I'm back! Sorry, I had to worry about research papers...now, let's just get on with the story, shall we?
With Crystal and Emerald
If Crystal didn't have to worry about holding her breath, she'll be screaming her head off. She's swimming as fast as she could away from the long sharpedos with a weird shaped head that resembles a bone. Emerald is doggy paddling extremely fast that she can barely see the arms and legs as he tried to swim away from a bunch of carvanhas.
Crystal looked back at the 'sharpedo' and made a repressed gasp. The sharpedo is catching up. Oddly enough, Crystal wondered if it really is a sharpedo and dove down in attempt to lose it.
Sadly, that's not the case.
Emerald in the meantime kept swimming away from the carvanhas. He looked ahead and saw some green platforms so he climbed on the nearest one. He stood on the green platform and saw that the carvanhas are swimming away a few feet away. "Yes!" Emerald said, glad that one obstacle is finished.
Even so, what's with the bumpy boards? Emerald thought as he looked down to inspect the platform. Unfortunately, he didn't get to inspect it for long because the platform suddenly moved upwards and he had to balance himself. He realized that the 'platform' is actually a living creature.
He gulped. "You don't seem friendly…"
The Outer Dimension
What the heck?! *comedic laughter*
"And now it's a comedy show?" a staff member who owned that weird fan machine said as he sat next to me with his arms crossed. The flashcard is still there by the way. Ruby and Yellow rolled a die and landed a four, which was a lucky one, since it made them go five more spaces ahead before getting teleported again.
What's Ruby and Yellow's exercise?" the staff member who was next to me at the start asked. "Uh…" I checked the tv screen. "It seems to be a balloon popping one…?"
"What's with that tone? You don't seem so sure." The staff member on the right said. I looked at my left and saw that the other staff member is kneeling down as if preparing for some sort of natural disaster. "…let me guess…" I said. "You're afraid of balloons."
"Yes!"
With Ruby and Yellow
Ruby and Yellow blinked. They looked around. All they saw was a room full of colorful balloons. Yellow was afraid to move in case she accidentally popped one balloon.
"Yahoo." A voice greeted. Yellow and Ruby looked above, and saw a small girl hanging upside down with a rope. "Why are you up there?" Yellow said. The girl shrugged. "It's easy to see things from a bird's eye view."
Not like that…
"So…who are you?" Ruby asked. "The name's Emily. Nice to meet you." The girl said. "What are we suppose to do?" Yellow said. "Pop the balloons." Emily said simply. "Ani must be really desperate to hire a little kid…" Ruby can't help but comment. Emily puffed her cheeks. "How rude! I'm 15!"
"You're 15?!" Ruby and Yellow said in surprise. "But you look like you're eight!"
"Gee, I have most people call me a short ten year old, but that's a new low!" Emily complained. "She's shorter than you, Yellow." Ruby told the said girl. "Never thought I'll see the day…" Yellow said. Emily is conflicted on what to say about this comment. "Well, anyways, you need to pop all the balloons you see here, capsice? Begin!"
"Wait, what?" Yellow said. "I don't want to get dirty again." Ruby said. "They're balloons." Emily said. "How can you get dirty?"
"They're on the ground." Ruby emphasized. "I'll have you know that I cleaned the floor myself! And I'll assure you that the only thing that's going to dirty this place is your shoes!" Emily snapped. "I wasn't insulting your housecleaning ability." Ruby put his hands up like he's caught by the police. "Uh…Ruby?" Yellow tried to grab her partner's attention. "What is it?" Ruby said. "The balloon won't pop." Yellow said as she tried to squeeze the balloon with her hands.
"Maybe it's not fully inflated or something." Ruby took the balloon and inspected it. "Do you have something sharp?" he asked. Yellow shook her head. "Try stomping it." Ruby handed the balloon back to her. Yellow placed it on the ground and jumped on it but ended up getting bounced back and landing on the floor. "That's one strong piece of rubber." Ruby commented.
With Blue and Sapphire
Blue ran away from the hissing creatures and screamed all the way to the starting point of the all vine swinging event. Blue looked behind her and saw that the green ekans gave up some time before and went away. Great, back to square one. Blue thought. She looked at the random branches that seems to be broken off by various trees. Looks like Sapphire had a hard time with the extra weight…wonder how she solved it.
Blue sighed. She couldn't go back in case the green ekans are still camouflaged with the vines. Maybe she should use the same route as Sapphire, but doesn't know where Sapphire is going. She probably isn't just going straight ahead…
Blue decided to take the same route she took but avoid the area where she saw the green ekans. She figured she'll be able to figure out when that happens.
Sapphire on the other hand, is still having problems with the still unconscious Gold. Some of the trees have too thin branches, and Sapphire didn't want to risk Gold falling on the ground and being forced to start over, so she had to look for other nearby trees. Some cases even have her backtracking. "If only I know where the heck is the glowin' tree!" Sapphire said after her fourth backtrack.
Sapphire heard a groan from under her and quickly looked at Gold. Gold seemed to just woke up, and is feeling fuzzy. "Uh…man…what happened? And why is the sky green?"
"Took ya a long time." Sapphire said and released Gold. "Oof! What the heck?!" Gold said, angry at the mistreatment. "I'm a human being."
"I know that." Sapphire said, about to swing again. "But you don't need any support anymore."
"Wait," Gold got up and looked around. "Why are we in a forest? What happen to the boar-whoa! Why am I in a tree?" Gold had to balance himself after unbalancing himself from the shock.
"Long story short, ya gotta swing with these vines to find a glowing tree without falling down. See ya!" Sapphire said and swung away. "Hey wait! What's going on?" Gold try to tell her but she didn't answer him. "First I get sent to a shredder, now I'm stranded in an unknown forest…" Gold murmured before trying to figure out how to swing vine to vine. "…why the heck is a glowing tree doing here anyways?"
Crystal and Emerald's Swim Festival Continues!
Crystal managed to kick one of the strange sharpedos and sent it swimming away before surfacing to get some oxygen. She heard Emerald cry and turned to the direction she heard him from. Emerald is trying to dodge the 'boards' large jaw with sharp teeth. One of them snagged his pants and they started a mini tug of war game.
Now, Crystal could have helped him, when she wasn't busy with electric eels.
Yes, she knows what an eel is. They know some animals.
Crystal quickly swam towards the finish line (though she still can't see it) as the eels started to swim towards her. How did Ani manage to start this without any sues is beyond my comprehension she thought.
Ruby and Yellow Popping Update:
Currently, Yellow has popped one balloon on account of jumping on it twenty times and Ruby is wrestling with a balloon. The balloons by the way, vary from a normal sized one to a human sized one. Your idea of a normal size one and a human sized one is up to you.
With Sapphire, Blue, and Gold (what? I did say that it was just an update, right?)
Sapphire swung by with ease. She's glad that she finally don't have to worry about Gold anymore. Now, to find out where the tree is…
Blue managed to get passed the green ekans and is now trying to figure out where the tree is. Scanning through the dense forest to no avail of any hints to where it is. "Jeez! Am I supposed to wait for nightfall or something?" Blue murmured.
Gold, now he's lucky. He managed to find it after 10 swings. To be more accurate though, he fell on the 10th swing but landed on a bouncy plant (not the ground, he's still in) and got catapulted to the tree. He face planted on the trunk and landed on a huge branch. "Ow! Oof!" he said. He sat up and realized that he's still about 50 meters above the ground. "This tree is huge!" Gold gaped. "And…this tree is just painted with neon colored paint!"
Sapphire, who heard that, grinned. So that worthless guy ain't so worthless after all! She started to pinpoint Gold's screaming and cursing about how the game's rigged and stuff. Once she figured out where he is, generally, she started to swing towards the 'glowing' tree.
Blue also heard Gold but at a much father distance. A painted tree? Well, I guess a glowing tree is a bit much… she thought. Well, now that I know which direction to go, might as well get this over with…
After three minutes
Blue twitched. Before her is the same area where the green ekans are. "Don't tell me…" Blue said to herself. "I HAVE TO GET PAST THESE FIRST?!"
With Crystal and Emerald
After getting pass the krookodiles and eels, they managed to get to the other side of the room. They stumbled out of the pool and immediately shivered. "Congratulations!" Harold said joyfully. "How-How did you-? You were way over there!" Emerald yelled and pointed to the other room. "And there's no gap between the pool and the walls!"
Harold made a huge laugh. "We flew!" he said, referring to the lifeguard (who's waving at them on the second lifeguard seat) as well. "You flew?!" Crystal and Emerald said in unison. Harold rubbed his beard, as if thinking deeply about something. "Yes, I believe that's what I said!"
"I don't remember seeing flying type pokemon, or a shadow…" Crystal murmured to herself. Emerald just stared at Harold who's looking very innocent for someone who just flew by two kids who's swimming for their life.
…
Although, they kinda got to that point because of their own 'free' will, so Emerald decided to let it go.
"Well!" Harold continued, oblivious to things. "You passed!"
And with that, they were teleported.
In the Outer Dimension
"Welcome back!" I greeted the soaked pair. "We're still soaked!" Emerald stated the obvious. A staff member handed them towels and they started to rub their heads. Another handed them a die after they dried off (as much as possible) just as the trio group appeared. "Welcome back!" I greeted to them as well. "Ani! What in the name of Mew was those green creatures!" Blue yelled at me. "Jeez, someone's happy to be back." I said sarcastically. "Ani!"
"They were-mmph!" I stopped a staff member from replying with my hand over his mouth. "They were green ekans. Let's leave it at that."
"But-"
"Why tha heck is the freaking tree painted with paint!" Sapphire interrupted Blue. "Because it's easier to pinpoint…" I said slowly, letting go of the staff member. Sapphire stared at me. Then she shrugged. "Eh, makes sense."
"How'd you get back to fast?" I asked. I wasn't really paying attention to the monitor tv. Gold suddenly acted all high and mighty, putting his hand on his hips and puffing out his chest. "Well, I must say," Gold said in a fake humble voice. "We wouldn't pull it off if it weren't for-"
"If it weren't for Gold's cussing and hitting the tree!" Blue interrupted, smiling. "Hey!" Gold crossed his arms and dropped his act. "That made it seem less heroic."
"Not that it was heroic in the first place." I muttered as I handed Sapphire a die. Sapphire lift the die, about to toss it. Blue stopped her by forcefully pushing her arms down. "Actually, why not have Gold roll the die." Blue said in a sweet (but slightly nervous) tone. We don't want to have more unwanted unconscious people now…
Sapphire handed the die to Gold, not really caring who rolls the die. Gold rolled it. Emerald also rolled his die. "Emerald and Crystal rolled a three and the trio rolled a four!" I announced. They were teleported to their respective places before teleporting, again.
"Can we take off the flashcard now?" a staff member asked, indicating the flashcard taped to the section where the trio's monitor is. "Sure." I replied.
With Ruby and Yellow
Balloons total popped: 5
How many to go: Too many to count
"Come back!" Yellow said as she chased a balloon that flew out of her hand when she tried to pop it. "It's a balloon, it won't come back like a pokemon!" Ruby called out to her. "Well, yeah but…" Yellow talked quietly, not necessarily need Ruby to hear an answer. "Just come back!" she directed her attention to the bouncing (balloons bounce?!) balloon. Ruby shook his head and looked at his balloon. After trying to squish it with his hands, it still won't bounce.
I could try using my sewing needle… Ruby thought. He reached in his pocket and took out a small sewing kit. He got a sewing needle and tried to poke it. Pop (goes the weasel) the balloon popped. I could of sworn I heard a jack in the box… Ruby thought.
What kind of guy brings a traveling sewing kit everywhere he goes? Emily sweatdropped from above.
In the Outer Dimension
"Pop goes the weasel." Said the staff member sitting next to me. "Isn't that the jack in the box song?" I said. The staff member nodded. "I always like to say that when I hear a balloon pop." She explained. I sweatdropped. "You have a weird habit."
And now we're back to Gotta Catch 'Em All!
"What's that about?" said another staff member. "It's suppose to be a show/interview about pokemon that got caught recently or something." I said. "Huh, really?" he said. "Yep." I answered.
With Crystal and Emerald
"Welcome back, Crystal and Emeralda!" Harold greeted again. "It's Emerald." Emerald said, seething. "How come you can't get my name right but you remember Crystal's?"
"She's lucky, I guess! Ahahaha!" Harold bellowed. "Cheer up," Crystal tried to console the orphan. "He got most of your name correctly, he just needs to stop adding the 'a'."
"But it's a girl's name."
"Oh yeah…"
Emerald looked at the inner dimension. "…there's nothing here." Emerald said. They were in another large room (where you can't see the other end) with a shiny wooden floor and a white wall. Crystal noted that there aren't any signs of light bulbs yet the room is brightly lit. "What are we supposed to do here?" Crystal asked.
"You're going to have to wait, I'm afraid!" Harold said. "Huh?" the pair said. "Wait for what?" Emerald said. "The next pair!" Harold answered. "You mean Blue, Gold, and Sapphire?" Emerald said. "Nope!" Harold said. "Think of right now as a break, okay!?" Harold started to laugh again for no reason.
Crystal and Emerald sweatdropped.
With Ruby and Yellow
Pop Pop Pop Pop balloons kept being popped by Ruby's newfound weapon. "Wonder why I didn't use it in the first place!" Ruby said. Yellow handed him balloons to pop while Ruby sits cross legged on the floor, popping several balloons at once.
Emily sweatdropped. "I feel like some sort of oddball here now…"
With the Trio
"Why are you posing some sort of karate pose?" Blue said at Gold. Gold looked around suspiciously, arms and fists raised with legs spread apart. ""Cause I have no idea what gonna happen!" he said. "Don't worry, I'm here." Sapphire said with pride as she put her fist on her chest. "Come on! A man's job is to protect damsels in distress!" Gold complained and stopped pretending to be a kun fu master.
"I don't see any man here." Blue replied while Sapphire said, "I ain't no damsel in distress!" at the same time.
"Can't a guy dream for once?"
"Anyways," Sapphire scanned the new area. "What is this place supposed to be?" Unlike most inner dimensions, this was relatively small. It's as big as a master bedroom, and have of it is hidden by a large curtain. Actually, three curtains. "It's like a changing room." Blue noted the curtains as well.
Gold noticed several large trunks lined up on the wall on the other side of the room. He opened the truck and found many costumes and accessories. Gold turned and jumped in surprise. "Whoa! Who are you?" Gold pointed at girl holding a sketchbook.
"You're that guide from tha forest!" Sapphire said. Where did she came from?
"Ann, right?" Blue said. "Who?" Gold said. "She's our guide from the forest. You know, the instructor?" Blue tried to explain. "Let me remind you that I was missing in action during those times." Gold crossed his arms. Ann held up her sketch book with the words, You must be Gold, correct? Written. "Hm?" Gold read the page. "Yeah, so?"
Ann turned the page and now it reads, I'm Ann, your guide for the obstacle course
"Okay…" Gold said. "Can't you talk?"
Ann shook her head. "That's kinda obvious, Senior." Sapphire said. "How was I supposed to know?" Gold protested. "True, most boys are insensitive." Blue said. "That's not what I meant, and that ain't true!" Gold said to Blue. "What are we suppose ta do?" Sapphire asked Ann. Ann flipped the page again. A form of dress up
"Dress up?!" the trio said in unison but with different tones. Blue was curious and excited, Sapphire was disgusted, and Gold was surprised and suspicious.
Ann handed Blue a box with a bunch of folded papers in it. Blue read the page Ann held up again. You have to dress up with the costumes and props in the trunks according to whatever the paper you get says. Then you have to act as whatever it is you are dressed up as Ann flipped another page I'll judge whether or not you acted and dressed decently well and all three of you must pass three times
"So we basically have to cosplay correctly three times each to pass, got it." Blue nodded. "What did it say?" Sapphire asked. Blue explained it to her while Gold asked Ann can he not participate. "It's a waste of time!"
"The whole game is a waste of time." Blue reminded him. "But I want to make Silver my slave." Gold said. "Hey, that's my brother you're talking about." Blue said. "He's not really your brother." Gold grumbled.
Sapphire just eyed the frilly dress in the opened trunk.
In the Outer Dimension
And now we're back on Gotta Catch em' All!
I groaned. "Again?" I said. "You know, Crystal and Emerald are getting a bit restless." The staff member commented. "Well, what should I do about it? Yellow and Ruby are taking an awfully long ti-"
"They're back!" another staff member called out. I looked and saw Ruby and Yellow. "Welcome back!" I greeted again. Ruby was too busy brushing off imaginary dirt to notice. Yellow just sat down on the square since she was tired. A staff member gave them a die.
Yellow rolled and landed a four. They were teleported just like that.
Let's hear it for Pikachu!
"Pikachu?" I repeated. "Like Ash's Pikachu?" the staff member next to me asked. "I have no idea." I replied, getting a cookie. "This station is pretty random."
Back to the empty room
"Ruby! And Yellow!" Emerald said in surprise when the said pair sudden appeared before him. "So I guess it's another race…" Crystal said. "Emerald! Quick! Is there any dirt on my back?" Ruby asked the blond, turning around to let Emerald have a better view. Emerald sighed. "There's nothing."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive."
"Are you completely sure?"
"Yes…"
"Are you completely sure you're completely sure?"
"I'm not blind, idiot! Quit worryin'!"
"Where are we? Why is it empty?" Yellow asked Crystal. Crystal shrugged. "The only thing we've done so far is small talk with Harold, our guide here, and just waiting for you two." She replied, pointing at Harold who's at the back wall. Harold waved with a wide grin on his face. "I suggest you be careful with his voice. He's loud." Crystal warned Yellow in a whisper. Yellow sweatdropped.
"Okay, Harold!" Emerald said to the guide. "They're here, now what?"
"You race until you reach the other end where the finish line of course!" Harold said. Ruby and Yellow covered their ears a bit of the sudden loud voice. "Does he know how to talk normally?" Ruby asked. "No." Emerald and Crystal said.
"Are you ready!?" Harold asked after he explained the rules (you know, the starting line, the finish line, that little toy gun used in Japanese school festivals…). The pairs got ready. "Get set! Go!"
There was no gunshot to be heard, despite everything.
With the trio
"No." Sapphire said. "Come on!" Blue complained. "It's just a dress!"
"A frilly dress!" Sapphire said. Blue, holding a pink dress, sighed. "You're supposed to dress up as a coordinator. Just hurry up and be done with it!"
"No!"
"Gold had to dress up as Nurse Joy," Blue had to stop because she started laughing at the memory. "Oi! Stop laughing!" Gold yelled from behind the dressing room curtain. "Sorry!" Blue said before going to another fit of laughter. "At least that nurse didn't have any fancy shenanigans…" Sapphire muttered under her breath. "Sapphire," Blue said in the utmost serious tone (although she was still dying of laughter in the inside). "do you really want to be Ruby's new mannequin?"
"Let's get this over with!" Sapphire yelled just to let the frustration out. I'll get ya for this…
Nailed it! Blue congratulated herself in her head for the brilliant 'blackmail'.
In the Outer Dimension
Who's that pokemon? *random pokemon cry*
"Ooh! I know! Growlithe!" the staff member next to me said. "No, it's Meowstic." I insisted. "I thought it was a Mightyena." Another said. It's Ninetales!
"That show's rigged!" we said. "Your ears are rigged." A staff member nearby commented. I glared at him. "Well, your trip to the weirdo store is rigged too!"
In the race!
It was clear that Ani really liked the "Don't judge a book by its cover" metaphor because 30 seconds into the race, Emerald suddenly disappeared. "Whoa, where he'd go?" Yellow said, and stopped running. The others stopped running too, wondering where the shortie went. "Down here!" Emerald voice said. Crystal then noticed a hole in the ground and ran towards it. She peeked in and saw Emerald (covered in dirt) looking back at her. "Emerald! A pit hole?" Crystal questioned the hole in the ground. "The race's booby trapped." Emerald said simply, trying to dust as much dirt off as possible. Yellow and Ruby, who was also running towards the hole, peeked in. Ruby immediately back away like he saw dead bodies in there (bad analogy, but hey, it's the first thing in my head). "Eew!"
"Don't just stare at me, help me up!" Emerald said, jumping even though there's no point to it. "I could, but…no normal human has an arm long enough to reach 20 feet." Crystal said. It already amazes me that you fell into that deep of a hole with nothing but a bunch of dust on you in the first place…
"But Yellow isn't normal!" Emerald pointed out. Yellow flinched. Crystal sweatdropped. The way you said it made her/me like she's/I'm some sort of weirdo…/!
"So we have to look out for pit holes?" Crystal tried to summarize the whole meaning of this. "No way am I going to fall in those." Ruby pointed at the pit hole like it's some sort of hideous creature.
"What about me?" Emerald said impatiently. "Don't we have to finish together?"
"Well…" Crystal and Yellow looked at Harold, who's at the distance. "IT DOESN'T MATTER!" Harold yelled out a bit too loudly. Everyone else covered their ears.
"Sorry Emerald." Crystal shrugged in sympathy. "But you're staying in there for a while."
"But-!" Emerald stood there shocked at the sudden neglect his 'older sister' is being. "For the race." Crystal explained. "Don't take it too personally."
"A bit too late for that." Emerald folded his arms. "Ruby? Are you going to continue to run?" Yellow asked her partner. Ruby crossed his arms and shook his head in a final way. "Nope. There's no way I'm going to continue when there's a bunch of filthy holes lying about."
Yellow sweatdropped. "Okay…" she turned to Crystal. "Looks like it's just us."
Crystal sighed. "And it's only been what? Four minutes?"
"Actually," Ruby looked a watch from Arceus know where. "It's been 4 minutes and 25 seconds starting…now."
"Who died and made you Dialga?" Emerald murmured from below.
With the Cosplaying area
Sapphire punched Gold in the face for laughing at her in the frilly dress. "Oh, come on!" Blue complained. "What?" Sapphire turned to Blue. "I don't ya hated 'im."
"Well, yeah, but now we have him as extra weight again!"
"Oh yeah…" Sapphire said, already in the process of taking off her clothes (which must be great timing considering how the only guy in the room is currently out of commission). "What are you doing?" Blue asked, still getting used to Sapphire's habits. "Ann said I passed, so I'm takin' this junk off of meh." Sapphire explained. Blue turned and sure enough, Ann is holding 'you pass' sign.
"Okay, let's see…" Blue thought about the recent events. "I cosplayed as Erika and Misty, Gold cosplayed a-*insert sputters of laughter here for several seconds*-o-okay-ha, and Sapphire finished pretending to be a coordinator…that means I just have to pass one more time and you and Gold needs to pass two more times.
"Pretty much." Sapphire said. "So who's next?" Blue asked Ann. Ann flipped a page. Gold
…
"Dammit!"Sapphire said as she grabbed the unconscious Gold by the collar and proceeded to slap him on both cheeks until he wakes up. "See?" Blue said. "I told you he was dead weight."
"You said he's was extra weight!"
"Same difference!"
I admit, I have no idea how long I'm going to continue this obstacle course. Maybe after I finish one review's request or just put all the other requests into this but I'll go for the first choice just because.
Reveiw, and just let me know any mistakes! I don't feel like proofreading...