in the same tone.

Gold looked at me with a twitch before sighed and moved out of my face. "Jeez, I could have been killed."

"Don't worry, I timed it so you don't-"

"That's not the point and that actually makes things worse."

"Actually, that's good since you could have been actually killed-"

"What happened to the others?" Gold asked, looking around for his fellow peers. "Uh…Red and Silver are training somewhere, Green is over there reading, and the others are doing the obstacle course." I answered. "What?! What about me?!" Gold said, pointing at himself.

"Uh…got left out?"

"I want to win the race!"

"You want to die?" the staff members and I said at the same time with a surprised look. "Excuse me? You guys telling me that the race is that dangerous?"

Busted… the rest thought, including me.

"Oh man, I wanted to get Silver to be at my beck and call." Gold sighed as he rubbed the back of his head. "I guess you can be in the race, but then you're going to team up with Sapphire as well." I said, contemplating on what to do. "Wild gal? Why her?" Gold said. "Because I teamed up Blue with Sapphire for the time being."

"Ah!" Gold said. I turned to the obstacle course to where Gold was looking and saw that the Food Fight pairs have teleported back to their squares. "...why are you soaking wet?" Gold asked with a clueless face. "Because of that stupid shower!" Sapphire said back. I leaned closer to a staff member. "Weren't you supposed to check the shower system stuff?" I whispered. "I did." The staff member replied.

Gold sniffed the air. "Eew, is that rotten eggs I smell?"

"Don't even ask about it." The pairs answered. "Oh yeah!" Gold pointed at Sapphire. "Give me back my place in the race!"

"Huh?" Sapphire said at the sudden outburst. "You girls will be teaming up with Gold. On exception on a three member group." I explained. I pushed Gold to the fourth square tile. The staff member who was sitting next to me handed the pairs their die to roll again. "No! I don't wanna be with Gold!" Blue complained again. "Relax! You have Sapphire with you too!" I called out. "Am I really that unwanted?" Gold said, sweatdropping. "Yes." Everyone replied back. "I don't like you guys ganging up on me." Gold commented as Sapphire rolled the die with such a force that it accidentally went backwards instead of forward and landed on Gold's head.

Gold fainted. Just because. "Is the die that heavy?!" Blue said. Sapphire shrugged. "It's light to me."

"Nah, I think it's because of Sapphire's brute force." I said. The rest sweatdropped.

"By the way," Crystal said as Emerald prepared to roll the die. "Where's Ruby and Yellow?"

"They're still stuck in their little exercise." I said. "We rolled a one!" Emerald said. "And we rolled a five!" Blue said as she rolled the die instead of Sapph.

Just like before, they were transported to the respective square and Crystal and Emerald teleported. Blue and Sapphire blinked. Nothing happened. "Something's wrong with your squares!" Blue called out to me. "Look below you!" I shouted back. Blue and Sapphire looked down. "…Go back to start?!"

"You have gotta be kiddin' me." Sapphire said. "Tough luck." I replied as they were transported back to the starting point. "Roll again!"

Blue rolled the die again and they got a six. They got transported there, before getting teleported again.

With the Ruby and Yellow pair

"Waah!"

"Eek!"

"Whoa!"

"Aah!"

"Wait, Yellow! Wake up!"

"Eh? Whoaaaahhh!"

And on and on did the two dexholders kept saying as they went to one trap to another. Right before they hit the spikes, an invisible wall ("I believe it's glass.") appeared and they landed on that instead. However, a gigantic wave came down and they were swept to a stone path where they were chased by mummies, a large stone ball, Ekans and Arboks, a trick question on two bridges (anime reference), and now they are running for their lives as a stone bridge without any railing started to crumble behind them.

"I-Isn't this…something you see in ruins and not…in…ninja hideouts?!" Yellow said as they continue to run. "Yeah." Ruby briefly said.

They reached to the other end and the entrance to a cave and paused to catch their breath. Yellow just laid on the ground, getting air while Ruby knelt on his knees. "When I get back to the real world…" Ruby murmured. "I'll make Ani pay…"

"I have a question." Yellow said for maybe the tenth time. "How come you're still not complaining?"

Ruby stared at Yellow. "Sorry, I keep asking the same question." Yellow quickly apologized. "Nah, it's okay." Ruby assured the short senior. "Well, let's see…I guess I'm tired? Annoyed? I said I'll complain later so…"

Ruby then thought of something and told Yellow, "Don't tell Sapphire."

"Why don't…oh never mind." Yellow dropped her question. She looked at the cave. "So…is there going to be a giant ball coming after us again?"

"Let's hope not." Ruby said. They reluctantly entered the cave and walked on. "I wonder how the others are faring." Yellow tried to make small talk. "Since when do you use old words like 'faring'?" Ruby said with a small smile on his face. "…is it an old word?" she asked. Ruby thought for a bit. "I don't know, actually. But it doesn't sound like what you'll use."

"Does it matter?" Yellow said, a bit surprised that their conversation is about how she talks. "No, I guess not." Ruby said, scanning around the walls for no particular reason. Yellow didn't say anything and they just continue to walk looking at the walls.

This is awkward… Yellow thought. She never really talked to Ruby or Sapphire and only talked to Emerald on one occasion during a trip to the orphanage with Crystal. She realized that she doesn't really know the Hoenn dex holders that personally, and contemplated on what to do with the newfound info.

I suppose it doesn't matter…Yellow thought before accidentally bumping into a rock. "You okay?" Ruby asked. Yellow rubbed her head. "Yeah, I wasn't looking." She replied back. Ruby looked at the rock and noticed a small pillar made of rock. That looks familiar…it's almost like a… Ruby didn't finished his thought as the rock suddenly had eyes and floated. Now the pair is looking at a chain of rocks with a pair of eyes…

*please insert whatever an onix sounds like since I'm too lazy to google it*

Yellow and Ruby blinked. They looked at each other before screaming.

Needless to say, they were chased throughout the cave of tunnels.

With Crystal and Emerald

After adjusting to the new 'inner dimension', they realized they're in front of a large pool. A life guard sat in the typical life guard seat, and a big, round guy with a beard and mustache (I feel like this reminds me of Harry Potter, but I'm not sure why) wearing a green shirt with a brown vest and brown pants. "WELCOME!" the guy shouted. Crystal and Emerald covered their ears. "Harold?" Crystal said. "That's me!" Harold said happily. "He didn't need a sound amplifier after all." Emerald murmured. Crystal sweatdropped.

"This is the lifeguard person. Just refer to him as Mr. Lifeguard! HA!" Harold laughed at his own joke even though there's nothing funny. "So…what's with the pool?" Emerald eyed it carefully. "Hm? Oh! This?" he said in a loud voice. "This is where you'll be swimming while avoiding stuff!"

"Stuff? Like Sharpedos?" Emerald said. "Sharpedos, Carvanhas, and those green Krookodiles…what are they called again? Ah, those stuff and others!" Harold said. "Aren't Krookodiles…those pokemon from Unova?" Emerald asked Crystal. "Yeah, and I don't remember them to be a water type of such…" Crystal said with a frown.

"…Oh! There's also those funny lookin' Sharpedos too! The ones that have a minus sign as the eyes!" Harold said. "…what?" Mr. Lifeguard looked down at Harold in confusion. "You know!" Harold said despite what Mr. Lifeguard said before. "That Sharpedo with the eyes bulging out!"

"Are you a fast swimmer?" Emerald asked Crystal. "Not that fast." Crystal said. "You?"

"Nope." Emerald said. "Harold! Are we suppose to survive to the other end (that I can't see) without getting bitten by pokemon who can easily bite us any time? Like, without protection?"

"I assume that's the plan!" Harold said thoughtfully. Emerald and Crystal looked at each other.

"We're dead."

"Yes, yes we are."

With the Trio group

Blue and Sapphire blinked. Sapphire, who was carrying Gold under her arm, dropped him on the ground. He is still knocked out. An echo of forest sounds surround them. "…We're in the forest?!" Blue said. "Home sweet home! Without the home part!" Sapphire said gleefully, glad that she's on familiar ground.

"What are we going to do?" Blue asked. Sapphire looked around and sniffed the air. "We need to find our guide first!"

"Uh, Sapph?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you please stop sniffing the ground like a growlithe?"

"Huh? Why?"

"Oh, no reason…" Blue decided to ignore Sapphire's weird but accurate way of locating people. Sapphire shrugged at Blue's 'weird' behavior and went back to all fours to continue doing her unique process of locating people. Blue scanned the area but couldn't see much past the dense trees. The trees were all covered in moss and vines, and the ground was covered in tall grasses. "Talk about a need to mow lawn this place…" Blue murmured. "Did you find our guide?" she asked.

Sapphire sniffed some more. "Yep! Over there!" Sapphire got up and pointed at a direction. Blue didn't see anything but darkness. "Um…lead the way!" Blue said with a bit uncertainty. Sapphire quickly ran and Blue struggled to catch up for a while. When they finally stopped, Blue saw a girl with brown hair and a white dress, holding a sketchbook.

"Are you our guide?" Blue asked, not really panting a lot. The girl nodded. She took the sketchbook from under her arm and turned to a certain page, then showed it to Blue. My name is Ann

"Uh…okay…" Blue said, unsure about what this action means. "What are we supposed to do?"

Ann flipped to another page and it read Vine Swinging

"Cool! That's right up your alley, Sapph!" Blue said. "Yes!" Sapphire fist punched the air. "So…what's the rules?" Sapphire asked Ann. Ann cocked her head a bit, before turning another page and writing on it with a pencil. She turned the sketchbook around to show Blue and Sapphire. You swing on the vines until you reached to a giant oak tree that glows while trying to not fall

After Ann estimated that they finished reading, she flipped another page and wrote something before turning it to let Blue and Sapphire read. Sapphire blinked in surprise since she didn't finish reading but proceeded to try to read the next passage anyways. If you fall, you need to start over. If you get to the Oak tree first, you need to wait for your partner. Then…be careful, I guess…

"I don't like the ending statement." Blue commented as Ann closed her sketchbook. Sapphire turned to Blue. "What did it say? I didn't finish." Sapphire said. "Basically you have to swing vine to vine until you reach to a giant oak tree that glows without falling and if you do, you have to start over." Blue explained. Sapphire nodded. "Gotcha."

Sapphire noticed that Ann held up another passage and Blue noticed Sapphire looking and read By the way, I was told beforehand that there would be three people…

"Ah!" The girls said. "We forgot Gold!"

Blue stared at Sapphire. "…can we just neglect him?"

"I don't think it'll count." Sapphire replied. Blue sighed. "True." She looked at Ann. "Where's the starting point?"

Ann seems to have predicted the question will pop up since she simply flipped to a page with writing already on it. If you predicted that, how come you didn't write the rules beforehand as well? Blue thought to herself as she read the page. Wherever you want, but all participants have to start at the same place and time it says.

"How about we go back to get Gold, and start from there?" Blue said. "What about Gold? He's still out cold." Sapphire said. "You carry him with you." Blue replied. "Eh? Why me?" Sapphire complained. "You're stronger." Blue said. "Why can't you do it?" Sapphire frowned. "Because I'm weaker and it'll take us longer to complete this. I don't want to stay here."

"I do."

"Well I don't. Don't you want to finish the race to get Ruby to do whatever you want?" Blue said. Sapphire thought for a bit. "Okay, fine…" Sapphire said reluctantly. "Atta girl! Now let's go!" Blue said. The pair ran back to fetch Gold and didn't notice Ann's message, Good Luck, you might need it…

With Ruby and Yellow

"Did…we…lose…him?" Yellow said between pants after running for a while. "I think…we did…" Ruby said, just as tired as Yellow. "Great, now we're lost."

"What should we do?" Yellow asked. Ruby put a finger in his mouth and lifted the finger above his head. "…I don't feel anything…eew…" Ruby can't help but add and wiped his finger on a spare handkerchief. "Thank goodness!" Yellow blurted out. Ruby stopped wiping and looked at Yellow strangely. Yellow blinked and processed how it sounds like and started to be all flustered. "N-no! I wasn't talking about that! I mean, I wasn't talking about the fact that we're lost and stuff…I'm just glad that you're still like the normal Ruby…or is it the not normal Ruby…or…" Yellow confused herself and started to get dizzy. Ruby smiled a bit and sweatdropped. "I get what you mean." He said. "That's good, I guess…" Yellow said finally.

Ruby heaved a sigh. "But at this rate, we'll never finish this. And this is our first trial!"

"Better luck next time…?" Yellow said, unsure if that applies. Ruby sweatdropped. "I don't think that phrase fits this situation…"

In the Outer Dimension

Snow halation!

"Why is an anime song on the radio?" the staff member sitting next to me asked. "Shh! It's getting to the good part!" another staff member on the other side of me squealed. "It's a live show." I replied to the first staff member.

Binetsu no naka tamerattemo dame da ne…

"A love song?" a male staff member who overheard groaned. "Shush!" said the staff member who likes it. She continued to hum the rest of the song. "What station is that random?" another staff member asked. "Oh, it's not the same station, well, actually, it is, but it's just a random one where it streams things that are interesting." I replied.

The staff member who was with me the whole time looked at the tv monitor. "Looks like the trio has the vine swinging one now." She commented. I froze. "Th-th-the…forest one…?" I said in a whimpering tone. "Uh…yeah, I guess." She turned to me, who is shivering like crazy. "Are you okay?" said the staff member who was humming. I turned white, like paper white.

The Vine Swinging event!

After a few minutes from getting Gold and climbing a tree, Blue got the hang of swinging from vine to vine. "Yahoo!" She said happily. Sapphire, on the other hand, had to carry Gold under her arm again and swing from branch to branch, since she can't alternate hands. Unfortunately, the vines kept breaking under the weight.

"Aw, come on!" Sapphire said after her tenth try of swing the first vine. "Stupid Gold!" Sapphire kicked Gold, who fortunately didn't feel anything. "Wake up! A stupid bump in the head shouldn't put ya in a comma! Oh wait, that's two m's, I mean coma! Now wake up!" Sapphire repeatedly kicked Gold in the gut with the same result every single time.

After giving up on the 150th kick, Sapphire said and proceeded to think of a strategy. "I could throw 'im." Sapphire thought out loud. "Let's see…" Sapphire picked Gold up like a sack of potatoes (more like feathers or something) and climbed a tree again. She overhanded threw Gold to the next branch, hoping that it wouldn't break under the impact.

Sapphire grinned when it didn't break and swung herself to the next branch. She picked up Gold and tossed him to the next, then continue to repeat the process.

Blue has trouble on her own though. As she was swinging from vine to vine, after a while, she noticed that some vines are a bit weirder, like a slightly different color and texture. Blue didn't pay it much mind, thinking it was a different type and it was usually coiled around the tree trunk.

She only panicked when she grabbed onto the same vine with the weird texture and stuff. Blue frowned and weird texture. And looked down when she heard a hissing noise. She didn't know what to expect, but certainly didn't expect to have a pair of reptile eyes staring back at her.

"Aah!" she yelped and jumped down. She managed to land on her feet but realized…

The coils and the next few 'vines' are moving…

They look like ekans…but why do they seem scarier?

Blue froze when the green ekans slithered to her. Dark lines started to go down her head. "…AAHHH!"

In the Outer Dimension

"AAAHHH!" I screamed with Blue as I hid behind a staff member. "…what's wrong with her?" the staff member said. "You're not even looking at the screen…" another staff member screamed when the screen monitoring Blue and Sapphire had a close up on the green creature. "I HATE SNAKES! AAHHH!" she screamed and ran to a direction away from the tv.

"DON'T SAY THE NAME OUT LOUD!" I yelled, still shuddering. "Are you…scared of sn-"

"I'm terrified." I snapped back at the staff member who's acting as a shield for me. "I'm freakin' scared as hell!"

"Okay, she's losing it." A third staff member said. "Oh yeah," a staff member who's with the third said. "She told me to supervise everything with the delivery and order of those sn-"

"DON'T SAY IT!" I interrupted. "Okay, okay. Those creatures." The staff member corrected himself. "Why's that?" the third member said. "When you order you have to see pictures of them, and when you wait for the delivery and such, you basically see them in real life." The staff member replied. "Anyways, I was wondering why Ani didn't look at me in face when she told me. Her knees are shaking and it's not like we're at a campfire or anything…"

"Why did you choose to use them if you're so terrified of it?" the staff member turned to look at me, who is still clutching her uniform. "B-because…what else am I suppose to do with a simple vine swinging event?" I said. "There's got to be other things." The third member said. "Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter…" the fourth one said, unsure if that's true.

With Ruby and Yellow, the Final Part!

After walking around aimlessly and occasionally checking for wind, they managed to find the exit and quickly followed the trail. They stopped when they hit a dead end. "That's odd…" Ruby murmured. "I can still feel wind…" Ruby quickly wiped his finger on the handkerchief. Yellow walked to the wall and touched it. "It's no illusion…"

They heard a swoosh and froze. Then cautiously turned around. They saw an unidentifiable shadow swing across the tunnel. Ruby and Yellow looked at each other in confusion. They heard a swoosh again, but this time…the object is swinging right at them. The two yelped in surprise and ducked before realizing that the object somehow went through the rock wall. "A glitch?" Ruby said. "Doesn't that only count in computers?" Yellow commented.

They heard the object coming back and quickly ran as the object started to come after them. "Hey isn't that…" Yellow started, looking up in wonder. "A wrecking ball!" Ruby yelled. "Oh yeah! That's what it's call-"

"No, I mean, yeah, but, I meant another wrecking ball heading straight towards us!"

"Eh?!" Yellow looked ahead and saw that it's true. Ruby quickly ducked and yanked Yellow down too. The two wrecking balls banged against each other right over their heads, and they flinched a bit from the loud bang. The force seemed to stop each of the wrecking ball to a standstill and stopped a few meters away from the two dexholders.

"…Are we safe?" Yellow said. "I think so…" Ruby slowly got up and adjusted his hat. He looked at his hand and frowned at the dirt. "Come on, I really want to take a shower." He said. He helped Yellow to get up. They moved their way around the wrecking ball blocking the path to the dead end. "Hmm…" Ruby propped his arm to his other arm and rested his chin between his thumb and pointer finger.

"Do you think this is the exit?" Yellow asked Ruby. "Maybe." He said. He turned a bit to look at the wrecking ball. "Maybe we should ride on those wrecking balls to get past?" he half suggested. "What? But what if we end up hitting the wall with the wrecking ball slipping past us?" Yellow said. Ruby shrugged. "Worth a shot."

So they propped themselves on top of the wrecking ball and held onto the chain that's holding the ball. After a few seconds, Yellow said, "So…how are we going to move?"

"Uh…" Ruby jumped off and started to push the wrecking ball from behind. Yellow, who is facing him, stared at him in surprise. "How are you going to get past as well?" she said as the wrecking ball started to move a bit. "I'll somehow manage." Ruby said. "Like how?"

"…gripping the ball tightly?"

"Is that possible?"

"I suppose, at least a little."

In the Outer Dimension

"Looks like Ruby and Yellow are finally back." The staff member blocking my view said as the said people appeared on the fifth square with an 'oof'.

"Finally!" I said, jumping up. I quickly put a flash card pre-made with tape around it to stick on the square that shows Blue and Sapphire (plus Gold)'s trial. "I'll take it off when they get back. It's not like it'll affect anything in a bad way anyways."

Ruby quickly got to his feet as Yellow is still rubbing her bottom. "Where's the shower? I need an emergency shower asap!" he said as he ran towards a direction a staff member pointed. I watched him complain about the mishaps of his clothes and stuff. "Looks like he's back to his normal self." I said. "That sucks…" a staff member said. "He was starting to look cool…" she said.

I sweatdropped. Sapphire'll probably kill you for that.

Sorry for the sudden ending, but anyhows!

Review and all that stuff

I'll be taking a small break before I start on the next part.

Let me know if there's a mistake or two...and...consider this as a slightly early end of the year gift!