Ultimate Total Pokémon Action

by Dark Arcanine 33

The sequel to possibly the weakest TPI in history. Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are back and are welcoming players new and old. What will happen this time? Tune in to find out. Or don't... It's fine if you don't.

7. Insert Egg Pun Here

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Suicune was panting as she used the feather duster on the curtains on the last time. After finishing and looking at her work, she sighed before collapsing on the couch. She had been cleaning all night without a break and she was exhausted. The outfit was chafing, the fumes from the cleaning solutions gave her a migraine, and her joints were a bit locked.

"I already hate cleaning at the hall…" she said. "This isn't happening again…"

"Good morning sunshine~" she heard as Raikou came down the stairs. Seeing him, she growled softly, but was too tired to move. "How'd you enjoy your punishment?"

"Fuck...you two…" she panted.

Raikou chuckled as he got close to her. "Well, the place looks great…"

"And I'd like it to stay that way…" Suicune replied. "You know I fucking hate cleaning. When I start, I end up wanting it to look spectacular…"

"Yeah, but that's a good thing…" Raikou said. "Nothing wrong with wanting things to look better than they originally did…"

"It is when it's a fucking punishment…" she replied with a growl. "My whole body's sore and I have a fucking headache…"

Raikou placed his left paw on hers and gave her a jolt, causing her to sit up quickly, but also let out a faint "EEP!"

"Better?"

"Thanks...now I can kill you…" she said with a growl.

"With that sexy outfit on, I honestly give no damns…" Raikou said as Suicune pounced on him, pinning him down. She was growling for no reason and Raikou knew it; he and Entei had to clean last time, so she had no reason to be upset. But, he thought she was hotter when she was mad, so he didn't question anything.

Suicune didn't do anything, though. Instead, she just lied down and kissed him sweetly.

Entei came down the stairs and upon seeing the two in that position, growled. "Um...could you two NOT so early in the morning? It's 10:04…"

"We're not gonna do anything…" said Suicune, rolling her eyes before walking off from over Raikou. The smilodon rolled back onto his feet with a smirk.

"You still jealous?"

"Oh please…" Entei said, rolling his eyes. "I'd just rather not have to watch you two get freaky on the floor of the fucking trailer!"

"But you'd be fine if you were in my place…" Suicune retorted.

"Shut it…" Entei growled. "Now, come on. We have to go do breakfast…"

"All you have to do is call them over the intercom and explain it then…" Raikou said.

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"CONTESTANTS! BREAKFAST IS NOW BEING SERVED! AFTERWARDS, YOU WILL HAVE ABOUT AN HOUR OF PRE-CHALLENGE TIME AS USUAL!"

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The teams all exited their apartments, got their breakfast, and broke up into their different groups.

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Mightyena, Servine, Goodra, Breloom, and Jolteon were in the rec center for their meeting.

"Alright, what are we talking about this time?" asked Mightyena, gnawing on her bacon. "Is it game wise or just girl talk, because I still wanna go and meet up with Luxray…"

"Well, we were gonna start talking about the game for a bit and then slide into girl talk, but tending to your man is no problem…" Jolteon said. "Most of us are gonna have to do it eventually anyway…"

Mightyena nodded with a smile. "Thanks…"

"Well, we actually won the last challenge…" Goodra brought up. "That's a good place to start; despite the stupidity of the challenge, I'm glad we were able to do so well."

"I know right, we didn't even really find anything!" Breloom added.

"Well, the other teams just had poorer experiences…" said Servine. "Apparently, each of our Ghost-types played parts in the deaths, which I find impressive considering Mismagius is the only ghost on the Suicunes and she was able to take out a lot of the Raikous."

"Meanwhile, Shedinja and Spiritomb didn't do that well of a job considering that won actually were able to win", Jolteon replied. "That shows a bit of weakness on the Raikous' part."

"Well, we can't really worry about that", said Breloom. "As long as they get first or second place, we can't really do anything; well, we can't do anything about it anyway…"

"Yeah, so what's the plan for the next time that we lose?" asked Goodra. "We should plan ahead just so we don't have to dwell on that long…"

"Well, the main problems on the team are Espeon and Dusclops, with Umbreon being included due to his involvement with Espeon, so that's three targets right off the bat", Mightyena said.

"Yeah, but how confident are we that it'll even work?" asked Jolteon. "You have more experience with them, so how do things usually go?"

"Considering our interactions with them, I'm sure we can infer that it doesn't go that well", said Breloom. "Well, Umbreon's a new guy, too, right? So he may be the one to go for…"

"Yeah, but then Espeon will try to destroy us…" Mightyena said.

"Who cares?" asked Goodra. "We have two other Psychic-types that can reverse anything that she'll try to do."

"Hmm...you have a point…" Mightyena admired. "But, you don't know how things go with her. Something almost always goes wrong. As for Dusclops..."

"You know what...now that I think about it…" Jolteon said, biting an apple. "Dusclops isn't really causing the same amount of problems as Espeon."

"That may be true, but he's still a threat to be reckoned with", said Mightyena. "He acts like he doesn't give a shit about anyone when he's actually just as bad…"

"Well, those three are always options…" said Servine. "But because of the possible backlash, I say we go for someone else for the time being…"

"Well, the only ones that are borderline useless are Absol, Quilladin, Swirlix, and Cherrim", Jolteon said.

"We're not booting Absol…" Mightyena said seriously.

"Or Quilladin…" Breloom added, sharing the serious tone.

"Why not?" asked Jolteon. "Absol isn't doing anything to make herself seem useful, she's just blubbering over Houndoom, no offense. That's like the only reason she's here. As for Quilladin, we already have Breloom and Servine. He just doesn't seem like he's gonna have an impact on the team positively…"

"Quilladin is the only one other than myself to actually do the balloon challenge. When we first got here, he tried giving some ideas and speaking his mind, but he's always just ignored…" Breloom explained. "He's really nice if you get to know him; the only thing that's with him wrong is his self-confidence…"

"Aww...sounds like somebody has a thing for Quilladin…" said Goodra.

"What?" Breloom queried. "Just because I defended him and explained his situation?"

"When you go into detail like that about someone, it means that you've been thinking about and remembering things dealing with them…" Servine said with a smile.

Breloom hid a blush. She really didn't think of Quilladin in that light, because as they both agreed, they barely knew each other.

"We barely know anything about each other. That doesn't-"

"That's the point of dating", Mightyena said. "So you CAN get to know each other more."

Breloom rolled her eyes.

"Alright, Quilladin's fine, then", Jolteon said. "You wanna try and defend Absol, Mightyena?"

"There's nothing to defend. She's strong and intelligent in her own right. Her only problem is that she feels like a complete moron and is borderline depressed over Houndoom!"

"I know this is gonna sound bitchy, but that's her own personal problem", Jolteon said. "She could still help the team even if she's upset. She wants to try and get Houndoom back, so why not actually try to make yourself useful in order to stay in?"

"Love is blinding", Goodra explained. "My ex-boyfriend was a complete loser; I did everything for him because I loved him, while he didn't even truly love me back. You can't fault her for how she faults. You'd probably act the same way if you loved someone and then broke up."

Jolteon sighed. She was hoping that they wouldn't have much to say. With Absol out of the way, her only competition for Houndoom would be Delphox; Absol already had history with Houndoom and was probably deep in his mind, so she really needed her gone. "Okay, fine…"

"And we are left with the other two from our first loss", said Breloom. "Swirlix and Cherrim…"

"Honestly, out of the two of them, I don't think Swirlix will be useful unless food is involved…" said Servine. "And even though she's practically useless, Cherrim is at least more serious."

"Yeah…" said Goodra. "But, then again, Swirlix is probably one of the only Fairy-types on the team…"

"And some of us can learn Fairy-type moves on our own…" Jolteon retorted. "So, I guess that gives us a reason to get rid of Swirlix…"

"At the very least more than Cherrim…" Breloom said. "And we can just get rid of her after Swirlix…"

"Agreed", Servine said.

Mightyena stood up and stretched. "Well, if that's all. I'll see you girls in the challenge", she said before picking up her plate and tossing it in the trash near the front door.

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Eelektrik and his alliance met back up in front of the same horror movie set. "Alright, that's one veteran down, and seven more to go…"

"And he was a floater, so it really wasn't that big of a loss…" Bronzor added.

"Alright, he's gone, now we have to wait until one of us loses again…or are we not going to be idiotic?" Dusclops asked.

"I'm sorry, but uh..what exactly did you do in your season?" Froslass asked rhetorically. "Get eliminated, change votes…and ruin one relationship. I don't think you should say anything about idiotic..."

"What, you expect us to just let these losers control the game?" Espeon asked. "Changing the votes on them saves our own asses and ruins their chances…"

"Doesn't really mean anything…" Froslass said. "People could always change the votes back, they're just too dimwitted…"

"Alright, fine. How about this time, we let whatever happens happen and see where it goes…" said Dusclops.

"And...what if your team loses?" asked Delcatty.

Umbreon chuckled. "My honey has those losers pegged. They're so scared of her they won't think of voting because she could change them back."

"I still don't see how just changing votes means you should be feared…" Froslass said, folding her arms.

"Dimwits...always remember that this game has dimwits…" said Dusclops.

"Well, if that's the case...we shouldn't have to worry about anything…" said Bronzor. "Other than Delcatty, still…"

"Hey, I haven't been getting the cold shoulder as much as I used to, so hopefully that means that they're gonna stop being sensitive crybabies…" Delcatty stated.

"Well, if that's the case, we're all in the clear", Eelektrik said with a smirk. "Now, what I was gonna say we could do next is that we can just each pick somebody from our teams that we think are useless or threatening and try and gain a bit of a friendsh-"

"No", Dusclops said instantly. "I choose not to have friends for a reason. Emotions are for the weak…"

"They're not gonna be real friends, just try to get on their good sides and learn some things that we could use against them or someone else. Someone easy to manipulate…" Eelektrik said.

"Me, Dusclops, and Umbreon are enemies with every other veteran, and I doubt that any of these other idiots will trust us if the others have told them enough about us…" Espeon explained.

"Wait a second...the newbies!" Bronzor realized. "They know nothing about you!"

"Perfect!" Umbreon said with a sneer.

"Alright, so out of everyone's team, who do you all have in mind?" asked Eelektrik. "Obviously you guys have to go with Type: Null, but what about you, Delcatty?"

"Well, out of everyone on my shitty excuse of a team, I think that the only one who seems to not think I'm complete scum is probably Spheal...or Shedinja…he doesn't do anything or talk anyway…"

"Well focus on one of them", Eelektrik said. "Bronzor and I will try to work on Tepig. I'm tired of that bastard making it rain in our apartment every night…"

"He's got hay fever. You can't really blame him…" said Bronzor.

"Who gives a shit? I'd like to stay fucking dry, thank you very much…" said Eelektrik.

"Aren't you a fish?"

"THAT DOESN'T MEAN SHIT!"

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Lairon, Haxorus, Honchkrow, Mandibuzz, Charizard, and Garchomp were actually inside the movie theater this time around, per Honchkrow's suggestion.

"Alright, we're here, now what are we gonna do?" asked Lairon.

"Um...what do you do in a movie theater?"

"You really want to just watch fucking movies at a time like this?" asked Mandibuzz. "Did you damage your brain when you died last challenge?"

"Okay, are you just gonna try and undermine me every time I say something!?" Honchkrow squawked angrily.

"Give smart ideas and I wouldn't have to…"

Honchkrow huffed. "How about you come up with some ideas of your own before you keep trying to undermine mine!"

"Undermine means to sabotage, idiot; I'm not sabotaging anything…"

Honchkrow twitched.

"Um...okay, how about we make sure you two don't see the same movie…" said Charizard.

"And the same can apply to both you and Charizard…" Lairon said.

Garchomp glared over at the dragon, who was being brought to a corner by Haxorus. "Yeah, make sure that happens…"

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Haxorus took Charizard into the hall that led to the bathrooms and a water fountain.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Haxorus, folding his arms. "I thought you were gonna keep messing with her until she caved? I know how you operate…"

"Yeah, well the operation's over", Charizard responded. "She keeps on attacking me and making me toss her around for it. Plus, there's something seriously up with her, but she's not budging or even willing to explain to me what the problem is so that we can work on it and at least be acquaintances!"

"Yeesh...that's rough…" said Haxorus. "But, I know damn well that you're not giving up yet…"

"Dude, she hates my guts and she won't fucking explain to me why. When I ask, we end up fighting, she gets even more upset, and I HAVE to let her go!"

"Okay, let me ask you a question; do you like her?"

"Well, not when she's fighting me for no reason. But, as herself, yeah. She's got the type of attitude that I like to take advantage of and play with, and she's not half bad looking either…"

"Okay, then you have to convey that to her without actually saying it, because it seems like the issue isn't really with you per se, but something that DEALS with you…"

"That makes no sense…" Charizard replied. "I can't convey shit to her if she's always trying to push me away…'

"You know that you don't care about that…"

"Yeah, but it's just...it just feels...different with her", said Charizard. "It's hard to explain…"

"Hmm...well, tell you what. I'll see if I can get Lairon to talk to her…" said Haxorus. "Girls feel more comfortable talking with other girls about personal things for some reason…"

"Speaking of Lairon...have you...y'know…?"

"Uh...yeah...why do you ask?"

"Oh nothing, just checking…" Charizard said with a smirk.

Haxorus smirked. "Riiiiight…"

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The two of them came out of the hall and saw that the girls and Honchkrow were gone.

"Huh, they probably went into one of the theaters…" said Haxorus.

Charizard sighed. "Great…"

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Skuntank, Dewott, Mismagius, and Vaporeon were in the Suicunes' exercise room in the apartment.

"So, what's the plan now?" asked Mismagius. "We've lost someone now…albeit it was just Vanillite."

"Something wrong occurred with the votes…" Skuntank said. "I'm pretty sure the four of us didn't vote for him, we know his friends didn't vote for him, and he's a veteran, so you know the rest of them on our team didn't vote for him or care to. That's 16 of us…and there were only 25 of us on the team…"

Vaporeon started calculating on her own in her head and eventually agreed with Skuntank. "You're right...someone tampered with our votes!"

"Ugh...why are villains so fucking pathetic?" asked Mismagius. "Changing the votes is the laziest thing to do. Plus, this was our first elimination! And why would whoever did it choose Vanillite out of all the others?!"

"None of those questions can be answered right now…" said Skuntank. "Now. Out of the nine that would left...who would want Vanillite gone the most?"

"Uh...Skuntank. You seem to be forgetting that other teams are able to screw other votes, too…" Vaporeon added.

Hearing that, Skuntank growled angrily after thinking about the other possibilities. "Those fucks...I know exactly who did it…"

"Well, what are we gonna do about it?"

"There's nothing we CAN do about it. They're the ones with the Psychic and G-" Skuntank stopped mid-sentence after Dewott tapped her and gestured to Mismagius in a showcasing fashion.

Vaporeon gasped. "Dewott's right! We can fight back with Mismagius!"

"And they'd never suspect a thing…" Skuntank said with a smile. "Nice thinking, honey…"

Dewott nodded.

"So, which one are we going for first? Espeon or Dusclops?"

"Oh-ho, I think that Espeon deserves anything but the best…" said Skuntank. "She can be the first…"

"Um...you realize we have to make sure that they lose...right?" asked Vaporeon.

"Oh...right…" Skuntank said. "Hopefully that's the case in this next challenge…"

"And what if we end up losing again?" asked Mismagius.

"We'll have to see what happens in the challenge, but Bellossom is still a primary target due to her uselessness…"

Vaporeon nodded before pausing and looking around. "Hey, where's Popplio?"

"Oh, she's still new, so we decided to let her branch out a bit more and meet a few others…" said Skuntank.

"Hopefully she can bring back useful information…" Mismagius said.

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Braviary, Spheal, Wooper, Swirlix, and Popplio were on the roof of the Enteis' apartments. Swirlix, in his sweet-deprived state, had stolen a lot of doughnuts, cakes, and other pastries from the pantry and fridges.

Despite being crazy about sweets, he was still not opposed to sharing, but because his team was already split, he let his friends have some instead.

"Wow, this is great…" Braviary said, munching on cream-filled doughnut. "Reminds me of when we were jumping on one…"

"Yep…" Wooper said, eating a cinnamon roll.

Spheal was eating another eclair with a smile. "These are always amazing when they're warm…"

"Uh...hello?"

Hearing the voice startled the guys.

"Don't tell me these foods are talking…" Braviary said.

"Yay! Talking food!" Swirlix exclaimed before eating a cannoli. "Mmm….cannoli…"

Popplio turned the corner and saw that Swirlix, Braviary, Wooper, and Spheal were there eating sweets. She couldn't help but giggle.

"So you guys are hiding food?"

"Oh, hi Popplio", Spheal greeted. "And no, not really. Swirlix stole these and he decided to come up here so that the hosts won't know…"

"But...there's cameras everywhere", Popplio replied, holding back a laugh. "There's no point if they already caught you…"

A camera whirled from the edge of the roof and was pointing directly at them.

"Dangit!" Swirlix said as he ate another cinnamon roll. "Oh well…nothing they can do about it now…"

"So...uh...what brought you up here?" asked Braviary, a bit weirded out and suspicious. "Like...why look on our team's roof?"

"Oh, I was already on my roof and the Raikou's roof before, I'm just exploring around a bit…" Popplio explained.

"Okay...and why did you decide to join? Haven't you seen this show?" asked Wooper. "You know things are gonna get pretty wild…"

"Yeah, but my parents and friend want me to get out of my comfort zone…" Popplio explained. "I only used to stay at home, never go to parties, eat light, they wanted me to actually go out and do more…"

"Oh, well that's cool…"

"I guess, but...I don't really think this is gonna go well for me…"

"Hey, don't think like that", Spheal said, rolling closer. "Thinking pessimistically will ensure something wrong will happen…"

"Well to me, pessimism is a defense mechanism. That way if fate decides that something will go bad, I don't get disappointed…"

"That's just life though…" Spheal said. "Things are gonna go good and bad. I'm glad you're here, because your friends and parents are right, being out of your comfort zone can bring you a lot more joy if you let it…"

Popplio looked to the side bashfully.

"I'm gonna need you to help me out and promise that you'll try to make your experience here enjoyable…" Spheal said.

Popplio gasped and looked down. She just couldn't promise that. "I-I don't know if I can…"

"Look, even if you think this is gonna be bad, try to see a bit of good...okay?" Spheal requested.

"I'll see…"

"Great!" Spheal said, tapping her shoulder.

Popplio smiled softly before remembering that she was in an alliance already! She didn't know if they were meeting up anywhere, so she kinda panicked internally.

"Thanks Spheal…" she said as she started leaving.

Spheal smiled.

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"I guess Spheal's kinda right…" Popplio said. "But...I've seen these shows before and I just know that little me is gonna get the ax pretty soon, so coming here is just pointless…"

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Grovyle and Hawlucha were engaged in a battle in one of the battlefields on the further side of the lot past the craft services tent.

Grovyle used Bullet Seed as Hawlucha sprinted forward, dodging the attacks. He leapt in the air with a flip before laying straight, preparing to use Flying Press.

Grovyle moved out of the way, but, having experience, he quickly got of his position and landed on his feet. Grovyle rushed toward him with Leaf Blade, but Hawlucha leapt up, using Bounce.

Grovyle moved out of the way once again, but Hawlucha used Focus Blast. Grovyle got him by that attack and growled before getting back on his feet. However, he was too slow in doing so, and Hawlucha had turned Bounce into Sky Attack, striking Grovyle was again. Successfully knocking him out.

Hawlucha chuckled as he walked over Grovyle. "Lucha buen, amigo…" he said, extending his arm to help Grovyle up. "Uh...yeh…you too…" Grovyle replied, unsure of what Hawlucha was saying.

A tongue rolling sound was heard as Salandit approached them. Hawlucha had a look on his face that held nothing but displeasure towards the lizard. He couldn't explain it, but something about her made his skin crawl.

"Howdy miss…" Grovyle greeted.

"Hola, guapo…" she replied with a purr. "And hola to you, too, El Luchador…"

Hawlucha nodded in greeting.

"Very interesting battle…" she continued. "Good choices and nice strengths and speed, though...Hawlucha, you need to work more on your timing and agility…"

Hawlucha gaped before glaring. He had just won the battle, and she was telling him to get better?

"What brought you to watch out battle lil' miss?" asked Grovyle. "You ain't on our team or nothin'..."

"That is correct, but I heard noises from this way and I just decided to watch from the sidelines…" she explained.

"Well, that's fine…" Grovyle replied. "Now, I'm gonna go see what the rest of the team is up to. See you two later…"

The gecko began to leave, which was cue for Hawlucha to leave as well. He didn't want to be alone with Salandit. Usually he was nice and charming around females, especially ones who were new to something, but she just didn't sit right to him.

"Aw...you aren't just gonna leave a poor senorita all alone are you~?"

Hawlucha paused upon hearing that. He was too damn chivalrous! He clenched his fists and took a breath before turning around. "¿Qué necesitas?"

"I don't need much, señor…" Salandit responded. "I'd just like to know a bit about your team…"

Hawlucha definitely didn't trust her now, but he had to keep acting like he was oblivious. "Por qué razón?" he asked, folding his arms.

Salandit glared. "Just give me the information...I don't have time for you stalling…"

"Señorita, usted está pidiendo a la persona equivocada. Yo apenas sé nada de es tas personas distintas de sus personalidades generales…" Hawlucha replied with an annoyed tone.

"Is that so?" Salandit replied.

Hawlucha knew that when a guy ever heard that from a female, it was time to cut and run, as something was about to go bad. He immediately flew away as Salandit used Flamethrower; he dodged it and made it away, leaving Salandit alone with a smirk.

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"The poor fool. He doesn't know that by the time I'm done with him, he won't have the cajones to defy me…" Salandit said.

000

Ursaring and Pangoro were in the rec center in the pool. Cubchoo had decided to exercise and try to be stronger in order to impress them and not be looked down upon by others. She had taken a bit of charge last challenge and considering that she didn't get eliminated because of it, she wanted to see if she do more.

She was a weak link and she knew it. Ursaring and Pangoro knew it, too, so in order to fulfill their expectations, she was there to get stronger. However, it seemed that the only way to do that was to evolve.

She needed to battle; she knew that would lose, but she needed to try anyway. She headed to the back door of the center and approached the bears; Pangoro was floating in the water without moving, while Ursaring was swimming back and forth.

"Um...hi", she greeted timidly.

Ursaring's splashing made her meek voice inaudible. She tried again.

"HI!" she said a bit louder, but the splashing still made it inaudible.

She sighed. Time for something drastic. She used Ice Beam on the pool, freezing them both in place.

"What the he-" Ursaring started before turning and seeing Cubchoo standing there, taking a couple of steps back. "RUNT! What the hell did you do!?"

"I was trying to get your attention…."

"And to do so, you freeze us into the pool…" Pangoro said, still lying flat. "Nice to see that your brain is officially gone…"

Cubchoo looked down.

"Well you've forcefully got our attention. What the hell do you want?" asked Ursaring.

"I want you to battle me…" she explained. "I...I wanna be stronger…."

Both bears gained a smirk. Ursaring started beating the ice with his paws until he eventually got out. Pangoro simply rose up forcefully, releasing himself from the ice.

"So...you want a-OW!" Pangoro exclaimed as he slipped and fell on the ice.

"You want a battle, hmm?" Ursaring asked as he climbed out. "You realize that you won't be able to beat us…"

"Y-Yeah...but I still need to try…"

Pangoro and Ursaring exchanged looks.

"Okay, fine by us…" said Ursaring. "I'll be your first opponent…"

Cubchoo nodded. "So, where do we go?"

"We can stay right here…" he said.

Cubchoo was confused as she looked around. "But, there's not a lot of space."

"That's fine…" Ursaring said. "This is gonna be quick anyway…"

Cubchoo gave them a confident look, which hid the fact that she was completely terrified.

-000-

They were on opposite sides of the still frozen pool, with Pangoro watching from the side.

"Call it!" Ursaring shouted.

"Battle begin!"

Ursaring, right off the bat, used Focus Blast. Cubchoo gasped and ducked as the attack went over her head. She fired an Ice Beam at him, but Ursaring used Stone Edge in retaliation. The stone were frozen as they went towards Cubchoo, who got hit.

She fell to the ground and shakily started to get up, as she had taken a significant amount of damage already.

Ursaring charged around the pool towards her with Metal Claw. Sending her through the window of the center.

"OH! Nice one!" Pangoro commended.

Cubchoo was knocked out and had broken glass surrounding her. When she regained consciousness, she winced and cried a bit, as the broken glass had caused numerous cuts to appear on her body.

She stood up and started limping out of the center.

"Aw, what's the matter, runt?" Ursaring teased. "Can't take a bit of glass?"

"Damn it! I wanted my round. We can't even swim anymore because the little bitch froze the water…" Pangoro said. "I guess we can go to the sauna-"

"NO!"

000

Type: Null, was the only one still in her team's apartment. She knew none of these people and truly wished not to know any of them other than Houndoom. His appearance in general, dark, evil, and brooding, was enough to get her attention. Other than that, she was only there to take out all of her opponents and win.

The fact that she was on a team already pissed her off, as she didn't care about teamwork. She was only in this for herself and she didn't care who she became enemies with along the way. The way she treated the guys before the last challenge was a scare tactic that she learned from her father. Give them a consequence that may befall them if they don't stop and get aggressive. That asserts dominance and can cause a bit of fear to appear in them.

As she stared out the window, watching players pass by with people from opposite teams, she shook her head and began trying to think of ways to get her team focused. She didn't like any of them, minus Houndoom, but if she was gonna be stuck there, she might as well get their heads into gear.

She took note of who she saw mingling with who from opposite teams. "These people are so stupid…" she muttered.

"Um...who exactly, and why are you saying that?"

She was startled by the noise and got into battle position. However, upon seeing who it was, she calmed herself, as it was a teammate. Specifically, Zangoose.

"Oh, it's just you…"

"What does that mean?" Zangoose asked, folding her arms.

"You surprised me…" Type: Null replied before turning back to the window.

"Uh huh...and why are you calling us stupid?"

"That's none of your concern…" she replied. "Just know that as long as I'm on this team, you all will be focusing on the game at hand…nothing more…"

"You can't control what people do", Zangoose said. "No one's gonna even listen to you since you're just a newer newbie than most of us."

"We'll just see about that…" she said, still gazing out of the window.

000

After their alliance meeting, Goodra had found herself running into Dragonite when she was heading back to her team's apartment.

"Hi Goodra, uh...what've you been up to?" he greeted.

"Nothing much…" she replied. "You?"

"Same…"

She sighed. "Seriously Dragonite? You're never gonna get over your shyness if you don't try to do more…"

"I'm trying!"

"Are you really? Tell me the truth…" she said, folding her arms.

Dragonite rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. 'Well, I've been talking a bit more, but it hasn't been too prominent…" he explained.

"Well that's a good start…" said Goodra. "Start making it more prominent, just make sure it's not prominent enough to where you get annoying…"

Dragonite nodded.

Goodra remembered what Mightyena said in the last challenge. Incentive. She groaned in her head.

"And...if you do it, I'll…uh…"

Dragonite raised a brow.

Goodra had no idea what to offer him that wouldn't seem like nothing. So, against her better judgement…

"I'll...go out with you…"

Dragonite blushed like mad, his eyes wide. "W-What?" he asked meekly, shocked to hear that.

"I'll date you…" she said, getting closer. "But, it'll only be if you're able to get over your shyness. The faster you do that, the faster I'm yours~"

Goodra wanted to kick her own ass for saying that. She was not a material possession.

So many thoughts were flooding Dragonite's head. This was just so sudden. He really liked Goodra, but he wasn't expecting her to make this offer to him. It made him feel like he was only gonna get a girlfriend for completing a task like in a videogame, not because she liked him in return.

"Um...I don't…"

"You don't what?"

"I...don't know if I'd want that…"

Goodra was confused. "Wait, what?"

"Goodra, I really like you, even though it's been a pretty short time with us really knowing each other…" Dragonite started. "But...I don't think that I'd feel comfortable with you doing this…"

"What do you mean? I'm fine with it…"

"Goodra, I may be a bit shy, but I'm not a fool…" Dragonite replied. "If we ever get into a relationship or if I get into a relationship at all, I want it to be with a girl who genuinely likes me, not just as a reward…"

Goodra was shocked to hear that. He was sweeter and nicer than she thought. She nodded. "That's understandable. I just thought that maybe I could give you a bit of incentive so that you would do more and try your hardest…"

Dragonite chuckled. "I can tell...you took a while to say that you'd be mine…"

"Yeah, it was kind of a slutty move…" she said sheepishly, rubbing an arm.

"Well, whenever you actually want to go out with me...let me know", Dragonite said. "I mean, if you're even interested in me as more than a friend…"

Goodra smiled softly and hugged him, with him hugging back. She kissed his cheek. "We'll see as time goes on…"

Dragonite nodded.

000

"I'd rather a girl be actually serious about a relationship. My mom taught me that you have to be respectful to women and treat them like they matter more than you do...if you truly have feeling for her that is…" Dragonite explained. "Goodra's really cute and cool, but her offering herself as a reward just didn't sit right with me. I want her to be open about it...not make herself a prize."

"I'm really trying to break out of my shell on my own anyway, and it's kinda going okay. I just don't have any friends, but that's fine with me…"

000

"I'm surprised Dragonite didn't take my offer. Most guys would've been joyful if they heard a girl offering herself as a reward…" Goodra said. "I'm glad that he didn't, though. He's too nice…"

000

Blissey and her alliance were behind the apartments.

"Alright, we won 2nd place in the last challenge, but we still need veterans gone…" said Blissey. "They're too powerful…"

"We're still trying to get rid of Heliolisk aren't we?" asked Noibat.

"Yes, but we still need to plan more in advance…" Blissey said. "So after Heliolisk, who should our target be?"

"Well, we'll actually be needing them and their strength for challenges, so shouldn't we weed out the weak, first?" asked Spiritomb.

"Yeah, I'm with him, it makes no sense to dig our own graves…" said Gothitelle. "Heliolisk is the only one for now. After him, I say we go for either Shellder or Spheal…"

"Yeah, I agree", said Noibat. "Nothing against them, but..they're just. They're the weakest of the bunch, appearance wise…"

"Um...you seem to forget the possibility of them evolving", said Delibird. "That's a pretty naughty choice to make without consideration…"

"They aren't evolved right now are they?" asked Blissey. "No. Plus, we have Clawitzer and Lanturn already. No point in having weak pre-evolved forms here…"

"Er-hem!" Noibat said with a glare.

"Other than you. Plus, you're a Dragon-type. You're fine…"

"Mmhmm…"

"Well I don't agree…" said Delibird. "The more of something we have, the merrier we'll be…"

"In a way, I agree…" said Spiritomb. " Having more of a certain type can give us an advantage in some challenges…"

"Well we have to prepare somehow…" said Blissey. "Where the hell is Salandit? Maybe she has some ideas…"

"She's new. You expect her to actually be able to judge the potential of others she barely know?" asked Delibird. "Definitely a naughty thought…"

Blissey growled and threw an Egg Bomb at him. "We don't have time for your commentary! They could call us down a-"

"CONTESTANTS! MEET US IN FRONT OF YOUR APARTMENTS! IT'S CHALLENGE TIME!"

"-t any time. Damn it!"

000

"Maybe adding Delibird wasn't the best idea. If all he does is call my ideas and thoughts naughty, then what use is he!?" Blissey exclaimed.

000

Everyone made it to the front of the apartments.

"Alright, contestants. It's time for your next challenge. And today's movie is...Storks!"

"Uh...what?" asked Manectric.

"That stupid movie about the Delibirds and Lycanrocs and Dodrios fighting over delivering babies…", said Froslass.

"Precisely…" said Raikou. "Which is why your next challenge will be dealing with…"

A Vigoroth intern rolled up a rather large cart with a sheet over it. Uncovering it, fifteen different colored eggs were seen.

"Pokemon eggs!"

"Lemme guess, you want us to watch them, right?" asked Quilladin.

"Not just yet, bowling ball…" Entei said. "First, you have to earn five eggs for each of your teams."

"Wait...why the hell are we earning children?" asked Piloswine.

"Yeah, that sounds a bit...disturbing…" said Delphox.

"Because this is also going to be a bit of a 'know your competitors' challenge…" said Suicune. "Think about it from an adoption standpoint. You'd want children to go to a fit household, meaning that the parents would have to be fit and not crazy. Now, onto the challenge…"

000

There was a large, thick pole about 100 feet in the air in the center of the lot. Fifteen thinner poles with scoop ends extended from it. Each egg was sitting on one of those scoops.

"Now...to get an egg, all you have to do is answer a true or false question about yourself…" said Raikou. "When you answer five, truthfully, your team gets to pick the egg they want and we continue going until all of the eggs are retrieved. Then we'll move onto the next challenge…"

"Well, this challenge is gonna be awful…." said Mandibuzz.

"15 eggs...5 questions for each...so, that's...75 questions…" Shellder calculated. "That's pretty accurate."

"We know…" said Entei. "Now, we're about to get started, so shut the fuck up!"

"Okay, are you gonna keep talking out of your ass, or are you gonna use your mouth sometime?" Drilbur retorted.

"MOLE…"

"OKAY!" Raikou said, overshadowing Entei's anger. "Let's get started. My team, you guys can go first…"

"Oh how great…" said Typhlosion.

"I know right…" said Suicune. "Now, first question is for Spiritomb. True or false, are you part of a Fairy-type hate organization?"

Spiritomb paled before eyeing a few of the Fairy-types. "Can I get another question?"

"Nope. Answer it. True or false?" Entei urged.

Spiritomb took a deep breath. "Okay, I am, but I'm not in it in it, I'm only in it because a few of my friends brought me to the meeting and they made me do some random initiation…" he explained. "Peer pressure is a bitch…"

"Yeah right…"

"It's the truth!"

"Yes it is…" said Raikou. "Which egg would you want?"

Ignoring the glares from his fellow competitors due to being associated with a type-hate organization, even if it was unintentional.

"Um...I guess the yellow one", he said.

"Nice choice…" Raikou said as he tapped a button on a keyboard, causing the yellow egg's scoop to bend slightly.

"Next question is for Zangoose…" Raikou said. "Are you xenophobic?"

"XENOMORPH?!" Gligar exclaimed. "You mean those movies were true?!"

"No, numbskull", Dusclops answered. "Xenophobia is the fear of things that are seen as weird or foreign."

"Pretty much 'is she scared of change or foreign things?'" Shellder clarified.

"False", Zangoose answered. "If I was, why the hell would I ever come to this show. Hell I'd be afraid of Hawlucha and Salandit if that's the case!"

"You are correct. Now, which egg would you like?"

"We'll take the purple one…" Zangoose answered. This made the scoop holding that specific egg tilt slightly.

"Oh...I get the game now…" Quilladin whispered, nudging Breloom. "When you answer a question right and choose, you can keep putting it on a certain egg and whoever gets the last question and call on an egg gets it for their team. There's no specific rule saying those eggs are-"

"QUIET!"

Quilladin jumped in fear.

"Dewott...are you a sado-masochist? True or false?"

Dewott sneered before nodding. Skuntank and Vaporeon's eyes widened.

"Well, there's another psychopath to add to the list…" Lairon commented.

"Dewott, you-"

"Well, that explains why he doesn't show pain and doesn't mind getting injured…" said Mandibuzz.

Dewott chuckled to himself.

"Alright, uh...choose your egg…"

Dewott pointed to a pink egg. However, it was lost among the others.

"Um...a verbal response would be appreciated…" said Entei.

Dewott glared at the hosts before walking towards the keyboard and pressing a pink button, causing the egg he wanted to tip a bit from the scoop.

"Alright then, Lanturn. This next question's for you…" said Suicune. "Are you bisexual? True or False?"

"False. I'm straight…"

"Correct…"

"Okay are all of these questions gonna be generic?" asked Ursaring. "If so, this process doesn't make any fucking sense!"

"Be patient...things will be getting more personal as time goes on…" said Raikou. "Lanturn. Which egg?"

"Hmm...the dark blue…" she said.

"Alright, now, Espeon. True or False. You think that you are better than everyone and everyone is less than you…"

"True...duh…" Espeon said, a bit of sweat appearing on the side of her head.

"Oops, that's actually false. No egg for you…"

"Wait...what?" asked Tyranitar. "Hold on hold on…"

"You mean to tell me that she isn't a complete bitch on wheels?!" Typhlosion exclaimed. "With all of the bullshit she's said and done, you expect us to believe that she's not an arrogant bitch!?"

Umbreon's fur stood out of anger, but he knew that Typhlosion could rip his head off, so he just growled.

"Look, just fucking move on", Espeon said, looking away.

"With pleasure…" said Entei. "Eelektrik. True or False…."

Entei stifled a laugh. "Are you aquaphobic?"

Eelektrik's pupils contracted as suddenly all eyes were on him.

"Wait...doesn't aquaphobic mean-" Shieldon started.

"You're scared of water?!" Cherrim laughed. "You're a fish!"

"FUCK YOU! THAT MEANS NOTHING!" Eelektrik exclaimed.

"How the hell do you bathe?" Pyroar laughed.

"There's something called baby wipes…" Eelektrik explained. "I prefer not to get physically wet longer than a few seconds!"

"Wait, so that's why you always freak out when the sprinklers go off when Tepig sneezes?" Piloswine asked. "Wow…"

"Don't 'wow', me, pig boy. Let's hear some of your private info!"

"We'll get to that soon enough. For right now, pick an egg", Entei said.

"Red…" he said.

"Alright...Milotic...true or false? Was your father an alcoholic drug dealer?" asked Raikou.

Milotic sighed. "Yes...no point in lying. And that doesn't mean I'll be addicted!"

"Sure it does…" said Raikou. "Egg?"

"Um...I guess…the regular blue one…" said Milotic.

"Okay Pyroar, true or false? You've been in five homosexual relationships and only three hetero ones…"

"Um...true?" Pyroar answered with a blush. "But they all ended up breaking up with me for some reason, which was weird…"

"Uh huh, so you say…"

"Hey!"

"Well Pyroar, that was correct. Egg color?"

"Hmmm...gray."

"Next up. Hawlucha, true or false? You once severed the leg of a Hitmontop out of spite from losing a battle…"

Hawlucha smiled internally. None of them could understand him, so this would be easy. "Es el falso…"

"He said it was false…" Salandit said, immediately causing Hawlucha to glare daggers at her.

"Um...yeah, we kinda figured that out ourselves, Salandit…" said Raikou. "And that is incorrect…"

Everyone stared at Hawlucha in shock, causing the luchador to laugh sheepishly.

"Alright, Lairon. True or false. You are insecure about your self worth…"

Lairon scoffed. "False!"

"Errrt. It's true…" said Entei. "Add this to your insecurities…"

Lairon trembled internally and looked around. Luckily, not many eyes were on her, but the ones that mattered were. She saw that Haxorus was looking down at her, making her look away to avoid eye contact.

"Alright. Noibat, true or false. You almost accidentally killed your brother…"

"True…" Noibat answered with a sigh. "He kept messing with my toys and I was tired of him, so...I grabbed his baseball bat and...yeah…"

"Jeez, some of you have anger issues…" Delphox said, folding her arms.

"Alright, Noibat. Egg color?"

"Uh...green."

"Alright, Delphox, since you had a comment. This next one's for you."

"Oh that's not f-"

"True or false. You were featured in a porno with your best female friend and another male pornstar…"

Delphox blushed like mad and glared in anger. She saw most of the males had shocked and gaping mouths from hearing that, while some of the girls didn't seem too surprised. That was what was pissing her off.

"Yes…" she said through grit teeth. "But it was a one time thing…"

"Mmhmm, sure it was…" Absol muttered.

"Nice to know that if you did have children, you'd be an unfit mother…" Jolteon said, bumping against Houndoom playfully, causing him to yip from her spikes.

Delphox and Absol both growled. Mightyena looked at the situation and sighed.

"Alright Delphox, which egg?"

Quilladin was about to tug on her dress and explain, but Ursaring knocked him away.

"Just do the black and red one…"

Quilladin facepalmed.

"Okay, Bellossom. True or false? Are you a member of an old Alolan sacrificial tribe?"

"No. Of course not! False"

"That is correct…." said Suicune. "And luckily so…"

"Egg?"

"Purple-green", she said.

"Okay...Clawitzer. True or false? Your father's pirate background led you to become a petty thief…"

"Aye...it be true", Clawitzer said. "However, I have since given that up…"

"Correct", said Entei. "Egg…"

"Blue be the one…"

"Whoa whoa whoa, pirate boy...you can't do that!" Mandibuzz exclaimed.

"Actually, he can", said Suicune. "Remember, we said five questions per egg…"

"Wait, so we can overtake others' eggs?!" Skuntank exclaimed.

"That's what I was about to explain to Delphox, but Ursaring pushed me away!"

"You're a failure. We don't need you rubbing off on her…"

Hearing no one defend him, not even Breloom, he just sighed.

"Alright, the blue egg now has two tags…" said Raikou. "Metagross. True or false? You are pansexual..."

"True", he said effortlessly.

"Correct. Egg?"

"Orange…" he said.

"Okay...now, Skuntank. True or false? You are an dependent girl who is trying to be a leader…"

"That's some exposition…" Gligar said.

"Could you leave the fourth wall alone, for fuck's sake!?"

"Um...uh…" she sighed. "True…"

Dewott pet her fur, making her purr.

"Well, now we know we have a weakling other than me according to you guys…" Bellossom said, folding her arms.

"Skuntank's still better…" said Tepig. "She's trying to change her ways…"

Bellossom grumbled.

"Egg, Skuntank?"

"Let's go for the yellow one…"

"Alright...that's two for the yellow…" said Suicune. "Dragonite. True or false? You once overdosed on caffeine out of depression…"

Upon hearing that Goodra's eyes widened as she turned to him, as did a few others. Dragonite was looking down. "Yeah, it's true. It uh...it was a pretty poor decision on my part. I was just...going through a lot mentally, ya know…"

"I'm sure most of the people here are going through things mentally as well", said Entei. "You're not so special. Now, choose an egg…"

"Um...I guess the white one…"

"Alright then…" said Suicune. "Goodra. Next one's for you."

Goodra was still perplexed and shocked after hearing that from Dragonite. Her eyes never left his dismal-looking form.

"Goodra?!"

She suddenly snapped out of her gaze and regained focus. "Sorry, what was my question?"

"No repeats. True or false…"

"You didn't say anything about that!" Houndoom growled.

"Well we just did. No repeats. Better pay attention, now…"

"Ugh…" Goodra growled. "I'm just gonna guess and say...false, then."

"Sorry, that's incorrect…" said Raikou.

"Of course it is…" Goodra muttered, rolling her eyes. "What was it?"

"True or false. You're still a virgin…" Zangoose said.

Goodra facepalmed.

"Alright, no egg choice for you. Piloswine, you're next. True or false, you eat dictionaries and encyclopedias so that you can become smarter…"

"False! Who does that?!"

"Um...you do. That was incorrect…"

"Wait, what?! I've never-oh….right", Piloswine said as he recalled a time when he visited a library. "I still can't believe they banned be from trying to learn…" he muttered to himself.

"Alright, Spheal. True or false? You are jolly and try to spread positivity because of your grandfather's' untimely death…"

Spheal raised a brow. "Uh...false. It was actually my grandmother that died…but that's only a small part of what made me who I am..."

"We didn't ask for all of that. Just choose your egg", said Entei.

"The pink one", Spheal stated.

"Alright…" said Suicune. "Umbreon. True or false. You've stayed 'clean' while you and Espeon were separated…"

Umbreon paled. Truthfully, he really tried, but the allure of numerous other females, as well as the multiple times mating season rolled around, he was powerless. He looked at Espeon, who was confused as to why he was taking a while. When he looked back and forth in a nervous manner, she realized what was wrong.

She backed up a bit, her voice breaking. "Y-You…"

"Sweetie-"

"No...y-you promised!" Espeon exclaimed, tears starting to form in her eyes as she continued backing away.

"I tried, baby. I really did. Too much was going on around me and I just couldn't ignore it all! I was overwhelmed!" Umbreon explained, trying to close the gap between them.

Espeon ran away, tears streaming from her face.

"Espeon, wait!" Umbreon called, going after her.

"Whoa...guess she does have a heart…" said Gulpin. "Still pretty bitter, but...she has one…"

"Oh well. That's what she deserves", said Luxray. "So, who's next?"

"Well, Umbreon technically never answered, so I guess we can just move on…" said Raikou, initially unsure. "Vaporeon...you're next."

Vaporeon gulped a bit.

"True or false. Your most embarrassing moment was when you peed yourself on stage in a school play...in 10th grade", Raikou said.

Vaporeon blushed and she shuffled her paws out of embarrassment. Looking down, she meekly answered. "True…"

"How the hell do you piss yourself in 10th grade in front of a crowd?!" Pangoro laughed.

"It's none of your business!"

"And the irony of you wanting to be an actress…" Raikou chuckled, making Vaporeon glare slightly. "Anyway, egg color?"

"Blue…"

"Alright, back to the Raikous…" said Entei. "Meganium. True or false? Every relationship you've been in ended because of your personality…"

"False!" Meganium exclaimed. She was about to explain, but she stopped herself.

"Correct!"

Tropius saw her hesitation to keep talking and grew intrigued. She had been in relationships before...and if they didn't end because of her, it had to have been because of the guys…

"Egg?"

"Brown…"

"Okay...Houndoom. True or false. You still have feelings for a former girlfriend…" Entei said.

Houndoom gave him a look. For some reason, he was expecting this question...and he hated it. "You had to pull that out, didn't you?"

Entei shrugged with a sneer.

Houndoom huffed. Delphox and Jolteon were hoping for a 'false', and Absol had a feeling he was going to say it as well.

"Fine...it's true. But it doesn't mean anything…" Houndoom stated. Absol brightened up and her tail started wagging, while Jolteon and Delphox had shocked expressions. They glared at Absol from the corner of their eyes.

"Alright, that's correct…" said Raikou. "Egg?"

"Black and red", he said as Absol started nuzzling him affectionately. He groaned at this. "Ya see what you started?"

"Yeah. Girls all over you...I feel horrible", Entei muttered.

"Um...remind me again how this bullshit challenge deals with the movie it's based on…" said Garchomp.

"You're answering questions in order to retrieve five eggs in order for the plot challenge to begin…" Raikou said. "And since you had complaints. Let's go to you next…"

Garchomp growled and Charizard gained a smirk.

"True or false? You allowed yourself to be in an abusive relationship so that people can actually care about what you do…"

"Whoa, what?" asked Shieldon, eyeing the landshark with a surprised look.

Upon hearing that option, Charizard glared angrily at her, waiting for her response. The others were waiting as well; why would she allow herself to be abused when she's clearly strong enough to defend herself?!

Garchomp, seeing the looks, felt smaller, like she was just kicked in the throat. She was choked up and her voice began breaking as she fought back tears.

"Well, true or false?!" Charizard growled, growing impatient with her stalling.

"T-True…" she squeaked out.

"You fucking-" Charizard started before holding his head. "So let me get this shit straight. I start just joking and playing around with you, which makes you hate my guts for some reason, and when I ask what's wrong and get persistent, you ATTACK me, WHEN IT WAS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT!?"

"I...I just-"

"I'm done...I'm fucking done", Charizard said as he walked to the side.

Garchomp looked down, holding her claws.

"Egg?" Entei asked, unfazed by the situation.

"It doesn't matter…" she said in a solemn tone.

"Okay, you'll get the black one…"

"Oh that's bullshit. Why couldn't we choose for her?!" Bellossom exclaimed.

"Because we say so…" said Entei.

"Now, back to my team…" Raikou said. "Hmm...Tropius. True or false? You've been single for your entire life…"

"Um...true…" Tropius said. "Girls don't find themselves being interested in me, boyfriend wise...but as a person, yeah…"

"Correct", said Raikou. "Egg color?"

"I'll go green", he said with a smirk.

"Ursaring, you're next…" said Entei. "True or false? You've been bullied as a child…"

"Uh...false. Duh...no one would ever try to fuck with me!" Ursaring said confidently, folding his arms.

"Oh please. Everyone's been bullied before. You aren't special…" Milotic said with a glare.

"Actually, that's the truth…"

"HA! What was that shit you were talking, gay Gyarados?!"

Milotic scoffed. "Whatever. At least we don't have to sympathize with you since there's no reason for you to be a jackass…"

Ursaring frowned immediately. "Watch yourself bitch! I'm still a Pokemon, too…"

"A jerky one at that…" Quilladin mumbled, making Ursaring kick him away.

"Ursaring, you answered correctly, so what's your color?"

"Orange", he said.

"Okay, now Gligar. True or false?" Suicune started. "You are allergic to penicillin."

"True", Gligar said with a shrug. "No biggie…"

"Better hope you don't any illnesses that require that feel better…" Entei said with a sadistic chuckle.

Gligar gulped.

"Ignore him", said Suicune. "Egg color?"

"Gray", he answered.

"Alright...back to the Raikous…" said Suicune. "Gothitelle. True or false? You believe that Arceus is god."

"False. She is a false god. There is no real defining god. If there was, why were there be so few of us? Why would bad things happen? Why would there be so many problems-"

"OKAY!" Luxray roared. "Arceus, that's annoying…"

"Arceus is just a normal Pokemon that has creation abilities. It is not god…"

"You had to get her started, didn't you?" asked Pyroar.

"Well it's true! You all can believe the incorrectness that's fed to you, but I know that the universe is the true power that controls everything…"

"Yeah, while you do that, we'll enjoy being normal…" said Dusclops.

"Alright, choose your egg color and stay quiet…" said Entei.

"Purple...but just know-"

"NO MORE!"

Gothitelle scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Ignorance is bliss…"

"Next up...Braviary. True or false? Despite evolving, you are still scared of minor things…"

"True…" said Braviary. "Everyone's scared of something…"

"That is correct. Which egg would you like?"

"The white one…"

"Um, not to be rude, but is there a way we can pick up the pace with this challenge?" asked Grovyle. "It seems kinda annoying an' takes a lot of our time…"

"We've been at this challenge for sixteen minutes…" said Suicune. "It has not been that long…"

"It sure as hell feels like it", said Servine.

"You've all been standing this entire time doing nothing. Sit your asses down and maybe you'll feel better!" Entei growled.

"Specifically, everyone who's already answered a question TRUTHFULLY sit down…"

Everyone who hit that criteria sat down on the concrete.

"Alright, next Suicune...Shieldon. True or false? Your condition is hereditary…"

"Um...false, I COCK SUCKING ASS FUCK!" Shieldon exclaimed.

"Er...uh...correct…" said Raikou. "Egg color?"

"Purple-green."

"Okay, now it's time for the train…" said Raikou. "Five members from each of your teams will be asked the same style questions. If you answer them all, you can choose your eggs. If one of you ends up lying, we move onto the next group and keep going until each team has their five eggs. Understood?"

"I just want to move on to the physical aspect…" Grovyle mumbled.

"Yeah, questions are pretty boring…" Servine mumbled back, hearing him.

"Alright, Raikous, we're gonna start with you…" said Suicune. "Delcatty, you are over emotional. True or false?"

Delcatty raised a brow. "False…"

"Alright, that didn't take long, Enteis, onto you…"

"Are you kidding?!" Farfetch'd exclaimed.

"I wouldn't describe my feelings as over emotional! That's not fair!" Delcatty exclaimed.

"Too bad…" said Entei. "Absol. True or false? After your 'forced sexual encounter', you didn't do anything about it and aborted the child he gave you…"

Houndoom's eyes widened upon hearing that, as did a few of the other veterans. He turned to Absol, whose eyes were beginning to water with a glare. "F-fuck...you…" she squeaked out, tears streaming from her face. "You had to bring that part up, didn't you!?"

Entei shrugged. "True or false?"

"Okay, uh...maybe we should just move onto the next challenge before things get a bit too touchy…" Tyranitar said, seeing Absol's furious expression.

"All she has to do is answer and you guys could talk about it outside of the challenge…" Entei said innocently.

"FINE! IT'S TRUE!" she exclaimed as tears fell from her face. "Now move the fuck on!"

"Geez, are all of you girls fucking crybabies?" Ursaring asked. "You've either had shit lives that you caused, you did something stupid, or you're just looking for attention…"

Suddenly, all of the girls got up close to Ursaring, giving him death glares.

"Well, this suddenly just got interesting…" Dusclops said.

"Alright! Seems like Tyranitar was right, this challenge is getting a bit too touchy…" said Suicune. "Let's just move on with the next challenge."

"What? NO!" Entei exclaimed. "The good stuff was just getting started! Zebstrika, true or false? You were admitted into a psychiatric institute after murdering your brother…"

Instantly, everyone stopped everything they were doing and slowly turned to the zebra, his right eye twitched a bit before he galloped away.

"Okay, yep. We're moving on", said Raikou. "So, for the eggs...my team, you guys get the purple, dark blue, brown, green, and Togepi eggs. Enteis, you guys get the black and red, orange, white, red, and pink ones. Suicunes, you get the blue, yellow, black, gray, and purple and green ones…"

"Now, let's move on…"

"What about the ones who ran away?"

"They either return or cost your team the challenge. They're all Enteis…" Raikou said with a chuckle.

Entei growled.

-000-

Espeon was softly crying into her pillow in her team's apartment. Umbreon was sitting next to her trying to comfort her, but she kept pushing him or attacking him to make him stay away.

"Baby, please try to under-"

"DON'T BABY ME!" Espeon cried. "You lied to me! You promised that I'd always be the only one!"

"You are the only one!"

"No I'm not! By now you've probably got kids you don't even know about after fucking those sluts!"

"We were separated Espeon. You can't fucking blame me", Umbreon said. "I really tried to stay pure with you, but girls kept seducing me and often times they forced themselves on me! What was I supposed to do!"

"TELL THEM THAT YOU'RE TAKEN!"

"DURING MATING SEASON GIRLS DON'T GIVE A FUCK AND YOU KNOW IT!" he shouted back, startling her. He never shouted at. Ever. He had to regain himself, but she wasn't hearing him out. He loved her more than anything.

He got closer to her, only for her to use Dazzling Gleam to try and keep him away, but he persisted and got in her bed with her, hugging her.

"Let me go!" she cried.

"NO!" he growled, making her freeze. She sniffled a bit as he sat them up, sitting against the headboard of the bead. "Now you listen to me…I love you more than anything else in this damn world and I'd give up everything to protect you. And me sleeping with those girls were years before we ever reconciled and they meant absolutely nothing to me. I even pulled out of every single one of them. YOU are the only one that I love. YOU are my best and only friend. YOU...are my soulmate…"

Espeon's eyes glimmered as more tears continued to fall from her face. Umbreon lifted her chin so that their eyes met. "I love you…" he admitted once again. "D-Do you still love me?"

Espeon sniffed once again before getting off of her bed and walking into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. Umbreon sighed before punching the wall, causing a few small cracks to appear. He then moaned in pain with his mouth closed as he shook his paw.

"UMBREON, ESPEON, AND ZEBSTRIKA! IF YOU THREE DO NOT RETURN TO THE GROUP IMMEDIATELY, ALL THREE OF YOU ARE BEING ELIMINATED!"

"Shit…" Umbreon groaned as he blew on his paw again before hopping off the bed and heading to the bathroom door. "Espeon...we've gotta go back…" he said glumly. Getting no response, he lowered his ears and walked toward the elevator.

000

"Well, I've just lost the one person who I care for in the whole world", Umbreon stated. "This is complete bullshit! These fucking challenges always end up screwing over somebody; I never wanted it to be me!"

000

Umbreon and Zebstrika both returned, Umbreon looking depressed and Zebstrika looking angry. Espeon had just teleported back.

"Alright, you're back. Now let's move on to the next challenge", said Raikou. "Follow us…"

The hosts made their way to another area of the lot. There were three large slingshots in a . Across from the slingshots are targets with an extended panel, similar to a dunk tank. The targets were color coordinated. Yellow and black for the Raikous, brown and red for the Enteis, and blue and white for the Suicunes. Behind each one was a different cage with a different Pokemon. There were two Lycanroc, both Midday and Midnight forms, behind the Raikous', two Empoleon behind the Enteis' , and two Dodrio behind the Suicunes'.

"Uh...what's with the birds and mutts?" asked Pangoro.

"All is going to be explained in a few seconds…" said Raikou. "Now, you all have your five eggs. You see your slingshots. I think it's safe to assume what we want you to do…"

"One at a time, you're gonna launch your eggs towards the target and attempt to hit it five times, one time with each egg", Suicune said.

"This can't be legal!" Meganium exclaimed. "These are children!"

"There's bubble wrap. Don't worry…" said Entei.

"That's reassuring…" Flygon said sarcastically.

"The first team to fulfill the challenge and release the Pokemon in their cages will win an advantage in the next challenge…" said Raikou.

"Um...and what's the point of releasing them?"

"You'll find out, so no more questions…" said Entei. "Challenge starts...NOW!"

"AND NO MOVES!" Raikou said as he, Entei, and Suicune left the area to view from elsewhere.

000

Shellder looked at the eggs. "U-Uh...I don't l-like this guys…"

Almost everyone was silent due to their personal information being revealed. Even the ones who had nothing revealed were quiet to avoid bringing up questions or being awkward.

"Um…" Tyranitar started before sighing. "Look, I understand that some of you are either embarrassed, don't care, or no longer want to be here. But here's the thing, only a few of us went, so it doesn't really matter. We all have flaws anyway…"

"Sure, but you didn't just have your PRIVATE info get out there…" said Spiritomb. "I never wanted to be a part of that group…"

"You shoulda expected that, honestly…" said Farfetch'd. "Now, you might as well get over it. We have a challenge to do…"

"Yeah, you just have to gain thicker skin…" said Flygon.

"Says the guy who's not even himself!" Delcatty growled. "You have nine fake personalities, so why do you think-"

"YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT MY LIFE!"

"And yet you all just learned a bit about ours…" said Gothitelle. "That's really fair…" she said, rolling her eyes.

"Guys, can we just do the challenge?" Spheal asked. "The other teams are already starting…" he said as he pointed to Ursaring, who was launching an egg.

"I agree with Spheal", said Pyroar. "We don't even have to care about each other's business! We need to focus on winning so that we don't end up losing players that have already had their privacy evaded."

"Fine…." said Lanturn. "You're right…"

000

"Yeesh, is everyone here hipersensible?" Salandit inquired. "Algunos de sus secretos ni siquiera están eso interesante…"

000

"Ursaring! We need to use the bubble wrap!" Breloom exclaimed. "The eggs are gonna get damaged!"

"Shut it, 'shroom head!"Ursaring exclaimed as he slung the pink egg next without protection.

"This is gonna end badly, I just know it…" said Mightyena, shaking her head as he watched the bear continue to be an asshole.

She turned back to see what the others were doing, as the only ones even doing anything near the slingshot were Quilladin, Breloom, and Ursaring. And she was the only one still standing up, as everyone else was sitting down in either annoyance, sadness, embarrassment, or fear.

Houndoom was rubbing Absol's back as she kept her paws over her face while lying down; Jolteon and Delphox were watching enviously. Zebstrika was lying away from everyone with a furious glare on his face. Almost everyone else was watching him with wary eyes, still shocked that Zebstrika, the kind-hearted partier, was a psychotic murderer.

Zebstrika saw all of the looks he was getting and just sighed to himself with his angry look. He knew this was going to happen if he told anyone else. The only one he told was Ponyta and it was outside of the game. It wasn't even his entire fault. He ended up going to a highschool party and accidentally got drunk. His brother told him to go home and others started instigating and tried to get the two of them to fight.

It was all a blur after that, but he woke up in hoof-cuffs in a cell and he was told that he murdered his brother with a broken Pecha Berry vodka bottle. After that, he felt himself sinking into depression, and because he was a minor and had no prior criminal records, they sent him to a psychiatric facility.

He knew that no would be trusting of him or hear his side, so he just decided to let them think what they want.

Espeon was lying away from the group as well, with Umbreon attempting to get her back. Everyone else was just sitting around staying silent, which annoyed Mightyena. She just sighed and looked across the way, eyeing the other teams. They seemed to be going through the same thing.

000

"I have a feeling that the first challenge was used to get us in a bad, secluded mood for some reason", Mightyena speculated. "Seriously though, what would be the gain of that in this challenge?"

000

"Will you people get over yourselves and come on!" Lairon exclaimed. "We have a challenge to do!"

"Maybe you shouldn't be so insecure about the results of you yelling like a dumbass", Pangoro said. "We know about the challenge. Does anyone give a fuck right now? No!"

Lairon sighed and turned to Haxorus. Seeing her look, he nodded and stood up before picking up their blue egg. He grabbed some bubble wrap from beside the huge slingshot and wrapped it up before putting it in the elastic and pulling it back before letting go.

The egg was released and slammed on the side of the target, barely touching it. Haxorus cursed to himself.

"I'll get the egg", Gulpin said.

"NO!" Manectric exclaimed. "I'll get it. You'll probably end up eating it…"

"Hey, I'm not a cannibal!" Gulpin exclaimed.

"Uh...you fucking ate Vanillite on numerous occasions and then just spit him out…" said Piloswine.

"Thanks for the backup, buddy…"

Manectric rushed over to the egg. He picked it up and checked over it to make sure it wasn't damage despite the bubble wrap surrounding it.

He ran back over to the others and ended up next to Leafeon before dropping the egg. He gave him a friendly smile, but Leafeon sighed in annoyance.

"Alright, so Manectric will be the egg fetcher since the rest of you want to be lazy bums…" said Lairon.

"Excuse me, but I don't see you doing anything either except complaining about us…" Bellossom stated. "You're just letting your not boyfriend do the work. We don't have to do anything as long as the challenge gets done…"

"In her own rather rude way, Bellossom's right", said Milotic.

"I don't see of calling me rude if you're the daughter of a druggie…" Bellossom countered. "You were rude to your own body…"

Milotic glared at her.

000

"Okay. She can go as soon as possible…" Milotic said.

000

"For a supposed inspirational dancer, you sure are a bitch…" Shieldon commented.

Bellossom scoffed. "My hobbies don't dictate anything. I just don't take insults or idiotic comments that well without responding…"

"Well if that's the case, why don't you dance you ass to retrieve the eggs instead of Manectric?" asked Mandibuzz. "You still have to prove yourself useful…"

Bellossom growled. "All of these other useless guys just sitting around and you still target me?! What about Cubchoo? Leafeon? Gligar? Hell, Milotic's longer than all of us! She should just slither forward a bit and use her tail!"

"You're the weakest link out of them all…" said Garchomp. "Just do it…"

"Self-abuse, you don't get to say shit!"

Garchomp immediately froze and looked down in sadness. Seeing this, Charizard, room room breath, closing his eyes. He stood up and gently grabbed her claw, surprising her. She yanked it away, but after seeing his glare, she felt that she owed it to him even though the grief she was giving him was minor.

Charizard just decided to sit back down. He was gonna try and actually talk to her this last time, but since she decided not to let him, he was officially done with her.

"Um…" she started. "I uh-"

Charizard stopped her with his hand. "Don't even try…"

Garchomp was shocked, but also expected it. Haxorus saw this and shook his head before launching the next egg.

000

"I'm done trying to make things right. Even after the reason why she acts like she does is out, she STILL acts like I'm the last person she'd want to talk to", Charizard stated. "Fuck it…"

000

Eelektrik, Bronzor, Dusknoir, and Froslass were still nearby, but made sure that they were in a place that they wouldn't be found.

"Alright, Delcatty can't go anywhere and Espeon and Umbreon are on the rocks because of the stupid first challenge", Eelektrik said. "What do we want to do?"

"There's nothing TO do…" Froslass stated. "You'd think that a challenge about secrets would be more interesting. Most of that stuff was just either accidental, embarrassing, or just plain retarded…"

"The only remotely interesting thing was the fact that Zebstrika is a fucking murderer…" Dusclops said. "But even then, with his personality, it was either an accident or he's just that good…"

"Really? I thought Eelektrik's irrational fear was the most interesting…" Bronzor said.

"YOU DON'T KNOW ME!"

"Okay, okay, jeez…" Froslass said, rolling her eyes. "But yeah, there's nothing to go off of unless you want to try and get rid of Zebstrika…"

"There's no trying if he's already a target now that everyone knows he killed someone, especially if it was a family member", Dusclops explained.

"True...and there's no one who's been proving themselves to be terrible other than probably Ursaring, but again...he'll be eliminated on his own, too…" said Froslass.

"Well, we have Bellossom to get rid of on our team…" said Bronzor. "Just because of her uselessness. And Lairon is apparently insecure, so we can go after her as well…"

"Well, that's two for your team; it seems you have your next two bases covered…" said Dusclops. "Looks like it's gonna be your team losing again…"

"I don't really care as long as I'm safe from elimination…" Eelektrik said.

000

The Raikous were slowly getting back into their focused mindsets, after a couple more talks from a few veterans. Typhlosion was wrapping up the eggs in bubble wrap and handing them to Tyranitar so that they could get launched.

"Am I the only one concerned about how ethical this is?" asked Meganium. "They're still children", she said as she watched Tyranitar launch the brown egg.

"Oh I'm pretty sure we're all concerned…" said Delibird. "We'd all be naughty if we didn't."

"Okay, did you ever think that these eggs are fake?" asked Spiritomb.

"And what if they're not?" asked Blissey.

"Does it matter?" asked Drilbur. "Whether they're real or not, we still have to do this challenge…"

Tyranitar launched another egg and saw as it arely touched the center target.

"Damn it!"

Flygon took a deep breath. "Alright, it seems that you need to load the apparatus in about a 63 degree angle. That way you could launch the egg and make it hit the target."

Flygon flew towards the target and used his claw to create an imaginary line until he reached an area a couple of feet behind Tyranitar.

He scraped his claws on the ground in an 'X'. "Right here should be accurate…"

"Um...and how are you so sure?" asked Lanturn.

"You don't question it when it comes to his knowledge…" said Drilbur. "Tyranitar?"

Typhlosion handed Tyranitar the purple egg and he placed it in the slingshot. He pulled it back to the 'X' and released it, allowing it to hit the target dead in the center. The Lycanrocs' cage rose up a bit.

"Yes! It worked!" Tropius cheered.

"Of course it works. I'm a genius…" Flygon-Phillip stated rather arrogantly.

"Yeah…" Drilbur said before smacking him, snapping him out of it. Flygon groaned. "Fuck my life…"

"We've got a guaranteed victory, now!" Farfetch'd stated. He looked around and saw that Heliolisk was sitting still and staring at the ground. "Um...yeah, so keep on going…"

"Now you know you're nothing. That previous challenge just proved it. Others have had it way worse than you, so get over yourself you big bay. I'm the only help you'll ever need. You really think those idiot friends of yours will do anything? I'm a part of you that you're NEVER going to get rid of…"

Heliolisk continued staring at the ground, tears starting to form as he continued.

000

"I don't wanna be here anymore…" Heliolisk said, wiping tears from his eyes. "If this is going to be eating at me like this, I might as well just leave and try to get ther-"

"YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING! WITHOUT ME YOU ARE NOTHING BUT AN EMPTY SHELL!"

Heliolisk screamed and held his head in pain, quivering.

000

Zangoose was eyeing Type:Null in an untrustworthy fashion as she watched Ursaring launch the eggs. Their interaction earlier in the apartment was still eating at her. Type: Null acted like she was the only one on the team who was focused on winning and was apparently gonna do something to make them focus more.

Goodra noticed her glare and grew perplexed. "Uh...why are you shooting Type: Null a glare?"

"I don't trust her…" Zangoose replied. "This morning, I saw her looking out of the window and she said that she was going to make the team focus because she thinks that we're too distracted by interacting with people on the opposite teams…"

"What?!" Goodra exclaimed softly.

"She said, and I quote 'Just know that as long as I'm on this team, you all will be focusing on the game at hand…nothing more…'", Zangoose said. "I don't know what that means, but I don't trust it…"

"So...you think we should vote her out?"

"No, I'm not saying that until we know what she's gonna try to do", said Zangoose. "She called us stupid for interacting with the others and acted like she was the only good competitor on the team even though she just got here."

Goodra groaned to herself. "I hate people like that…you sure we shouldn't just convince the others to eliminate her?"

"No, we can't judge just yet…" said Zangoose. "Although I find it humorous how she's not doing anything, yet we're the ones apparently not focused…"

"We'll see how far she gets…" Goodra replied as she started walking away.

000

"Ugh...people like her really piss me off. You just got here! Who are you to tell us that we're not focused? You don't know anything!" Goodra exclaimed.

000

Hawlucha brought back the black and red egg as Breloom started wrapping the others before Ursaring launched them.

"Ugh...HURRY UP!" Ursaring exclaimed. "These other morons are getting shit done faster!"

"Then let me FINISH!" Breloom snapped back, making Ursaring step back a bit. Despite his anger, he couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Want some help?" asked Quilladin, walking over.

"Nah, I've got it…" said Breloom as she stood up and put the black and red down after wrapping it. "Thanks for asking, though."

"Is it done now?" asked Ursaring.

"Yes. NOW you can keep launching them…"

"Well, thanks for getting distracted by something as meaningless as protection", Type: Null commented. "Those eggs could be fake for all we know! The bubble wrap could've been a ploy."

"Or maybe she had morality whether the eggs are real or fake", said Jolteon. "It's still a good thing!"

"No, it's something that's gonna lose…" Type: Null stated. "I'm starting to think you imbeciles are trying to sabotage us! First conversing with the enemy, now caring about the 'safety' of eggs that aren't even real for all we know? What the hell is this?"

"It's a competition, yes", Grovyle started, his eyes narrowing in a glare. "But there's nothing wrong with having a friendly or caring heart. And if you feel so strongly about it, we can always vote you out…"

"I already expected that response, and I'm just gonna tell you now that if you even attempt it, you will regret it", she threatened.

"I truly doubt that…" Braviary commented. "We've already got Dusclops and Espeon on this team. I doubt you could do anything worse than them…"

"Dusclops fooled a gullible girl and Espeon was just a lazy strategic bitch…" said Type: Null. "They didn't do shit. You idiots are just oversensitive…"

"Wait...you've seen the show before?"

"Of course I have! I wanted to see what i'd be getting into and obviously from the looks of things, you all will be trying to eliminate me, one of your greatest assets, because youdon't like what I say…" Type: Null stated. "Get your fucking hearts off of your sleeves and grow a pair! Life ain't Pecha Berries and cream!"

Everyone exchanged awkward glances. Mainly some of the veterans. How the hell did she have a point...if she's the newest person on their team?

Dusclops and Froslass floated back over and instantly felt the tenseness of the team. "Hmm...interesting. No one's working on the challenge. Surprising, really…"

"Oh please ghost boy, you're a pitiful player…" Type: Null stated. "Your poor attitude and lack of usefulness means that you don't need to be speaking."

"Is that so?" Dusclops asked. "I'm useless when I made it to the merge and outsmarted all of the veteran twits. I could do the same here at any time., but I choose not to. Meanwhile, you just got here and you're already complaining and guilting people into making them rethink their personalities to match what you want them to be. Pretty smart…"

"Wait, what?" Type: Null asked.

000

"So, how far are we?" asked Eelektrik as he and Bronzor floated back over.

"Not so good…" Cubchoo replied. "Bellossom takes too long gathering the eggs that get launched and it's costing us time…"

"What the-" Eelektrik started. "Why the hell is-you know what, nevermind…"

"Where'd you and Bronzor go?" asked Tepig.

"We went to the bathroom…" Eelektrik said.

"Together?"

"No, not together!" Eelektrik exclaimed. "When I went and got done, he was floating outside…"

"Wait...Bronzor, you're a plate, how do you even-"

"Bellossom will you come on!?" Bronzor exclaimed.

"FUCK OFF!"

"AND THE RAIKOUS WIN!"

The Suicunes groaned.

"I told you morons to get someone else to do it!" Bellossom exclaimed as she came back holding two eggs."

They all glared at her. She had the capability to run as fast as Dewott could, as she did so in the sewer challenges, but she was still making excuses.

000

"Alright, since the Raikous won. They get the advantage for the third and final challenge", Suicune said with a glare.

"Cual es…?" Hawlucha asked.

"Your final challenge is delivering these eggs to correct sets", Raikou explained. "This will act as a race and the team with the fastest time will win."

"One team group at a time, you all will grab an egg and run to a set to see if it has a flag that matches that egg's color. Once you place the egg in the holster, you come back and tag your next group, who will proceed with the next egg. You will keep going until all of your eggs have been placed", Entei explained. "The team with the slowest time goes to elimination."

"And to add on, while you do that challenge, a Lycanroc will be chasing you, trying to steal the egg", said Suicune. "And Raikous, because you won, your Lycanroc won't be chasing you until you get your second egg back…AND you choose who goes first…"

The Raikous acclaimed, while the other teams glared at them.

"Alright, do you all understand?" asked Raikou.

"So you want us to split into five different groups beforehand right?" asked Gligar.

"If you want your team to have a chance, yes. That is preferable…" said Suicune. "Now Raikous, who do you want to go first?"

To the Raikous, it didn't really matter. They needed to go last so that they knew what they had to beat.

"Well, considering that they've been relatively tame, let's have the Suicunes go first…"

"Of course…" Piloswine muttered.

"Alright, Suicunes, you guys are up first", said Raikou. "Get into your groups and let's get started…"

-000-

The Suicunes separated into their usual groups.

Group 1 consisted of Lairon, Haxorus, Mandibuzz, Honchkrow, and Garchomp. They had the blue egg.

Group 2 consisted of Gulpin, Piloswine, Gligar, Tepig, and Shieldon. They had the yellow egg.

Group 3 consisted of Skuntank, Dewott, Vaporeon, Mismagius, and Popplio. They had the black egg.

Group 4 consisted of Leafeon, Manectric, Pangoro, Milotic, and Cubchoo. They had the gray egg.

Group 5 consisted of Bellossom, Bronzor, Eelektrik, and Charizard. They had the green and purple egg.

Garchomp looked at Charizard a bit forlorn, but she just decided to accept it. She couldn't let him distract her.

"Okay, you all have your groups, so let's begin", said Entei. "The Lycanroc are already out, so you'll begin when the challenge when we start the timer", he said, standing next to a digital timer.

"Ready….GO!" Raikou said, hitting the timer.

Immediately, the first group took off with the egg.

000

"Alright, which one do we look in first?!"

"Mandibuzz, Honchkrow, get an aerial view!" Lairon demanded.

Mandibuzz nodded as she and Honchkrow took flew forward and higher.

"Okay, let's check the nearby horror set first", said Lairon.

Haxorus nodded as he and Lairon continued walking and Garchomp just flew with an upset look still on her face. No matter how hard she tried to shake it, she couldn't help but feel guilty about how she was treating him.

Both Haxorus and Lairon noticed her slow pace and grew annoyed. They didn't have time for this!

"Garchomp, pick up the pace! We're on the clock, remember?!" Lairon exclaimed.

Garchomp nodded and caught up with them. Haxorus had explained the situation to Lairon a bit more in-depth, so she now understood what was going on; after learning what her problem was, they were definitely going to talk about the situation. Not just to help her get the hell over it, but to keep their alliance stable and focused.

The three of them reached the first set and saw that it had a green flag. Not green and purple, just green.

"Damn it", Lairon cursed before they continued to the next one.

The next one they saw was in the romance set, which had a gray flag. That was for one of their eggs, so they kept that info in mind.

Suddenly, howls were heard and jagged stones surrounded them as numerous Midday Lycanroc and a couple of Midnight Lycanroc started encircling them.

Haxorus growled and used his jaws to slice away at the rocks before continuing to run. Lairon used Metal Burst and Garchomp used Earthquake.

Most of the Lycanroc were knocked out, with the Midnight forms still slightly standing with grins.

"Shit, let's g-"

Haxorus said that Lairon was sprawled out, unconscious from the Earthquake. He gave Garchomp a dissatisfied look, making her glare back. "It was an accident!"

Haxorus picked up Lairon and handed Garchomp the egg. As the made their way to check the next set, Honchkrow and Mandibuzz came back into view.

"We found it! It's way on the other side of the lot near the entrance!" Honchkrow explained.

"On it", Garchomp said with a smirk before she flew quickly toward the other side of the lot. Honchkrow and Mandibuzz landed in front of Haxorus.

"Um, what happened to her?" asked Mandibuzz, gesturing to Lairon, who was starting to regain a bit of consciousness.

"Lycanroc attacked us and Garchomp used Earthquake…" Haxorus explained as he felt Lairon start moving.

"Um...Haxorus...why are you cradling me?" Lairon asked with a small smirk.

"You got knocked out, so I had to carry you for a while…" Haxorus explained as he put her down. "No big deal…"

"Um...you guys know that we're still being timed right?" asked Honchkrow. "Maybe we should hurry up and start heading back. Garchomp can fly at supersonic speeds…"

"Thanks for the biology lesson, captain obvious…" Mandibuzz muttered as she started flying back to the others.

Honchkrow growled. "Do all of these new girls have fucking issues?!" he exclaimed.

"My guess is probably yes…" said Haxorus, folding his arms. "Or maybe she could like you…"

"Ha! I doubt it!" Honchkrow laughed. "One, I'm not looking for another relationship right now, and two, I'm more focused on making it further in the game. Relationships get in the way of that sometimes and I have a feeling that it may be the case for me…"

"HEY! MR. BIG BEAK! WHAT HAPPENED TO GOING BACK?!"

Honchkrow twitched before taking a breath and taking flight, with Haxorus and Lairon walking alongside him. "She's really testing my patience. For a goth chick, she sure does open her mouth a lot. I thought they were supposed to stay quiet and act like everything death and black related is awesome…"

He ended up bumping into her; he saw that she had a glare in her eyes. He groaned in annoyance.

"What was that?" she asked heatedly.

Garchomp zoomed past them on her way back to the start. "She's back. Okay, we need to hurry."

"No, I want to hear what this jackass has to say…" Mandibuzz said, getting in Honchkrow's face. "I'd rather you be direct when you're trying to make yourself seem relevant by putting me down. Typical 'average joe' bullshit…"

"We do NOT have time for this!" Haxorus roared. "We already have fucking issues with Charizard and Garchomp. Don't you two fucking start…"

"Nothing with start unless he just tells me what he just said to my face…"

"You're insinuating that you heard it already, so you're just wasting our time…" Honchkrow said, flying past her.

Haxorus and Lairon flew after him, with Mandibuzz scowling before following.

000

"That jackass thinks that he's above everyone. I know it. Guys, especially in the flying-type society, who try to act all suave, cool, and helpful are always up to something shitty and are looking to take advantage of something", Mandibuzz explained. "I don't trust anyone here. I'm only in this alliance for my own safety because I know my individuality will make me look like a weak link like Bellossom and Cubchoo and Tepig."

"If I can take out this birdbrain, I'll be perfectly fine and can just move on…"

000

The five of them made it back, with Lairon panting.

"What took you idiots so long!?" Pangoro exclaimed.

"WHO CARES? NEXT GROUP JUST FUCKING GO!" Haxorus roared, pointing in the direction they just came from.

Gulpin, Piloswine, Gligar, Tepig, and Shieldon ran in that direction, with some members of the opposing teams snickering.

"Welp, you guys might as well throw in the towel because those losers won't be back for a while…" Umbreon commented before turning to Espeon, who wasn't standing beside him. She was still lying down away from the group. He just stayed silent.

"Worry more about your sad girlfriend, cheater…" Manectric commented.

"I will when you stop wanting dick, fag!" Umbreon snarled.

Manectric growled, glaring daggers at him, sparks coming from his mane as Leafeon grabbed him by the tail and pulled him back, making him sit down.

000

"Alright, we need to do this fast. Got any ideas?" asked Gulpin.

"I have one…" Piloswine said.

He took a few steps forward and began using Ice Beam, creating an icy pathway of sorts. Once it was big enough to hold all of them. He made a staircase and high ramp while still using Ice Beam. He started making a slide so they could just slide past all of the lots.

"All aboard the ice train!" Piloswine said as the guys made their way up the stairs, slipping in the process. Piloswine chuckled as he slid down first, using Ice Beam again to continue the slide.

The other four made it up and slid after him, cheering as they did so.

"This was a COCK SUCKING GRANNY idea!" Shieldon said with a smile before groaning.

"Welcome to the Icy Slip Zone, today we will be on the lookout for a yellow flag in order to complete a challenge", Gligar said jokingly as he held the egg. They all continued sliding while they looked in the lots they passed by.

A howl was heard and immediately, numerous Lycanroc started running towards them.

"Oh crap!" Gulpin exclaimed.

Rocks began being launched towards them, breaking up their slide and stopping them at the western movie set, which had a brown flag. "Dang it! Why couldn't there be a coincidence?!" Gligar exclaimed.

The wolves and werewolves started surrounding them. Tepig gulped in fear before feeling his nose twitch a bit. "A-A-AHHHHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

A cloud of smoke covered them and the Lycanroc leapt inside of it to attack and steal the egg. Tepig used Flamethrower, accidentally igniting the smoke and burning everyone inside.

When it cleared, he was the only one still standing and the egg was blinking. His eyes widened.

"Guys, guys, guys! GET UP!" he exclaimed. "We have to get going!"

"Ugh...c'mon mom, it's Saturday…" Gligar groaned as he rolled onto his side with the egg.

Tepig sighed. "There's food…"

"WHERE?!" Gulpin exclaimed as he and Piloswine jolted up, which was remarkable considering Piloswine was weak to fire.

The Lycanroc were beginning to get up, even angrier.

"Gligar, Shieldon, get up!" Tepig exclaimed before sneezing again.

Shieldon groaned as he got up, burn marks on his body. He turned and saw Gligar still down. He used Smack Down, causing him to wake up instantly.

"Come on!" Tepig exclaimed. "The egg's about to hatch!"

"What?!" Gligar exclaimed as he looked at the egg in his claws that was blinking. "Shit!"

"Run!" Tepig exclaimed he took off, with the others following. The Lycanroc eyed them as they regained their footing and ran after them.

000

Skuntank looked at the timer as it passed 13 minutes. She sighed. The guys had been gone for just 4 minutes and she was already anxious.

Seeing her anxiety, Dewott pet her side to calm her nerves. She sighed softly and kissed him.

"Alright, go ahead and add ten minutes to their time", Froslass said. "I don't think we'll be seeing them any time soon."

"Especially if there are Lycanroc chasing them…" Jolteon added, giggling a bit.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The five guys all landed next to the time, covered it soot and slightly smoking.

"What the hell?!"

"Ugh...everything hurts…" Shieldon groaned.

"What happened?!"

"Time's still ticking…" Raikou said with a smile.

Group 3 immediately started running with their egg as the guys slowly got on their feet.

000

"Alright, Mismagius, you go on and get a higher view from further down. We'll search over here", Skuntank said.

"Got it!" Mismagius said as she floated to the opposite side of the lot.

"Let's get looking", Vaporeon said as she, Popplio, Skuntank, and Dewott split up and started looking around the area.

-000-

Mismagius made it to the entrance of the lot and saw that it was blocked off. She rolled her eyes and looked around the nearby sets.

The first ones she saw were the one with the blue egg and the other had no flag.

She continued floating by the movie set buildings and saw that each one was not the one she needed.

As she looked, she started thinking about the game and how things were going in her perspective.

She had four friends and no enemies so far, which was a good thing. She was really thinking about branching out and talking to to few of the other girls normally, but to her, other than the three in her alliance, they didn't really have a kind of personality she enjoyed being around.

And the guys...ugh. Don't get her started with them. Most of the guys on the team were completely useless, barring Dewott, Haxorus, Charizard, and Manectric. She couldn't believe she was stuck with no guys that she believed were cute and not taken. Plus, more than half of the guys aren't even really manly in any way.

She was a mixed bag of emotions, but she didn't want to show a lot of them and be seen as weak or fragile or overemotional even though displaying how you feel wasn't judged by anyone...for the most part.

She continued to float and think, eventually ending up passing by the black flag her group needed.

-000-

"Ugh...nothing", Vaporeon groaned as she walked out of the beach movie set.

"Same here" Popplio said as she came out of the disaster movie set. "What about you guys?!" she exclaimed to the other side.

Skuntank came out of the space movie set with a frown. "Nothing here…"

Dewott came out of another horror movie set still holding the egg and shook his head.

"Damn it! It has to be around here!" Vaporeon growled.

Mismagius continued floating forward, getting the attention of the others.

"Mismagius!" Popplio shouted, startling the banshee out of her spaced out expression.

"Huh, what happened?!"

"Did you find the flag?" asked Skuntank as she and the others approached.

Crap, she had forgotten all about the flags for that time. She missed a bunch of sets.

"I admit, I spaced out and didn't look at the past like...eighteen…"

"Damn it!" Vaporeon exclaimed. "What were you thinking about?!"

"Personal things. Sorry…"

"Hopefully not that much time has-"

Popplio was cut off by a howl and numerous Lycanroc stalked toward them.

"For fuck's sake!" Skuntank exclaimed.

Dewott gained a devilish smile. He kept the egg and popped his knuckles before walking to the group that was preparing to attack him.

"Dewott what are you doing?! They're gonna-"

Immediately, howls of pain and numerous blows were heard, as well as splashing water. The girls either looked away or stared at the damage being done. One last whimper was heard as Dew came back over with scratches on his body and a smile still on his face.

"I love you…" Skuntank said, nuzzling him. He kissed her nose in response.

"That was...s-scarring a bit…" Popplio said. "But...good job."

"Yeah…" Vaporeon said, looking over his cut form. Blushing a bit, she turned back. "Come on, we need to go. We're wasting too much time…"

They all started rushing to the other sets.

000

The Suicunes' time was reaching 24 minutes

"Now what is taking these guys so long?!" Pangoro asked. "They're the ones who think they're better than everyone else, yet they're taking longer than the bozos!"

"Hey!"

"You don't know if something else happened!"

"Oh please, if anything-"

"We're here! We're here!" Vaporeon exclaimed as she and the others ran up.

"About time!" Pangoro exclaimed as he grabbed the gray egg.

"Hey, the gray flag is at the romance set!" Lairon stated.

"THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Zangoose exclaimed.

"It's a team effort, honey. So yeah...it is fair", said Eelektrik.

Group 4 immediately started running to the romance movie set.

"Okay, since this bullshit is taking too long, can you just call us when it's our turn?" asked Dusclops.

"No", said Entei. "Plus, we don't know if the Raikous are gonna-"

"We're going last…" said Flygon.

"Okay, now we know. Can we leave now and just come back later?"

"Nope. No reason to if they're close to finishing…" said Suicune.

000

"FUCK OFF YOU STUPID MUTTS!" Pangoro exclaimed as he knocked away numerous Lycanroc as the others made their way to the romance set, with Cubchoo holding the egg.

As they made it, three Midnight Form Lycanroc got in their way, with more surrounding the others so that Cubchoo was isolated.

The podium for the egg was right there. The Lycanroc all grinned and started using Stone Edge. Cubchoo gulped and jumped out of the way of the rocks. She tried using Grass Knot on them, but they leapt up and instead used Slash, sending her into the opposite wall.

She had dropped the egg as Milotic used Hydro Pump on all of the Lycanroc, including the ones that just struck Cubchoo, getting the egg back. Then the question arose...WHY DIDN'T SHE DO THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!

"Nice delayed response, you dumb bitch!"

"Hey, I forgot that I had an advantage, alright!"

"Yeah...sure. Totally not related to your daddy…"

"Fuck you!" Milotic exclaimed as she picked up the egg in her tail and put it on the podium.

Leafeon helped Cubchoo up and onto his back, with Manectric coming over to assess the situation.

"Are you okay?"

Cubchoo sighed, holding around Leafeon's neck. "Yeah...I'm fine. It's no worse than Ursaring…"

"Wait, Ursaring?" asked Manectric. "What do you mean?"

"It's nothing. We just battled and-"

"WHAT!?" Leafeon asked, surprised. "He battled you even though you're...uh…"

Cubchoo was confused. "I'm what?"

"Nothing", Manectric said, covering for him. "Just...don't let him battle you again. You don't have to prove yourself to anyone…"

Cubchoo looked down, but on the inside she was fuming. They all started heading back to the others.

000

"Does everyone think I'm that weak? I am NOT! I just have...some poor experience…" Cubchoo stated.

000

They all made it back to the teams just as the time passed 29:38.

"Did you see the green and purple flag?" asked Eelektrik.

"No, the first set is green. The green and purple is closer down near the entrance", Garchomp explained.

"Well, this should be easy-peezy", said Breloom as she got on Charizard's back with the green and purple egg. Eelektrik and Bronzor could float and Charizard flew, so this could be a relatively quick finish for them.

They immediately took off towards the end of the lot, near the entrance.

000

There was silence as they flew towards the other side of the lot. After that display in the first challenge, Eelektrik wanted to know Charizard's feelings toward Garchomp at this point. Sure, he said he was 'done', but he wanted complete clarity.

"So, uh...Charizard. Are you and Garchomp…?"

"Don't even bring her up…" he said in a serious tone. "I'm done with her bullshit…"

"Okay...gotcha…" said Eelektrik.

"I can see that we're going a bit too far", Bronzor said. "We're getting close to the entrance."

Seeing that he was right, Charizard started flying down, with them following. They began flying forward towards where they just came from. They began looking rather frantically, as they were already close to thirty whole minutes, well, by this time, it would be over thirty minutes.

"So are you guys gonna pick up the pace...or are you keep going as slow as a Shuckle?" Bellossom complained annoyedly.

The guys' eyebrows furrowed in a glare. She was really getting on their and everyone else's nerves on their team. How could someone so tiny be such a pain?

"Well maybe you'd like to walk on your own fucking feet", Charizard drawled.

"Look, I want to win as badly as you guys do, and whether you think I'm an overbearing and bossy bitch-"

"Those are synonyms…" Bronzor stated. "You didn't have to say the same thing twice…"

"Ugh...and when you give me responses like that, it brings out the bitch in me!"

Growling was heard instantly after she said that. Looking forward, numerous Lycanroc were approaching from all sides.

"Speaking of bitches…" Charizard said, piqued.

"Say, why don't you use some of that bitchiness that you just admittedly have, to dance your ass forward on your own and handle these mutts?" Eelektrik asked. "Prove that you're useful…"

"You're trying to waste time aren't you?" asked Bellossom with a growl. "You assholes did this in the second challenge. If you'd used Milotic, we'd be dealing with Dodrio and YOU'D have to prove your worth…"

"I don't recall anyone asking for your input", said Bronzor. "Just get down and do something!"

"You're a Steel-type! You have just as much of an eff-" Before she could finish her exclamation, one of the Midday Form Lycanroc used Accelerock, striking Charizard and making Bellossom drop the egg, which was then grabbed by one of the Midnight Form Lycanroc.

Immediately, they started running away. Seeing this, and seeing that Bellossom just had a dumb look on her face, Bronzor groaned.

His eyes glowed and and he slammed into the ground once, causing an Earthquake. The Lycanroc all shook harshly and dropped, dropping the egg in the process.

"My point! You guys want me to do things and waste time, when you can do them in seconds!"

"The point is for you to PARTICIPATE!" Eelektrik emphasized. "You're useless!"

"So are you! Manectric is better than you in every way!"

"Oh, well sorry I'm not a feminine male with a type weakness."

Charizard blew out an ember to stop their arguing, which was annoying him. He flew forward to get the egg, stepping on the Lycanroc in the process, keeping them knocked out.

"You two coming or not?" Charizard asked Bronzor and Eelektrik, as Bellossom remained on his back.

The two of them floated behind them.

000

Back at the set, the clock was approaching forty minutes and the other teams were getting very anxious and irritated.

"Can we just go now? I'm ready to kick their butts at this!" Cherrim said confidently.

"Little miss, I doubt that you'll be kicking anything", said Lairon. "The challenge is more tedious than you think…"

"And here comes the cavalry. Fucking finally!" Ursaring said, folding his arms.

The four of them made it back and the timer stopped at 39 minutes and 57 seconds.

"Alright, almost 40 minutes…" said Raikou. "Pretty poor...but we'll see what happens…"

"We would've been better if these fuckheads on my team would stop making idiotic choices by trying to force ME to do everything in order to 'prove myself'..." Bellossom stated, folding her arms.

"Watch who you're calling fuckheads, floral bitch", said Pangoro with a scowl. "You haven't proved yourself to be useful, so we were giving you chances. You're just complaining about the chances, so you obviously don't need to be here…"

"Only FOUR GUYS on this fucking team are useful, and I don't see anyone making the useless ones work to prove themselves…"

"Alright, that's enough bitching", said Entei. "My team, get your asses in gear and you'd BETTER NOT take longer than 40 minutes! Better yet, I'M choosing your groups so you fucks don't get distracted."

"Now, how the hell is that fair?!" Honchkrow exclaimed. "Hosts can't interfere!"

"Um...he's the team representative, so he's part of the team, so it is fair…" Zangoose said, mocking the tone they used earlier.

Entei separated the team so that they wouldn't cause each other distractions, despite there hardly being any really issues with distractions. The groups that Entei chose, however, were, in fact, going to cause issues.

Group 1 was Type: Null, Zangoose, Goodra, Quilladin, and Umbreon. They had the black and red egg.

Group 2 was Breloom, Ursaring, Mightyena, Grovyle, and Servine. They had the orange egg.

Group 3 was Houndoom, Delphox, Wooper, Braviary, and Hawlucha. They had the white egg.

Group 4 was Jolteon, Espeon, Zebstrika, Froslass, and Metagross. They had the red egg.

Group 5 was Dusclops, Swirlix, Cherrim, and Absol. They had the pink egg.

There were numerous complaints and groans and shouts of protest, but Entei wasn't hearing any of it.

"W-hell…." Raikou chuckled. "Seems like you most likely just shot yourself in the foot, Entei…"

"We'll see about that…daddy…"

Raikou twitched and stared into space. "Fuck...off…"

Suicune stifled a giggle and started the timer. "Enteis, your time is starting!"

Immediately, Group 1 took off into the fray.

000

"This is bullshit", Umbreon stated with a disgruntled tone. "Instead of trying to get Espeon back, I'm stuck in a group with you…"

"You think we want in this group with you or Ms. 'Stop Distractions' over here?" Zangoose replied with a scowl.

"Oh don't get your non-existant panties in a bunch", Type:Null stated. "We don't have time for your bullshit whining...you're distracting us…"

"Okay, Type: Null, shut up. Umbreon, get over it", Goodra said, cradling the egg in an arm.

"Goo bitch, I don't know who you think you're talking too, but I suggest you take it back and shut your own damn mouth…" Umbreon growled.

"Yeah, especially since you tried whoring yourself out in order to get someone on the other team to do better…" Type: Null stated.

Goodra's eyes widened, as did Zangoose, who turned to her. Umbreon just smirked and chuckled. "Oh...interesting…"

"How the hell did you know about that? Were you fucking spying?!"

"I'm not obligated to reveal my sources…" Type: Null replied. "Just know that the next time we lose, the team will be notified…"

"And I can assure that they won't give a damn…" Goodra retorted as she continued walking.

Zangoose was still confused and needed to know the context of that. She was hoping that Goodra wasn't being a traitor or else she'd be a sitting Ducklett surrounded by Eelektross...with Quilladin standing on the side.

She quickly ran to catch up with her. "Goodra...what was she talking about?"

"Hmm? You mean the quote-unquote 'whoring myself out' thing?" Goodra asked before sighing. "Well, I've been talking with Dragonite and he's really shy, you know…"

"Yeah, sure…"

"Well, a few of the girls gave me some advice to help him break out of it so he doesn't get eliminated too early…"

"Um...okay. That's fine, but...why do you care?" asked Zangoose. "The less helpful players are on opposite teams, the better our chances are…"

Goodra couldn't really answer that. She didn't really know herself. She wasn't into him, but it was just something about him that drew her.

"I don't really kno-"

"Uh….g-guys?" they heard as they looked forward. They saw Quilladin surrounded by snarling Lycanroc.

"Oh boy…" said Goodra. "This is kinda bad…"

"Just keep moving Quilladin!" Zangoose said.

"Uh...the flag's right there, though", he replied, pointing to a nearby set that had a black and red flag waving in the breeze.

"Then attack!"

Quilladin knew he had the advantage, but he didn't think his attack would do much. Nevertheless, he used Seed Bomb, but the Lycanroc all dodged the attacks and all used Accelerock, followed by numerous Bite and Crunch attacks.

"So, are you two gonna move or just stand here?" asked Type: Null as she and Umbreon approached. "He's showing that he's useful by taking the beating, but what are you doing?"

The girls exchanged vexed looks before looking back at her. She wasn't doing jack shit, either. That was really a problem with most of the people on the show. They'll complain about someone else not doing anything, while doing nothing themselves. It was very annoying.

Goodra and Zangoose went on around them, which a few of the Lycanroc noticed. They looked back at Quilladin's round body then back at the girls, who had an actual egg. They attempted to go after them, but Quilladin used Wood Hammer, swinging at all of the Lycanroc and knocking them all away, unconscious.

He then got an idea as he watched the girls place the egg on the podium. In his beaten form, he shakily stood up and started limping further down in the lot as Goodra, Zangoose, Type: Null, and Umbreon watched him.

"Where the hell are you going, you fat fuck!?" Umbreon exclaimed.

Quilladin stopped briefly with a frown before continuing.

"What is he doing?" asked Zangoose as she ran over to him and skid in front of him, causing him to recoil back and fall on his butt. "Where are you going?" she asked, getting back on two feet.

"Well, considering that we're already taking a long ass time, I thought that it'd make sense to-"

Umbreon walked forward and bit his tail, making him scream out before he was dragged back.

"Umbreon! What the hell!?" Zangoose exclaimed as she stopped him.

"This fuck is gonna cost us the challenge if he just leaves without a fucking trace. Plus, he didn't even answer me-"

"I was trying to search ahead and find out where the rest of our flags are!" Quilladin exclaimed as Type:Null and Goodra came forward.

Hearing that, Umbreon growled and dropped his tail. "Then let us know that!"

Quilladin growled to himself. Maybe things were better when no one noticed he was there except for Breloom and Ursaring on occasion. If this is what having attention is like, then screw it.

"Alright, let's go find these other four flags", said Type: Null as she and Umbreon started running, leaving Goodra and Zangoose alone with Quilladin.

Goodra shook her head at the two before turning her attention back to him. "You okay?"

"Not really…" Quilladin said, staying on his stomach. "Initially I thought being unnoticed was a bad thing, but with this experience, I miss it…"

"Aw, don't think like that", Zangoose said, rubbing his back. "People are gonna be dicks just to be dicks. You can still be yourself…"

"I don't know about that…" Quilladin groaned as he slowly got back on his feet, holding his head afterwards.

"Let's just head back. Those fucks will be back soon enough…" said Zangoose.

000

The timer was on 11 minutes 32 seconds.

"Well, ten minutes have gone by already. How do you feel?" Drilbur asked with a smile. "So much for no distractions...

"I feel like having grilled mole for dinner…" Entei growled, glaring daggers at him as he took a step forward.

Raikou shocked him, putting a paw on his side. He growled and turned back to him. "Drilbur, stop antagonizing Entei. He's already got enough issues…"

"Aw...poor kitty…"

"LISTEN YOU LITTLE-"

"We're back!" Goodra said as she, Zangoose, and Quilladin ran back, with Quilladin collapsing from exhaustion and his injuries.

Ursaring laughed as Breloom tended to him.

"Where's Umbreon and Type: Null?" asked Servine.

"They should be back in a few seconds…" said Goodra.

About five minutes passed and they still hadn't returned…

"SO how about them seconds?" asked Gligar.

Just then, Umbreon and Type:Null returned with smirks, well Umbreon with a visible smirk. Seeing this, Espeon glared and looked away. Umbreon noticed this and upon reviewing the situation, he facepalmed himself.

"What took you two so long?!" asked Mightyena.

"You weren't trying to get it in, were you?" asked Blissey. "That'd be very disrespectful to Espeon…"

"I'd never hurt her like that!" Umbreon exclaimed. "And for your information, we actually looked ahead to get all of our flag locations-"

"MORON!" Type: Null exclaimed, smacking him.

However, that seemed to have gotten under Espeon's skin, as she glared at Type: Null after she did that. She made sure Umbreon wasn't looking and just turned away.

"Well, thanks for the strategy", Noibat said with a smile.

"Whatever…" said Umbreon. "The orange flag is at the comedy movie set, the white one is at the adventure set, the red one is at the drama set, and the pink one is at the spy set…"

"Time's still ticking…"

Group 2 immediately ran, now with good information.

000

"Alright, they said that it was at the comedy set. This is gonna a piece of cake", said Mightyena.

"I can't believe the two of them proved to be actually useful…" said Servine. "I thought they were just gonna cause grief…"

"That just goes to show that even the ones with the worst intentions can prove themselves useful…" said Grovyle, who was holding the egg.

"Less talking, more looking…" Ursaring said as he continued walking forward.

"Speak for yourself…" Breloom said, her brow furrowing in a glare. His attitude was really annoying her.

Howls were heard and immediately, numerous Lycanroc started surrounding them, as they seemed to do for everyone. However, upon seeing Mightyena, they all kept their eyes glued on her.

This really freaked her out. Every time she moved, they did the same thing. She gulped as she saw them begin getting closer.

"Um...guys, a little help here…" said Mightyena. "I think they're hungry for something other than the egg…"

"So what? Who doesn't like dark meat?" Ursaring asked.

"That's not funny, jackass!" Mightyena barked angrily as the Lycanroc got closer.

"Well, you handle that…" Ursaring said, taking the egg from Grovyle. "I've got a challenge to win…"

He immediately took off running, with only a few Lycanroc going after him to try and get the egg. The remaining ones were still all give Mightyena seductive and suave looks, which was making her blush and get more nervous.

Grovyle groaned. "Breloom, go after Ursaring and make sure the egg is okay. Servine and I will stay and help Mightyena with these here mutts…"

Breloom moaned in aggravation. "Okay, fine…"

As she took off, Servine gained a smile. She hadn't really had a chance to get as much battle experience back at home due to her parents hiring bodyguards. Now she was going to get a chance to show her abilities.

-000-

Breloom was running to catch up with Ursaring and started slowing down upon seeing that the Lycanroc that were chasing him were knocked out, some with teeth knocked out. She couldn't help but feel bad for them.

Eventually, she caught up with Ursaring as he placed the egg on the podium in the comedy set. He dusted his hands off and started turning around to see Breloom glaring at him. He couldn't help but smile.

"What are you smiling about?" Breloom asked with an apprehensive tone.

"Oh nothing...just the fact that you seem to be...obsessed with me…"

Breloom scoffed. "What!? Obsessed? You are the last person I'd ever be obsessed with!"

"Yet I'm the only one who gets your wonderful comments after I say something…" Ursaring said, coming towards her with his arms folded. Breloom backed away with each step he took.

"I don't know what you think any of that means, but just know whatever you're thinking is NOT the case…" she stated angrily as she stopped backing away.

"Sure it's not...that's why you're the only one here with me…"

"Grovyle told me to! I'm not here by choice!" Breloom exclaimed. "You're so fucking egotistical that you think that a girl being alone with you or interacting with you means she wants you! You are not special!"

Ursaring chuckled. "You getting mad isn't doing anything. Just so you know…"

Breloom growled as he got closer. She started walking away while shaking her head.

-000-

The Lycanroc were all knocked out thanks to Grovyle and Servine. Mightyena was panting erratically, her fur matted and ruffled and her body shaking.

"Are you okay?" Grovyle asked, seeing her condition.

"I want...to go back...NOW!" she said with a snarl.

"Okay, then, uh…let's get back, then…" said Grovyle, a bit startled from her outburst.

Servine pet her back, trying to get her fur resituated, before they started to head back. "What about Breloom and Ursaring?" she asked.

"They'll be back. We can't waste any more time…" said Grovyle.

Servine nodded in understanding before they started going back.

000

Almost 20 minutes in, Group 2 made it back, with Mightyena immediately running towards and clinging to Luxray, who fell on his back with a groan. Mightyena was whimpering while still shaking, worrying Luxray.

"What the hell happened?!" he growled angrily as he slowly sat up with her.

"Um...let's just say...the Lycanroc took a liking to her and...things almost got too out of hand…"

Luxray growled as he held Mightyena close to comfort her.

"Alright alright, hands off the team mate. This is still a competition…" Type: Null stated, prepared to separate the two..

"And her turn is over, so shut the hell up already", said Zangoose, getting in front of her.

Breloom and Ursaring walked up soon after, with Breloom holding a peeved expression and Ursaring having his smug grin.

"Group 3, GO!" Entei exclaimed, eyeing the timer.

"But what about-"

"Who cares? Just GO!"

000

Houndoom, Delphox, Wooper, Braviary, and Hawlucha were rushing toward the adventure movie set. Houndoom's paw was doing better, so he was back up to speed with the others.

In this particular group, nothing major occurred as they searched.

"I wish Umbreon was more specific when he told us what the sets were. I would've prefered directions…" Delphox said.

"Well, Hawlucha, Braviary and I could go ahead and keep an eye out for the set labels", Wooper suggested.

Hearing that, Delphox grinned. "Yeah, I think that could work. In fact, Hawlucha...why don't you take the egg, too?" she asked, handing Hawlucha the egg.

"Houndoom and I will stay put here and you guys just come back and let us know when it's done so that we can head back…"

Houndoom knew what Delphox was up to and shot her a disapproving look. "No, no...how about you just use your Psychic powers and teleport the egg to the set? That way we don't waste time?"

"No dijeron que no podíamos usar facultades, por lo eso es brillante", Hawlucha said, holding the egg steadily.

Howling was heard, which was a sign that they needed to hurry. Delphox really just wanted time along with Houndoom, but she needed to do this for the challenge to avoid being on the chopping block, so…

000

Group 3 came back rather quickly. 24 minutes were on the timer.

"How the hell-"

"GROUP 4, GO!"

000

Jolteon, Espeon, Zebstrika, Froslass, and Metagross were on their way to the drama set.

"I find it ironic how our set is drama…" said Metagross. "And major things came up regarding a few of us…"

"Shut the hell up…" Espeon growled, her eyes red.

"Look Espeon, we know that you're hurting, but taking it out on any of us won't do anything…" said Jolteon.

"What do you know!?" Espeon exclaimed. "You don't know shit about me!"

"Actually...after seeing this side of you...I think I do…" Jolteon said.

"Um...as touching as this could get, can we focus on the challenge, please?" asked Froslass.

"All we have to do is teleport the egg. It's not that difficult…" said Zebstrika. "It's probably how they got done faster."

"Whatever you say Mr. Murder…"

"Stop that!"

"Okay, just don't kill me", Froslass said sarcastically.

"I couldn't kill someone already dead", Zebstrika retorted. "And even I wanted to, I wouldn't! It was an accident!"

"Okay, explain how the hell you think you know me so much..." Espeon demanded, ignoring Zebstrika's outburst.

"You're a girl who values purity, love, and trust, but since you keep getting none of it, you don't give it to others…" Jolteon explained. "You're really caring on the inside, but you don't like showing it because of the possibility that it'll be taken for granted, so you put on a facade of being a cold-hearted girl who only cares about herself and specific people who haven't steered you wrong. But now that Umbreon has, you feel all alone…"

Espeon felt herself starting to tear up even more, surprising Zebstrika. Eventually, she broke down and held onto Jolteon as she cried into her shoulder.

"I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!" she cried. "HOW COULD HE DO THIS TO ME?!"

The other three looked on in complete astonishment as the 'major villain' from last season broke down.

"Well, uh...let's just move on…" said Metagross as he teleported the egg away. "You two can talk later…"

They all started heading back quickly.

000

"I'm glad that no one's going completely crazy like I thought. It seems like majority of them barely care. Sure, they may ask, but nothing bad's happening…" Zebstrika said.

000

The time was approaching 30 minutes, as Group 4 returned. The Enteis were lucky that they thought about the possible things they could do.

As soon as they came up, Group 5 left without Entei saying anything. Suicune growled to herself.

000

Dusclops, Swirlix, Cherrim, and Absol were headed further down the lot, as Cherrim apparently recalled seeing a spy set somewhere near the rec center.

"Um...excuse me, but can we go now?" asked Dusclops.

Absol growled. "Shut it. We have a challenge to do and your lazy ass-"

"The egg is already gone, so calm your tits…" Dusclops said, cutting her off. "Now come on…"

"What do you mean the egg is gone?"

"I mean that I already transported it to the set so that we don't have to deal with the stupid wolves like in the stupid movie, now let's go and win shall we?"

Dusclops started floating back.

"Well, that was pretty easy…" said Swirlix as he followed him. Cherrim and Absol followed suit as well.

000

"32 minutes! HA!" Entei laughed. "Well, my teams' safe from elimination…"

"You seem way too excited to have had us stand around here for over an hour…" said Delphox.

"You do porn, shut up."

Delphox blushed with a growl.

000

"ONE TIME!"

000

"Alright team, you guys are the last ones. All you have to is beat 39:57 and we escape elimination again", Raikou said. "Can you guys do it?"

"Most likely…" said Shellder.

"Um...was expected a 'Yes!', but that works, too…" Raikou said. "Get your groups ready and we'll begin…"

The Raikous decided to have a pretty clever strategy. Make sure that had either a Flying-type or someone with Psychic or Ghost-abilities in each group so that they could be done in a flash.

Group 1 consisted of Tyranitar, Typhlosion, Spiritomb, Flygon, and Drilbur. They had the purple egg.

Group 2 consisted of Luxray, Pyroar, Blissey, Gothitelle, and Shellder. They had the dark blue egg.

Group 3 consisted of Dragonite, Meganium, Tropius, Shedinja, and Delcatty. They had the brown egg.

Group 4 consisted of Lanturn, Heliolisk, Farfetch'd, Clawitzer, and Salandit. They had the green egg.

Group 5 consisted of just Spheal, Noibat, and Delibird. They had the Togepi egg.

"Alright, you all ready?"

The Raikous all nodded.

"Alright, time starts...NOW!"

Group 1 immediately sped forward.

000

Once they were far enough, they stopped running and Typhlosion held out the egg, allowing Spiritomb to teleport it.

"Nice!"

"I'll never understand how Ghost-types and Psychic-types are able to know exactly where things go…" Drilbur commented.

"It takes a lot of brainpower and also...a lot of experience…" said Spiritomb as they started heading back.

000

As soon as the first group came back, the second group went ahead, with the Suicunes looking extremely pissed off. They didn't have ANY Psychic-types and the only Ghost-type they had was Mismagius.

Not even twenty seconds after they left, the second group returned.

"OKAY! THIS IS UNFAIR BULLSHIT!" Milotic exclaimed angrily.

"We have more useful players. Can't blame us…" said Lanturn.

Group 3 started to head out, but didn't even get five steps in before having the egg disappear and returning.

"THEY DIDN'T EVEN REALLY LEAVE THAT TIME!" Cherrim exclaimed. "This is totally unfair!"

"We gave you all an equal opportunity. When we don't say you can't use moves, you can do whatever you need to as long as the challenge gets done…"

"I still call bullshit", said Mismagius.

"Well you might as well get over it, we don't have any more Psychic or Ghost-types we can use…" said Pyroar.

"Next group, go on! You're making excellent time!"

"Right!" Lanturn said.

She, Heliolisk, Farfetch'd, Clawitzer, and Salandit immediately started running.

000

"Alright, let's get this-" Heliolisk started before noticing that the first set they came upon was one with a green flag.

"Well, that was easy…" said Lanturn.

000

Group 4 returned and Group 5, which only consisted of only three players, went forward. The Raikous barely scratched 8 minutes.

000

Spheal, Noibat, and Delibird were making their way across the lot.

"I can't believe that we're making awesome time!" Spheal said.

"That's the perks of going last. You learn from the other team's' mistakes and over hear strategies that actually work well", Noibat explained. "People say it's unfair and stupid, when it's actually the smartest thing you can do…"

"How do you know so much?" asked Delibird.

"I'm an athlete. I like making myself stronger. Though, I sometimes end up getting benched and watching from the sides if I'm on a team…" Noibat explained. "I have a bit of an anger problem…"

"Oh...so that's why you almost killed your brother…" Spheal said. "Remind me not to make you angry…"

Noibat giggled. "Don't worry, I'm actually working on toning it down and-"

Howls were heard, stopping her mid-sentence.

"Aw crud…" said Delibird, looking around as he got closer to Noibat.

"Wait, where's the egg?" Spheal asked in a panic, seeing that no one was holding it.

"Don't worry, I got it", Delibird said, patting a lump in his tail.

Spheal sighed in relief. "Go-"

He looked around and saw that they were suddenly surrounded. "Oh boy…"

All of the Lycanroc started readying attacks.

"Guys, fly up!"

"What for?"

"Just do it!"

The two of them flew up, and Spheal immediately used Surf, soaking all of the Lycanroc and effectively knocking them out. While in the air, Delibird turned to the side and squinted, seeing that a white flag with triangles was nearby.

He flew down over to it, only to be hit by Accelerock mid-air.

The egg fell out of his tail and a Midnight form Lycanroc grabbed it, only to be hit with a Shadow Ball. Noibat grabbed the egg with her legs and struggled a bit to keep it up as she landed with it in front of her. Delibird rubbed his stomach as he got back on his feet and walked over.

He grabbed the egg and put it on the podium. "There. Stupid mutts…" he said, rubbing his gut again.

"We win!" Noibat cheered. "Let's get back!"

Delibird nodded as he started flying with her back towards the others, with Spheal rolling behind them after seeing them fly overhead.

000

"AND THE RAIKOUS WIN!" Raikou announced. The Raikous cheered amongst themselves as the Enteis rolled their eyes or scowled, same with the Suicunes.

"Well, Suicunes, looks like you're heading back to elimination…"

All of them groaned, but they knew who they were all going for.

000

Espeon was walking towards the rec center so she could just be alone and think. Jolteon was spot on with her description. She really was a nice and caring person, but she dealt with so much bullshit that she didn't care anymore and converted into a person that people would hate. Umbreon was the only one who was always straight and honest with her, even when they were younger.

The fact that he slept with other girls while they were separated really ate at her. She loved him more than herself, and he just betrays her like that? Why didn't he tell her earlier so that they could work it out? Instead she had to learn it as a secret; to her, it was like he wanted to savor that memory.

Him constantly trying to get her to understand wasn't doing much for her. Just saying something wasn't enough. She wanted to feel like he really cared as much for her as she does for him. It didn't matter how long it was or in what context.

She prepared to enter the rec center when she heard the voice she didn't want to hear.

"Espeon!"

She walked in anyway, making Umbreon slam into the door after it closed. He shook his head out of the daze and growled. He opened the door and ran in, only to see that she was nowhere in sight. He groaned in annoyance before closing his eyes and listening and sniffing around.

He heard a faint whoosh and the door closing slightly. He immediately turned around and ran back out the door, pouncing on the pink fox-feline.

"Gotcha!"

Espeon teleported out of his grasp.

"Espeon! Will you fucking LISTEN TO ME?!"

"What is there for you to say!?" she shouted back, turning around, tears starting to form. "You betrayed me. You promised me that I was the only one you'd ever love and be with!"

"I wasn't with them! They seduced me during MATING SEASON!" Umbreon exclaimed again. "I can't fucking believe you're holding this so close! I ONLY LOVE YOU!"

"You say it, but you don't wanna show it…"

Umbreon scoffed. Was she serious? "S-Show it? SHOW IT?!"

Espeon was a bit startled by his outburst as she stayed turned around.

"Espeon, we have screwed six times since we've been here, I'm protected you and stood up for you when these fucks keep on calling you names, I've done everything I could to show that I love you, AND YOU STILL THINK THAT BECAUSE SOME BITCHES SEDUCED ME INTO SCREWING THEM DURING A TIME WHERE IT'S BOUND TO HAPPEN, I DON'T LOVE YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN?!"

Tears were falling on the ground as Espeon heard the situation from his mouth. She had to admit, it did sound absolutely ridiculous, but she still couldn't believe that he kept it from her.

"Then why the hell didn't you tell me?"

"Because I knew you'd get like this", Umbreon said, slowly approaching her. "I know how you feel about these types of situations and I didn't really wanna face it…"

Espeon sighed as she suddenly felt something wet and warm on her neck and something furry around her waist.

"Baby...I love you. I really don't like seeing you like this. Could you...give me a second chance? Even though it's...not that-"

Espeon kissed him before he could finish. "I love you, too. But...right now...I think we need to take a bit of a break. Okay?"

Hearing that, Umbreon sighed. "If it means that we can be together again...okay…"

Espeon nodded as she got out of his grasp and started walking back to the apartments. Umbreon looked down and rubbed his face downwards with a sigh before following.

-000-

That was the dumbest drama bullshit I've ever heard and seen…" said Dusclops. "I expected a bit more from her, but I guess she's getting soft with him around."

"All of that crying and whining over something that happened when they weren't really together and that was out of his own control?" Froslass asked. "She really has issues…"

"Yeah, but nevertheless, both of them are useful and we need to keep them in as long as we can", said Bronzor.

"You never know. Maybe this break will make them more agitated and more devious", said Delcatty.

"Doubt it...emotional shit like this always makes stuff hit the fan quick…" said Eelektrik. "But, like Bronzor said, we still need them around…"

"SUICUNES! IT IS TIME FOR YOUR ELIMINATION!"

"Well, time to say 'Bye, Bye, Bellossom…'"

000

"We all still know the plan to try and have 'friendships', but this challenge didn't allow it, so we'll have to start it next time", Eelektrik said.

000

All of the Suicunes made their way to the elimination building and took their seats.

Suicune sighed as she walked up. "Alright, you all know the drill…"

"Hey, um...you know that it was unfa-"

"Don't start!" Suicune said, cutting him off. "Just take the damn Pokeballs if you get one."

"Popplio, Tepig, Gligar, Gulpin, Piloswine, Shieldon, Vaporeon, Dewott, Skuntank, Leafeon, Manectric, Mismagius, Milotic, Bronzor, Eelektrik, Mandibuzz, Lairon, Garchomp, Charizard, Honchkrow, Haxorus, and Pangoro…"

"Bellossom, Cubchoo...one of you is leaving and for similar reasons. You contribute hardly anything…"

"In my defense, they all turned on me and tried to sabotage the challenge by putting me in situations that they could have easily done…" Bellossom said.

"We have enough possible floaters already. We don't need more", said Mandibuzz. "Plus, you're a bit annoying…"

"YOU ALL CAUSE ME TO BE ANNOYING!"

"Alright, I've heard enough. Cubchoo, you're safe, Bellossom, you're out…" Suicune said, tossing Cubchoo the last ball.

Bellossom growled. "Okay, fine. Hypocritical bastards. Only a few of you are useful out of this entire team and you pick on me immediately because I'm small…"

"No one picked on you. It was all just business…"

"Yeah, right…" Bellossom said, rolling her eyes as she went down towards the limo.

000

"I hope no one on this pitiful team makes it far", said Bellossom. "They are so moronic. Watch. Next challenge there's gonna be something that I'm useful in and they're gonna be pissed off. I guarantee it."

000

Suicune returned to their trailer with a groan, expecting there to be another mess to clean up. However, much to her surprise, everything was the same.

"Huh, nothing's wrong around here…" she said as she lied on the couch. She sighed in relief as she turned on the television, only for it to turn back off as Entei came down the stairs.

"So, Ms. Loser. You ready for your punishment?"

"It's not cleaning related, so I'm perfectly fine…" said Suicune.

Entei smirked. "Okay. Rai! Bring it down!"

Raikou came down with a laptop in his jaws. He set it on the table near the couch she was on and opened it up to reveal that it was webcam chatroom! AND SHE WAS THE STAR.

"Wait, w-what is this?"

"Well...we went online and set up a chatroom with a bunch of filthy guys who want you to do things to yourself…" Entei said proudly. "It was all my idea…"

"You're making me into an internet slut?!" she snarled.

"No, you just have to do twenty requests and then end it. That's it…" said Raikou. "And I'll be making sure that you do it since Entei, well…"

"Fuck you…" Entei said, passing him a glare.

"This is fucking disgusting!"

"Hey, it's your punishment. Can't reject it…" said Raikou.

Suicune growled.

000

Well, that's the end of that. Lots of new info unveiled. Bellossom got eliminated. But, is she right? Is the team being that hypocritical? Espeon and Umbreon are on a break, no big deal there. Zebstrika murdered his brother?! Well, uh...glad to see that everyone brushed that off quickly. Salandit seems to be planning something, Type: Null is a bit too cutthroat, and the alliances are being alliances. How fitting. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed and I'll see you next time on Ultimate Total...Pokemon...Action! See ya guys, BYE!

Bellossom: Review; don't be a hypocrite.